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side of the middle. Tegniina faintly smoky, hyaline, veins most- 

 ly dark, tirst and second apical cells more or less colourless, 

 fifth to eig^lith more or less dark smoky. Sterna paler than in 

 the tyjic. 



Brachypterous form: Pale brownish testaceous, paler be- 

 neath; teg-mina narrowly smoky apically. commissure whitish, 

 brown near the apex of clavus. 



Length (brach.) 234,' (macr.) 4 mill. 



Hab. Queensland, Cairns (Aug., P.); Fiji, (March, K.), Ba 

 (Jan., M.). Rewa (Apr. and Dec, M.). 



2. f^crsct'honc sp. nov. 

 PI. XVII, f^gs. TO-II. 



Black; vertex, frontal keels dorsally, keels of pronotum and 

 sides of the latter, central keel and posterior angle of scutellum, 

 commissure (interrupted in the middle), whitish. Antennae and 

 legs whitish or whitish testaceous. Tegmina dark smoky first 

 and second apical cells and the apex of the subcostal cell, hya- 

 line, veins blackish-brown; wings hyaline, veins blackish-brown. 

 The pronotum and scutellum are often more or less decolored 

 (sometimes there are 2 black specks on apical margin of vertex). 

 The vertex proper (basal compartment) does not extend an- 

 teriorly so far as the apical margin of the eyes. 



Male: genital segments dark brownish. Inside margin of 

 pygophor sinuate. The oedeagus serrate marginally. The 

 genital styles are very irregular in form. 



Female : genital segments dark brownish, ovipcsitor-sheath 

 paler. 



Length (brach.) 3. (macr.) 3^-4 mill. 



Hab. Queensland, Cairns (July-Aug., P.). 



Tropidocephala. 



Tropidocephala Stal. 1853 O. V. A. F.. XI 226 {iy])e flaviceps). 



Nephropsia A. Costa 1862 Ann. (Mus. Zool. Napol. I 76 (type 

 elcgans). 



Conicoda Matsumura 1900 Ent. Nachr., XXVI 258 (type 

 graminca). 



Orchcsma Melichar 1903 Horn. Ceylon 94 (type marginepunc- 

 tatd). 



Ectopioptcrygodelphax Kirkaldy 1906 Bull. H. S. P. A. Ent. I, 

 412. (type eximius.) 



