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constriction between fore-margin and the dilatation nearly obsolete. "Wings with 

 hyaline transverse marks, generally wider and a trifle more obscnircly margined. 

 Length, 58 mm. 



9 Head strongly arched, smooth, no plane area on vertex. Pronotnrn 

 wider, from snpra-coxal dilatation to fore-margin convex, broad, behind dilata- 

 tion strongl^y constricted, thence widening to posterior margin, the tnbercles on 

 pronotnm coarse and conspicnous. The legs appear to bo stouter and longer. 

 Length, 6;! mm. 



Ila^. South Australia: Kingoonya (R. Harvey), Ooldea (R. T. Maurice); 

 Central Australia: Macdonnell Ranges and Mereenie BlufP (Horn Expedition). 



Types, I. 14065. 



The males of this. desert race of T. melanoptera differ most in size, and the 

 females in the shape of the pronotum. We have big series of both races, and 

 there seem to be no intermediates. 



Sub-Family Vatinae. 



PARADANURIA Wood-Mason, 1877 (orientalis). 



Hah. India and Australia. 



PARADANURIA FORTNUMI Westwood. 



Toxodera (Par ad anuria) fortnumi Westw., Rev. Mant., 1889, p. 41, pi. viii, fig. 7. 

 Hah. North Australia. 



AUSTROVATES Sjiistedt, 1918 (variegata). 



Hah. Australia. 



AUSTROVATES VARIEGATA Sjiistedt. 



Plate xxi, fig. i]Q. 



Austrovafps variegata Sjost., Ark. f . Zool., xi, 1918, p. 86, pi. iv, fig. 2a-b ; 

 Heterarch 1)1X1 III is lohafa Wern., Zool. Med. Rijks Mns. Leid., vii, 1922, p. 121. 

 Hah. North-west Anstralia, Northern Territory. 

 The figure is of a female from Roper River. 



