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triangular in outline ; median fovea rather large, deep, with 

 sloping walls, nearly circular in outline ; antennal furrows 

 very poorly defined but present ; ocellar basin shallow, rather 

 large, triangular in outline but only poorly limited below ; 

 postocellar line distinctly shorter than the ocellocular Hue, 

 subequal with the ocelloccipital line; postocellar furrow 

 present; postocellar area poorly limited laterally, much wider 

 than long ; head shining, front with rather spare punctures; 

 thorax shining, with small scattered punctures ; stigma three 

 times as long as wide, of nearly uniform width for basal 

 two-thirds, then gradually tapering to metacarpus ; third 

 cubital cell narrowed above, the third intercubitus subequal 

 in length with the third abcissa of the radius; abdomen 

 shining ; sheath seen from the side with the apex rounded. 

 Black; clypeus, labrum, mandibles (except tips), face, inner 

 orbits narrowly above antennae, posterior orbits, margin 

 (anterior, poslerior, and lateral) of pronotum, tegulse, apical 

 two-thirds of scutellum, metascutellum, a broad band of 

 mesoepisfernum, and metepisternum yellowish white ; abdo- 

 men ferruginous, propodeum and apical two tergites black ; 

 legs black, four anterior coxa?, trochanters, apices of femora, 

 entire tibia?, and tarsi yellowish white ; hind coxa? except a 

 large spot on upper lateral surface, trochanters, basal fourth 

 of hind tibia?, and four apical joints of hind tarsi yellowish 

 white ; wings subhyaline, venation including stigma dark 

 brown. 



Male. — Length 9 mm. Agrees very well with the cha- 

 racters given for the female ; differs in colour from the 

 female in having the mesosternum ferruginous, in having all 

 of the black of the legs (except hind tibia? and basi tarsus) 

 replaced by ferruginous ; apex of abdomen black ; tergites 

 with distinct punctures which become so close on the basal 

 segments that the surface is coriaceous; hypopygidium very 

 deeply arcuately emarginate apically. 



Type-locality. Killara, Sjdney, N. S. Wales, Australia. 



Described from two females (one type) and one male 

 collected at an altitude of 400 feet on August 17, 1913, by 

 K. E. Turner, after whom the species is named. 



Type and allotype. British Museum (Natural History). 



Faratype. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



Genus Ancyloneuea, Cameron. 



The genus Ancyloneura, Cameron, belongs to the tribe 

 Euriini, and falls close to Neoeurys, Rohwer, but may be 



