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Mr. Rowland E. Turner on 
between the eyes on the vertex, the slenderer antennae 
and the absence of parapsidal furrows on the mesonotum, 
Piagctia intaminata, sp. nov. (Plate L, fig. 14.) 
9. Clypeus short, slightl}’- convex in tlie middle, the apical 
margin feebly emarginate, clothed with short whitish pubescence 
which extends on to the front. Mandibles notched on the outer 
margin. Antennae inserted at the base of the clypeus, much nearer 
to each other than to the eyes, the second joint of the flagellum 
more than twice as long as the first, the third as long as the second, 
the scape nearly as long as the second and third combined. Eyes 
converging towards the vertex, separated on the vertex by a distance 
exceeding the length of the second joint of the flagellum. Head 
opaque, almost smooth, a very delicate frontal sulcus almost reaching 
the anterior ocellus ; the space round the ocelli feebly depressed, the 
depression almost reaching the eyes. Posterior ocelli close together, 
very small. Thorax and abdomen opaque, without visible punc¬ 
tures, sparsely covered with very fine greyish pubescence, which 
is thicker and paler at the apex of the first abdominal segment ; 
pronotum much narrower than the mesonotum, faintly transversely 
striated ; median segment longer than broad, transversely rugose- 
striate. First abdominal segment more than half as long again as 
the breadth at the apex, very narrow at the base ; pygidial area 
triangular, sparsely punctured, bare. The second abscissa of the 
radius is very short, a little more than half as long as the third, the 
first as long as the second and third combined ; the first recurrent 
nervure is received nearer to the base of the second cubital cell than 
to the second recurrent nervure, which is received before the middle 
of the same cell. 
Black; the anterior and intermediate tarsi fuscous above, testa¬ 
ceous beneath ; the tegulae and the fourth and fifth abdominal 
segments on the extreme apical margin testaceous brown. Wings 
hyaline, with a pale blue flush in some lights, a pale fuscous band 
from the base of the radial cell not quite crossing the wing; 
nervures fuscous. Length 10 mm. 
Hob. Queensland, Cairns (ex coll, Perkins). 
No species of the genus has been previously recorded 
from Australia. There is no tubercle on the posterior 
femora in this species. 
Sphodrotes ruhricaUis, sp. nov. (Plate L, fig. 13.) 
9. Clypeus short, very broadly rounded at the apex, clothed 
with silver-white pubescence, the extreme apical margin bare. 
