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Psyche 
[December 
cous, almost as long as hemelytra. Legs rather short, 
testaceous. 
Length, 3.00 mm.; width, 1.00 mm. 
Type (male), Mt. Gipps, Queensland, Australia, April 
20, 1930, H. H. Hacker, in collection of C. J. Drake. 
This is the smallest described species in the genus. It 
can be distinguished from its congeners by the non-inflated 
hood, narrow costal area, feebly convex pronotum and flat 
dorsal aspect of head as well as smaller size of body. 
Parada absona, new sp. 
Oblong, testaceous, with the last antennal segment, and 
anterior and discal parts of pronotum black, also a long 
mark on raised boundary veins (beyond middle) between 
discoidal and subcostal areas, a small spot beyond apex 
of discoidal area and a subapical spot in discoidal area 
dark fuscous. Hood, collar, carinae, paranota and posterior 
part of pronotum testaceous. 
Head black, with five testaceous spines. Antennae long, 
indistinctly pilose; segment I short, stouter and a little 
longer than II; III three times as long as IV. Rostrum tes- 
taceous, extending a little beyond mesosternum. Rostral 
laminae areolate, testaceous, open behind. Bucculae, wide, 
testaceous, closed in front. Legs moderately long, testaceous. 
Pronotum strongly convex, deeply coarsely closely pit- 
ted, tricarinate; hood rather small, inflated, not very high, 
bell-shaped, not extending posteriorly over convex part of 
pronotum ; paranota moderately wide, triseriate, almost 
completely reflexed, not quite touching surface of prono- 
tum opposite humeral angles. Median carina profound, 
moderately raised, without distinct areolae. Lateral carinae 
sinuate, moderately wide and foliaceous on pronotum proper, 
there completely reflexed inwardly, each continued as a 
raised nerve on hind process, the space between upper edge 
of foliaceous part and median carina about half as wide 
as carina. 
Hemelytra moderately constricted beyond the middle; 
costal area moderately wide, mostly uniseriate, biseriate 
for a short distance at base, the cells moderately large and 
hyaline; subcostal area a little wider, biseriate; discoidal 
area long, about three-fourths as long as hemelytra, with 
