422 Mr. W. L. Distant on TTomoptera. 



MelamjDsalta arenaria, sp. n. 



($ . Vertex, front, and pronotum black, thickly somewhat 

 longly pilose ; lateral margins of vertex, a central longitu- 

 dinal fascia to vertex and pronotum, on the latter widened 

 posteriorly, and the lateral and posterior margins of pronotum 

 pale ochraceous, on each side of the central fascia tlie whole 

 pronotal lateral areas are more or less testaceous, with the 

 furrows blackish ; mesonotum black, with two central, longi- 

 tudinal, angulated, pale ochraceous fasci?e, wliich are narrow 

 at anterior margin and angularly widened before the anterior 

 angles of the cruciform elevation, wiiich is ochraceous, with 

 its anterior angles black ; abdomen above black, the seg- 

 mental margins obscure brownish ochraceous ; head beneatli, 

 sternum, and legs ochraceous ; abdomen beneath dull obscure 

 ochraceous ; lateral margins and apex of face and apices of 

 tarsal claws black ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation 

 and costal area of tegmina ochraceous ; face with the lateral 

 areas oblique and strongly transversely striate ; rostrum 

 reaching the intermediate coxfe, its apex black ; metasternum 

 black ; opercula short, broadly transverse, posteriorly sub- 

 truncate, not meeting but not very widely separated internally ; 

 the bases of the lower vein to radial area and the upper vein 

 to lower ulnar area shortly fused and only for about one thii'd 

 the length of basal cell. 



Long., excl. tegm., (^ , 15-17 mm.; exp. tegm. 31- 

 37 mm. 



llah. Sydney (//. Asldon, on the sands). 



Pauropsalta endeavourensis, sp. n. 



c? . Vertex and front black, a spot at apex of front and 

 the lateral margins of vertex pale ochraceous; ocelli red; 

 pronotum reddish testaceous, with a central, longitudinal, pale 

 ochraceous fascia margined with black, margins pale ochra- 

 ceous, the furrows, a curved line on each lateral area, and a 

 spot on lateral margin black ; mesonotum black, two discal 

 longitudinal fascia, which are inwardly angulated and dilated 

 and almost meet at middle, testaceous, ochraceous near ante- 

 rior margin ; cruciform elevation and margins of metanotum 

 pale ochraceous ; abdomen above ochraceous, the segmental 

 margins and a series of central and lateral spots more or less 

 black and greyishly pilose ; head beneatli black, margins of 

 face ochraceous ; sternum, legs, and abdomen beneath ochra- 

 ceous ; spots to coxtB and sternum, femora (excluding apices), 

 margins of metasternum, and a spot on each side of apical 



