R/if/ncholal Family Lygreiclge. 250 



eyes moderately prominent and sHglitly passing the anterior 

 angles of the pronotum ; antennae moderately robust, basal 

 joint only a little passing apex of head ; rostrum with tlie 

 basal joint almost reaching- base of head ; pronotum a little 

 longer than broad at base, and transversely constricted near 

 base ; coriuni extending- only to about tlii'ee-fourths of the 

 abdomen ; membrane absent ; anterior femora ineras-ated 

 and finely spined beneath ; anterior tibiae a little curved but 

 not centrally spined ; scutellum elongate, longer than 

 broad. 



Allied to Fontejus, Stal, but the pronotum much shorter, 

 anterior tibiae not centrally spined, &c. 



Albany aria multicolor at a, sp. n. 



Head, anterior lobe of pronotum, a:id the scutellum black ; 

 the narrow posterior pronotal lobe and the extreme apex of 

 scutellum greyish white ; antennae ochraceous, apex of third 

 joint and more than apical half of fourth black ; corium 

 o:;hraceous, the lateral marginal areas with three prominent 

 black spots, the smaller near base, the largest near middle, 

 and the third at apex, the exposed apical area of the abdo- 

 men black; body beneath black ; posterior sternal segmental 

 raaro^ins very pale ochraceous ; legs reddish ochraceous, 

 apical halves of the anterior femora and apices of the tibiae 

 and tarsi black ; antennae with the second joint slightly 

 longer than the third and about subequal with the fourth ; 

 scutellum more or less rugosely punctate ; clavus linearly 

 somewhat coarsely punctate; rostrum ochraceous, the basal 

 joint black, remaining joints imperfectly seen in carded 

 type. 



Long. 5^ mm. 



Hub. W. Australia; Albany {J. J. Walker). 



Genus Laryngodus. 



Laryngodus, Herr.-Schfeff. Wanz. Ins. ix. pp. 191, 212 (1853). 



The short description given by Herrich-Schseffer and 

 some imperfections in the figure given of the type of the 

 genus render a fuller description of both necessary. 



Laryngodus australice, Herr.-Schaeff. Wanz. Ins. ix. p. 212, 

 fig. 907 (1853). 



Head fuscous brown ; eyes black ; antennae dark casta- 

 neous, apices of the first, second, and third joints very 



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