16 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND. 
On a Tertiary Fossil Insect Wing from 
Queensland (Homoptera Fulgoroidea), 
with description of a New Genus and 
Species. 
By R. J. Tutnyarp, M.A., Se.D. (Cantab.), D.Sc. (Sydney), 
C.M.Z.S., F.L.S., F.E.S., Entomologist and Chief of the 
Biological Department, Cawthron Institute, Nelson, N.Z. 
(Plate I and two Text-figures.) 
(Read before Royal Society of Queensland, 30th April, 1923) 
THE beautiful fossil Insect wing which forms the subject of 
this paper was discovered near Goodna, Q., by Mr. W. H. 
Bryan, M.Sec., Lecturer in Geology at the University of 
Queensland. Mr. Bryan, in sending me the fossil for descrip- 
tion, wrote as follows :—‘‘ The specimen was collected by me 
from the Tertiary beds at Redbank Plains, near Goodna, at 
the same spot and from the same horizon as your Huporismites 
balli, described on pp. 44-45, Queensland Geol. Survey Publ. 
No. 253, and figured on Plate 3. Associated with these 
wings area fairly rich fish fauna and a number of well-pre- 
by 
served dicotyledonous plants.’ 
With regard to the age of the beds in which the fossil 
was found, there is some doubt, owing to lack of evidence of 
any Pleistocene glaciation and the absence of fossiliferous 
marine beds in the series ; but the presence immediately beneath 
these beds of vesicular trachyte, which Professor Richards 
regards tentatively as belonging to his Middle Division of the 
Tertiary Volcanics of Queensland, suggests a Miocene age 
for the fossiliferous beds themselves. 
The fossil wing might at first sight be taken for one of the 
Psychopsid lacewings, owing to its great breadth, its general 
shape, and the density of its venation. But examination 
under a low power proves at once that it belongs to the family 
Ricaniide of the Fulgoroid Homoptera, and is very closely 
allied to the recent Australian genus Scolypopa Stal, of which 
