jrSTH.ILIJX IIYMI-XOrTl-KA (llAlAllinlin-.A. I' I I.—dfRACLT. Mit 



Fnmi one tVmalo froiii iiiisrellanoous sw,.,.|,iiiys alcuiK thr I Icrlicri River, Fi.|)inarv "G 

 1913. 



Htiliitiit: Halifax (Jngliaiii), (^iiPi'iislaiul. 



Tiiiir: No. HySOH'J, t^iieonslaiKl .\rus.aini. Urish.ii.r., tli,> CMii.al.. on a tan; ||,.,.„|. .., („,.,, 

 iviiig and an antenna on a slide. 



I;I'IST1-:.\<iTI':KVS new yemis. 

 Fi iniiU :~]n my t.-il.le iit yenera runs t.) tlie Kriiiip ronlaiiiiuK Cocciiloxniiis ( 'rawfonl 

 but dift'ers from all the inrimled neiiera in lia\ iiiy the vertex Hat (the frons prominent), the 

 face greatly infiexed and inclined ventre caiidad, Frons of moderate width. Antenna? ea]iitate, 

 the large club somewhat longer than the funiide. the joints of the latter transverse linear, 

 rapidly widening distad ; seape slender: pedicel over half the length of the funicle. .Mandibles 

 small, with two acute teeth. Cheeks long. Marginal vein iJiinctiforni, the stignial long and 

 slender, curved, the postmarginal as long as the marginal; obli(|ne hairless line i)resent. .\xilhe 

 just meeting inwardly. I'ronotuni transverse lineai-. .\l domen o\ate, as long as the rest of 

 the body, the ovipcjsitor extruded for a third of its lei;gth. lluid tibial spur single. Scutellnm 

 roundeil at apex. Thorax with a short phragina. 



1. EPISTENOTERYS MARMORATIPES n. w speeie.s. 



Frmalc: — Length. 1 nun., excluding the ovipositor. 



Orange yellow, the legs, o.-cijiut, ventral half of face, .ip.x of pedic-ej. ,|nh ami ventral 

 edge of scape, silvery whiti'. .\lidomeu silvery white, the disl.-ii h.alf of o\i|posilor valves 

 dusky, the dorsal abdomen ■i\ith five rather broad brownish lilink cross strijjes, the first ;it base, 

 the fifth at apex; two quadrate umrginal spots of the same color between stripes 1 and 2, the 

 latter and 5 accented quadrately at lateral nuirgin. Prcuiotuui except laterad and the cephalic 

 margins (eejihalic fourth) of scutum blue black; phragma, antennai, jiropodeum except cephalo- 

 laterad rather broadly, a convex stripe across scutellum just before apex, brownish black. Legs 

 marked as follows: A broad dusky band around middle of eejihalic tibia; and apex of same; 

 cephalic knees dusky; two rather broad bands id' same encircling middle tibiie, middle tibia; 

 at apex and base; the same on caudal tibias but the caudal knees are also dusky black and the 

 tibiae at apex black only dorsad. Base of scape white. Fore wings very finely ciliate discally, 

 stained lightly from bend of submarginal vein to ai>ex of stignud; |u'oximad of hairless line 

 (whicli is closed caudad), over fifteen lines of cilia whidi ;ne aliont t»ice coarser tlian the nuiiu 

 filiation yet fine. Cheeks just ventrad of eye dusky. 



From (uu' female taken in forest. May 2, 11114 (.\. V. Dodd). 



Hdbifdl: Tweed Heads (Tweed Eiver), Ne\v South Wales. 



Tiipf: Xo. EyJlOil, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, tlie sj>ecinien on a slide with the 

 slide type of A iHii/ijnis norliiiir'imi'fKs Crirault. 



Gexu.s ECHTIIKDDK'VIXrS I'erkius. 



Head much wider than the cephalic jiart of tlie mesonotuui, subseniicircular, the space 

 between the great e3'es very narrow, where narrowest not mure than h;Uf the width of one ol 

 the eyes; caudal ocelli close to the eye margins and much more remote from the cephalic one 

 than from each other, the face intie.xed. Kyes clothed with very short. ]iale hairs. Mandibles 

 with one small but distinct and more or less acute tooth and an inner apic:d truncation with 

 its angle subrectangular, forming a distinct truncate second tooth. Antenna' inserted near the 

 mouth, the scrobes elongate and coinergent above, llie scape simple, tlie six funicle joints short 

 and not differing much in length liut the apicril ones much wider tluiu the basal; club with 

 three subeqnal joints and as long as the three or four preceding joints of the funiide united; 

 pedicel elongate, as long, or longer than, the first two joints of the funicle but not much 

 thickened. Maxillary palpi short, joints •_' and .'. extremely sliorl. -1 distinctly longer than either. 



