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Male. Female. 



Length of body ... ... 9 mm. 9 mm. 



Length of elytra 8'8 " 8-8 " 



Length of pronotum ... 1'6 " 1*4 " 



Width of pronotura ... 2-5 " 2-6 "• 



jS'y7nphs and larvce. Body ovate, convex, deep black, shining. 

 Vertex narrowly pale-yellowish. Pronotum transverse, hind 

 angles subacute, margin pale all round, widest of the hind angles, 

 the colour gradually passing from whitish exteriorly to piceous, 

 or red towards the middle. Mesonotum with hindmargin 

 bordered pale, hind angles much produced, broadly rusty whitish, 

 the part between the lobes often interrupted by tine black stride. 

 Metanotum with pale hindmargin distinctly interrupted, lateral 

 margin brownish. Abdomen with the hrst four or five dorsal 

 segments distinctly bordered by narrow, elongated white dots, 

 between the rows a narrow yellow line interrupted in the middle, 

 first segment sometimes pale at the base ; fifth or sixth segment 

 with two small yellow dots close to the median line ; the next 

 segment unmarked ; the last with plain white margin. Cerci 

 ferruginous. Underside and legs black, coxc« and hindmargins 

 of ventral segments bordered white. Spines all pale. 



Nymphs. Larvae. 



Length of body ... 7-5 mm. 3 -3-4 -5 mm. 



Length of pronotum 1-6 " 1 -1-2 " 



Width of pronotum... 3-2 " 1 •7-2-5 



Width of abdomen... 4 " 2-3 



Adults, nymphs and larvae were found simultaneously to 

 frequent bushes during daytime, running about the branches and 

 foliage, trying to escape observation by slipping to the opposite 

 side very swiftly when disturbed, or drop to the ground. 



Habitat. — Mount Lofty Range, Tanunda, Sandy Creek, 

 Nuriootpa, Willunga, South Australia; Fraser Range, Western 

 Australia. Three adults, two nymphs, seven larva? (S. A. 

 Museum). 



A small nymph of some minute species was taken near Tanunda, 

 which I am at present unable to assign to any sjDecies or even 

 genus by name. It is elongated, black. Pronotum rounded in 

 front, with broad, smoky, hyaline lateral margin, frontal margin 

 and hind angles of disk white. Lobes of meso- and meta-notum 

 smoky, former with two small triangular white spots in front, 

 latter with white base. Abdomen with the second dorsal seg- 

 ment, the hind angles of all segments, and the middle of the 

 sixth white. Underside and legs black, vertex and spines pale. 



h. Pronotum with disk blackish. 



Apolyta pellucida, Bricnner (Syst. 114, fig. 10). 



EUipsidnim australe, Saussure (Rev., ifec, Mag. Zool., 1864). 



