Bulletin, So. Calif. Academy of Sciences " Vol. 46, Part 3, 1947 AUSTRALIAN TINGID.^ (Hemiptera) By Carl J. Drake Ames, Iowa, U. S. A. Since the publication in 1925 of "Results of Dr. E. Mjoberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913," Horvath, ARKIV for Zoologi, considerable interest has been taken in the Tingidae of Australia. Most of the papers on these Australian insects have been published by Hacker and by Drake and coworkers. The present paper contains the descriptions of ten species and notes on a few other species. Illustrations of two species de-scribed by Horvath are also included. The writer is indebted to the officials of the Stockholm Museum for the privilege of study-ing type specimens of certain species described by the late Doctor Horvath. The types of the new species described below are in the Drake collection, and are largely from the H. H. Hacker col-lection of Australian Hemiptera. Nathersea maculosa Horvath Nethesia maculosa Horvath, Ark. Zool., 17 (24) : 15, 1925^ fig. 9. Type, female, Broome, in Stockholm Museum. Head fer-rugineous, pitted, with four short testaceous spines ; hind pair appressed, extending forward as far as middle of eyes, front pair shorter, with tips directed inward. Eyes large, black. Rostral channel very wide, open behind ; laminae rather wide, testaceous, uniseriate, clothed with bristly hairs ; rostrum not reaching mid-dle of mesosternum. Hypocostal ridge uniseriate, the areolae small. Pronotum strongly convex, shiny, the pits moderately large ; lateral carinae almost obsolete on disc, distinct on hind process, there testaceous ; paranota narrow, keel-like behind, wider and uniseriate in front, there reflexed upward and testaceous ; collar distinct, scarcely raised, areolate. The above notes were taken from the type. It was difficult to trace the lateral carinas on the disc, although visible with good light. In front the carinae are distinct and whitish. Male : Longer and slenderer than female ; lateral carinae dis-tinct on disc, there (as in female) concolorous with pronotal disc. Antennae and legs clothed with stiff, bristly hairs. Ill
BioStor
