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Xenanusia pulchripennis, new species. Genotype. 



Female. — Length 1 mm. Dark metallic purple, the tarsi 

 pallid. Fore wings hyaline but bearing the following con- 

 spicuous brown pattern : A midlongitudinal cone, spoke, or 

 path runs from a point one-third the way from apex to apex 

 of venation proximad to the caudal margin which it runs into 

 broadly opposite most of the submarginal vein ; in center of 

 this path (which is a little caudad of middle), a very small 

 round hyaline spot; from the cephalic, distal, and caudal 

 edges of it, six rays or spokes to the margin, all of tolerable 

 length, the first at the venation, short, curved, thickened 

 toward apex and embracing the stigmal and postmarginal 

 veins, the second next longest, more uniform in width, midway 

 between 1 and 3 ; 3 longest and thickest, at the distocephalic 

 apex ; 4 at the distocaudal apex ; 5 and 6 shortest, the recipro- 

 cates of 2 and 1 respectively; the round dot is between the 

 bases of arms 2 and 5. Arms 1-3 are cephalic; 4-6 caudal. 

 Thus, there is a broad hyaline path from arm 1 proximad 

 to base along the venation ; of the hyaline areas blocked off by 

 the arms, that between 1 and 2 is largest, those between 4 and 

 5 and 6 and the base of the central path at caudal margin, 

 smallest but both distinctly larger than the central spot near 

 the end of the path. Body densely scaly. Axillae slightly sepa- 

 rated. Frons broad. Face inflexed. Flagellum gradually 

 narrowing, the funicle joints decreasing in size distad; pedicel 

 very small. Club ovate. 



Ten females, "1038— Swan River, West Australia. G. Com- 

 pere." 



Type: Cat. No. 19153, U. S. Nat. Mus., four females on 

 tags and a slide. Five paratype females in the Queensland 

 Museum. 



Xenanusia gigantea, new species. 



Female. — Length, 2.15 mm. Dark metallic purple, the 

 longer than wide head orange yellow except ventrad of the 

 scrobes. Tips of the tibiae and the tarsi yellow ; distal tarsal 

 joint dusky. Fore wings hyaline, with a broad fuscous band 

 across it from the bend of the submarginal vein to apex of the 



