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from the South-East of our province resemble the above females^ 

 but may belong to another species. 



Drymaplaneta obscuripes, spec, now 



Piceous to black ; a broad deep-yellow margin all round, 

 bordered exteriorly very narrowly with black or brown, inner 

 border line jagged ; smooth, shining. Head, palpi, and basal 

 joints of antenna; black, a band between the eyes, and the mouth- 

 parts reddish. Pronotum irregularly wrinkled ; hindangles of 

 thoracic segments slightly produced, broad, rounded. Elytra 

 wholly obsolete. Underside dark. Coxse and femora blackish^ 

 former bordered with white, tibiae and tarsi dark reddish-brown. 

 Abdomen more or less lurid to dark red in the disk, bordered 

 with black ; angles keeled, produced as distinct spinelets ; hind- 

 margin of seventh segment yellow ; beneath dark reddish, with a 

 broad black margin. Supra-anal lamina of both sexes subtri- 

 gonal, deeply and acutely emarginate, lobes of male acute, of 

 female obtuse, black, with two yellow spots. Cerci not twice as 

 long as lamina, apex (male obtuse, female acute) pale. Sub- 

 genital lamina of male transverse, truncate ; styles short, acute. 

 Valvular plate of female with a broad furrow. 



Male. Female. Larva, 



Length of body ... 23 mm. 25 mm. 20 mm. 



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



Width of pronotum ... 9 " 9-5 " 8 " 



Hahitat. — West Coast of South Australia ; Eraser Range, 

 West Australia. S. A. Museum. 



Only a larva, differing in some details, was collected at the 

 latter place by Mr. R. Helms (Elder Expl. Exped.) on October 

 12, 1891, the other specimens (one male, two females) were 

 probably collected by Prof. R, Tate at about the head of Great 

 Bight. 



Drymaplaneta subbifasciata, s}}. nov. 



Piceous, sometimes clouded with deep red, lateral margins 

 broad, yellow, bordered with black, produced transversely along 

 the hindmargins of the pronotum and metanotum, forming 

 bands interrupted in the middle. Body smooth, with very 

 numerous, minute, impressed dots. Vertex and face black, a 

 broad curved band between the antennae, sides, etc., pale yellow ; 

 antennae pale reddish, palpi very pale. Pronotum and meso- 

 notum with a broad subconical impression, medially and various 

 wrinkles behind. Elytra obsolete. Underside piceous. Coxie " 

 pale-yellowish, a black stripe anteriorly ; femora dark-red, with 

 two blackish stripes ; tibiae brown ; tarsi paler. Abdomen with 

 hindangles more or less produced, acute ; hindmargin of segment 



