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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
NEOVULTURNUS MACULOSUS sp. nov. 
(Figs. 6, 7.) 
Lengthy 3-5 mm. ; general coloration black. 
Heady ventrally, longitudinally concave, black ; crown black, with an anterior 
median more or less circular pale area, with or without a few or several brown spots. 
Hind margin of frons indistinct. Pronot^m, shining black. Scutellumy entirely black 
or entirely pale yellow. TegmeUy ojiaque black with numerous whitish spots lying 
between the veins. Ajjpendix and supplementary appendix hyaline. Thorax and 
abdomen, ventral surface and legs black. 
Type <$, from Brookfield, Queensland (coll. H. Hacker), in the collection of 
the Queensland Museum. Beg. No. 5202. 
NEOVULTURNUS LAPSUS sp. nov. 
(Figs. 11, 12, 13.) 
Lengthy 2*8 mm. ; general coloration black. 
Head, entirely black, but for the eyes which are dark brown, and the ocelli 
which ai'e whitish. Pronotum and scutellum, black. Tegmen, black with numerous 
small white spots on the proximal half and somew'hat larger white spots distally. 
The tw'o spotted areas are not adjacent to each other but are separated by a black 
transverse area. Appendix and supplementary appendix opaque brown. Tlwrax, 
ventral surface and legs, black. Abdomen, ventral surface, greyish -black. 
Type c?, from Blunder, Queensland (coll. H. Hacker), in the collection of the 
Queensland Museum. Beg. No. 5203. 
VULTURNUS Kirk. 
H.S.P.A. Exp. Sta. Bull. 1 (D) ; 463, 1906. 
This genus as defined below' comprises species placed by Kirkaldy in Division 
1 of his original genus, characterised as having the “ margin of the head betw'een the 
vertex and frons acute and foliaceous.” 
The ventral surface of the head is concave posteriorly and convex anteriorly. 
Tlie lateral frontal sutures, from a point in line wdth the hind margin of the eyes, 
diverge tow^ards and above the antennae. The apex of the head is spatulate, and the 
apical margin w'hich consists of a thickened border overhangs the ventral surface of 
the head. The crown is produced anteriorly and is transversely convex, and the 
ocelli W'hich are on the dorsal surface of the head lie w'ell away from the apical margin. 
The eyes are not in alignment w ith the margin of the head and the crown and pronotum 
are declivous. 
