126 
Psyche 
[March-June 
cf. Head with broad black band in interocular-ocellar area. 
Antennae pale brownish. Pronotum elliptical in outline, with lateral 
margins pale yellowish dotted with brown; disk thickly speckled 
with black sometimes almost uniform black. Tegmina dull brown 
with somewhat darker dots which are sometimes obscured ; coastal 
area yellowish; humeral streak black, broad and short. Wings as 
long as tegmina, smoky brown with brown veins. First tergite as 
figured (Fig. 279). Abdomen above deep brown, below yellowish. 
Supra- anal plate, cerci, and hypandrium yellowish. Hind margin of 
supra-anal plate almost straight (Fig. 95) or slightly emarginate 
(Figs. 100, 104). Hind margin of hypandrium weakly (Fig. 96) or 
distinctly (Figs. 101, 105) mesally emarginate. Genitalia shown in 
figures 97-99, 102, 103, 106, 107; R2 with apex beaklike (Figs. 98, 
103, 107). Legs yellow with brown spines; lower posterior margin 
of hind femora usually unarmed (distal spine is always lacking). 
Length of body 19-23 mm; length of pronotum 4.5-6 mm; width 
of pronotum 7-8 mm; length of tegmina 20.5-23 mm. 
9 (Fig. 109). Shining blackish. Pronotum with lateral margins 
pale yellowish dotted with brown; latero-caudal angles not produced 
backwards. Tegmina lobiform bicolored, the outer part yellow, the 
inner solidly dark; extending to about the hind margin of mesonotum 
(Fig. 108). Length of body 23-27 mm; length of pronotum 6 mm ; 
width of pronotum 10-12 mm; length of tegmina 3-5 mm. 
Material investigated: 9 (1 SAM) (lectotype, herewith desig- 
nated), Sedan, S. A., XII. 1885, F. Rothe leg.; Tepper erroneously 
labeled this specimen as male; 9 (SAM) (paralectotype) , same data 
as above; cf (22 SAM), Mannum, S. A., 24.V.1890, R. Schroeder 
leg. ; this specimen was labeled by Shaw as the type of Kirby’s tepperi 
but the action is invalid; cf (29 SAM), Adelaide, S. A.; N. B. 
Tindale leg.; cf (30 SAM), Lucindale, S. A., Feuerheerdt leg. 
13. C. gracilis (Brunner v. W.) 
(Figs. 110-136, 273) 
Epilampra gracilis Brunner v. W., Nouv. Syst. Blatt. 1865, p. 170, $ 2, 
Fig. 20 (2). 
cf (Figs, no, 130). Head yellow;; interocular-ocellar area with 
a transverse dark brown band which is interrupted in the latter area. 
Pronotum in dorsal aspect triangular, with the greatest width at its 
middle, thickly speckled and dotted with dark brown ; hind margin 
bearing a series of dark brown longitudinal striae. Tegmina some- 
what exceeding apex of abdomen, with scattered brown maculation 
