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DIASTELLA FLEXUOSACERCATA, Lrunner (ibid, 98). 
Pronotum scarcely wider behind than in front. Elytra with 
zebra-like oblique brownish stripes. Cerci of male elongate and 
flexuose. 
Male. 
Length of body 22 mm. 
Length of pronotum 510m 
Length of elytra oT 
Width of elytra LO-2enh 
Length of hind femora 21 
Habitat.—New Guinea. 
Genus Protina, Brunner (Mon. Add., 10, 98, fig. 16). 
Face somewhat swollen. Pronotum rather large, not con- 
stricted, disk anteriorly plain, posteriorly-produced and suddenly 
incurved, forming a pointed transverse ridge, deflexed lobes 
roundly inserted, highest behind the middle. LElytra broad, first 
radial branch forked before the middle. Hind femora with com- 
pressed base, spined beyond the middle. Hind tibie curved 
towards the apex. Mesosternal lobes triangular, metasternal 
rounded. Ovipositor rather long. 
PROTINA GUTTULATA, Brunner (ibid). 
Olive-green. Antenne ringed with black. Elytra with dis- 
tant, small, irregularly-scattered brown spots. 
Female. 
Length of body ast af .. Jo) SBE 
Length of pronotum ... ee /... 3Caaia 
Length of elytra ae apy ..< De 
Width of elytra ut we 3. [oa 
Length of hind femora... et i. 2s 
Length of ovipositor ... | is 
Habitat.—Peak Downs, Guseieana. 
Genus Symmacuis, Brunner (Br. Mon., 21, 199). 
Fastigium of vertex obtuse, horizontally contiguous with the 
frontal one. Elytra broadest in the middle or beyond, radial 
branch forked in the middle, tympanal area of male very short. 
Brunner established the genus upon the male only. I consider 
a specimen of a female in the Adelaide Museum as appertaining 
to this genus ; it has served me for the following description. 
SYMMACHIS LACTEIPENNIS, Brunner (ibid, fig. 57). 
Whitish-green. Head, pronotum, and femora whitish. Lower 
margin of deflexed lobes of pronotum semi-circularly rounded, 
gradually passing into hindmargin. Elytra pale-green, pellucid, 
postradial vein much curved at apex, terminating in hindmargin; 
