BY ALAN F. DODD. 137 



rather coarse dense scaly sculpture : scutelluiu longer 

 than wide ; parapsidal and median furrows of scutum dis- 

 tinct ; metanotum rather long, more or less finely reticu- 

 lately rugulose, with several irregularly longitudinal ear- 

 in se. Abdomen rather slender, no longer than the head 

 and thorax united. Head densely pubescent, the thorax 

 with only scattered pubescence. ForeAvings rather long ; 

 broad, the apex squarely rounded : infuscate. this deepest 

 beneath stigma and stigmal veins ; discal cilia rather 

 fine and dense ; venation fuscous : stigma semicircular ; 

 stigmal vein scarcely curved, twice as long as the stigma. 

 Antennae slender, only very shghtly increasing in width 

 toward apex ; pedicel over twice as long as greatest 

 width ; first funicle joint somewhat longer : 2nd two- 

 thirds as long as preceding ; 3-8 subequal. all slightly shorter 

 than 2nd, twice as long as wide, the last joint longer. 



Hab : Tasmania (Hobart). Described from one female 

 received from Mr. W. W. Froggatt and labelled "Hobart, 

 A. M. Lea." 



Type : In the collections of Mr. W. W. Froggatt, 

 Government Entomologist of New South Wales, a 9 on 

 a tag, the antennae and fore wings on a slide. 



CONOSTIGMUS VARICOLOE, sp. HOV. 



(J Length, 2.45 mm. Of stout form. 



Black ; lateral lobes of scutum and cephalic margin 

 of median lobe, sides of metanotum and its apex, base of 

 abdomen, and the head, reddish brown ; legs and antennal 

 scape golden yellow, the intermediate coxae and base of 

 posterior pair, black ; upper third of face black. 



Head granulate, and with rather dense setigerous 

 thimble punctures ; lower half of face finely transversely 

 rugulose ; transverse, a little Avider than the thorax. 

 Scutum, scutellum and axillae, granulate, and with numer- 

 ous scattered thimble punctures, these only present on 

 extreme laterad of the scutellum. Parapsidal and median 

 furrows of scutum deep and distinct. Thorax one-half 

 longer than wide ; scutellum as wide as long ; metanotum 

 finely longitudinally rugulose. Abdomen no longer or wider 

 than the thorax ; convex beneath, almost straight above ; 



