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elevation brownish-yellow. Abdomen black. Head beneath 

 black, yellow about clypeus, front black. Sternum varie- 

 gated with black and yellow. Abdomen beneath yellow with 

 lateral carinations and broad central fascia black. Tegmina 

 with veins and basal cell fuscous, inner edge of costa and 

 radius yellow, apical veins a little infuscated, as in M. 

 angular is, but not so broadly. Wings with venation yellow. 

 Rostrum reaches hind coxae. Long., 42 mm,; exp. teg., 

 112 mm. Hah. — Queensland: Dalby (Mrs. F. H. Hobler). 

 May be distinguished from M. angularis, Germ., by the black 

 and yellow posterior pronotal margin, the black face, the 

 more sessile eyes, and more prominent front. 



(23) M. occidentals, Dist., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., x., 

 p. 438, 1912. Bah. — "Western Australia: Cue. 



(24) M. vulpina, n. sp. (pi. xvii., fig. 2). Allied to 

 M. hillieri and M. occidentalis, but very much smaller. The 

 body above is generally piceous, with the lateral discal areas 

 of pronotum inclining to castaneous. Beneath it is pale 

 fuscous-yellow, densely clothed with white tomentum. The 

 lateral margins of the mesonotum are covered with silvery 

 hair, as in M. occidentalis, and the abdomen (dorsally) is 

 also well sprinkled with a similar pile, especially on the lateral 

 areas. The segmental margins are also very narrowly mar- 

 gined with fuscous-yellow. The cruciform elevation is pale- 

 fuscous, with a central brown spot. Tegmina are unspotted, 

 without the infuscations noted in either M. hillieri or M. 

 occidentalis. Distant's description of M . hillieri does not men- 

 tion any infuscations of the tegmina, but many of the speci- 

 mens in the Museum have the anastomoses distinctly marked. 

 Long., 25 mm.; exp. teg., 74 mm. Hah. — Western Aus- 

 tralia: Cue (H. W. Brown). 



(25) M. thophoides, Ashton, Proc. Roy. Soc, Vic, 

 part i., 1914, p. 13. Flab. — Western Australia: Cue. 



(26) M. nigrosignata, Dist., Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 

 1904, p. 673, pi. xxix., figs, la and b. Hah. — Western 

 Australia : Murchison district. This specimen is larger than 

 Distant's figure, and lacks the chestnut colour, being much 

 darker, but this latter is probably accounted for by the fact 

 that it has been in spirits and has become greasy. 



Diceropyga, Stol. 



(27) D. obtecta, Fabr., Syst. Rhyn., p. 35, 1803. 

 Hab. — Queensland: Coen River. In the National Museum, 

 Melbourne, there is a large series of this species, which was 

 collected by J. A. Kershaw on the Claudie River, Northern 

 Queensland. Previously it had not been recorded from Aus- 

 tralia, being a Papuan species. 



