188 Mr. W. L. Distant on some 



tlie basal segment gveyisli or very pale ocliraceous ; body 

 beneath and legs pale ocliraceous, with some very small and 

 obscure darker mottlings-, those on the face sometimes 

 forming a dark central spot ; facial lateral marginal areas 

 with a series of small dark spots ; tegmina pale dull oclira- 

 ceous, with dark mottlings, of which the largest are on the 

 apical halves of costal areas, many of the discal longitudinal 

 veins prominently blackish ; wings subhyaline, the venation 

 pale ochraceous ; head (including eyes) about as broad as 

 ])ronotum, anterior margin slightly rounded in front of eyes, 

 and with a transverse subconvex ridge between eyes, and a 

 central longitudinal carination, on posterior area two small 

 subexcavate dark spots. 



Long., excl. tegm., 4|-5^ mm. ; exp. tegm. 13-16 mm. 



Bab. New South Wales; Hay (.7. Little). On salt-bush. 



Fam. Jassidae. 

 Em'i/meloides moruyana, sp. n. 



Vertex of head and pronotum bronzy brown; eyes dull 

 ochraceous ; face and body beneath black ; legs dark casta- 

 neous ; scutellum and tegmina shining black, the latter with 

 a small cluster of greyish-white spots near apex of costal area ; 

 vertex of head roundly, a little subangularly produced, thickly 

 punctate ; pronotum transversely, a little obliquely striate, 

 with two small dark central fovese on anterior margin ; scu- 

 tellum finely punctate on basal half, after which it is suddenly 

 depressed to apex and is finely transversely striate ; posterior 

 tibise shortly coarsely spinose. 



Long., incl. tegm., 7 mm. 



Hah. Australia; New South Wales, Moruya [Murray). 



Subfam. LuDEiy^. 

 Ledropsis crocina, sp. n. 



Vertex of head ochraceous mottled with testaceous ; pro- 

 notum paler ochraceous mottled with testaceous, which on 

 disk forms a more or less complete central longitudinal 

 fascia and two spots near basal margin ; scutellum ochra- 

 ceous ; body beneath and legs ocliraceous, marginal areas of 

 head beneath before eyes more or less testaceous, margins 

 of face distinctly darker, tibise and tarsi spotted and marked 

 with sanguineous ; tegmina ochraceous, more or less sufEused 

 with purplish brown and irregularly but somewhat thickly 

 spotted with greyish white ; vertex of head longer than pro- 

 notum, apically conically rounded and moderately upturned, 



