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1. Scutellum anteriorly black; a white wedge across the 

 middle of the clavu§ and a white stripe across costal cell. 

 2 oinphaic Kirkaldy. 



I a. Scntellum uniform dark or pale ferruginous; no white 

 stripes on tegmina 2. 



2. Scutellum dark ferruginous; a large bluish black spot 

 near apex of costal cell i aristyllis Kirkaldy. 



2a. Scutellum pale ferruginous; costal cell slightly infuscate. 

 3 adippe Kirkaldy. 



1. aristyllis, sp. nov. 



Head gradually s'hading from brownish ferruginous at base 

 of vertex (and also on apical half of clypeus) to black near apex 

 of frons. Eyes and scutellum dark .ferruginous. Anterior half 

 of pronotum blackisih, posterior half •whitish. Sterna, rostrum 

 and legs mostly testaceous, anterior femora black, the base and 

 a band near the apex, pale. Abdomen mostly black. Tegmina 

 subhyaline brownish-yellow, a tiny white speck about middle of 

 commissure, the basal margin, a spot at base of costal cell, 

 apical half of costal cell,and a spot about the middle of the 

 clavus, blackish, with a metallic-blue glint; some of t'he veins 

 sanguinescent. Rostrum reaching just beyond posterior coxae. 

 Apical angles of vertical disk acute. Tibiae spineless. 



Length: 4^ mill to apex of abdomen; 5-f-6^ to apex of teg- 

 mina. 



Hab: Queensland. Kuranda (viii). Cairns (viii). 



2. oiiiphale, sp. nov. 



Differs from the typical sjjecies by l)eing shorter and l)rt)a'l'.r 

 and differently colored; vertex shorter. 



Vertex, pronotum anteriorly in the middle, apex of clavus. 

 pa!e ferruginous. Frons, clypeus, pronotum anterolaterally. an- 

 terior and posterior tbird of scutellum, sterna, abdomen, etc., 

 black or blac'kish. Middle third of scutellum bright ferruginous, 

 posterior margin of pronotum testaceous. Tegmina hyaline, 

 pale yellowis'h brown, basal margin narrowly, a spot near mid- 

 dle of costal area, and a stripe across the clavus (nearer apex 

 than base), opaque wbite; apex of costal cell more or less san- 

 guineous, a large metallic bluish-black spot just basal of this. 

 Anterior legs and intermediate and posterior femora more or 

 less black, anterior femora not pallidly banded posteriorly, in- 



