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ncrvnre received before the apex of the first cubital cell. 

 C. sanguinolentus also has the posterior tibiae serrate near 

 the apex, but not so strongly as in Miscothyris. 



Subfamily Sericopiiohinje. 

 Zoyphium doddi, sp. n. 



c? . Minutus, niger ; clypeo, mandibulis, scapo pedibusque flavig ; 



flagcllo tegulisque testaceis ; alls hyalinis, venis testaceis, 



stignjale fusco. 

 Long. 4 mm. 



Mandibles strongly notched beneath ; clypeus very broadly 

 rounded at the apex, short. Inner margins o£ the eyes 

 parallel. Antenna? inserted low down on the sides of the 

 clypeus, nearly as far from each other as from the eyes, 

 short, thickened towards the apex, the apical joint pointed. 

 Front broad, covered with delicate golden pubescence ; 

 posterior ocelli far apart, more than twice as far from each 

 other as from the eyes. Head and thorax opaque ; a deeply 

 punctured transverse groove at the base of the scutellum ; 

 median segment truncate posteriorly, the dorsal surface with 

 indistinct oblique striae at the base ; depressed on the 

 median line, with a rather strong carina in the depression ; 

 the surface of the truncation with several more distinct 

 oblique strise. Abdomen shining, closely and minutely 

 punctured, the hypopygium produced into a spine at the 

 apex. First recurrent uervure received by the first cubital 

 cell a little beyond three-quartei's fi'om the base, second 

 received by the second cubital cell at two-thirds from the 

 base. Third cubital cell about half as long on the radial 

 nervure as the first ; the second pointed on tbe radial 

 nervure, longer than the third on the cubital nervure. 



Hab. Cairns, Queensland {F.P.Dodd). Ex coll. Perkins. 



$ . Unknown, 



In colour this species recalls Z. frontale, Turn., described 

 from a female, but in that species there are only two cubital 

 cells. So far as I can see, the antennae in the male are only 

 twelve-jointed. This is the case in Z. ruforiigrum, Turn., 

 though the figure (P. Z. S, 1908, p, 495) shows only eleven 

 joints, an obscure division in the club being omitted. 

 Z. erythrosoma, Turn., and Sericuphorus viridis, Sm., show 

 a similar structure, but in the latter species the club is 

 truncate at the extremity and very thick, not pointed. 

 The reduction in the number of joints seems to be due 

 to the fusion of two joints in the club. In S. viridis the 



