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more piceous brown, and the apical area much irroratod with diill 

 greyish and where the veins are piceous; legs above niott'cd .v!i!i 

 brownisli; pronolum finely transversely striate as is also the apical 

 area of the scutellum; posterior tibise with two prominent spines 

 near apex and a smaller one near base. 



Long. incl. tegm., $ 9 mill. 



Hab. : Queensland (F. -P. Dodd., Brit. Mus.) 



Genus SMICROCOTIS. 



Smicrocotis Kirk., Rep. Exp. Stat. Haw. Plant. Assoc, Pt. IX, 



p. 370 (1906). 

 Type, S. obscura Kirk. 



24. — Smicrocotis obscura. 

 Smicrocotis obscura Kirk., loc. cit. 



The British Meseum possesses tive spécimens collected by 

 M"" Dodd in Queensland which agrée with the short spécifie indi- 

 cation given by Kirkaldy of this species, which was acquired from 

 the same locality. Assuming the identification to be correct, thèse 

 spécimens hâve the face much sinuately narrowed anteriorly and 

 distinctly centrally longituJinally carinate to the région of the 

 eyes; the vertex does not project prominently at apex where it is 

 only a littie larger than on its latéral areas. 



25. — Smicrocotispallescens sp. n. — $. — Very pale ochra- 

 ceous; vertex ofhead a littie prominent atapex, with two central cari- 

 nations and some darker suffusions; pronotum finely transversely 

 striate, centrally carinate for a short distance from anterior margin; 

 on each side of this abbreviated carinate line is a small rounded 

 foveation, behind eyes two oblique dark lines, the centre of 

 the anterior margin with small dark speckles; scutellum transver- 

 sely striate; tegmina with the veins, inner and costal margins dar- 

 ker ochraceous; head beneath a littie piceous on each side of face 

 in front of the antennae; apices of the femora and the whole of the 

 tibise more orless roseate; face somewhat convexly narrowed ante- 

 riorly where it is obscurely transversely striate and centrally longi- 

 tudinally carinate, its remaining area thickly finely punctate. 



Long. incl. tegm. Ç. 11 mill. 



Hab. : « New South Wales «(Brit. Mus.). 



26. — Smicrocotis infuscata sp. n. — $. — Head, pronotum, 

 scutellum, body beneath and legs brownish ochraceous ; tegmina 

 pale greyish brown, the veins darker brown, and with about basai 



