100 AUSTRALIAN PROCTOTIIYPOIDEA . 



2nd or 4tli. the 1st segment AVith a blunt horn at base. 

 Forewings barely reaching apex of 4th abdominal .segment ; 

 slightly nifnscated : disoal cilia moderately fine and dense ; 

 submarginal vein attaining costa about middle of wing ; 

 marginal vein over one-half longer than the stigmal. the 

 latter short, scarcely ol^-liijue ; postmarginal nearly twice 

 as long as marginal : venation thick and distinct. Pedicel 

 long, over twice as long as greatest width, the 1st funicle 

 joint slightlv longer and narrower, nearly four times as 

 long as wide ; 2nd not twice as long as wide, the 4th wider 

 than long : club rather slender. 6-jointed. 1st joint largest, 

 almost as long as wide. 



Hah : North Queensland (Halifax. Herbert River). 

 Described from one female caught on foliage of plants 

 round canefield, 29th March. 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type : South Australian Museum, a c on a tag. 

 antenna? and forewings on a slide. 



Macroteleia distincta sp. nov. 



9 Length, 3.75 mm. 



Black ; lags (including the coxae) and first six antennal 

 joints golden yellow. 



Head subquadrate : densely punctate ; eyes large, 

 bare ; ocelli large, the lateral ones almost touching the eye 

 margins. Thorax one-half longer than Avide ; scutum and 

 scutellum densely confluently punctate, the punctures 

 moderately small : parapsidal furrows distiiict ; post- 

 scutellum with a rather large, hidentate spine mesad. Abdomen 

 one half longer than the h"ad and thorax united ; sessile, 

 shghtly fusiform ; 2nd and 3rd segments largest : wholly 

 longitudinally striate and pubescent. Thorax also d3nsely 

 pubescent. Forewings reaching almost to apex of abdomen ; 

 broad ; almost hyaline ; marginal vein slightly longer 

 than the stigmal, which is moderately short and oblique, 

 straight ; postmarginal twice as long as the marginal ; 

 venation clear golden yellow. Pedicel fully twice as long 

 as wide : first funicle joint two -thirds longer than i)eclioel ; 

 2nd slightly longer than pcnlicel : 3rd shorter : 4th quacb'ate; 

 club 6-jointed. 



