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s'Libcival, basally extending- beyond the apical margin of the ver- 

 tex ; antennal ridges straight, entire, nearly as wide as frons. 

 Vertex and pronotum transversely striate. Ocelli on a line with 

 the insertion of the antennae and the base of the frons, not touch- 

 ing the latter. 



I. osboriii, sp. nov. 



Whitish-testaceous, very finely mottled with brown, spotted 

 with dark fuscqus, a large suffused fuscous inverted arrow on an- 

 terior part of pronotum. Tegmina irregularly mottled and spot- 

 ted with fuscous. Fore and middle legs blackish-brown, ob- 

 scurely spotted with pallid ; hind legs fuscous, obscurely marked 

 with darkish. 



Length (female) 8^ mill. 



Hab. Queensland, Brisbane (June P), Kuranda (July P). 



Oncopsis. 



Oncopsis Burmeister 1838 Gen. Ins. I, Bythoscopus, 3rd page. 

 =:Byfhoscopits auctt. 



I. balli, sp. nov. 



Bright yellow, closely punctured with brown on head and 

 pronotum. There is a laevigate horse-shoe mark on the face 

 near the clypeus, brc>ken at the base, and there are 2 smooth 

 pits nearer the base of the face. There is also a small smooth 

 area on the pronotum on each side anteriorly, and the striation 

 is fine and somewhat reticulate. The scutelhnn is punctured 

 closely only on the disk. Apical margins of clypeus and genae, 

 marks on legs, sterna, &c., blackish. Tegmina cinereous hyaline, 

 a blackish smudge near the base, veins strong, yellciwish brown, 

 sometimes blackened. 



The head is not visible dorsally, except close to the prominent 

 eyes, nor is the anterior margin of the pronotum visible. 



Length 5 mill. 



Hab. Queensland, Bundaberg (Sept.-Dec. K.). 



I have great pleasure in naming the last two species after Pro- 

 fessors Osborn and Ball .whose work, conjointly or separate, on 

 the Homo])tera, especially the genera Dcltoccphahis, Agallia, 

 &c., forms a model for future research. 



