416 Mr. W. L. Distant on Homopteva. 



notura, margins of metanotum, and abdominal segmental 

 margins, testaceous ; body beneath black ; face, lateral areas 

 of sternum, opercula, and abdominal margins testaceous; legs 

 ochraceous, spots to coxee and trochanters, longitudinal streaks 

 or spots to femora, and apices of tibige and tarsi black ; 

 tegmina bronzy-brown subhyaline, veins mostly ochraceous 

 before and piceous beyond middle, transverse veins at bases 

 of first, second, and third apical areas broadly margined with 

 black, costal margin black, costal area sanguineous ; wings 

 subhyaline, with the venation ochraceous ; body robust : 

 pronotum strongly furrowed ; opercula short, transverse, 

 well separated internally, ])osterior margins moderately con- 

 vex, not passing the basal abdominal segment ; rostrum 

 reaching the intermediate coxa3 ; tegmina short and broad. 



Long., excl. tegm., cJ ?, 16-18 mm.; exp. tegm. S-l- 

 38 mm. 



Ilab. Victoria; Woori Yallock {C. French, Jan.). 



Allied to the Tasmanian A. aurata. Walk., from which it 

 differs by the more outwardly rounded opercula, infuscate 

 tegmina, and globose abdomen, not depressed on lateral areas 

 as in Walker's species. 



Durbmiga venosa, sp. n. 



Vertex and front castaneous, lateral margins of vertex 

 ochraceous, ocelli red ; pronotum ochraceous, the furrows 

 and sometimes a central longitudinal fascia brownish ; meso- 

 notuni greyish ochraceous, with four obconical castaneouis 

 spots, the two central ones shorter ; abdomen al)ove ochraceous 

 the anterior margins of the last four segments castaneous, a 

 castaneous spot on eacii side of the anterior margin of the 

 apical segment ; body beneath and legs ochraceous, face 

 testaceous, abdomen beneath shaded with brownisii ; te<>-mina 

 and wings hyaline, talc-like ; tegmina with the venation as 

 far as tlie apical areas stramineous, veins and transverse veins 

 of the apical areas fuscous, costal margin fuscous, costal area 

 stramineous ; wings wifh the veins pale stramineous, the outer 

 marginal and tips of the apical veins palely fuscous; head 

 with the front prominent, in breadth considerably narrower 

 than lateral margins of vertex ; vertex with three longitudinal 

 impressions; face prominent, globose, strongly transversely 

 striate, centrally longitudinally interrupted ; opercula in male 

 somewhat obliquely directed inwardly, their posterior margins 

 truncate, well separated internally ; rostrum only just passing" 

 the intermediate coxse. 



Long., excl. tegm., S 18, ? 15 mm.; exp. tegm. 49- 

 50 mm. 



Ilah. N. T., 8. Australia {II. J. IliUier, Brit. Mus.). 



