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specimen of the rare West Australian Mole- cricket, Oylindracheta [Cylin- 

 drodes) kochii Saussure, forwarded by Mr. Newman, Entomologist to the 

 Department of Agriculture of West Australia, who reports it as common 

 about Perth, and a pest attacking the roots of plants in some places; the 

 only other known species is C. campbelli Gray, from Melville Island. Also 

 examples of two rare Cicades, Thophia colorata Distant, from Bernier Island, 

 Shark Bay, W.A. , and Henicopsaltria sp., from Perth, W.A. — On some 

 new and rare Australian Agrionidae [Neuroptera: Odonata], By R. J. 

 Tillyard, M.A. , F.E.S. — In this paper, a considerable number of new 

 Australian species are described, and the following new genera are proposed 

 for the reception of these and other species: — Austrolestes (Type Lestes 

 cingulatus Burm.), Lestdidea (Type, L. conjuncta, n. sp.), Neosticta (Type, N. 

 canescms, n. sp.), Oristicta (Type, 0. plicicola, n. sp.), Notoneura (Type, Al- 

 luni urn sul ita ria Tillyard), Austrocnemis (Type, Agriocnemis splendens Mar- 

 tin), Galiagrion (Type, Pseudagrion billinghîirsti), Austroagrion (Type, Pseud- 

 agrion cyane Selys) , and Xanthocnemis (Type, Xanthagrion Zealand ini n/ 

 Selys). Lestdidea, a remarkable new form linking up the widely distinct 

 legions, Lestes and Protoneura, is placed in a new legion by itself, while the 

 classification given by de Selys for the difficult legion Agrion is fully dis- 

 cussed, and some modifications proposed. The remarkable case of a court- 

 ship by the male of Hemiphlebia mirabilis Selys, is described; this insect 

 has its inferior appendages modified into two white ribbons, which it waves 

 in the air to attract the female. There are six plates giving the wing-neura- 

 tion of the new genera, and the abdominal appendages of all the new and 

 rare species. — Description of some new Species of Col e optera. By H. J. 

 Carter, B.A., F.E.S. — The species described as new include three species 

 ofBuprestidae [Clialcokmia and Naseio (2)], two species of Tene brio- 

 nidae (Adelium), and two of Ceramby cidae [Seeleocantha, and Tillgardiiu 

 n. gen., the last an exceptional member of the Prionides, with enlarged, 

 lamellate palpi of extraordinary structure; from Dorrigo, X.S.W.). 



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