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in the Coniopterygidae 

 very carefully under 

 find any indication 

 with regard to the 

 so, the species may 

 biit in case that the 

 should prove to be w 

 for the species. 



, I have examined the unique specimen 

 the microscope, but I was not able to 



of erossvein. Probably the specimen, 



nervation, is an anomalous one, and if 

 be placed in the genus Paras emidalis ; 

 erossvein between E and Bs in reality 



anting, a new genus must be introduced 



Heteroconis varia Enderlein, loc. cit., p. 229, pl. 6, 

 fig. 25. — 12» kept in alcohol, from Cedar creek, Queens- 

 land, March. Enderlein mentions the species from N. S. 

 Wales. 



B. Mecoptera. 



This order, of vvhich several very interesting and archaic 

 forms are found in Australia, was represen ted by two species, 

 both belonging to the genus Harpobittacus Gerstaecker 

 (Mitth. nat. Vereins f. Neuvorp. u. Riigen, p. 119, 1885). 



Harpobittacus australis Klug, Abh. Kön. Akad. Wiss., 

 p. 100, 1836. — Two males and eight females from Freemantle, 

 W. Australia, September. One female, Adelaide, October. 



Harpobittacus tillyardi Es- 

 ben-Petersen, Ent. Medd., Kö- 

 benhavn, p. 240, 1915. — One male 

 and one female, Cedar creek. April; 

 two females, Lamington Plåt; one 

 female, Evelyne; all the localities 

 in Queensland. 



This species has hitherto been 

 overlooked on acoount of its great 

 likeness to H. australis, from which 

 it may, however, be separated by 

 the shape of appendages of the 

 male and by the markings on the 

 abdomen. In the male of //. til- 

 lyardi the hind börder of second 

 to sixth segment is narrowly 

 blackish dorsally; seventh seg- 



Fig. 15. Anal appendages of male, 

 seen from side. 

 a Harpobittacus australis. 

 b H. tillyardi. 



