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base and tip pale; base of first tarsal joint pale; legs with short black 

 hair and longer, erect bristles; spurs rather longer than first tarsal 

 joint. Wings hyaline, with many small dots, mostly on forkings of 

 veins, and in apical part, larger ones along radius and cubitus, forming 

 rather oblique lines at ends of anal veins, and on gradate series in 

 fore-wings; stigma a large, black spot in both wings, very prominent; 

 wings of ustial shape and much like G. dissolutus. 



Expanse So mm., abdomen long 20 mm. From Kuranda, 

 Queensland, Australia, March, (Dodd). 



Protoplectron costatus n. sp. 



Face pale, black in antennal region, vertex pale, a transverse 

 black line, and behind it a row of spots, a small trapeze in the middle 

 and two spots each side toward e^^e; antennas pale brown, short, with 

 large knob ; pronotum brown, darkest behind on sides, paler in middle, 

 with some long white hair, and also on the pleura; abdomen brown, 

 with extremely short white hair; legs pale, femora dark above, tibiae 

 black at base and tip, tarsi black in middle, pale on most of first and 

 fifth joints, with much long white hair, and some black bristles; 

 tarsal joint I much longer than IV, one-half as long as tibiae, spurs as 

 long as first joint. AVings hyaline, narrow, acute at tip, and fore 

 wings rather falcate ; venation mostly dark, but some patches of cross- 

 veins wholly yellow, and long streaks of pale in the longitudinal veins ; 

 stigma brown at base. In fore wings the lower cubitus runs parallel 

 to anal vein for a long distance ; but one series of costal cells in either 

 wing ; eight branches of radial sector before stigma in fore-wing. 



Expanse 48 mm., abdomen 18 mm. 



From Port Darwin, Australia, 10 April (Dodd). 



Protoplectron pallidum n. sp. 



Lower part of face yellowish, upper part and the front black; 

 vertex with a broad transverse pale band from eye to eye, divided on 

 the median line; antennae yellowish brown, the second joint with a 

 darker ring; pronotum pale yellowish; thorax dark brown on sides, 

 pale through the middle, and a pale spot above base of each wing; 

 pleura mostly pale or light brown; abdomen black, legs pale, rather 

 reddish on femora and tarsi, no bands or marks, clothed with long 

 white hair and black bristles. Antennae rather longer than head plus 

 thorax; pronotum once and a fourth longer than broad, only slightly 

 narrowed in front; abdomen short, not near as long as wings. Legs 

 rather short ; tarsi very slender, basal joint more than one half as long 

 as tibia, the spurs of the same length, joints 2, 3, and -i very short, 

 5th joint more than one-half as long as the first, on its basal part 

 beneath are several short, curved spines forming a comb. Wings 

 yellowish hyaline, unspotted; stigma scarcely visible; venation 

 yellowish, or brownish yellow, not dotted. Wings moderately 

 slender, acute at tips, a double costal series of cells in fore wing, single 

 series in hind wing; about 7 cross-veins before origin of radial sector 

 in fore wing, only one in hind wing; in fore wing the first branch of 



