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presumably a member of the Thymbridae, which contains 
several Australian genera and a single New Zealand genus. 
Thus it cannot be very close to Tartessus. The Tartessidae 
contain a number of genera which now occur in Australia, 
New Guinea, the Phillipines, New Caledonia and Mysol and 
which all have certain unique characteristics. One of these 
is the continuation of the ambient vein of the wing onto the 
anal area. The tegmen of Mesojassoides gigantea Oman 
from Cretaceous deposits of Colorado figured by Oman 
(1937), is very similar to that of a present-day Tartessus, 
and suggests that this family had a wider distribution at 
one time than it has at present. 
Figure 7. a-c, Xerophloea viridis ; d, f, Rubria sanguined ; e, g, 
Ledropsis crocina; h-j, Dorycephalus platyrhynchus. 
Ledridae 
Xerophloea is usually placed in the Gyponinae because it 
has dorsal ocelli and is clearly not close to Cicadella Latr., 
Dorycephalus having marginal ocelli is placed in the Jassi- 
nae. Both genera are much closer to genera in the Ledridae, 
as may be seen in Figure 7, where figures of the Australian 
Ledrids Rubria sanguinea Stal and Ledropsis crocina Dist. 
are placed beside others of Xerophloea viridis (Fabr.) and 
Dorycephalus platyrhynchus Osb. 
