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that lie against the hind apical margin of the tegmen. This supplementary appendix 
is not pigmented and causes an irregularity in the apical margins of the tegmina. 
The legs are flattened and the apices of the hind femora rest just behind the eyes. 
When at rest the hind femora pass between the middle femora and the thorax. The 
hind tibiae are armed with four rows of closely set spines and the male genitalia have 
broad sub-genital plates and short parameres. The following species placed by 
Kirkaldy in Division 2 of his genus Vulturnus are transferred to Neovulturnus : van- 
duzeii (Type), vaecors, vultuosus, vaedulcis and vappa. Four new species are described 
below. 
NEOVULTURNUS BEUNNEUS sp. nov. 
(Figs. 8, 9.) 
Lengthy 3*5 mm. ; general coloration, brown mottled with white. 
Head, ventrally black, dorsally dark brown with numerous small cream- 
coloured maculations ; eyes dark brown ; hind margin of frons perceptible. Pronotum 
concolorous with the head. Scuiellum pale ochreous with dark brown markings. 
Tegmen short, the apical overlap steeply declivous, reticulate ; veins and reticulations 
brown, the rest of the appendix opaque white. Appendix and supplementary appendix 
pale hyaline brown. A dark brown transverse fascia extends from the distal end 
of the claval suture to the costal margin of the tegmen. Thorax and abdomen, ventral 
surface black. Fore-legs, femora black, tibiae and tarsi cream-coloured. Middle-legs 
femora black ; tibiae and tarsi cream with black markings. Hind legs entirely black 
but for the spines on the hind tibiae which are whitish. 
Type from Stanthorpe, Queensland, in the collection of the Queensland 
Museum. Reg. No. 5200. 
NEOVULTURNUS PALLIDUS sp. nov, 
(Fig. 10.) 
Length, 4 mm. ; general coloration black or brown, the scutellum white or 
yellow. 
Head, ventrally black or very dark browm ; external borders of maxillary 
plates w'hite. Crown of head and antennal ledges medianly white. Pronotum, light or 
dark brown mottled with cream or grey. Scutellum, either entirely white or very pale 
yellow, or wFitish with dark brown markings. Tegmen, whitish, mottled with an 
irregular and variable pattern of light or dark brown. Thorax, ventral surface black, 
with or without dark brown markings. Abdomen, ventral surface, light or dark brown. 
Type 2, from Mt. Glorious, Queensland (coll. H. Hacker), in the collection of 
the Queensland Museum. Reg. No, 5201. 
