154 
L.M. Roth 
0.25 mm 
Figure 1 Nocticola brooksi sp. nov., paratypes from north Kimberley caves. A-D, male: A, head, pronotum, and 
tegmina (dorsal; the head is extended forward); B, front leg (anterior surface); C, supraanal plate (dorsal); 
D, subgenital plate (top) and genitalia (bottom) (dorsal); E, female, supraanal plate (dorsal). 
nymph, 20 June 1994, R.D. Brooks; 19, 10 nymphs, 
29 June 1994, W. Binks; 3 nymphs, 7 June 1994; 1 
nymph, 8 June 1994, W.F. Humphreys; 1 nymph, 7 
June 1994; 1 nymph, 8 June 1994, B. Vine; 4 
nymphs, 7 June 1994; 5 nymphs, 8 June 1994, R.D. 
Brooks. The Tunnel (in the Oscar Range in the 
Western Kimberley, about 600 km to the southwest 
of Ningbing), KO-1 (BES 3341): 2 nymphs, 8 July 
1994, R.D. Brooks. LCB1, 15°11'S, 128°37'E (BES 
3095): 2 nymphs, 8 June 1994, R.D. Brooks. All 
lodged in WAM. 
Northern Territory: The following specimens 
lack minute eye spots and were collected in Cutta 
Cutta Cave, 14°35'S, 132°25’E (near Katherine about 
600 km east of Ningbing), 8K-1 (BES: 3203, 3219, 
3227, 3234, 3244, 3287): 5 nymphs, 25 June 1994; 2 
nymphs, 26 June 1994, R.D. Brooks; 5 nymphs, 25 
June 1994; 8 nymphs, 26 June 1994, W. Binks; 3$ $, 
4 nymphs, 25 June 1994, B. Vine; 1 nymph, 25 June 
1994, B. Jones. All lodged in WAM and NTM. 
Diagnosis 
Cavernicolous. Male: Eyes represented by a few 
minute black ommatidia (however, see female, 
below). Tegmina reduced, reaching to about the 
first abdominal tergum, membranous, with veins 
reduced, setose, hind wings absent. Front femur 
Type C„ pulvilli and arolia absent, tarsal claws 
simple, symmetrical, minute. Abdominal terga 
unspecialized. Styli absent. Female: Eyes as in male, 
