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4- parthaon, sp. nov. {F\. XX ill, fig. 1-3J. 



Same size and form as 1 . pasipliac but dilifereiitly patterned, 

 and irons a little more swollen. 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, tegmina and underside pale yel- 

 lowish, more or less tinged with orange. Eyes, 2 spots at base 

 of pronotum, 2 at anterior margin of scutellum, claval commis- 

 sure, etc., blackish. Ocelli pale greenish brown. Wings milky, 

 veins more or less orange-yellow. Leg hairs pale. .Vbdomen 

 orange. Membrane intenia:lly smoky. 



Male: Last abdominal sternite truncate, plates a little more 

 than twice as long as above; basal half broad, roundly narrow- 

 ing, then more rapidly so towards the middle line of the abdo- 

 men, apices acute, fringed with soft hairs; pygofers mucli longer 

 than plates. 



Female: Pygofers longer and narrower than in T. pasiphae, 

 about 3 limes as long as last sternite, which is roundly emar- 

 ginate; pygofers widen out a little before middle, then narrow 

 rapidly; posteriorly narrowly truncate in profile 



Length io-io| mill. 



Hah: Queensland, Cairns (viii), Kuranda (viii). on Sac- 

 chcrum officmak and grasses. 



The nymph of this form is figured on PI. XXHI. fig. 3. 



5. pcffiiuoliia, sp. no\^ 



Pale ochraceous, with the following markings blackish tinged 

 more or less with metallic greenish or bluish — on the anterior 

 margin of the head — 3 rather blotchy spots, and 2 at the base ; 

 the lateral margins of the pronotum and 2 spots at* the apical 

 margin ; at the base a blotch which is somewhat of the conven- 

 tional figure of a bat with out-stretched wings, the "head" touch- 

 ing the intero-posterior angles of the anterior spots. Scutellum 

 with 3 anterior spots. Frons with 2 submedian longitudinal 

 stripes, sometimes meeting posteriorly ; these are shortly pec- 

 tmate, representing the usual striations on the Tcfigonia-irons, 

 but the lateral parts of the striations are pale ochraceous, con- 

 colorous with the ground color of the face. Tegmina dark me- 

 tallic green, costal cell opaque whitish (or pale yellowish) nar- 

 rowly bordered with black. Abdominal tergites mostly bluish- 

 Ijlack. Anterior and intermediate tibiae and tarsi dark. 



Male : Penultimate sternite roundly emarginate. ultimate 

 truncate, plates formed much as in T. parthaon but about 3 times 



