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bind pair. Wings ofthe usual elongate form, parallel on thecostal margin, narrowly rounded at the tips. All 

 the Segments ofthe legs swollen, hairy on the tibiae and tarsi. Abdomen elongate [damaged]. 



Habitat : Sydney, X. S. W.; taken round the lump in tbe house, 6.X.02. (W. B. Gürney). 



Diese- ist das :r, das folgende das Q. 



Froggatt, IOC. fit., 1004, p. 673 : 



« Length 1 2 



General colour ferruginous mottled with dull yellow; mouth-parts and tarsi of fore legs lighter; the 

 whole insect clothed with Short scattered black hairs. 



Head very large, half as long as thorax, convex, rounded; antennae Standing out in front of eyes, 

 9-jointed [apparently mutilatedj, ist broadest, cylindrical; 3rd longer than 2nd, the next moniliform, gradually 

 increasing in size to the tip : eye- small, not projeeting, coarsely faceted, irregularly reniform. Thorax not 

 quite as long as abdomen, divided into three distinet Segments, the central or mesonotum tongest; wings 

 wanting: forelegs with femora at tibia thickened, the ist tarsal Joint dilated into a broad round disc, 

 tlattened beneath and impressed with a median parallel suture; 2nd tarsal Joint small, Coming to a point at 

 apex, and furnished with small sharp claws: middle legs not so robust; bind pair with the femora thickened, 

 and the tarsi formed oftwo large joints terminating in large tarsal claws. Abdomen of uniform circumference, 

 apparently composed of ten Segments when viewed from above, but tbe 9tb (mueb smaller than the rest) 

 appears to form a pari of the iotb when viewed from the side, rounded at the extremity. Anal tubercles 

 large, finger-shapedf, two-jointed, standing out on tbe sides. 



Bornen, Wagga, X. S. \Y ; two speeimens taken under stones in April. 

 They are activ little creatures, hiding in the dust when disturbed. » 



[Oligotoma Westwoodi Hagen 1885]. 



Oligotoma Westwoodi Hagen (nom. nud.), Verh. Wien. Zool. Bot. Ges., 1866, p. 222. — In., 

 Canad. Entomologist, Bd 17, 1885, p. 171. 



Habitat : Zanzibarf (im Copal). 



« Length of body 4 ' , }nm ; exp. of wings j n "". 



Male : As the speeimen is enclosed in copal (Gummi anime), tbe colours are not certain, but the 

 head, with antennae and palpi, the torax and the legs in part, seem to bave been blackish-fuscous; head more 

 Raphidia-like than in any other species; more than half longer than broad; the rounded sides sloping down, 

 the oeeiput less than half as broad as the front part with tbe eyes; head above slightly convex, epistom large, 

 convex; eyes large, prominent, about orbicular, with a small excision for the insertion of the antennae; 

 facets large, globose; antennae long, reaching the end of tbe metathorax, inserted in a longer socket, 

 [5-jointed; ist Joint a little tbicker, cylindrical, half as broad as long; 2nd as long as broad; all others 

 ODclavate, to three times longer than broad, but tbe ;rd to 5th a little shorter than the'rest, the last one more 

 ovoid, with tip rounded; tbere seems not to be wanting any Joint more. Labrum large, rounded, a little 

 darker in middle; max. palpi 5-jointed, the three basals alike, short, as broad as long; 4t h a little longer, 

 5U1 longer, ovoid; labial palpi 3-jointed, apical Joint longer, ovoid. Prothorax as broad as oeeiput, about 

 quadrangular, broader near the mesothorax; a deep transversal sulcus a little before middle, where the sides 

 are notehed; legs as usual, femora! and basal Joint of forelegs elongate-inflated; middle legs less strong. 



Wings very little longer than the abdomen, narrow, '' 4 """ broad, four times longertnan broad, rounded 

 on tip, hairy around and on the membrane, which is rugose, smokv, with four white longitudinal bands, the 

 1 near the costa being almost obsolete. Subcosta dark, ending unconnected alter the basal fourth ofthe 

 wing; a little earlier in the bind wings. Radius a little before the tip of the- wing connected below with one 

 long vein, which runs parallel to the radius and ends on the tip. This vein represents the sector and its 

 upper brauch ( M.\< LACHLAN); the sectOT itselfis wanting from the place where the upper brauch originates 

 (it is marked by a small break ofthe vein) to the tip. Tbere is im Other vein in the wing except the' strong 

 anal vein originating from tbe base of tbe sector shortly before a transversal between tbe sector and radius. 

 I have for convenience always used Mac Lachlan's names of the veins, though it is obvious by this species 

 that what he calls upper branch is really the Prolongation of the sector itself. I will try later to give a 

 homology ol all the veins ofthe wing. The bind wings bave exactlv the same very simple venation ; the 

 discoidal cell is open. The abdomen is not entirely visfble from above, as a Hymenopterous insect, partly 

 overlaying. The Segments are equal, once broader than long, except tbe two last ones, which are considerably 

 -horte : the apikal margin of tbe last one i- cut asymmetrically, tbe right half of it considerably shorter than 

 tbe left side; appendages as long as the four last Segments, stout, two-jointed; the apical joints cylindrical, 



