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Genus Polyclonus, Kirby. 



In 'Genera Insectm-urn/ fasc. xxix. 1905, p. 40, Konow 

 ]>laees the genus Polyclonus, Kirby, as a synonym of Ancylo- 

 neura, Cameron. Tliis seems to the author to be wrong, and 

 as very little is known concerning the genus the following 

 iiott s, taken from specimens in the British Museum, and 

 made in 1909, may be of value : — 



u A female of Polyclonus atratus, Kirby (genotype), from 

 Melborne, Victoria, ' 0, F. 8. 00, No. 1164/ proves the genus 

 is a good one. It may be briefly described thus: Length 

 5 mm. ; expanse 12*5 mm. Clypens truncate ; malar space 

 very narrow, practically wanting ; antennal furrows indis- 

 tinct but complete ; a distinct furrow from the anterior 

 ocellus to between bases of antenna? ; head strongly granular; 

 antennae wanting beyond 12th joint, each joint beyond the 

 second with a ramus like Pterygop/torus ; scutum and scu- 

 tellum shining, sparsely punctured ; tarsal claws simple ; 

 venation like Perreyia (fig. 80, plate 39, Proc. U.S. Nat. 

 Mas. vol. 29, 1906), except that the third cubital receives the 

 second recurrent and the third cubital cell is longer than the 

 second. Black ; labium, mandibles, tibia 1 , and tarsi pallid ; 

 wings hyaline, iridescent; venation black.'" 



From these characters and others gained from an incom- 

 plete generic synopsis the author is of the opinion that the 

 genus belongs to the tribe Euriini, where it is easily distin- 

 guished by the ramose antennae of both sexes. 



Neoeurys tasmanica, sp. n. 



This new species is closely allied to metallica, but may be 

 separated by narrower sheath, darker stigma, and shorter 

 distance between the second recurrent and second intercubitus. 



Female. — Length 5 mm. Antennal furrows complete to 

 occiput ; middle fovea shallow, wedge-shaped ; postocellar 

 furrow wanting ; postocellar line subequal with the ocell- 

 ocular line; antenna? 13-jointed, the third joint but slightly 

 longer than the fourth ; scape but slightly longer than the 

 pedicellum ; sculpture of the head tine and close ; stigma 

 slightly angled at base, then regularly tapering to apex; 

 second recurrent received by the third cubital cell half the 

 length of the second intercubitus from the base of the cell; 

 prescutum and scutum niedianly finely granular and some- 

 what opaque; sides of the scutum and scutellum shining ; 

 mesepisternum with small rather close punctures ; sheath 



