BY ALAN P. Donr. 127 



Genus AcoLus, Fosrsfer. 



ACOLUS BIDENTATUS, Sp. nOV.- 



9 Length, 1.75 mm. 



Black : abdomen dark brown ; coxae black : rest of 

 legs and the antennse golden yello"vr, slightly suffused 

 dusky. 



Head, ^aewed from above, transverse, distinctly Avider 

 than the thorax : the frons convex : ^icAv^ed from in front, 

 much wider than long : eyes large, pubescent : ocelli very 

 wide apart, the lateral ones touching the eye margins. 

 Thorax somewhat longer than wide, the scutum and scutel- 

 lum large ; posterior angles of the metanotum, acute ; 

 postscutellum with two short teeth mesad. Abdomen as 

 long as the head and thorax united, no Avider than the head ; 

 broadly rounded behind : 1st and 2nd segments striate, 

 the 3rd and ith finely, densely, irregularly transA'ersely 

 rugulose ; the 3rd occupying one-half of surface. Head, 

 scutum and scutellum, finely densely punctate. Fore- 

 Avings just reaching apex of abdomen : moderately broad ; 

 hyaline : discal cilia fine, very dense : Aenation dark and 

 distinct : submarginal Acin attaining the costa at fully 

 one -half wing length ; marginal A^ein not one -third as long 

 as the stigmaL which is moderately long, wholly gently 

 convexly curA'cd, the conA^exity proximad ; basal A'ein not 

 indicated. Antennae 7- jointed ; scape long and slender ; 

 pedicel one-half longer than Adde : funicle joints narrower 

 than the pedicel, 1st a little longer than Avide. 2-4 A^ery 

 transA^erse ; club lai-ge, one-half longei' than Avide. 



Hab : North Queensland (Pentland. 200 miles Avest 

 of Townsville). Described from one female caught by 

 sweeping in forest, 8th January. 1913 (A. A. Girault). 



Type : In the South Australian Museum, a 9 on a 

 tag. the antenna? and forewings on a slide. 



Subfamily Teleasinse. 

 Genus Hoplogryon, Ashmead. 



HOPLOGRYON NIGRIVENTRIS. Sp. UOV. 



^ Leng-th, 1.90 mm. 



Black : scutum (except a large square patch mesad 

 and cephalad, reaching almost to posterior margin), post- 



