Mr. W. L. Distant on ]roiiioi)tcra. 27 



broadly convex antciiorlj, tlie marL^iiis above strongly ridded 

 and its disk rugose; face long, broad, nnicii longer tlian 

 clypeus, its lateral margins parallel, its base convex and 

 extending considerably in front of eyes, centrally longitu- 

 dinally tricarinate, its a|)ex concave, receiving base of clypeus, 

 ■\vliieli is centrally obscurely carinate ; rostrum reaching or 

 passing the ])osterior coxai ; pronotum a little shorter than 

 bead, centrally ridged ; mesonotum centrally a little shorter 

 than head and pronotum together; posterior tibiaj with four 

 or five spines ; tegmina about three times as long as broad, 

 transversely reticulate, more obscurely so on basal area ; 

 wings shorter and broader than tegmina, excepting at extreme 

 base transversely reticulate. 



Allied to Birdantis, Stal, and Desudaba, Walk., but 

 differing by the structure of the much longer head and face. 



Type, G. pallescenSy Dist. [Birdantis). 



Galela parva, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, mesonotum, body beneath, and legs pale 

 brownish ochraceous, with small darker mottlings; meta- 

 notum piceous ; abdomen above dark orange-yellow or pale 

 testaceous; legs obscurely annulated with pale fuscous, the 

 anterior tibiaj prominently annulated with dark fuscous; 

 tegmina with about basal half testaceous, opaque, w'itli paler 

 spots, apical half hyaline, with the venation dark olivaceous 

 and with a number of dark fuscous spots, of which two on 

 disk are largest ; wings hyaline, the venation fuscous, the 

 apex more palely infuscate, basal third bright orange-yellow, 

 outwardly broadly margined with black, the area at anal 

 angle fuscous ; head with the anterior area of vertex promi- 

 nent and rugose ; pronotum with a central ridge and cordately 

 anteriorly produced, the process marginally ridged and 

 traversed by the medial ridge ; face with two strong central 

 longitudinal ridges, betweei\ which is a finer and more obsolete 

 central ridge ; clypeus obliquely striate on each side ; poste- 

 rior tibiai with four spines ; rostrum passing the posterior 



COXJB. 



Long., excl. tegm., 9-10 mm. ; exp. tegm. 21-27 mm. 

 Ilab. West Australia; Cossack (/. t/. II a//cer, Brit. Mus.). 



Galela abdominalis, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, mesonotum, body beneath, and legs pale 

 brownish ochraceous, somewhat strongly mottled with 

 piceous ; metanotum much suffused with piceous ; abdomen 

 above testaceous red, with a segmental series of large black 



