(S.A. Museum). Under bark of Eucalypts in scrub-lands. The 

 barren female was captured in April ; the other, with egg-case 

 undetached, in July. 



LOBOPTERA CIRCUMCINCTA, Sp. nOV. 



Pale dusky-yellowish, banded with dark-brown, and pale lateral 

 margins. Head blackish-brown, ocelliform spots, and mouth 

 parts pale ; also the antennae. Pronotum with disk and hind- 

 margin brown, enclosing a pale subrhombic spot ; foremargin 

 dark-brown, sometimes obliterated. Elytra lobiform, much 

 exceeding the meso-notum ; disk brown. Abdomen with anterior 

 segments pale, their hindmargins dark ; posterior segments dark, 

 except the last, which has a pale hindmargin. Supra-anal lamina 

 of male very short, rounded ; of female acutely triangular, com- 

 pressed. Cerci long, terete, hirsute. Underside pale dusky- 

 yellowish, legs whitish. 



Male. Female. 



Length of body ... ... 8-5 mm. 9 mm. 



Length of pronotum ... 2 " 2 " 



Width of pronotum ... 3-5 " 4 " 



Habitat. — Kangaroo Island [Tejyper, April, 1884); Pviverton 

 (May, 1887); Mount Bryan East (September, 1887). Two males, 

 two females (S.A. Museum). 



The males only appear to possess lobiform elytra, the females 

 to be wholly wingless. 



LoBOPTERA UNDULiviTTA, Walk. (Brit. Mus. Cat., 144). 



'' Testaceous, fusiform, smooth, shining. Head with two black 

 stripes dilated towards the vertex. Antennae piceous, base 

 testaceous. Pronotum with two undulating black stripes not 

 extending to foremargin. (Elytra 1) Abdomen with two black 

 stripes, apical part black, or almost wholly black. Supra-anal 

 lamina of male bilobed, emarginate, sides deflexed. Cerci long, 

 flat, lanceolate, tawny. Styles distinct. 



Length of body (male and female) ... 15 mm. 



Habitat. — New Zealand.'"' 



This and the following species have been removed from the 

 genera under which they were j)laced by Walker, on account of 

 their general characters, as apparent by his descriptions, which 

 agree much better with Loboptera than any other, notably the 

 striped pronotum and rudimentary wings. 



Loboptera margixifera. Walk. (ibid). 



" Yellow, fusiform, smooth, shining. Head with a piceous 

 band on the vertex. Pronotum pale, hyaline, yellow, bordered 

 in the disk by two irregular Ijlack stripes, and externally by two 



