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5a. Vertex longer, forking al>out the middle 6. 



6. Species less than 5 mill, long ; vertex long and narrow, 

 much narrower at base than at eye. .6. alcxanor, sp. nov. 



6a. Species more than 6 mill, long; vertex wider, scarcely or 

 not narrower at base than an eye 7. 



7. 8| mill long ; veins not g-ranulate 9. lubra, sp. nov. 



7a. 6| mill long 8. 



8. Tegminal veins granulate 7. sf^onsa, sp. nov. 



8a. Tegminal veins not granulate 8. pliclia, sp. nov. 



1. lacrtes, sp. nov. 



Blackish, keels more or less ferruginous. Pronotum other- 

 wise entirely black. A'eins brownish, base of apical cells nar- 

 rowly infuscate, stigma dark. Tibiae and tarsi more or less fer- 

 ruginous. 



X'ertex elongate, twice as long as broad, much narrower than 

 an eye. Rostrum reaching to posterior coxae. Tegmina granu- 

 lated, very lightly piliferous. Auxiliary vein running into anal, 

 scarcely apical of the posterior angle of the scutellum ; that is at 

 about one-fourth of its length, consecjuently the axillary is much 

 shorter than the basal part of the anal and is in the same straight 

 line as the apical part of the anal, the basal part of the anal be- 

 ing much curved. Posterior tibiae with a median spine and one 

 near the base, also two tiny basal spines. 



Length : 5^ mill. 



H'ab: New South Wales, Mittagong (i). 



2. kampaspc, sp. nov. 



Close to 0. alcxanor but larger and not granulated, claval ve- 

 nation different. Tegminal veins dark and pale brownish, bases 

 of apical cells infuscate. 



Length : 5^ mill. 



Hab: Queensland, Kuranda (viii). 



3. tah(nia, sp. nov. 



Pale testaceous, lateral margins of scutellum and the space be- 

 tween sublateral and median keels, browner. Apices of apical 

 veins and the bases of apical cells rather widely infuscate. Yev- 



