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inwardly abbreviated pale yellowish-brown lines. Pronotum 

 testaceous, with 3 longitudinal pale olive-fuscqus stripes on each 

 side, the innermost broad and continuing on to the scutellum. 

 Tegmina dilute yellowish cinereous, veins whitish testaceous, 

 narrowly and irregularly margined with fuscous, apical cells 

 mostly dark fuscous, the first and second apical veins whitish. 

 Sterna and abdomen mostly dark fuscous or piceous, marked 

 with pallid. 



Male : valve short, triangular ; plates little longer than the 

 valve, the two taken together deeply emarginate angularly in 

 the middle ; pygophor more than twice as long medianly as the 

 plates. 



Female : last sternite roundly emarginate, bluntly angmate at 

 the sides; apex of pygophor pale, with particoloured bristles 

 (yellow and dark fuscous.) 



Length 3^ mill. 



llab. Queensland, Cairns, (Aug.) 



Sometimes the vertex and pronotum appear as though pale 

 olivefuscous with pale lines. 



4. histrionicns^ sp. nov. 



Vertex, pronotum and scutellum yellowish creamy, underside 

 and tergites with a brov^^nish tinge; anterior margin of head 

 with two intersecting black curves ; anterior two-thirds of pro- 

 notum (except laterally) suffused with ferruginous, a broken, an- 

 gular, fuscous line at the base of this suffusion. Scutellum with 

 a ferruginous spot at each anterolateral angle. Tegmina pale 

 creamy whitish, tinged with ferruginous along the corial half 

 of the clavus and on most of the apical half of the corium ; sub- 

 costal cell yellowish creamy with the following dark fuscous 

 markings, viz : a St. Andrew's Cross on the basal two-thirds 

 (the basal right and apical left limbs being irregular) subcostal 

 cell with 3 elongate spots, the third uniting with the St. An- 

 drew's Cross; on the apical third there is an oblicpie sinuate 

 line from near the apex of the clavus to near the apex of the 

 subcostal, then curving round the apical margin, nearly reach- 

 ing its starting point and enclosing a large spot. Wings hyaline, 

 veins pale. 



Female: last segment slightly notched medianly, pygophor 

 yellowish, apicallv marked with black. 



Length ^i mill. 



Hab. A^iti Levu (Mar. ATuir's No. 143). on a native tree in 

 the bush. 



