BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 
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somewhat longer than the tihiae. Wings pellucid, with a pale 
greyish-yellow tint, brilliantly inargaritaceous ; veins brown, the 
costal and first two longitudinal veins darker than the rest. First 
longitudinal vein joining the costa a little before the tip of the 
posterior branch of the third longitudinal vein ■, petiole of the 
second sub-marginal cell very short ; tips of the branches of the 
fourth longitudinal as widely separated as those of the third 
longitudinal, all indistinct •, marginal cross-vein situated about 
mid-way between the origin of the third longitudinal vein and the 
Vjase of the second posterior cell ; fifth longitudinal vein reaching 
almost to the base of the second posterior cell, 
IFah. — Middle Harbour (Skuse). September. 
170. Brack YD iCRANiA pictiventris, sp.n. 
5 . — Length of antenme 0‘045 inch ... 1’13 millimetres. 
Expanse of wings 0'120x0'04:5 ... 3'04 x 1'13 
Size of body 0‘120x0'020 ... 3‘04 x 0'50 
Antenme slender, about the length of the thorax ■, joints of the 
scapus ochraceous ; flagellar joints cinereous, the basal half of the 
first, which is much longer than the other joints, ochraceous. 
Front and vertex brown, with a peculiar hoary bloom when viewed 
in a certain light, densely covered with a minute pubescence ; a 
few short black setm in the hinder border of the eyes. Hypostoma 
ochraceous-lnown ; palpi ochraceous. Thorax Imown, den.sely 
covered with a minute golden-yellow pubescence, and having the 
same hoary appearance as the head, with three indistinct longitu- 
dinal single rows of short black hair.s, the lateral ones meeting at 
the scutellum, the intermediate one not reaching the middle of the 
thorax ; lateral borders and scutellum setiforous ; i)leui\e, scu- 
tellum and metathorax deep brown, tinged with ochraccous-brown. 
Ilalteres pale yellow, with a row of minute brown hairs. Abdo- 
men slender, more than twice the length of the thorax, densely 
haired, deep brown, the underside of the segments marked with 
ochraceous, that of the first and second segments longitudinally, of 
