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with 2 or 3 darker transverse lines and the apical margin pale 

 smoky. Wing-s hyah'ne. faintly smoky, veins pale. 



Male : last segment apparently roundly emarginate, valve 

 scarcely apparent, plates elongate with concolorous bristles. 



Length 2^ mill. 



Hab. A'iti Levu, Rewa (Mar., Muir). 



contortupUcatiis var. nov. 



Like the type, but there is a double line of w^arm brown from 

 mid-vertex to mid-scutellum, lateral contortuplicate lines of 

 the same colour on pronotum and two blackish brown trans- 

 verse lines on anterior margin of head. Tegmina rather more 

 marmorate. 



Hab. Viti Levu, Rewa (Mar.-Apr., Muir). 



decciiniotatiis var. nov. 



Pronotum with lo white spots. Tegmina as hi coiilorfiipHcafus. 

 Hab. Viti Levu, Rewa (Apr.. Muir). 



These varieties may prove to be good species, but 1 have seen 

 only a single example of each. 



3. aiistralciisis, sp. nov. 



Like the last, but larger and yellower; tegmina with sparse 

 brownish markings. 

 Length 3^ mill. 

 Hab. Queensland, Kuranda and Cairns (Aug. P). 



4. pnrpiirasccns, sp. nov. ■ 



Head and eyes pitchy brown with a purple tinge, inner orbits 

 narrowly pale. Ocelli pale, verv conspicuous. Pronotum and 

 scutellum dark ferruginous brown with a purple glint. Teg- 

 mina warm brown with a purple glint, a few irregular pale spots 

 and specks, not corresponding on opposite tegmina. Wings 

 pale smoky, veins fuscous. Labium and fore coxae pale, rest 

 of legs mostly pale fuscous, hind tibiae purpli'^h pitchy. Sterna 

 sordid testaceous. Abdomen purplish pitchy. 



Female: pygophor with yellowish brown bristles; last seg- 

 ment notched in the middle. 



Length 3 mill. 



Hab. Viti Levu, Rewa (Apr.. Muir). \ 



