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in E. megaspilus. Walk. Abdomen beneath uniformly coloured. 
Length, 2 to 2| lines. Loc. : Toko, Fairfax Harbour ; and Eigi (A. 
C. English). 
21. Accarana metallica, Distant. Tr. Ent. Soc., Lond., 188S, pt. 
iv., p. 478. Loc. : St. Joseph Eiver (A. C. English); Eigi District 
(A. C. English) ; and Dedele, Cloudy Bay. 
22. Allocotus sayeri, Dist. Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1888, iv., p. 
477, pi. xiii, fig. 1. Loc. : Toputa, Cloudy Bay. 
23. Pcecilomeiis, sp. Light piceous or dark reddish-brown, the 
second joint of antenna red, the third joint except at its proximal end 
fuscous ; third joint rather more than twice the length of the second. 
Length, 8 lines. Loc. : South Cape (T. H. Eichards). 
Note. — This species, which is allied to an insect occurring at the Alice River, 
Queensland, is probably amongst the number of already described ones. The 
published characters of the members of this difficult genus, however, do not appear 
to be sufficiently distinctive to enable its identity to be established. It has the 
usual five lines on the scutellum and corium. The central line on the bead is, 
however, only shortly continued on to the thorax, and the abdomen beneath has a 
luteous border. 
24. Spudceus variabilis, sp. nov. More or less pubescent, light- 
brownish yellow ; thickly and rather coarsely punctured, except beneath 
where the punctures are restricted to the thorax ; punctures brown. 
A spot behind each eye, a band between the eye and the origin of 
the antenna, and continuous beyond the latter, green. The spines of 
the thorax, a line along the outer surface of the first antennal joint, 
the distal portions of the other joints, the tip of the rostrum, the 
anterior portion of the margin of each abdominal segment above, a 
broad spiracular band — extending forward to the propectus — on the 
abdomen beneath, and a line on each side of the outer surface of the 
tibiae fuscous. Membrane of the fore-wings suffused with light-brown 
with its veins fuscous. A few piceous spots on femora. Antennae 
with the relative lengths of the second and third joints variable (the 
second joint may equal two-thirds of the third, but is usually less). 
The rostrum extends backwards to the hind-border of the third 
abdominal segment. Prothorax with its sides bluntly toothed or 
crenated. The scutellum extends backwards beyond the inner angle 
of the corium, and is narrowed in front of its light-coloured tip. 
Length, 9-10 lines. Loc. : St. Joseph Eiver (A. C. English) ; Eigi 
District (A. C. English) ; and Laloki Eiver. 
Note. — (a) In addition to the examples presenting the above characters, there 
are specimens which are more or less suffused with testaceous, the corium of the 
fore-wings appearing red by transmitted light ; there may also be a spot of green 
punctures on each side of the pronotum in front; the pronotum also may have five 
(more or less) well-defined fuscous bands on its disc, and there may be a fuscous spot 
on each side of the scutellum at the base of the latter ; the abdomen may also be 
uniformly light-coloured without spiracular band. (b) Possibly two species may 
be included in the above description, and distinguished by the shape which the 
extremity of each lateral lobe of the head presents, being either sub-angular or 
rounder. It seems, however, that we have here to deal with a sexual and so 
secondary character. 
