BY ALAN P. DODD. 93 



AusTKOSCELio. Xew genus. 



^ $ Of stout form, very much resembling Hadronotus 

 Foerster, but more espeeiallly Hadronotoides Dodd. 



Head very transverse ; eyes large, hairy : ocelli very 

 wide apart, the lateral ones touching the eye margins ; 

 viewed from in front the head is somewhat wider than 

 long ; antennal depression very profound, occupying 

 almost all lower two-thirds of face. Thorax scarcely longer 

 than wide ; convex : scutum large, without furrows ; 

 scutellum very large, projecting over and hiding the metano- 

 tum, bidentately emaiginate at apex ; postscutellum with 

 a blunt tooth. Abdomen broadly sessile : a little longer 

 than the head and thorax united : one-half longer than 

 wide ; pointed at apex ; slightly convex above, straight 

 beneath ; first segment very transverse, the second much 

 the longest, occupying nearly one-half of surface. Fore- 

 wings reaching apex of abdomen : broad ; submarginal 

 vein rather distant from the costa which it joins about 

 middle of wing : marginal vein very short, the stigmal 

 moderately long and oblique ; postmarginal not devel- 

 oped. Antennae 12 -jointed in both sexes, in the female 

 with a 6-jointed club, in the male filiform, the joints all 

 longer than wide. 



Type: Austroscelio nigrroxa {Dodd). 



s. Sparasion australicum Dodd, Entomological News, 

 Philadelphia. U.S.A.. Vol. XXV, June. 1914, 

 JO. 255-6. 



Sjiarasion niyricoxa, Dodd. Trans. Royal 8oc. of 

 S.A.. Vol. XXXVIII. May. 1914. p. 123. 



Originally described as a species of Sparasion : the 

 description was misleading, since there is no frontal ledge 

 on the face, and the general structure of the species ex- 

 cluded it. The specific characters given for nigricoxa 

 do not hold, hence one name must fall. The female 

 has not been recorded, but two have been found, one from 

 the type locality of Gordon vale, the other being caught 

 by sweeping in forest. Pentland, 200 miles west of Towns- 

 ville. N.Q., September, 1914. (A. A. Girault). 



