Not eaten by the Aborigines, who greatly abhor them, as they do also the sting-ray.

Specimen two feet nine inches and a half long.
* * * * * (D.) DESCRIPTION AND FIGURES OF FOUR NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN INSECTS.
BY ADAM WHITE, ESQ.

M.E.S.
The four insects here figured and described are, as far as I am aware, new.

Petasida, and Tettigarcta are interesting in the shape of the Thorax, differing widely from that in any of the allied genera, while the new species of Eurybrachys and Chrysopa are striking from their colouring and marks.
PETASIDA EPHIPPIGERA, pl.4.fig.

1.
Thorax much dilated behind, depressed and rounded at the end; the side deeply sinuated behind; head pointed, antennae long; of a yellowish orange; antennae with a few greenish rings, cheek below the eye with a greenish line, head above with a longitudinal greenish line.