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Thanatodictya, gen. nov. 



Allied to DictyopJiora Germar. Head very elongate, narrow; 

 lateral margins of vertex su'bparallel, slightly broadened and 

 obtuse-angulate at the apex; as seen in profile the head is 

 straight and correct, eyes touching pronotivm. Vertex border- 

 ed on each side by a keel, and there is a median keel Which is 

 usually subobsolete except about the basal fifth and the ex- 

 treme apex. Frons 5-carinate, includin.g the lateral margins. 

 Clypeus tricarinate. Second antennal segment small, globular. 



Tegmina hyaline, apical third subreticulate. Legs simple, 

 Dosterior tibiae 4-spined. 



1. Tegmina with a 'broad, entire, longitudinal, dark stripe; ver- 

 tex basally only slig'htly nodulose (subgen. Lticiiida nov. . . . 

 2 lucindae sp. nov. 



I a. Te'gmina colorless, except the dark apical tlhird, or less. . .2. 



2. Vertex not nodulose basally; 'head porrect; Stigma pallid, 



composed of 5 or 6 cells; length over 14 mill 



I praef errata (Distant). 



2a. Vertex strongly nodulose at base (stigma darker) (sub- 

 genus Nicidda nov., type anadyomenc) 3. 



3. Stigma with 3 or 4 inconspicuous transverse veins; head 



somewhat ascending; length under 10 mill 



3 anadyomenc, sp. nov. 



3a. Stigma composed of 2 cells; 'head porrect 4. 



4. Darker; length 11 mill 4 hehe sp. nov. 



4a. Paler; length 9 mill 5 psyche sp. nov. 



Subgenus Thanatodictya nov. 



I. pracf errata (Distant). 



Dictyophora pracfcrra'.a Distant 1892 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lon- 

 don, 279. 



Length; 12-15 mill. 



Hab; Queensland, Bundaberg (ix-xii), reported from Peak 

 Downs by Distant. 



Subgenus Lucinda nov. 



2. lucindae sp. nov. 



Testaceous, keels of head in front of eyes black; lateral mar- 

 gins of pronotum and scutellum (exterior to keels) and abdo- 



