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Venation of corium very similar to that of S. ochraceons Osborn; 

 outer claval vein hooked, and vein with a cross vein about its 

 middle length. 



Length: 41-5^ mill- 



Hab: Queensland, Cairns (viii). 



N. B. The coloring and pattern is sometimes obscure. 



The genus Aphrodcs and its allies appear to be descended from 

 some form very near Phrynomorphus, the ocelli being placed a 

 little more dorsally and the tegmina being semicoriaceous and 

 often muc'li abbreviated, appendix always wanting; the wings 

 have an incomplete submarginal vein. These characters xvhich 

 are simph- due to the degradation of the flight organs and which 

 may, and do, arise in any group of winded insects, have beei; 

 used to form a family, viz.: Acocep'halidae, though they are 

 really scarcely sufficient to form a tribe. 



Four genera showing these characters are known, viz.: 



T. Aphrodcs Curtis (^=AciicepJialus GevmcLr=:Acoccpha!us Bur- 

 me\steT=Pholefaci'a Zetters{edt= A noscopits Kirschb). 



2. Stro ggyloce phalus Flor (^=Strongylocephahis Fieb)- 



3. Kosiiiiopclcx Kirkaldy and 



4. Xcsfoccpliahis Yru Duzee, this last probably not really be- 

 longing- here. 



Kosiiiiopclcx gen. no v. 



Differs from Aphrodcs by the differently shaped, foliaceous 

 head, from Eupclix Germar b}- the eyes not being enclosed by 

 the sides of the crown. 



Head triangular, more or less porrect. specifically variable in 

 this respect; foliaceous. Crown flattish, longer than wide be- 

 tween the eyes, from three to four times as long as pronotum. 

 lateral margins, in front of eyes slightly sinuate, apical fourth 

 su'bspatulate. Frons oblongoval, twice as long as wide; genae 

 at antennal sockets about three-fourths of the "width of the cly- 

 peus which is parallel-sided, a little wider than lorae, the latter 

 not quite touching posterior margin of genae- Eyes large, 

 forming part of the curve of the head, not enclosed by lateral 

 margin of crown. Ocelli on the disk of the crown just above 

 anterior margin of the eyes, a little nearer lateral margins than 

 the middle line. Pronotum transverse, about three "times as 

 ■wide as long, slightly arched anteriorly, very obtuseangularly 

 emarginate posteriorly; lateral margins short' Tegmina coria- 

 ceous, abbreviated, reaching little beyond base of abdomen. 



