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(2) Baryconus (Ceratoteleia) fasciatus Dodd. A male of this 

 species was taken by sweeping forest, Mount Pyramid, 1000 feet, 

 Nelson, 27th August, 1912 (A. A. Girault). The pedicel is short; 

 the funicle joints all long and cylindrical; first funicle joint twice 

 as long as wide; second twice as long as the first; remaining joints 

 jubequal. 



(3) Baryconus exsertus sp. nov. 



9. Length, 2.25 mm. (excluding the ovipositor). 



Black, neck of the pronotum and its centre ventrad ferruginous ; 

 abdomen a little suffused with brown; legs (including coxae) golden 

 yellow; first four antennal joints a little suffused with red. 



Head and thorax with fine dense punctures ; parapsidal furrows only 

 indicated posteriorly; postscutellum with a short spine; posterior angles 

 of the metanotum with a sharp spine. Abdomen a little longer than 

 the head and thorax united ; distinctly wider than the thorax ; first 

 segment with a distinct horn; first and second segments striate; ovi- 

 positor exserted for fully the length of the body. Antennae as in 

 pulcher Dodd. Forewings as in pulcher, but the marginal vein is one- 

 half as long as the stigmal, and the postmarginal is a little longer than 

 the stigmal. $ . Unknown. 



Described from a single specimen caught while sweeping in 

 forest, Nelson, June 30, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). The fifteenth 

 Australian species of the genus. 



Habitat. North Queensland (Nelson, near Cairns). Type. 

 A female tagmounted plus a slide bearing antennae and 

 forewings. 



(4) Baryconus simplex sp. nov. 

 9. Length, 1.50 mm. 



Black; abdomen dark brown, its base bright yellow; legs (including 

 the coxae), and antennal scape golden yellow; rest of antennae brown. 



Head and thorax with very fine surface sculpture, the scutellum 

 smooth ; parapsidal furrows distinct. Abdomen petiolate ; no longer 

 than the head and thorax united ; wider than the thorax ; first and 

 second segments striate; first segment as wide as long .without a horn; 

 ovipositor a little exserted. 



Antennae 12-jointed; scape long and slender; pedicel slender, twice 

 as long as wide; first funicle joint shorter and narrower than the pedi- 

 cel, twice as long as wide; second and third subequal, shorter; 

 fourth as wide as long; fifth wider than long; club 5-jointed, joints 

 1-4 much wider than long. 



Forewings reaching a little beyond apex of abdomen ; moderately 

 broad; almost hyaline; discal cilia moderately coarse, not very dense; 



