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LOBOPTERA TRIVITTATA [EricliSOn). 



Brimner, Syst., 82 ; Arch. f. Nat. viii., 245. 

 "Yellow. Body with three black stripes, iDrownish posteriorly, 

 the middle one obliterated anteriorly. 



Length of body (sex ?) ... ... 9-12 mm. 



Habitat. — Tasmania." 



LOBOPTERA HALMATURIXA, S}^. nOV. 



Pale yellowish. Male oblong, female dilated behind. Two 

 broad piceous stripes from the eyes to the middle of the cerci or 

 rather beyond. Face with a piceous stripe widest between the 

 antennae, and there nearly severed by a pale transverse line or 

 triangular spot. Pronotum with the pale space in the middle 

 much wider behind and marked by a black spot resembling the 

 conventional " Broad Arrow," and repeated on the disk of the 

 mesonotum, but extending quite across it. Metanotum with a 

 median line much wider behind, sometimes reduced to a 

 triangular dot on the hindmargin and two dots or short trans- 

 verse bar, also a short, very fine line on either side. Abdomen 

 with a more or less defined median line or stripe of variable 

 form (almost obsolete in some female specimens). Underneath 

 the pectus and coxte are j^ale, the latter with two black dots ; 

 the legs pale, tibi^ie with black dots along the exterior margin 

 and black apices ; abdomen piceous to black ventrally. 



Male. Female. 



Length of body ... ... 7 '5 mm. 8 mm. 



Length of pronotum ... 2*3 " 2*5 " 



Width of pronotum ... 2-9 " 3-3 " 



Habitat. — Near head of Western Cove, Kangaroo Island, cap- 

 tured by myself on Callitris verrucosa (Native Cypress-Pine). 

 Six specimens (S.A. Museum). 



LOBOPTERA DUODECIMSIGXATA, SJl. UOV. 



Flat, fusiform. Brownish or reddish-yellow, dusky. Margins 

 of pronotum, elytra, and meta-notum pale, hyaline ; disk pale 

 brownish. Abdomen with posterior segments bordered broadly 

 brownish, lateral margin with six short blackish bars on each 

 side, legs and cerci pale yellowish, posterior part of abdomen 

 darker. Egg-case cylindrical, whitish, with a very fine dark 

 ridge, scarcely serrate. 



Female. 

 Length of body ... ... ... .10 mm. 



Length of pronotum ... ... ... 2*3 " 



Width of pronotum ... ... ... 4 " 



Habitat. — Vicinity of Adelaide, South Australia. Two females 



