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a wide, middle, immaculate area. Underside pale marked with 

 brownish black. Veins of tegmina mostly whitish. Tergite? 

 laterally marked with blac'k. O'celli either aibsent. or present on 

 one side. Frons convex 'basally. flattening gradtuJly towards 

 the truncate apex. Clypeus su'b-parallelsided, broader than t'he 

 lorae. Genae scarcely angular posteriorly. Pronotum shorter 

 than the vertex. Tegmina with 3 or 4 discoidal, and 5 apical 

 cells. 



Female : 7th sternite very obtusangidately emarginate : pygo- 

 fers-long and narrow, 5 to 6 times as long as 7th sternite; ovi- 

 positor about one third longer than pygofers. Tegmina not 

 U'-arly reaching apex of abdomen. 



Length nearly 6 mill. 



Hab: Queensland. Bundaberg. on grass (ix-xii): a speci- 

 men from Brisbane (xi) may be distinct. 



2. parvulo. sp. nov. 



(PI. XXTT. figs. 1-3.) 



\^^hen alive, metallic green, but fades after death to a shiny 

 testaceous ; tegmina and tergites more or less greyish metallic. 

 Face pale sordid brownish, legs more or less marked with brown. 



Female : elongate, tapering anteriorly and posteriorly. Ver- 

 tex about 3 times as long as wide between the eyes, anteriorly 

 acuminate, somewhat ascendant. Frons 5-hedral, long-diamond 

 .shaped, with a fifth side anteriorly, about as wide as clypeus. 

 which is a trifle wider than the lorae : the latter do not quite 

 reach the posterior margin of the genae. Tegmina very short 

 truncate. Ultimate segment roundly produced, pygofers elon- 

 gate, narrow, largely exposing the verv long ovipositor. 



Length 6\ mill ; width about i mill. 



H^b: Queensland. Bimdaberg (ix-xii), on grasses. 



There is also a single male from Bundaberg" (xi) which prob- 

 ably belongs to this. Head acute anteriorly, more or less por- 

 rect, about one-half, or a little more, longer than wide between 

 the eyes. • 



Length 4 mill. 



Female nymphs are very similar to the adults. 



T think it is this species that has been described bv Buckton 

 a>' a Membracid ( ! !) under the name of PJiilya parvida (igoi 

 Mon. Membr. p. 57, PI. 8, fig. 4.) 



