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long, similar in colour, clothing, and armature to legs. 

 F dices dark brown, well arched, densely clothed with long 

 coarse dark grey hairs or bristles. Maxillae and labium 

 normal, hairy ; reddish, apices yellow. Sternum broadly 

 shield-shaped, dark brown, nearly black, well arched, densely 

 hairy. Abdomen ovate, slightly overhanging base of cephalo- 

 thorax, arched, hairy ; superior surface dark brown spotted 

 with yellow, and ornamented in front with distinct yellow, 

 somewhat crescent-like design ; sides dark brown ; inferior 

 surface yellow, with smoky-brown longitudinal and transverse 

 markings. Epigunam large, hairy, well developed, raised, 

 shining, yellow ; there is a double ridge running down the 

 middle, and these are bridged in front and curved laterally 

 and outwards posteriorly (fig. 11). 

 Bab. — Farina. 



Note. — The example herein described is a fully matured 

 but apparently rather small example. Doubtless when a series 

 of this species shall have been collected and brought together, 

 considerable variation in point of size will be noticeable. 



Family OXYOPIDAE. 



Only two species of this family were collected, and these 

 call for no comment. They are as hereunder : — 



Peucetia albescens, L. Koch. 



L. Koch: Die Arach. des Austr., ii., 1878, p. 998, pi. 

 lxxxvii., figs. 3, 3a. 



Hah. — Strzelecki Creek. 



OXYOPES DINGO, Str. 



Strand: Zool. Jahrb., 1913, p. 623. 



Jlab . — Kanowana, Cooper Creek, and Farina. 



(n) INSECTA, 



By Arthur M. Lea, F.E.S., Museum Entomologist. 



[Contribution from the South Australian Museum.~\ 



Plates XXXIII. to XXXVII. 



The collection of insects obtained by the expedition is not 

 a large one (which could hardly be expected considering the 

 time of the year it was made), but nevertheless contains some 

 remarkable species; perhaps the most interesting of which is 

 a large subapterous grasshopper (pi. xxxiii., figs. 1-3), of the 



