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black. Metanotuin in both species with a distinct inediait 

 carina ; also at cepliahc ends of parapsidal furrows is a 

 circular fovea. 



Hab : New South Wales (Tweed Heads, Tweed River). 

 Described from one female caught b_y sweeping in jungle.. 

 4th May, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Tyj^e : In the .South Australian Museum, a $ on a 

 tag, the antennae and fore wings on a slide. 



Family CERAPHKOXID^. 



Genus Dendrocerus, Ratzeburg. 

 Dendrocerus variegatus, sj). nov. 



9 Length, 3.25 mm. 



Varnished brown ; legs (including coxae), and first 

 three antennal Joints, golden yellow ; rest of antennae brown. 



Vertex of head rather flattened ; eyes very large : 

 ocelli large, the lateral pair almost touching the eye margins 

 and each other ; a row of small fovese runs from cephalic 

 ocellus to posterior margin of the vertex. Thorax over 

 one-half longer than wide : finely scaly, and with scattered 

 punctures ; median groove of scutum deep and distinct ; 

 scutellum longer than wide. Abdomen slightly longer 

 than head and thorax united. Forewings long ; moder- 

 ately broad ; almost hyaline, with a dark blotch beneath 

 all of stigma and stigmal vein, continued nearly to caudal 

 margin ; discal cilia moderately fine, dense ; stigma twice 

 as long as wide ; stigmal vein twice as long as the stigma ; 

 venation clear honey yellow. Antennae slender ; slightly 

 widening toward the apex ; scape slender ; pedicel thrice 

 as long as wide ; first funicle joint one-fourth longer than 

 pedicel ; second a little shorter than pedicel ; 4-8 all dis- 

 tinctly longer than wide ; last joint as long as the pedicel. 



Hab : New South Wales. Described from one female 

 in the collection of the Macleay Musuem. 



Type : Macleay Museum, Sydney ; Hymenoptera, 7d, 

 a 9 on a tag, the antennae and forewings on a slide. 



