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and of lorae, black; rest of face, the rostrum, anterior and inter- 

 mediate legs, testaceous. Prosternum and 4 spots on the apicaJ 

 margin of the scutellum, black. Tegmina pale luteotestaceous, 

 more or less hyaline, veins opaque, pale luteous. Wings dark 

 smoky. Abdomen yellowish, more or less suffused discally 

 with brownish, sparingly marked with black. Posterior femora 

 and tibiae mostly black. 



Vertex and venation figured. 



Female: Last segment transverse, apically bisinuate, the 

 short median prolongation very minutely notched. 



Length: 7 mill., breadth 2f mill. 



Hab; Queensland, Cairns (viiij. 



I 'iiltiiniiis, gen. nov. 



Closely allied to Tliatniiatoscol^tis, but lieatl only slightly foh- 

 aceous anteriorly; cells of tegmina irrorate. Type z'liltiinius. 



1. vultunuis, sp. nov. 



Pale orange, somewhat sordid, the pronotum somewhat suf- 

 fused with olivaceous. Scutellum with anterior angles and a 

 short slender median transverse line, olivaceous. Foliaceous. 

 part of vertex, a spot on the disk and the lateral margins, of 

 the genae, etc.. orange; rest of sterna, sternites, etc., testace- 

 ous. Tegmina subhyaline costally, milky subopacjue inwardly, 

 veins brown and yellowish, cubital area with many short trans- 

 verse veins, inner discoidal and the two inner subapicals closely 

 irrorate; clavus irrorate. Wings dark smoky. A'ertex similar 

 in shape to Thaimiatoscopus, but shorter. 



Female: Last segment transverse, bisinuate, slightly pro- 

 duced obtusely in the middle, last sternopleural segment tooth- 

 ed intero-laterally near the base. Ovipositor black. 



Length: 4-i mill. 



Hab: Queensland, Cairns (viii). 



lu'tof'ioccf^lialns. gen. n(^v. 



This remarkable genus is readilv distinguished bv the exceed- 

 ingly declivous pronotum, and the structure of the vertical head. 

 It is Cercopoid in appearance. Vertex apical, slightly convex, 

 transverse, head dorsally anteriorly with (what is probably) a 

 large part of the frons visible, forming a suboval ])late in the 



