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1903, Eleventh Rep. AgT., New Zealand, 437; text-figs. 1-4. 



Scolypopa aiistralis Melichar, p. 278, Pl. XI, f. 24. 



Hab: Queensland, Bundaberg- (ix-xii); Moreton Bay (Meli- 

 char); New South Wales. Sydney (i); New Zealand. Palmerston 

 North (my collection), etc.; V'iti (Froggatt). 



Commonly distributed on several plants, especially "Passion 

 fruit vines" and ferns; it is somewhat of a pest. 



2. kiiraiidac, sp. nov. 



Not very closely allied to any other species. 



Brown; eyes pale reddish striped narrowly sub-concentrically 

 with violet brown. Mesonotum blackish, carinae red brown. 

 Beneath pale yellowisli. Tegmina dark brown, a few of the 

 nervures paler; one or two short, more or less obscure, dar'ker 

 transverse fasciae, a whitish triangular spot on the costal mem- 

 brane; costal membrane and apical margin blackish. 



Frons with five distinct carinae, the su'blateral keels being 

 much more distinct than in .4. ansfralis. Rostrum short, scarce- 

 ly reaching to intermediate coxae. 



Length: 8 mill. 



Hab: Queensland, Kuranda (viii); one example on a dAvarf 

 CasJiariiia in a rocky, wind-swept place on the banks of the 

 Baron River. 



3. scutata Stal. 



5. scutata Stal. 1859, Berlin Ent. Zeit. Ill, 26; Melichar 280, 

 PI. XI, f. 28. 



Unknown to me. 



Gaetulia Stal. 



GactiiUa Stal, 1864 Stett. Ent. Zeit. XXV, 54; Melichar 327. 

 Probably cosmo-tropical. 



I. chrysopoidcs (Walker). 



Ricaiiia chrysupoidcs Walker, 1862, J. Ent. I, 312. 



Allied to G. nigrovenosa Mel., but dififering by the iform of the 

 vertex wliic'h is wider than long, and by the color. I have little 

 doubt as to the correctness of the determination, though Walker 

 describes the vertex as 'transverse quadrate'; it is, in fact, ob- 

 tuseangulate anteriorly and correspondingly emarginate pos- 

 teriorly. 



Hab: New South Wales, Sydney (i). 



