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each side of face black; clypeus black ; mesonotum casta- 

 neous brown, with four anterior black obconical spots, the 

 two central spots shortest, a small black spot near each ante- 

 rior an^-le of the basal cruciform elevation; abdomen above 

 testaceous, posterior segmental margins flavous, anterior 

 segmental margins black, anal segment with two longitudinal 

 black fasciae ; body beneath and legs testaceous, femora more 

 or less spotted with black ; abdomen with a central series of 

 somewhat obscure black spots, the posterior segmental mar- 

 gins flavous ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the first with the 

 venation and the costal and postcostal membranes more or 

 less testaceous, wings with the venation piceous brown, apex 

 of anal area inf uscated ; vertex longitudinally impressed 

 between the ocelli ; pronotum with the central area longi- 

 tudinally grooved ; face distinctly centrally sulcate and 

 strongly transversely carinate. 



Long., excl. tegm., ? , 13 mm. ; exp. tegm. 37 mm. 



Hab. South Queensland; Stradbroke Island (H. Hacker). 

 Type Brit. Mus. 



Allied to M. infascata, Grod. & Frogg., who described that 

 species as the then only one of the genus seen " with apex of 

 anal areas of wings infuscated." 



Melampsalta hackeri, sp. n. 



<$ . Body above and beneath ochraceous, with a more or 

 less virescent tint ; vertex of head with the area of the ocelli, 

 four prominent spots at anterior margin, the two central spots 

 largest, and a transverse spot near anterior margin of each 

 eye, pronotum with two central linear fasciae connected ante- 

 riorly and posteriorly and the fissures, mesonotum with two 

 anterior central obconical spots, a posterior central elongate 

 spot and a rounded spot in front of each anterior angle of the 

 basal cruciform elevation, and some spots on anterior margin 

 of the metanotum black ; on each side of the obconical spots 

 to mesonotum is a small angulate spot and a long submarginal 

 spot of a pale brownish hue ; abdomen above with the ante- 

 rior margin of the basal segment, the interior of the tympanal 

 cavities, a centrally broken series of segmental, discal, trans- 

 verse fasciae on the upper surface of abdomen, and a series of 

 lateral segmental spots to same black ; face with two central 

 longitudinal black fasciae and an oblique black spot at base 

 of each antenna ; coxal spots, streaks to femora, apices of 

 tibiae, spines to anterior femora, base and apex of rostrum, 

 and a basal central marginal spot to abdomen black ; tegmii a 

 and wings hyaline, the first with the venation ochraceous, 



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