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as wide ; 1st and 2nd fiinicle joints each subequal to pedicel ; 

 3rd a little longer than wide ; 4th quadrate : club rather 

 compact, 6-jointed, joints 1-5 about equal in length, 3rd 

 slightly the widest. 



Hah : South Queensland (Burnett Heads, Bundaberg). 

 Described from one female caught by sweeping in forest, 

 20th June. 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type : South Australian Museum, a 9 on a tag. 

 antennae and forewings on a slide. 



Baryconus dulcis, Dodd. 



Numerous specimens caught on foliage of plants round 

 canefields, Halifax, Herbert River, North Queensland, 

 March, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Baryconus variepes, sp. nov. 



$ Length, 1.55 mm. Of very slender form. 



Bright golden or orange yellow ; eyes, ocelli, femora, 

 tibise (except the knees), horn on abdomen, a rather broad 

 band at caudal half of second segment, and apical two- 

 fifths of abdomen (from caudal thirds of third segment), 

 black ; scutellum somewhat dusky. 



Head subquadrate ; eyes moderate ; ocelli in a very 

 obtuse-angled triangle. Thorax slender, twice as long as 

 greatest width ; parapsidal furrows present for caudal 

 two-thirds of scutum, approaching rather close together 

 caudad ; scutellum with a line of fine fovese across its 

 base. Abdomen slender ; somewhat longer than the head 

 and thorax united ; no wider than the thorax ; 1st segment 

 about twice as long as wide, with a blunt horn ; 2nd and 

 3rd also somewhat longer than wide, the 3rd a little the 

 larger, the following segments combined about equal to 

 length of 3rd. Head, scutum and scutellum with very fine 

 polygonal scaly sculpture ; the abdomen wholly longitudinally 

 striate. Legs long and slender. Antennae 12 jointed ; scape 

 barely longer than next two joints united ; pedicel slender, 

 fully two and a half times as long as wide ; first funicle 

 joint a little shorter and narrower than the pedicel, nearly 

 thrice as long as wide ; the others shortening, the 4th 

 quadrate ; club 6-jointed, 3-5 slightlj^ the largest, all 



