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lateral on each side) and a median T-shaped line on pronotum, 7 

 spots on scutellum (2 with an olivaceous speck each in the mid- 

 dle) ; a median line and numerous concentric, curved, transverse 

 lines on frons; genae, clypeus, and lora (except some oliva- 

 ceous-brown markings), pale yellowish-testaceous. Abdomen 

 beneath mostly dark olivaceous brown. Tegmina subhyaline. 

 tinged with olivaceous, veins widely colourless, margined nar- 

 rowly with dark olive brown, sometimes a little suffused, es- 

 pecially the middle apical cell. 



Female: last sternite roundly emarginate, the sides bluntly 

 l^rominent. Pygopher elongate, narrow, with blackish l:)ristles, 



Length 4^ mill. 



Hal) : Queensland, Cairns, (Aug., one female.) 



DcJtocephalus. 



This seems to be characterized by a long, pointed vertex, frcns 

 longer than wide, tempora narrow, often obsolete basally, vena- 

 tion more complex. 



2. lotis, sp. nov. 



Vertex piceous with a thin median longitudinal testaceous 

 line, basal half testaceous with two big piceous spots, a short 

 transverse testaceous line on middle of apical half. Face piceous. 

 frons with curved concentric lines on each side of the middle, 

 irregular apically. Legs mostly piceous, fore and middle tibiae 

 testaceous, suffused irregularly v^ith piceous. Tegmina testa- 

 ceous subopaque, with narrow piceous margins to the veins on 

 both sides. Abdomen above piceous with about 5 rows of tes- 

 taceous spots, below mostly piceous. Greatest width of ver- 

 tex about the same as the length, vertex flattish, nearly rec- 

 tangled apically, a little depressed basally. Vertex and frons 

 acute-angled in profiile. Tegmina reaching to about half the 

 length of the insect, o1)li(|uely transverse apically. 



Length 3f mill. 



Hab. New South Wales, Mittagong (Jan. K.) one female. 



3. D. [>olcuio)i, 9.\). nov. 



Closely allied to D. sylirsfris ( )sb. & liall, 1nit venation and 

 genital segments different. 



Vertex testaceous, with a faint oHvaceo-fuscous stripe on 

 each side of the median line, terminating apically in a fuscous 

 speck. Face piceous, frons with 5 or 6 thin, concentric, curved, 



