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with 2 or 3 darker transverse lines and the apical margin i^ale 

 smoky. Wings hyaline, faintly smoky, veins pale. 



Male : last segment apparently roundly emarginate. valve 

 scarcely apparent, plates elongate with concolorous bristles. 



Length 2^ mill. 



Hab. Viti Levu. Rewa ('Mar., Muir). 



coiitortiif'licatiis var. nov. 



Like the type, but there is a double line of warm brown froui 

 mid-vertex to mid-scutellum, lateral contortuplicate lines of 

 the same colour on pronotum and two blackish brown trans- 

 verse lines on anterior margin of head. Tegmina rather more 

 marmorate. 



Hab. Viti Levu, Rewa (Mar.-Apr., Muir). 



dccciiiuotatus var. nov. 



Pronotum with lo white spots. Tegmina as hi coiiiorfiiplicafus. 

 Hab. Viti Levu, Rewa (Apr., Muir). 



These varieties may prove to be good species, but I have seen 

 only a single example of each. 



3. aiisfralciisis, sji. new. 



Like the last, but larger and xellower; tegmina with sparse 

 brownish markings. 

 Length 3^ mill. 

 Hab. Queensland, Kuranda and Cairns (Aug. P). 



4. piirpiirascciis, sp. nov. 



Head and eyes pitchy brown with a purple tinge, inner orbits 

 narrowly pale. Ocelli pale, verv conspicuous. Pronotum and 

 scutellum dark ferruginous brown with a purple glint. Teg- 

 mina warm brown with a purple glint, a few irregular pale spots 

 and specks, not corresponding on opposite tegmina. Wings 

 pale smoky, veins fuscous. Labium and fore coxae pale, rest 

 of legs mostly pale fuscous, hind tibiae purplish pitchy. Sterna 

 sordid testaceous. Abdomen purplish pitchy. 



Female: pygophor with yellowish brown bristles; last seg- 

 ment notched in the middle. 



Length 3 mill. 



Hab. Viti Levu, Rewa (Apr., Muir). 



