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TIBICEN GREGORYI, n. sp. (Plate VII. figs. 7, 7a, 74.) 
3. Body above pale ochraceous. Head with the ocelli reddish, 
the eyes tinged with fuscous, mesonotum with two very obscure 
central obconical spots, a central discal longitudinal and two sub- 
lateral fascize. Abdomen somewhat thickly covered with greyish 
pilosity. Body beneath and legs pale ochraceous, excepting the 
abdomen, which is pale fuscous. Tegmina and wings pale hyaline ; 
tegmina with the venation ochraceous, excepting apical longitudinal 
veins and apical margins of apical areas, which are pale fuscous ; 
transverse veins at bases of second and third apical areas broadly 
infuscated. 
The head is- broad, and, including eyes, as wide as pronotum, of 
which the anterior and posterior width is subequal. The face is 
large, elongate, and very convex, with faint transverse striations. 
The rostrum reaches the posterior coxee. The opercula are small, 
broad, and rounded posteriorly, and about reach the posterior edge 
of metasternum. 
Long. 10 millim.; exp. tegm. 34 millim. 
Hab. Australia, Peak Downs. (Mus. Godeffroy.) 
This species is allied to the preceding (7. muelleri, Dist.), from 
which it differs in the broader and less anteriorly produced head, 
the shape of the pronotum, and in the different markings of the 
abdomen, tegmina, &c. 
MELAMPSALTA WARBURTONI, n.sp. (Plate VII. figs. 9, 9a, 96.) 
Head with the vertex black, the front ochraceous with a black 
central longitudinal line. Pronotum ochraceous, with a central 
longitudinal fascia, lateral and posterior margins dark castaneous. 
Mesonotum dark castaneous, with two pale irregular fascize on disk, 
commencing on anterior margin and terminating at anterior angles 
of basal cruciform elevation; anterior lateral margins narrowly 
ochraceous. Abdomen ochraceous. Body beneath and legs ochra- 
ceous ; head black, with the face ochraceous, of which the transverse 
striz are castaneous. Tegmina aud wings pale hyaline, with the 
venation ochraceous. 
The body is sparingly pilose above ; the anterior femora are armed 
with three strong spines; the rostrum just passes the intermediate 
coxee ; the face is narrowly but deeply sulcated longitudinally, and 
strongly transversely striate. 
Long. 15 millim. ; exp. tegm. 38 millim. 
Hab. Australia, Peak Downs. (Mus. Godeffroy ; coll. Dist.) 
MELAMPSALTA rorReEsSTI. (Plate VII. figs, 10, 10a, 108.) 
3. Body above ochraceous. Head with a transverse black fascia 
between the eyes, partly surrounding ocelli. Pronotum with the 
frontal portion of the interior edge of lateral margins narrowly 
black, and the anterior edge of posterior margin broadly of 
the same colour; two small obscure fuscous spots on anterior 
margin. Mesonotum with the following fuscous markings :—two 
central obconical spots, and two of somewhat like shape near lateral 
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