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Habitat.—Tanunda, Riverton, Mount Bryan, South Australia ; 
Coromby, N.W. Victoria( Tepper); New South Wales (Brunner ). 
The species is distinguished from all the others by the upper 
angle of the posterior margin of the narrow lobes of the pro- 
notum being produced into a keeled lobelet, and the pale colour; 
both of which characters and the general aspect are so abnormal 
for the genus, that the formation of a separate one for its recep- 
tion and, perhaps, that of 7. minor, mihi, might be permissable. 
The insects are not very rare, and live among the dry grass from 
November to January. There are one male (without hind 
femora) and three females (one a nymph) in the Adelaide 
Museum. 
TAENIOMENA FRASERENSIS, spec, 720v. 
Moderately large. Head, base of antennz, legs and underside 
of pectus pale-glaucous-white. Antenne testaceous. Hyes 
brown. Disk and lobes of pronotum, also marginal area of 
elytra glaucous, remainder of latter olive-green. Abdomen 
above brownish-black, terminal segment whitish, underside, &c., 
brownish-testaceous. Palpi and tarsi green. Disk of pronotum 
almost flat, wider behind, deflexed lobes as high as long, lower 
margin semicircularly rounded, widest in the middle, white border 
nearly obsolete. Elytra widest at base, transverse venules very 
distinct, crowdedly reticulate in the marginal area ; radial veins 
widely separate at base, then closely contiguous, and again separ- 
ating considerably somewhat beyond the middle. White lines 
broad, the posterior bordering of dark-reddish or blackish dots, 
strie very distinct; posterior margin entirely bordered with 
brown. Tympanal area green, short ; plicate vein pale, straight, 
much raised (but not branched), shining. Fore femora with two 
or three spinelets, hind femora with five or six. Cerci semicircu- 
larly incurved, sharply acuminate, tips black. Subgenital lamina 
not as long as the cerci, posterior margin triangularly emarginate, 
apex of lobe acuminate. 
Male. 
Length of body ... ne sia ..., 20 ae 
Length of pronotum ae ee 
Length of elytra ee hoe meee 3 
Width of elytra ... ot sie  ., Opaln 
Length of hind femora ... a 2 
Habitat.—Fraser Range, interior of Western Australia. 
The remarkably bright colouring, the form of the lobes of the 
pronotum, the emargination of the subgenital lamina, and the 
venation of the elytra separate this species from the others. Some 
specimens of JZ’. sororoides, mihi, from Parallana, in the far 
north of South Australia, resemble it in size and general 
aspect ; but the form of the lobes is different, and the radial 
