320 AUSTKAIJAN PSV I.LI I) .K, 



short, pointed at capex. Thorax short, broad, wing-covers Large, 

 broad, rounded at tip; abdomen elongate-oval; legs short, stout. 



Imago. — Length 0*0425, antennre 0-01 inch. General colour 

 ochreous, with darker chestnut markings on head and thorax, 

 antennae fuscous, lighter on segmental divisions, eyes bright red, 

 ocelli yellow, four broad transverse bands across mesonotum. 

 Wings semiopaque, finely coriaceous, nervures yellow. Head 

 broad, turned down and lobed in front, with a dark median suture 

 and fovea on either side; deeply arcuate behind. Face lobes 

 hidden from above, large, stout, conical, hairy. Antennae rather 

 short, 1st joint very broad, 2nd short, oval, 3rd longest, 4th-7th 

 short, 8th longer, 9tli-10th short, pointed at apex. Eyes ver}'- 

 large, reniform; lateral ocelli \eY\ small, on lower angle of e3'^e; 

 central ocellus small, hidden from above. Thorax : pronotum 

 curved, ribbon-shaped, impressed with three dark spots; dorsulum 

 spindle-shaped, rounded in front, tapering to extremities; meso- 

 notum large, truncate on both sides, rounded on outer margins; 

 scutellum arcuate in front, with spine on either side of front 

 margin. Legs short, stout, tibite long, slender, with apex slightly 

 dilated, and armed with six short black spines. Wings broad, 

 rounded at tips, coriaceous, a little more than twice as long as 

 broad; primary stalk short; stalk of subcosta not as long as stalk 

 of cubitus; subcosta long, indistinct, forming no true stigma; 

 radius long, straight, curving slightly at extremity, coming out 

 iust above tip of wing; stalk of cubitus long, upper branch of 

 cubitus very long, upper and lower forks forming a slender cell 

 just below tip of wing; lower branch of cubitus long, upper fork 

 long, bow^-shaped, lower fork very short. Abd(mien short, pointed 

 to tip. Genitalia: (9) large, broad, sabre-shaped, upper and 

 lower valves finely pointed. 



jjah. — National Park, Sydney, K.8.W. (on Eucalyptus sp.; 

 AV. W. Froggatt). 



Apiialaka leptospermi, n.sp. 



Larva semitransparent, thickly enveloped in a mass of white 

 wool-like filaments; eyes yellow; tip of antenna^ tarsi and rostrum 



