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5- sidnicits, sp. nov. 



Blackish-brown; legs pale brownish-testaceous, the hind 

 tibiae with a blackish apical annulus and the apical half of the 

 first and the whole of the second segment of the hind tarsi 

 blackish. Tegmina fuscohyaline, veins blackish, 2 or 3 thin, 

 curved transverse, fuscous lines on the apical fourth of the teg- 

 mina. Ocelli orange-brown. Vertex roundly angular in front, 

 one-half longer in the middle than at the eyes. 



Length (male) 3I mill. 



Hab. New South Wales, Sydney (Jan., K.). 



Eiitettix. 



I. sellata. 



Matsumura (1905 Tr. Sappcro N. H. S., I, 20), thinks this is a 

 synonym of Acocephalus discigutta Walker, a hazardous proposal 

 without seeing the type. Walker's species was from Borneo, 

 and Matsumura has added China and the Philippines. 



2. nielaleucaej sp. nov. 



Whitish (tinged with yellowish sometimes on vertex and 

 scutellum), minutely speckled with dark fuscous. Tegmina with 

 most of the veins pale yellowish-brown on head, face, nota, teg- 

 mina and legs, the apical ones darker, part of the apex nar- 

 rowly sufifused. Lora remote from the apical margin of the 

 genae. Vertex more rounded and a little shorter than in E. 

 sellata, nearly twice as wide as the length. Claval veins united 

 near the base by a cross vein, the anal vein slightly curved, meet- 

 ing the commissure at an acute angle. 



Male: valve short, transverse. 



Female : apical nmrgin of last sternite sublaterally emarginate, 

 also minutely emarginate medianly. Pygopher about 3 times as 

 long as last sternite, bristly, widened a little near the base, but 

 narrowing at the base. 



Length 4-J- mill. 



Hab. Queensland. Cairns (July), Nelson (July), Bundaberg 

 (Sept. -Dec.) on Melaleuca. 



Neplwfcfli.r. 



All pal?.eog^.eic species. 

 I Plead nnd nota not green (2) 



