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" Antennse, disk of pronotum, ajDex of elytra, legs, and 

 abdomen black. Vertex, margin of pronotum and elytra tes- 

 taceous, broadly pellucid. Wings anteriorly testaceous, pos- 

 teriorly smoke-tinted. 



Male. Female. 



Length of body ... 13 mm. 10-5 mm. 



Length of elytra ... U " 11 " 



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



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



Sabitat. — New South Wales." 



Apolyta reticulata, Sanss. (Brit. Mus. Cat., 84, 85). 

 Habitat. — Australia. Descriptions not seen of this and the 

 following two species. 



Apolyta reticulata, Saussure (ibid). 

 Sabitat. — Australia. 



Apolyta gracile, Butler (Cist. Ent., X., 294). 

 Habitat. — Queensland. 



Apolyta centralis, Walker (Brit. Mus. Cat., 120). 

 " Black, fusiform, smooth. Head with the fore border, the 

 sockets of antennae and the palpi dark-red. Pronotum reddish, 

 flat, sides black, deflexed, rounded, foremargin truncate, hind- 

 margin almost straight ; disk with a broad, very shallow furrow 

 laterally. Elytra red, subcoriaceous, dark cinereous towards the 

 apex, foremargin black for more than half the length from the 

 base, almost straight; anal furrow (! ?) slight. Wings dark 

 cinereous, Abdomen with the disk of underside mostly reddish. 

 Cerci lanceolate, moderately long and stout. Legs piceous, knees 

 and tarsi reddish. 



Female. 

 Length of body ... ... ... 12-5 mm. 



Length of elytra ... ... ... 15 " 



Habitat. — South Australia." 



Thyrsocera, Burmeister. 



Handb. II., 498 ; Br., Syst., 115, fig. 11. 



" Antenme often of two colours — blackish and yellow ; base 

 hirsute. Pronotum narrow in front, produced behind, rounded, 

 margin deflected. Middle vein of elytra with the basal branches 

 much angulated and emitted towards the apex. Ulnar vein of 

 wings with two or three branches emitted into the apical margin, 

 but none towards the anal vein. Cerci long, lanceolate spathu- 

 late." 



The oenus is remarkable for the smallness of the anal area 



