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and of lorae, black; rest of face, the rostrum, anterior and inter- 

 mediate legs, testaceous. Prosternum and 4 spots on the apicai 

 margin of the scutellum, black. Tegmina pale luteotestaceous, 

 more or less hyaline, veins opacjue, pale luteous. Wings dark 

 smoky. Abdomen yellowish, more or less suffused discally 

 with brownish, sparingly marked with black. Posterior femora 

 and tibiae mostly black. 



Vertex and venation figured. 



Female: Last segment transverse, apically bisinuate, tlie 

 short median prolongation very minutely notched. 



Length: 7 mill., breadth 2| mill. 



Hab: Queensland, Cairns (viii). 



I'^ultiinnis, gen. nov. 



Closely allied to Thauiiiatoscopiis, but head only slightly foli- 

 aceous anteriorly; cells of tegmina irrorate. Type vidtunuis. 



1. vidtuniits, sp. nov. 



Pale orange, somewhat sordid, the pronotum somewhat suf- 

 fused with olivaceous. Scutellum with anterior angles and a 

 short slender median transverse line, olivaceous. Foliaceous 

 part of vertex, a spot on the disk and the lateral margins, of 

 the genae, etc., orange; rest of sterna, sternites, etc., testace- 

 ous. Tegmina subhyaline costally, mil'ky subopaque inwardly, 

 veins brown and yellowish, cubital area with many short trans- 

 verse veins, inner discoidal and the two inner subapicals closely 

 irrorate; clavus irrorate. Wings dark smoky. Vertex similar 

 in shape to Thauuiatoscopus, but shorter. 



Fem'ale: Last segment transverse, bisinuate, slightly pro- 

 duced obtusel)- in the middle, last sternopleural segment tooth- 

 ed intero-laterally near the 'base. Ovipositor black. 



Length: 4^ mill. 



Hab: Queensland, Cairns (viii). 



Rctopioccphahis, gen. nov. 



This remarkable genus is readily distinguished by the exceed- 

 ingly declivous pronotum, and the structure of the vertical head. 

 It is Cercopoid in appearance. Vertex apical, slightly convex, 

 transverse, head dorsally anteriorly with (what is probably) a 

 large part of the frons visible, forming a suboval plate in the 



