BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 617 



Hah. — Mossman's Bay (Skuse). September. 

 Ohs. — Closely related to A. fasdata, Sk., but easily distinguished 

 inter alia by the shape of the fork of the fourth longitudinal vein, 



158. ACRODICRANIA ATRICAUDA, Sk. 



A. atricauda, Sk., I.e., p. 1195, pi. xxxii., fig. 10. 



Specimens have been received from the following additional 

 localities : — Waterloo, Walcha, New England disti'ict, N.S. W. 

 (J. F. Schofield), in June: Glass Mountains, Queensland (0. J. 

 Wild), in September ; specimens in Coll. Queensland Micseum. 



160. ACRODICRANIA FASCIATA, Sk. 



A.fasciata, Sk., I.e., p. 1198. 



Very abundant in Sydney during June of the present year. 

 Also, I have bred this species in numbers from decaying wood- 

 debris in November. A single specimen was recently obtained 

 at Benalla, Victoria (Helms). 



Clastobasis, gen.nov. 



Head roundish, flattened in the fore part, situated deep in the 

 thorax ; front broad, the anterior border produced triangularly, 

 the point between the joints of the scapus ; vertex high. Eyes 

 oval. Ocelli large, the middle one smaller, situated almost inline 

 with but somewhat behind the other two. Palpi prominent, 

 four-jointed ; first joint small, second tolerably long and robust, 

 third a little longer than the second, more slender, fourth very 

 long and slender, about equal in length to the second and third 

 combined. Antennae slender, porrected, arcuated, 2-+ 14-joiuted; 

 first joint of the scapus obconical, longer than the second, the 

 second cupuliform, both setiferous at the apex ; flagellar joints 

 cylindrical, progressively diminishing in thickness, with minute 

 downy pubescence. Thorax ovate, highly arched, hairy ; lateral 

 borders setiferous ; scutellum lunate, setiferous ; metanotum 

 large, acclivous. Abdomen (of the 2) seven-segmented, somewhat 



