446 Records of the S.A. Museum 



This appears to be the dark form of S. tristis, and tlie description agrees with 

 specimens so labelled in our collection. 



SPHODROPODA VIRIDIS sp. nov. 



Plate xvii, fig-. 34. 



$ Green. Closc^ to S. fristis. Head similar, fore-margin of facial shield 

 straight. Shaft of pronotum longer and more slender, prosternnm greenish. 

 Wings hyaline, fore-margins opaqne, greenish. Fore-wings with stigma obscure, 

 not marked with black, fore-margin beneath reddish. Base of each segment of 

 abdomen beneath with a black median spot, as in S. fristis, cer'ci long, slender, 

 hairy. Anterior coxae green, with a front marginal row of small -spines; femora 

 similar to *S'. tristis, two pale bro^ni dots on inner margin, inner face of tibia 

 black. Legs short, stout, green. Length, 41 mm., ])ron()tum, 11 mm., fore-wing, 

 35 mm. 



Hah. South Australia: Mount Painter, Flinders Range (H. G. Stokes). 

 Type, I. 14061. 



Allied to 8. tristis, from which it is distinguished In- the different anterior 

 coxae and green colour. 



SPHODROPODA MJOBERGI Sjiistedt. 



Sphodropoda mjbhergi Sjost., Ark. f. Zool., xi, 1918, p. 2."), pi. v, fig. 2, 3. 



Hal). North-west Australia (Type), Northern Territory (Roper River), 

 * Melville Island, Groote Eylandt. 



Most of the specimens are dark in colour; we have one female from Point 

 Charles which is green, l)ut is not otlierwise distinguishable. 



SPHODROPODA LORIPES sp. nov. 



Plate xviii, fig. 42. 



$ Small, green. Head somewhat triangular, vertex nearly straight, clypeus 

 narrow, transverse, quadrilateral, margins straight, facial shield transverse, five- 

 sided, fore-margin straight, eyes projecting, antennae moderately fine. Pronotum 

 somewhat shape of S. tristis, but much narrower and longer in proportion, margins 

 not serrated, surface of pronotum smooth. Wings hyaline, fore-margins opaque, 

 green. Anterior coxae unarmed ; femora with four discoidal spines, an interior 

 marginal row of sixteen spines, the first eleven nearly e([ual sized, the twelfth, 

 fourteenth, and fifteenth small, sixteenth large (in 8. tristis the spines are alter- 

 nately large and small), and an outer marginal row of four rather small spines; 



