Rhynchotal Family Lygaudae. 259 



eyes moderately prominent and slightly passing the anterior 

 angles of the pronotumj antennae moderately robust, basal 

 joint only a little passing apex of head ; rostrum with the 

 basal joint almost reaching base of head ; pronotum a little 

 longer than broad at base, and transversely constricted near 

 base ; corium extending only to about three-fourths of the 

 abdomen ; membrane absent ; anterior femora incrassated 

 and finely spined beneath ; anterior tibiae a little curved but 

 not centrally spined ; scutellum elongate, longer than 

 broad. 



Allied to Fontejus, Stal, but the pronotum much shorter, 

 anterior tibiae not centrally spined, &c. 



Albany aria multicolor at a, sp. n. 



Head, anterior lobe of pronotum, and the scutellum black ; 

 the nari'ow posterior pronotal lobe and the extreme apex of 

 scutellum greyish white ; antennae oehraceous, apex of third 

 joint and more than apical half of fourth black ; corium 

 oehraceous, the lateral marginal areas with three prominent 

 black spots, the smaller near base, the largest near middle, 

 and the third at apex, the exposed apical area of the abdo- 

 men black; body beneath- black ; posterior sternal segmental 

 margins very pale oehraceous ; legs reddish oehraceous, 

 apical halves of the anterior femora and apices of the tibiae 

 and tarsi black ; antennae with the second joint slightly 

 longer than the third and about subequal with the fourth ; 

 scutellum more or less rugosely punctate ; clavus linearly 

 somewhat coarsely punctate; rostrum oehraceous, the basal 

 joint black, remaining joints imperfectly seen in carded 

 type. 



Long. 5^ mm. 



Hob. W. Australia; Albany (J. J. Walker). 



Genus Laryngodus. 

 Laryngodus, Herr.-ScliEeff. Wanz. Ins. ix. pp. 191, 212 (1853). 



The short description given by Herrich Schaeffer and 

 some imperfections in the figure given of the type of the 

 genus render a fuller description of both necessary. 



Laryngodus austratice, Herr.-Schseff. Wanz. Ins. ix. p. 212, 

 fig. 967 (1853). 



Head fuscous brown ; eyes black ; antennae dark casta- 

 neous, apices of the first, second, and third joints very 



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