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S . Abdomen somewhat strongly inflated, pale greenish 

 ochraceous, the margins of the abdominal segments testaceous 

 brown. 



? . Abdomen normal, not inflated, dull virescent, a broad 

 obscure, dark, central, longitudinal fascia above, and a 

 narrower and more distinct, longitudinal, central, purplish- 

 brown fascia beneath. 



($ ? . Rostrum reaching the posterior cox9B, its apex 

 purplish brown ; face strongly transversely striate, centrally, 

 narrowly, longitudinally sulcate ; tegmina with eleven, wings 

 with five apical areas. 



Long., excl. tegm., c? 25, ? 20 ram.; exp. tegm., c? 60, 

 ? 62 mm. 



Hab. Queensland {F. P. Dodd^ Brit. Mus.). 



Division MelampsALTAEIA. 



Alelampsalta Froggatti, sp. n. 



? . Head, pronotum,and mesonotura black, shortly greyishly 

 pilose ; vertex with the ocelli, a short basal longitudinal sulca- 

 tiou between them, and a spot near middle of lateral margins 

 purplish red, anterior margin of front more or less reddish ; 

 pronotuin with a central longitudinal fascia not reaching 

 base, the furrows and extreme posterior margin, testaceous; 

 mesonotura with two faint obconical spots margined with 

 purplish at middle of anterior margin, the lateral margins and 

 cruciform elevation also purplish red ; abdomen above some- 

 what purplish red ; head beneath black, face and clypeus 

 purplish red, face with the basal margin and two central 

 longitudinal fascise united posteriorly black ; body beneath 

 and legs purplish red ; apex of rostrum black ; disk of 

 abdomen beneath piceous ; tegmina and wings hyaline, talc- 

 like, with their bases purplish red, the tegmina with a 

 slightly pale ochraceous tint, costal area and the venation 

 ochraceous, base of costal area purplish red ; face globose, 

 centrally sulcate for half its length, its lateral areas strongly 

 transversely striate, rostrum reaching the intermediate coxce. 



Long., excl. tegm., $ , 13 ram. ; exp. tegm. 40 mm. 



Hab. Queensland [F. F. Dodd, Brit. Mus.) ; Cairns 

 (Colls. Froggatt and Dist.). 



Melarnpscdta hermansburgensis, sp. n. 



Body virescent, inclining here and there to ochraceous ; 

 legs ochraceous (in fresii and living specimens probably 

 uniformly virescent) ; tegmina and wings hyaline, talc-liko, 



