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rior latéral marginal fascia connecled with the cruciform élévation, 

 black; abdomen black with the margins of the segmenls greyishlv 

 pilose; face black, latéral margins, transverse ridges and posterior 

 half of central sulcation, ochraceous; clypeus marginally and cen- 

 trally ochraceous; legs ochraceous, femora more or less mar-ked 

 with castaneous; head including eyes about as broad as base of 

 mesonotum; abdomen considerably longer than broad; rostrum 

 passing the posterior coxœ ; opercula black, longer than broad, 

 scarceley extending beyond basai segment of abdomen, internally 

 oveiiapping for about fait' Ibeir length and than obliquely directed 

 to apices which are rounded. 



Long. excl. tegm. q\ 33 mill. Exp. tegm. 98 mill. 



Ilab. : Norlh Queensland (Kelsall. — Brit. Mus.). 



The greater lengtb of the abdomen is a somewhat aberrant cha- 

 racter with this genus but in ail other respect the species conforms 

 wi th Hen icopsaltrîa. 



FROGATTOIDES gen. nov. 



Head about as long as breadtb at base between the eyes; ocelli 

 very large, nearer eyes than to each other; vertex between the 

 ocelli somewbal raised and longly pilose, front medially sulcately 

 depressed; eyes large transversely oblique, direcled backward 

 over the anterior pronolal angles; pronotuin twice as broad at base 

 as medially long, the incisnres profound, latéral margins strongly 

 sinuate; mesonotum almost as long as broad, somewhat longly 

 pilose; abdomen in Ç considerably longer than head and thorax 

 together; face long and globose, sbortly medially silicate at base ; 

 rostrum passing the anterior co se; anterior femora incrassate 

 with three spines beneatb, the shortest spine near apex; tibiae dis- 

 tinctly moderately lient, tarsi long, about two thirds the length of 

 tibia 1 ; tegmina about twice as long as greatest breadth, the costal 

 margin obliquely ascending for half ils length from base and then 

 more horizonta'ly continued to apex, basai cell longer than broad, 

 narrower atapex than at base, radial area large, upper vein of the 

 lower ulnar area fused with the lower vein to the radial area for 

 some distance from base, eight apical areas, the first and eighth 

 broadest, first ulnar area almost as long as radial area, first and 

 fifth broadest, third large, short, somewhat triangular, costal mem- 

 brane somewhat régulai- in breadth though narrowest at base, post- 

 costal membrane widening towards apex ; wings narrow, more than 

 twice longer than broad, six apical areas. 



This genus of Melampsaltaria is founded on a female spécimen 



