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much narrower than the lorae. First apical cell short, shorter 

 than the ist. subapical; second apical cell semi-circular- 

 Male unknown. 



Female: 7th. sternite scutiform, carinatc longitudinally, an- 

 gulany rounded be'hind, the posterior angle very slightly pro- 

 duced again. Pygofers yellowish rufescent (wit^h golden yelloAV 

 hairs), shorter than the rufescent ovipositor. 

 Length : (female), 5I mill. 

 Hab: New South Wales, Sydney (i-ii). 



A much slenderer species than A'', plebeius. with different 

 venation and different markings on the head. 



3. A^. nigra pi cf a (Stal.) 



Thainnotcttix nigropicta Stal, 1871. O. \'. A. F. 740. 

 Hab: Queensland, Cairns, on grasses. (Also from Philip- 

 pines, China and Japan). 



This species is closely allied to A', bipnnctata (Fabr.) 



Scaphoidcus I'hler. 



Scaphoidcus Uhler, 1891 Trans., ^laryland Ac. Sci. I, ^t^\ Os- 

 brrn, 1900, J. Cincinnati Soc, N. H., XIX 187. 



Distributed through America, Japan and Oriental Region 

 and I now describe a species from Australia. 



I. pristidens, sp. nov. 



Testaceous, more or less tinged with pink or yellow; vertex 

 ■with two black spots at anterior margin and two irregular 

 ochraceous brown spots just posterior. Frons anteriorly with 

 about five transverse 'black lines (sometimes more or less in- 

 terrupted). Pronotum more or less blotched laterally. Scutel- 

 lum with two basal pinkish brown spots. There is a white 

 median line from apical margin of vertex to posterior angle of 

 scutellum. Tegminal picturation not cruciate, testaceous, 

 veins brown, cells more or less fuscate; clavus with 3 large w4iite 

 spots contiguous to the commissure. Posterior legs and an- 

 terior and intermediate tibiae and tarsi spotted or ringed with 

 black. Abdominal sternites more or less striped transversely 

 with black. Vertex somewhat flat wit'h a transverse impressed 

 line; edges subacute; longer than wide, anteriorly triangular, 

 acuteang'e'd, lorae contiguous with posterior mar*gin of genae. 



