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margins of the basal segments and the entire distal tergites darker brown; 

 sternites reddish-broAvn, sparsely pruinose. 



$ The females referred to this speeies agree in the general featnres of 

 size and eolonr. The nnmber of antennal segments is twenty in one specimen, 

 twenty-one in the other; of these, only the basal tive flagellar segments bear a 

 short, snbterminal serration. Tlie mesonotnm is more reddish-brown, Avith the 

 praescutal stripes ill-defined. Legs darker, the ])ale femoral tips less clearly 

 indicated. Wings with the brown spots move clearly defined ; the brown washes 

 in the medial and anal cells niore restricted. Ovipositor with the valves slender, 

 dark brownish-black. In the paratype female, the median praescntal stripe is 

 reddish, split by a capillary dark bi'own line; legs indistinctly reddish. It is 

 possible that more than a single species is involved in this group. 



Hal). Tasmania: Hobart and Waratah (A. M. Lea); Cradle Mountain 

 (H. J. Carter and A. M. Lea). Type, I. 12162. 



CEROZODIA MINUSCULA sp. nov. 



Size small (wing of female under 15 mm.) ; general colouration light grey, 

 the praescutnm with conspicuous black stripes; wings whitish-snbhyaline, con- 

 spicuously spotted with brown. 



$ Length, 10-5 mm.; wing, 11-3 mm. ? Length, 12-5 mm.; wing, 

 12-4 mm. 



Eostrum light grey pruinose; palpi dark brown. Antennae dark, the first 

 segment greyish-pruinose ; first flagellar segment of the male with a long, black 

 flabellation (remainder of the antenna broken) ; in the female there are only 

 fifteen antennal segments, the basal five segments witli a moderately long branch 

 on the inner face before the apex ; terminal flagellar segments cylindrical. Head 

 grey. Pronotum grey. Mesonotal praescutum light grey with three black 

 stripes, the broad median stripe conspicuously split by a capillary gre.y line ; 

 pseudosutural foveae conspicuous, subrectangular in oiitline; scutum grey, each 

 lobe with the centre blackened ; scutellum grey ; postnotum greyish, darker pos- 

 teriorly.- Pleura light grey; a slightly darker dorsal longitudinal stripe; meso- 

 sternum slaty-grey. Halteres yellow, the knobs dark brown. Legs with the 

 coxae yellowish, grey pruinose, heaviest on the posterior coxae; trochanters 

 obscure yellow ; femora yellow, the tijis broadly blackened ; tibiae yellowish-brown, 

 the tips broadly dark brown; metatarsi brownish-yellow (remainder of the tarsi 

 broken). Wings whitish-snbhyaline, the costal and subcostal cells solidly infus- 

 cated, cell Sc^ largely pale; stigma oval, dark brown; conspicuous brown clouds 

 as follows: at one-third the length of cell R; at origin of Rs; at the tip of R- 

 aiid a seam along the cord ; j^aler brownish-grey seams along most of the longi- 



