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the ground color of the teg-mina. This species is strongly 

 granulate all over head pronotum, scutellum, clavus, etc.. Avith 

 scattered ones on corium; the taller are reddish brown, those 

 on t'lie clavus blackish brown. 



6. Incindac, sp. nov. 



Size and form of Scphcna ciiicrca; apparently close to S. 

 gmnulicoUis (Stal.) but larger and the color different; vertex 

 anteriorly angulate. Orange yellow, paler beneath ; head more 

 or less suffused with sanguineous; commissure and apical mar- 

 gin sanguineous, the latter chequered with the ground color; 

 tegminal granulations black. 



Vertex anterior! v obtusangulate, scarcely extending beyond 

 the eyes, nearly twice as broad as long. Corium (excluding the 

 mafgins) with a'bout fifteen granulations. 



Length: 6 mill. 



Hab: Queensland, Lucinda Point (vii). 



y. granidicoUis (Stal.) 



Poeciloptera gnviuUcoUis Stal. 1859, Eugenics Resa. Ins. 282. 

 Siplvanta graiiiilicollis Melichar, 38. 



Like S. Incindac but narrower, colored differently. With twice 

 as many granulations on the corium (excluding the margins). 

 Length: 5^-6^; (Melichar says 5, Stal 4!) 

 Hab: Queensland, Cairns (viii). 

 Melichar records also from Sydney. 



8. subgranulosa, sp. nov. 



Closely allied to 5". graindicollis, but granulations as in S. 

 Incindac. 



Length: 6|-8 mill. 



Hab: Queensland, Cairns (vii). 



9. grannlata, sp. nov. 



Close to vS". Incindac. but differently colored, and granulated 

 as in 6". grannUcoUis. 



Pale brownish cinereous; head, pronotum and scutellum more 

 or less suffused with sanguineous or orange; commissure and 



