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however, very much stouter than in the right. All these differ- 
ences are probably sexual, some are certainly so. 
ALECTORIA SUPERBA, Br. (female) (ibid) (Zectoria Pontoni, 
Tepper, male). 
Olive (or yellowish) green. Crest of pronotum greenish- 
yellow with ferruginous and black crenulate margin. Elytra 
and legs marked with brownish spots and bands. All the tarsi 
of both sexes are brown. 
Male. Female. Female Nymph. 
Length of body... =» 20 mm. S6emm: - 15° mm, 
Length of pronotum ... 5 “* ion sates 
Length of elytra yer Ln, eee GSE NS ae 
Width of elytra nearbase 8 * Leal 4-5 
Widthofelytra { te Ths KY ten’ 
Length of hind femora... 24 “ 32 * | Ns Atha 
Length of ovipositor ... — “« Oates Log 
Habitat.—Peak Downs, Queensland (Brunner); Beltana (legit 
4. Ponton), Terowie (legit J. M. Bagot), South Australia. 
Genus Carpicia, Stal. (Br. Mon. 21, 189). 
Dorsal part of pronotum flat, lateral edges more or less angular. 
Hind femora unarmed, or only with spines beyond the middle. 
Elytra lanceolate or slightly dilated beyond the apex. Deflexed 
lobes of pronotum higher than long; hind margin of meso- 
and meta-sternum lobed, lobes as long as high. Breast very 
broad. Deflexed lobes highest in the middle, hind margin either 
rounded or straight. Marginal area of elytra irregularly veined. 
Hind femora very stout at the base. Fastigium of vertex 
acuminate, almost contiguous with the frontal. 
Thus far the above characters are in common with the remain- 
ing genera of the group to a greater or lesser extent, the 
following are the distinctive ones of the genus:—Elytra gradually 
narrowed from the middle, the first radial branch forked at or 
somewhat before the middle. 
The species are all Australian excepting two from tropical 
West Africa. 
CAEDICIA PICTIPES, Stdl. (ibid, 90). 
Shiningly-ferruginous, striped with black. Disk of pronotum 
black, lateral stripes yellow. Legs banded with black. 
Length of body (male and Ses ... 930-32 mm. 
Length of pronotum _..... a Os 
Length of elytra .. ee nits EO VAQEAD int 
Width of elytra ... Me Ea “Le OF is 
Length of hind femora ... Ae: By pee =2OAhS 
Length of ovipositor eva 
