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plus excavee derriere les antennes, avec le milieu plus 

 saillant, une ligne noire sur la face ; antennes noiratres, plus 

 pales a la base ; prothorax pas plus long, plus grele, plus 

 bossue, moins dilate anterieurement ou la petite saillie 

 superieure est plus sensible, les autres pieces du thorax ob- 

 scures en dessus ; abdomen d'un brun cendre, un peu nuance 

 de jaune ; pattes blanchatres ; tibias anterieures un peu 

 roussatres, plus courts, finement et irregulierement stries 

 anterieurement, avec une marque obscure a leur face interne; 

 ailes transparentes, nervures et reseau jaunatres, ce dernier 

 un peu varie de brun ; pterostigma presque comme chez la 

 pagana, un peu plus etroit. De la taille de pagana. Co- 

 lombia, 



31. M. apicalis (Loew in Germar's Zeitschr. iv. 4?33) : brunnea ; 

 hypostomate, abdominis basi supra, tribusque cingulis pone 

 medium utrinque flavis ; alis subaequalibus, anticis dilute 

 flavo-brunneis, extremo apice fuscis, posticis limpidis, ad 

 marginem exteriorem dilute flavo-brunneis. Long. lin. 7. 

 Rhodus insula. 



32. M. vittata (Guerin-Meneville, Voy. Coquille, Insectes, texte, 

 p. 196) : fusca, capite supra carinato, antennis pallidis, apice 

 nigricantibus ; abdomine flavo, vittis lateralibus latis duabus 

 aliaque media angusta supra et infra brunneis ; pedibus flavis, 

 femoribus anticis apice intus nigris, prima spina flava, apice 

 nigra; alis hyalinis, stigmatibus fulvis. Long. 10 mill. 

 Enverg. 26 mill. Port Jackson. Tab. nostr. 17, fig. 1. 



Being enabled to add several new Australian species, it will be 

 serviceable to describe this and M. Australasia, Guerin, in greater 

 detail. 



The general colour is dark brown-orange, varied with yellow. 

 The head has a deep impression on each side, above the insertion 

 of the antennae, leaving an elevated central carina on the forehead; 

 the lower part of the face, below the antennas, is pale yellow, 

 which colour also runs upwards along the inner margin of the 

 eyes ; there is also a very slender brown line down the middle 

 of the face. The antennas are slender, about twice the length 

 of the head, 26-jointed, brown, about one-third towards the base 

 reddish, the two basal joints yellow beneath ; the basal joint 

 is large and subglobose, the second smaller, the third larger than 

 the second or fourth; the fourth and following submoniliform, 

 each nearly as long as broad, very slightly setose ; terminal joint 



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