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of frons about 8 parallel, transverse blackish lines on eadh side 

 (sutures of clypeus, etc., sometimes infuscate.) Pronotum sub- 

 anteriorly with a somewhat feeble, arched, repeatedly btoken 

 blackis'h transverse line extending from' side to side. Scutellum 

 with usually 2 pale brownish spec'ks about the middle. Tegmina 

 hvaline pale cinereous, nervures brownish. Bristles on legs 

 biackish brown. 



Vertex twice as wide as long, rounded apically; frons broad, 

 not widening 'from basal margin to antennal articulation, about 

 two and a quarter times as w'ide as the base of the clypeus; cly- 

 peus a little broader than lorae; temples very narrow- Prono- 

 1am longer than the 'head, posterior margin truncate. First 

 •apical cell basally in a line with the base of the exterior sub- 

 apical cell and much longer than it ; second apical cell 5-hedral 

 sides more or less straight (except the apical margin). 



Male valve about three-fourths of the length of the 7th. ab- 

 dominal sternite (which is apically truncate) and about one-third 

 of the length of the plates which are furnis'hed with bristly hairs. 

 Pygofers about the same length as. or a littk- longer than the 

 p'nies, furnished with bristly hairs. 



Female: 7th. sternite about twice as long as the 6th. longi- 

 tudinally sulcate and apicallv notched in the middle to admit 

 base of sawcase; pygofers about 4 times as long as 7t1i. sternite, 

 furnished with granules which emit short bristlv hairs; oviposi- 

 tor longer than the pvgofers. 



Lengtb (male) 4^-5^^min; (female) 5^-5^ mill. 



Hab: Queensland. Cairns fvii-viii), Bundaberg (ix-xii). 

 Redlvnch (vii), Lucinda Point (vn). on grasses ; Koebele 2296 on 

 sand-hills (ix). New South Wales, Svdney (i), Parramatta (i). 

 probably introduced. 



2. contcmptns sp. nov. 



Testaceous, the vertex with a curved blackish brown line an- 

 teriorly, parallel with the anterior mai^gin; frons with a brown- 

 ish black line close to basal margin and parallel with it ; clypeus 

 more or less brownish. Pronotum more or less clouded with 

 greyish. Tegmina pale yellowish hyaline ; apical veins brownish : 

 wings smoky. Abdominal tergites more or less blackish on the 

 disk, laterally more or less pallid. 



Vertex a little more produced perhaps than in plebehis, fron^ 

 narrowing suddenly soon after its basal margin as far as an- 

 tennae, then narrowing gradually to clypeus. which is sublinear, 



