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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
The pronotum narrows anteriorly and is wide laterally, and the propleurae 
widely separate the eyes from the bases of the tegmina. The tegmina are flattened, 
not tectiform, have distinct venation and wide appendices that terminate at the 
apices of the tegmina. There is no development of a supplementary appendix. The 
hind tibiae are flattened and bear four rows of closely set spines. The male genitalia 
have wide sub -genital plates and short parameres. 
PENTfflMIA AUSTRALIS Walker. 
(Fig. 5.) 
Scaris australis Walk. List Homopt. Siipplemont 253, 1858. 
Length, 1 mm. ; general coloration, brownish-red. Head, ventrally black but 
for the external borders of the maxillary plates, the region immediately surrounding 
the antennae and the frons posteriorly, wliich are brownish-red. Dorsally pale reddish- 
brovm, the frons somewhat paler in colom than the rest of the crown. Pronotum and 
Scutellnm, brovmish-red. Tegmen, hyaline brovmish-rcd. Thorax, ventral surface 
and legs, marked with a pattern of black and red. Abdomen, ventral surface, brownish- 
red, the last ventral segment in the female greater in length than the whole of the 
proximal abdominal segments. 
Distribution, Queensland. 
PENTHIMIA VANDUZEII Kirk. 
Ectopiocephalus mnduzeii Kirk. H.S.P. Exi). Sta. Bull. 1 (9) ; 464, 1906. 
Penthimia reticulata Dist. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 52 ; 108, 1908. 
Distant’s description of this species is adequate, hence re-description is 
imnecessary. Pentkimia vanduzeii is smaller than Penthimia australis, and is largely 
black in colour. Figures 1-4 represent the tegmen, head, thorax, and male genitalia. 
Distribution, Queensland, New South Wales, Central Australia. 
NEOVULTURNUS gen. nov. 
Kirkaldy (1907), separated Vulturnus Kirk, into two divisions, but did not 
give them generic rank. The genus defined below^ represents Kirkaldy’s Division 2, 
characterised as having the “ margin of the head blunt, subfoliaceous.” 
The head is evenly rounded apically, the vertex and posterior third of the frons, 
which constitutes the crown not being produced, and the labium is short. The hind 
margin of the frons may be distinct or indistinct. The pronotum is wade laterally and 
the propleurae separate the eyes from the bases of the tegmina. The tegmina have 
in addition to a w4de appendix, a supplementary appendix, consisting of the two cells 
