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with the anterior part pale b)'ownish, veins bi'own, posterior part 

 pellucid ; transverse veinlets distant, regular, whitish. Meso- and 

 meta-notum pale, irregularly and indistinctly spotted. Abdomen 

 with the hindmargin of the dorsal segments broadly brownish, 

 ventral segments pale, with a submarginal row of black spots. 

 Supra-anal lamina pale, subrotundate, hindmargin slightly 

 emarginate. Cerci about one-half longer than the lamina. 

 Styles minute. 



Female. — Body broadly ovate, much wider behind, light 

 brown, with crowded, minute granulations all over. Pronotum 

 semi-elliptic, hindmargin slightly rounded, colour and markings 

 similar to male, but darker. Meso- and meta-notum with the 

 disk marked by black patches and dots more or less confluent ; 

 hindmargin pale, with about 14 short, black streaks; meta- 

 notum somewhat angularly-produced medially and much laterally 

 behind. Elytra subrotundate, slightly exceeding the mesonotum, 

 with a black streak medially, and some black dots behind. 

 Abdomen dorsally with similar marks as thorax, margin indis- 

 tinctly pale, hind angles slightly produced. Supra-anal lamina 

 entire, rounded, with minute black sjDots ; ventral segments 

 ochraceous, lateral margin black, a row of black, submarginal 

 spots, hindmargin streaked with black, last segments black, with 

 a pale medium spot, and some others, sometimes more or less 

 obliterated along the base. Cerci very short. Larvte much 

 paler, markings indistinct. 



Male. 

 Length of body ... 17-20 mm. 



Length of elytra ... 17-20 " 



Length of pronotum ... 4-5 " 

 Width of pronotum ... 6-7 " 

 Width of abdomen ... — 



Habitat. — Vicinity of Adelaide, Burra, Gilbert River, South 

 Australia ; September to May. S.A. Museum. Port Adelaide, 

 Sydney, Tasmania {Brjinner). 



The above description has been drawn from 10 males, 3 

 females, and one larva, varying considerably in size, details of 

 colour, tfec; but all show the disk of the closed elytra pale, and 

 otherwise the various markings pass gradually into each other, so 

 that no distinctions could be set up. 



Epilampra notabilis. Walker (Brit. Mus. Cat., 202) 1 



Male. — Deep brownish testaceous, resembling the preceding. 

 Pronotum with very pale margin all round, unmarked, except the 

 black strige behind ; disk black, the middle either paler or not, 

 with a testaceous median line and some variable lateral pale 

 marks. Elytra brown, translucent, costal margin broadly pale 



