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oldest known types of insects, this fact seems to offer additional 
testimony of the great antiquity of the fauna of this continent. 
The works consulted are those of Messrs. Brunner de 
Wattenwyl, Henry de Saussure, Burmeister, and Stal. 
The species belonging to the Victorian collection have the 
numbers attached under which they were submitted ; the others 
are unnumbered and marked by an asterisk preceding the name. 
ECTOBID. 
Ecrosia APICIFERA ( Walk.), Tepper. No. 24. 
Kewell, N.W. Victoria. 
EcTOBIA MINIMA, sp. nov. No. 25. 
Male. Body shining, pale beneath. Head pale tawny, a broad 
brownish band in front; eyes black ; antennz brownish. Pro- 
notum subtransverse, a pale whitish median stripe as wide as the 
space between the eyes and of equal width throughout, on each 
side bordered by a piceous stripe narrow at the apex, much wider 
behind, lateral margins broadly pellucid. Elytra much exceeding 
the abdomen, lateral and sutural margins broadiy pale, whitish, 
medial space piceous. Legs (very long), pectus and base of 
abdomen pale tawny, spines partly blackish; apical part of 
abdomen deep black. Cerci pale. 
Male. 
Length of body ey ate oes | Ae tain 
Length of elytra one Mee Hilt eae * 
Length of pronotum ... Be sista Liss 
Width of pronotum ... 2 e 
Hab.—Mordialloc, Victoria. (Nat. Mus., Melbourne.) 
The smallest species known to me. 
EctTosBiA SUBLUCIDA, sp. n. No. 40. 
Female. Body piceous, banded paler. Head brownish, eyes 
pale, a dark band between the latter interrupted in the middle, 
antenne ferruginous. Pronotum semicircular, angles slightly 
rounded, lateral margins kroadly brownish, disk piceous, with a 
brownish triangular spot adjoining the straight hind margin. 
Elytra piceous, lateral margins dull tawny, shorter than abdo- 
men, apex rounded (radial and ulnar veins not separate at base). 
Legs pale brownish. Abdomen piceous, banded or spotted pater. 
Female. 
Length of body oe Pp 4y 10d, mam. 
Length of elytra ane ae Bey TEGO «3 
Length of pronotum ... ee I 5 a 
Width of pronotum eco. 
Hab.—Chiltern, Victoria. (Nat. Mus., Melbourne.) 
