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Genus tsclinoptera, Biirm. 

 Ischnoptera australis, Sauss. 



One example with the abdomen missing, Australia (coll. Odern- 

 heimer). 



Genus Loboptera, Br. 

 Loboptera bergeri, sp. n. 



9. Piceous. Head castaneous, antennae fuscous. Lateral margins 

 of pronotum with a hyaline fascia, failing to reach the posterior margin. 

 Tegmina with outer margin hyaline ; broader than long, with faint indi- 

 cations of the venation, the apex of the marginal area truncate, the 

 apex of the discoidal area rounded. Metanotum with a large quadrate 

 hyaline macula on each side of the middle line anteriorly. Dorsal 

 abdominal tergites 3—7 each with a lateral hyaline spot, the spots on 

 the 5**^ tergite minute, the 7*^ tergite with a pair of central spots also. 

 Supra-anal lamina triangular, apex emarginate, its disc testaceo-hyaline. 

 Cerci testaceous except at the base. A very sparse minute pubescence 

 on the abdomen and coxae. Abdomen beneath castaneous, a lateral 

 hyaline spot on sternites 2 and 3. Sub genital lamina semi-orbicular, 

 ample, l^egs testaceous, the bases of the coxae and tibiae, the apices 

 of the femora and tibiae, castaneous. [Front legs missing.] 



Total length 11mm; tegmina l,8mmx2nmi; pronotum 3 mm 

 X 4 mm. 



Rietmond, Gibeon, German S. W. Africa (coll. C. Berger). One 

 sj)pcimen. 



Distinguished by the form of the tegmina, which are intermediate 

 in shape between the squamiform Loboptera-type and the quadrate 

 T e m n p t e r y X - type. 



Genus Parjiloboptera, Sauss. 

 Paraloboptera weileri, sp. n. 



cf . Fusco-castaneous. Basal joints of antennae and the mouth-parts 

 testaceous. Head rufo- castaneous. Pronotum laterally bordered with 

 rufo-testaceous. Tegmina rufo -testaceous. Metanotum with a curved 

 transverse testaceous band. Abdomen beneath with the disc rufous, 

 laterally dark castaneous. Supra -anal lamina triangular. Sub -genital 

 lamina asymmetrical, apex slightly produced, a pair of small styles. 

 [Cerci mutilated] — Begs testaceous. 



