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side of the middle. Tegmina faintly smoky, hyaline, veins most- 

 ly dark, first and second apical cells more or less colourless, 

 fifth to eighth more or less dark smoky. Sterna paler than in 

 the type. 



Brach}'pterous form: Pale brownish testaceous, paler be- 

 neath; tegmina narrowly smoky apically. commissure whitish, 

 brown near the apex of clavus. 



Length (brach.) 23-4, (macr.) 4 mill. 



Hab. Queensland, Cairns (Aug., P.); Fiji, (March, K.), Ba 

 (Jan., M.). Rewa (Apr. and Dec, M.). 



2. pcrscphonc sp. nov. 

 PI. XVII, figs. lo-ii. 



Black; vertex, frontal keels dorsally, keels of pronotum and 

 sides of the latter, central keel and posterior angle of scutellum, 

 commissure (interrupted in the middle), whitish. Antennae and 

 legs whitish or whitish testaceous. Tegmina dark smoky, first 

 and second apical cells and the apex of the subcostal cell, hya- 

 line, veins blackish-brown; wings hyaline, veins blackish-brown. 

 The pronotum and scutellum are often more or less decolored 

 (sometimes there arc 2 black specks on apical margin of vertex). 

 The vertex proper (basal compartment) does not extend an- 

 teriorly so far as the apical margin of the eyes. 



Male: genital segments dark brownish. Inside margin of 

 pygophor sinuate. The oedeagus serrate marginally. The 

 genital styles are very irregular in form. 



Female : genital segments dark brownish, ovipcsitor-sheath 

 paler. 



Length (brach.) 3. (macr.) 3^-4 mill. 



Hab. Queensland, Cairns (July-Aug., P.). 



Tropidocephala. 



Tropidoccphala Stal. 1853 O. V. A. F.. XT 226 (type //az'/rf/'.O. 



Nephropsia A. Costa 1862 Ann. 'Mus. Zool. Napol. I 76 (type 

 elc stalls). 



Conicoda Matsumura 1900 Ent. Nachr., XXVI 258 (type 

 p'auiinca). 



Orchcsina Melichar 1903 Houi. Ceylon 94 (type marginepimc- 

 fafa). " 



Ecfopioptcrygoddpha.v Kirkaldy 1906 Bull. H. S. P. A. Ent. I. 

 412. (type eximins.) 



