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lon^ as four following, clothed with fine hairs. Legs slender and rather long. 

 The femalp is larger, stouter, the pronotum more dilated, wings short, only half 

 length of abdomen, hyaline, eoloin-ed, hind-wings semiovat^\ as wide as long. 

 Type, T. melanoptera sp. nov. 



THORODIA MELANOPTERA sp. nov. 



Plate xviii, fig. 46; xxii, fig. 59, and text fignre 377. 



$ Brown. Head about as high as wide ; elypeiis transverse, quadrilateral ; 

 facial shield transverse, fore-margin concave, hind-margin produced to a point; 

 ocelli large, rounded, close together; vertex arched, the middle a trifle flattened, 

 forming an elevated transverse ronnded ridge, mottled brown. Pronotum nar- 

 row, somewhat sparsely punctnred in longitudinal rows; a snpracoxal dilatation 

 at one-third. Elytra long, hyaline, pale brownish : hind-wings large, hyaline, 

 brownish black, with numerous short transverse whitish lines, fore-margin 

 straight, blackish, opaque, interior to this the wing is ver,y transparent, darkening 

 towards posterior margin. Abdomen brownish, slender, cylindrical, cerci stout, 

 flattened at apex, clothed with fairly dense setae. Fore-coxae margined in front 

 with six weak spines, inner face light brown, with several transverse blackish 

 bands more or less obscure, outer face brownish. Femora brown, sometimes an 

 obscure black spot in femoral groove. Legs brown. Length, 47 mm., elytra, 

 32 mm., hind-wings, 29 mm. 



$ Dark brown. Head as in male, but larger, ocelli smaller. Pronotum 

 broad, strongly dilated, a slight constriction between snpracoxal dilatation and 

 fore-margin. Fore-wings short, rounded, opaque, brownish, with darker veins. 

 Hind-wings short, as wide as long, black, Avith transverse, short, transparent, 

 whitish lines at veins. Abdomen broad, parallel-sided, brown, cerci coarse, 

 cylindrical, setose, the two apical segments flattened. Anterior coxae and femora 

 mottled brown and black. Legs brown. Length, 61 mm., elytra, 19 mm., hind- 

 wings, 14 mm. 



Hob. South Australia: Murray River (H. S. Cope), Mindarie, Fowler Bay, 

 Port Augusta, Alford, Halidon, Lameroo, Adelaide, Lucindale (A. M. Lea) ; 

 Victoria : Kewell. 



Types, I. 14064. 



THORODIA MELANOPTERA MAJOR subsp. nov. 



Plate xxii, fig. 60; and text figure 377. 



$ Similar to T. melanoptera, but larger, head more arched, vertex rounded, 

 smooth ; pronotum much wider in proportion, fore-margin narrowed, and the 



