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tinctly nearer to the eyes than to one another, yellow brown. 

 Tibiae and tarsi reddish pitchy. Tegmina vitreous, scarcely 

 tinted, base and subcostal cell opaque, ferruginous; third apical 

 cell elongate, narrow, interior side curving a little towards the 

 exterior; first discoidal hemisphaerical, two-thirds the length of 

 the first. Horns a little farther apart basally than in A. iasis, 

 and a little shorter and blunter. The venation in some exani- 

 ])les is irregular. 



Length 5 mill. 



Hab. New .South Wales, Sydney (Feb.). 



3. ciiryiioiinis sp. nov. 



Fairly clctse to the last, but the horns are shorter and more 

 depressed. Interior margin of third apical cell straight ; first 

 discoidal cell smaller, about half as long as the second. Legs 

 less yellowish-iervuginows. 



Length 5 mill. 



Hab. Queensland, lUmdaberg (Sept. -Dec.) 



4. ? bis pi nits Stal. 



In the absence of species for comparison, several forms are 

 temporarily determined as above. It seems as much a Ccn- 

 trotypus as an Acanthuchus. 



Hab. Queensland, Cairns (July-Aug.), Brisbane (Nov.) 



CLASSIFICATKIX OF THE FULGOROIDEA. 



Stal's classification of 1866, followed almost entirely by 

 authors since that date, although separating the various groups 

 fairly well, places the last seven in a parallel series, with more 

 or less overlapping characters, an obviously unnatural arrange- 

 m.ent. So many of the Fulgoroid genera are unknown to me 

 in nature, however, that I am prevented from any thorougli- 

 going revision and can only ofifer some hints. 



Hansen has laid great stress on the structure of the antennal 

 sensory organs. My own researches confirm this, but at pres- 

 ent I do not think it is practicable. Selected forms display the 

 characters very sharply, but in a large number, it is impossible 

 to see anything definite at a magnification of i'88 diameters, and 

 it is impracticable to focus a compound microscope nearer, with- 

 out dissection, in the case of such minute antennae as those of 



