Cairns ([ul_v) aiul Luciiida I'oint (July) in Queensland, but 

 these species arc difticnlt to separate. 



2. glaiica. 



The vertex is shorter than in N. hcbc, more convex and not 

 flush with the pronotuni. J think this also occurs at Kuranda. 



6. dryas sp. nov. 



Allied to A' . sordidior, hut smaller and paler. Head testaceous, 

 more or less suffused with ])ale c.range-brown, a short longitudi- 

 nal suture and a lateral impression, reddish-brown. Pronotum 

 creamy, with 3 thin orange-brown longitudinal lines continued 

 (more widely) on to the scutellum. Tegmina creamy, veins 

 white, the first two apical veins margined with fuscous. Wings 

 milky hyaline, veins on the apical third mostly fuscous. Sterna, 

 legs, and sternites creamy with a tinge ci brown. Tergites 

 I'lack, last segment pale. 



Male : Pygophor pale. 



Female: last segment sinuately angularly emarginate. lateral 

 angles acute ; pygophor elognate. 



Length 454 niill. 



Hab. Oueenslanfl. Redlvnch (Jul) ), Cairns (July, Aug.). 

 lUindaberg (Sept. -Dec). 



7. auraiitiigera. sp. nov. 



Head, pronotum and scutellum pale greenish-yellow. Teg- 

 mina and legs orange-red. the former with conspicuous whitish- 

 veins, the apical cells hyaline. Wings milky. Tergites fus- 

 cous, hind margin of the segments pale yellowish. X'ertex 

 rounded in front, less than half the length of the pronotum. 

 about as long medianly as at the eyes. 



Length 4 mill. 



Hab. Queensland. Cairns (Aug., P.V 



The two followmg species probablv do not belong to Nesos- 

 filcs. but as some of the species of that genus approach Balclutha 

 (of which T knoAv only one species), T prefer, for the present, to 

 include these two in Nesostclcs. 



