34 i 



Head nearly one-half longer than wide, 3^ times as wide as pro- 

 notum. Tegmina subreticulate. 



Length: 6^ mill. 



Hab: New South Wales, Sydney (ii). 



3. friliiicatits sp. nov. 



Somewhat similar to t'he last named; a dark brown line from 

 anterior mar'gin of head to posterior angle of scutellum (divid- 

 ed on vertex by pale median carina); lateral margins of tegmina 

 broadly blackis'h brown, narrowing a little apically, the mar- 

 gins pale. 



Length: 6 mill. 



fiab: New South Wales. 



Tartessiis Stal- 



Tartessus Stal, 1865, O. V. A. F., XXll. 156; Signoret, 1880, 

 A. S. E. France, 347. 



This is a characteristic Australian genus, thoug'h it stretches 

 into the Philippines, Malays, etc. It must be ver^- rich in spe- 

 cies as Signoret admits 14, and 1 have a number before me un- 

 vvorked. They seem all to be arboreal. 



1. syiiidis sp. nov. (Fl. XXIV. tig. 9)- 



Pronotum and scutellum clear yellowish. Head testaceous, 

 the top broadly black transversely, lengthening on the tempora; 

 there is a broad curved black stripe at the base of the genae, 

 beneath the eyes, reaching the frontal sutures at the antennal 

 scrobes. The frons has a pattern (figured) in black and the apex 

 of clypeus and of lorae, etc., are the same color. Eyes brown. 

 Sterna (mostly), sternites basally, sternopleurites entirely, pos- 

 terior femora mostly, genital segments (except lateral margin 

 of plate in male, narrowly pale),black or blackish; rest of under- 

 side mostly testaceous. Tegmina subhyaline, pale ferruginous 

 with a lilac iridescence; a transverse median hyaline stripe and 

 a large hyaline, marginal .spot towards the apex of the sul3apical 

 transverse veins, blackis'h: and a spot near the apex of the 

 costal cell blackish ferruginous. Wings 'hyaline, veins black. 

 Vertex scarcely prominent in front of eyes, very greatly round- 

 ed. Eyes large, reaching posteriorly to about half of the length 



