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Heteroconops curticornis Kréber 
Heteroconops curticornis Kréber, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 11, vol. 5, p. 69, 1940. 
Previously known only from the type female. This specimen 
differs in having the third antennal segment not quite as short and 
wide as the illustration. Length 4.5mm. Tergites one to four dull, 
five and six shiny. No accessory wing veins. This specimen is very 
close to the previous one, and I would have considered them con- 
specific were it not for the presence of the ocellar tubercle. 
MATERIAL EXAMINED: Dongarra, Western Australia, Aug. 13-22, 
1935, R. E. Turner, 1 male, author’s collection ex BMNH. 
Genus Physocephala Schiner 
Physocephala Schiner, Wiener Ent. Monatschr., vol. 5, p. 137, 1861. 
Physocephala minuta Kréber 
Physocephala minuta Kréber, Arch. Naturg., vol. 81, Abt. A, Heft 4, p. 131, 1915. 
Previously known only from the male cotypes. The female has 
yellow pollinose distal margins on the first five tergites, widest and 
more golden yellow on tergites three and four. The sixth tergite is 
mainly yellow pollinose. The seventh tergite is shiny reddish brown, 
yellow pollinose dorsally. The theca is longer than wide, shiny reddish 
brown, blackish at the apex. The black of the facial grooves is re- 
stricted to two small marks in the middle. The male has the third 
and fourth veins fused at the site of the anterior cross vein so that 
this vein is absent. 
MATERIAL EXAMINED: Kuranda, Queensland, F. P. Dodd., C. J. 
Wainwright collection, 1 male, 1 female, author’s collection and 
BMNH. 
Physocephala australiana, new species 
Description: Male: Length 8mm. Head yellow. Vertex, upper 
front, and occiput black. Orbitals white pollinose. Antennae 
brown, yellowish on first antennal segment and ventral inner surfaces 
of second and third segments. First antennal segment 2% times as 
long as wide. Second segment 2% times length of first. Third seg- 
ment a little longer than the first. Proboscis black, about two times 
length of head. 
Thorax black, faintly white pollinose. Humeri and upper half of 
pleura rufous. White pollinose area adjacent to the humeri extending 
into a distinct white pollinose pleural stripe. White pollinose on 
upper postnotum and metapleura. Apex of scutellum with a small 
indistinct rufous spot. Coxae black, white pollinose. Legs rufous, 
partly brownish in upper middle of femora and on the tarsi. Wings 
