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Genus PoLYCLONUS, Kiibj. 



Ill 'Genera Insecfcorum/ fasc. xxix. 1905, p. 40, Konovv 

 ])lace.s the genus Polyclonus, Kirby, as a synonym of Ancylo- 

 neura, Cauieion. This seems to the author to be wron<i;, and 

 as very little is known concerning the genus tlie following 

 )iot( s, taken from sjjecimens in the Britisli Museum, and 

 made in 1909, may be of value : — 



'* A female o'i Fohjclomis ntratus, Kirby (genotype), from 

 Mclbonie, Victoria, *'C. F. 8. 00, No. 11G4,' ()roves the genus 

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

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

 very narrow, practically wanting ; antennal furrows indis- 

 tinct but complete ; a distinct furrow frotn the anterior 

 ocellus to between bases of antennae ; head strongly granular ; 

 antennai wanting beyond 12th joint, each joint beyond the 

 second with a ramus like Pterygophorus ; scutum and scu- 

 tedum shining, sparsely punctured; tarsal claws simple; 

 venation like Ferreyia (tig. 80, plate 39, Proc. U.S. Nat. 

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

 second recurrent and the third cubital ceil is longer than the 

 second. Black; labruni, mandibles, tibia^, and tarsi pallid; 

 wings hyaline, iridescent; venation black. ■'■' 



From these characters and others gained from an incom- 

 plete generic s) nopsis the author is of the opinion that the 

 genus belongs to the tribe Euriini, where it is easily uistin« 

 guished by the ramose antennae of both sexes. 



Neoeurys tasmantca, 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. 



Femah. — Length 5 mm. Antennal furrows conjplete to 

 occiput; middle fovea shallow, wedge-shaped; postocellar 

 furrow wanting; postocellar line subequal with the ocell- 

 ocularline; antennae 13-jointed, the third joint but slightly 

 longer than the fourth ; scape but slightly longer than the 

 pedicellum ; sculpture of the head fine and close ; stigma 

 sliglitly angled at base, then regularly tupering 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 mediaidy finely granular and some- 

 what opaque; sides of the scutum and scutellum shining ; 

 mesepisternum with small rather close punctures ; sheath 



