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XVIII. On a neio Genus of Stylopidae fo'om Australia. 
By Arthur M. Lea, F.E.S,, Government Ento¬ 
mologist, Tasmania. 
[Read October 5th, 1910.] 
Plate LXVI. 
In 1895, whilst on a collecting trip to Bridgetown, in 
W. Australia, I obtained a number of specimens of a species 
of Stylopidae in the greasy oil of a lamp, massed together 
with other insects that had been attracted by its light.* 
They were naturally somewhat damaged ; to remove the oil 
they were placed for some time in chloroform, afterwards 
being mounted on cardboard. Not having the necessary 
literature to work them up, they were left untouched till 
recently, when Mr. W. Dwight Pierce’s fine monograph of 
the family was received, this enabling me to at last deal 
with them. 
Stylopidae have previously been recorded from Austra¬ 
lia (N.S. Wales and Queensland) in a rather out-of-the- 
way publication so far as Australian workers are concerned.f 
But all the species there noted belong to different genera 
(sub-families according to Pierce) to the one now under 
consideration, as they have the tarsi three or four jointed 
and without terminal claws. Mr. Aug. Simson also informs 
me that he sent a female in the abdomen of a Tasmanian 
wasp to Mr. Saunders, but nothing appears to have been 
published regarding it. Westwood mentions that “R. H. 
Lewis informs me in a recent letter that he has captured 
a Stylopized bee in Van Diemen’s Land.” 
Austrostylops, n. g. 
Head strongly transverse. Eyes coarsely facetted, occupying about 
two-thirds the width of the head. Antennae six-jointed, third, 
fourth and fifth joints ramose, the sixth elongate. Pronotum tri- 
lobed, the median lobe somewhat depressed and produced on to head. 
* I have seen no reference to other species being attracted to light; 
and, in fact, the males of most species appear to emerge in daylight, 
and to die before sunset. 
I Report of Work of the Experiment Station of the Hawaiian 
Sugar Planters’ Association, Bulletin No. 1, Part 3, Honolulu, 1905. 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1910.— PART IV. (DEC.) 
