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with short marginal fringes the longest of which are only about a 

 sixth the greatest wing width; only about twelve lines of discal 

 ciliation which is scattered, most numerous cephalo-distad and 

 practically absent over all of the proximal half of the blade which 

 is about two and a quarter times longer than broad. Antennee 

 longitudinally striate, the joints shortening distad, the proximal 

 joint of funicle as long as the second, somewhat brownish, the 

 club joint a little longer than the distal funicle joint which is 

 about a fourth shorter than joint 1 of the funicle, the latter about 

 23-^ times longer than wide at the base. A very short, narrow, 

 minute ring-joint is present. 



Female. — Not known. 



Described from one male specimen given to me by Mr. A. P. 

 Dodd, who captured it by sweeping the edge of jungle, May 20, 

 1913. 



Habitat. — Australia, Kuranda, North Queensland. 

 Type. — The above specimen on a slide. 



Respectfully dedicated to Emile Zola for his "La Debacle," 

 wherein the horrors of war are ably pictured to us. 



2. Polynema speciosissimum, n. sp. 



Female. — Length 1.50 mm. Large, the fore wing banded. 



Black, the head except the dusty vertex, the prothorax and 

 mesonotum reddish brown. Petiole of abdomen, coxse, cephalic 

 femora, all trochanters and proximal half or more of all tibiae, 

 white. Tarsi reddish brown, also the scape and pedicel. Funicle 

 joints 4 and 5 white, antennae and legs otherwise black, except tips 

 of front tibiae, which are yellowish. Fore wings banded as in 

 franklini Girault, but the cross-band is very intense jet black and 

 decidedly longer, distinctly less than its own length from the apex 

 of the venation. Scape not distinctly sculptured, the first funicle 

 joint elongate but only % the length of the second, which is very 

 long, subequal to the third, both longest; joint 1 longer than 6, 

 subequal to 4, which is slightly longer than 5 (funicle). Cross- 

 band of fore wing followed by a broad, naked area from margin to 

 margin, the black band itself one and a third times longer than 

 wide (cephalo-caudad). Sculpture inconspicuous. Discal cilia 

 in the black band very dense and longer than the fine, shorter, 



