BY ALAN P. DODD. 95 



Head quadrate. Thorax distinctly longer than wide ; 

 finely polygonally sculptured. Abdomen as long as head 

 and thorax united, over tAvice as long as wide ; 1st segment 

 striate ; 2nd occupying one-half of surface, polygonally 

 reticulate. Pedicel over twice as long as Avide : 1st funicle 

 joint much shorter and narrower than pedicel, nearly twice 

 as long as wide. Fore wings reaching well beyond apex of 

 abdomen ; moderately broad, hyaline ; discal cilia moder- 

 ately coarse and dense ; marginal vein no longer than the 

 stigmal, the latter curved caudad somewhat at apex ; 

 postmarginal twice as long as the marginal. 



Hub : South Queensland (Childers). Described from 

 one female caught by sweeping in forest, June 25th, 1914 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type : South Australian Museum, a P on a slide. 



Genus Hoploteleia, Ashntead. 



HOPLOTELEIA NIGRICORNIS Dodd. 



A male and female caught on foliage of plants, etc., 

 round canefields, Halifax, Herbert River, North Queens- 

 land, 29th March, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). The male antennee 

 agree with those of austraUca, Dodd. 



Hoploteleia sculpturata. sp, nov. 



$ Length, 4.10 mm. 



Coal black ; legs (including coxae), and first three 

 iunicle joints of antennae, bright reddish yellow. 



Head and thorax coarsely rugulose. the rugosity of 

 the scutum shallower, the scutum also densely, finely 

 granulate. Lateral ocelli separated from each other by 

 twice their own diameter. Thorax no wider than the 

 head, distinctly longer than wide. Abdomen as long as 

 liead and thorax united, its apex truncate. Avith two verv 

 short spines ; first two segments striate, the rest longi- 

 tudinally rugulose, the 3rcl distinctly the longest. Body 

 pubescent, the hairs rather coarse. ForeAvings and antennae 

 as described for austraUca Dodd. 



Hab : Xew South Wales (Chindera, Tweed River). 

 Described from one female caught by sweeping in forest, 

 12th May, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



