314 Records of the S.'A. Museum 



margin ui' head and witli an impressed line ui' iniiiciuics on each sule and another 

 near tlio eye; facial impression obovate, large and deep, extending' almost to the 

 vertex, clothed with fine pale hairs; eyes directed moderately backwards, beyond 

 and over the anterior pronotal angles, inner margins a little divergent. Pronotnm 

 black, crossed by seven to ten nai-row, irregnlar yellow lines ; twice as broad 

 between hnmeral angles as medial length; rastrate and with a median carina, 

 most distinct anteriorly ; posterior margin angnlarly convex, lateral margins 

 short; angles obtnse. Hemelytra black, marked Avith yellow, sparsely clothed 

 with long, fine, yellow hairs; clavus with sub -transverse, obli(pie, angularly- wavy 

 lines, the anterior ones broader, so that the base of the chivus appears paler; 

 finely rastrate; corium with angular, interrupted and somewhat transverse lines; 

 a broken yellow line sub-marginal to the costal edge; membrane wilh transverse 

 lines, twisted on the disc, parallel on the inner margin ; embolium dull, pale livid, 

 darkest anteriorly. Sternum ochraceous, in parts black ; xyphus blackish, acute ; 

 underside of abdomen pale testaceous, darkened anteriorly; connexivum pale 

 yellow ; strigil of comparatively large size, sub-rectangular, with four to six broad 

 rows of striae ; legs ochraceous ; anterior tibiae stout, about four-fifths as long as 

 palae, which are cultrate, the upper margin almost straight for a great part of 

 its length, suddenly bent downwards and forwards to apex; claw long, stout; 

 thirty-six to forty stridulatory pegs in a single row' following the curve of the 

 superior margin; apical pegs longest, subulate, the series regularly decreasing 

 in size backwards; posterior teeth short, sub-ovate; intermediate claws al)out as 

 long as tarsi. Length, 7 mm. 



9 A little larger than the male. Frontal margin of head somewhat angu- 

 larly rounded; interocular carina continued below on to face, which is convex, 

 punctured, and clothed with pal(> yellow hairs. Palae falcate, upper edge very 

 convex. Underside of abdomen ochraceous, darkened marginally. In two 

 examples from Murray River the head is dark castaneous. Length, 7') mm. to 



8 mm. 



llah. South Australia: Adelaide (A. II. Elston and II. M. Hale), Murray 

 Kiver (J. G. 0. Tepper and H. M. Hale), Goolwa and Finniss River {X. Zietz) ; 

 Victoria: Port Phillip (type locality) ; Tasmania (British Museum). 



A. australis is so far recorded from southern Australia and Tasmania only. 

 The female has not previously been described. 



ARCTOCORISA TRUNCATIPALA sp. nov. 



S Head testaceous, a little longer than its width, evenly rounded in front ; 

 a longitudinal, median carina, slightly and angularly produced at basal margin 



(6) Skuse, Eec, Aust, Miis., ii, 189o, p. 4:; 



