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yellow lines. Meso- and meta-notum, also abdomen, bordered pale 

 yellow, with two black stripes laterally. Elytra rudimentary, 

 pale yellow, hyaline. Abdomen piceous beneath, angles acute, 

 hyaline. Supra-anal lamina acutely angular laterally. 



Length of body (male and female) ... 18 mm. 



Habitat. — King George's Sound, West Australia." 



LoBOPTERA PLATYSOxMA, Walk, (ibid, 111). 



" Testaceous, elliptical. Head broad, exceeding the pronotum. 

 Antennae stout, setulose. Pronotum rounded in front, hind- 

 margin straight, sides pellucid. Elytra much shorter than the 

 body, costa much rounded ; transverse veinlets few. Wings 

 pellucid, rudimentary. 



Var. B. Abdomen with a black jDatch on each side near the 

 base. Cerci lanceolate, rather long and slender. 



xMale. 

 Length of body ... ... ... ... 7 mm. 



Length of elytra .. . ... ... ... 2'5 " 



Habitat. — West Australia." 



Temnopteryx, Brunner (Syst. 83, fig. 6). 



" Body oblong. Antennae longer than the body. Pronotum 

 flat, semicircular, leaving the head free. Elytra half the length 

 of the body, truncate, touching in a straight line ; scutellum 

 largely exposed, veins not very distinct. Wings as long as the 

 elytra. Tibiae very spiny, very broad behind, especially with the 

 males. Supra-anal lamina of male transverse, rounded ; of 

 female triangular. Cerci eight-jointed." 



Temnopteryx obscura, Saussure. 

 Mel. Orth. in Memoirs Soc. Phys. de Geneve, xx., part II., 1870. 

 Habitat. — India, Samoa. Description not seen. 



Paratemnopteryx, Saussure (loc. cit.). 



Resembles Temnopteryx, but the tarsi are not provided with 

 plantuli (arolia). 



Paratemnopteryx australis, Sauss. (loc. cit.) 

 i^a6^^«^5.— Australia. (Zool. Pvecord, Vol. YL, 459, 1870.) 



Temnelytra, gen. nor. ( = truncated elytra). 



Body oblong. Antennas as long as the body. Pronotum flat, 



semiorbicular. Head free. Elytra subcorneous, semihy aline, 



extending slightly beyond the metanotum ; veins undeveloped, 



except the main ones, unbranched. Wings none or scale-like. 



