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apex. Clypeus small, transverse, truncate anteriorly. The 

 antciinic far apart at the base, itiserted low down, close to 

 the base of the clyj)cus, the scape lonp^, much more than half 

 the length of the flagellum, which is short. Front broad, 

 concavcly hollowed. Eyes entire, reaching the base of the 

 mandibles, convergent towards the vertex; checks and vertex 

 very broad; the ocelli })laccd close together between the 

 eyes, near their apex, far removed irom the posterior margin 

 of the head. Pronotum very short, almost perpendicularly 

 depressed, narrower than the mesonotum ; scutellum trans- 

 verse. Median segment with a broadly subtriangular enclosed 

 space at tlie base, rounded and truncate posteriorly. Abdo- 

 men petiolate, the petiole linear and rather short. Fore wing 

 with two cul ital c^-Us ; the first quarlrilatcral, the v/idth 

 about two thirds of the length, receiving the recurrent 

 nervure some distance before the apex ; the second less than 

 lialf the length of the first, almost square. The radial cell is 

 long and ]iointed, almost reaching the apex of the wing, not 

 appendiculate. The medial cell of the hind wing is pro- 

 duced at the apex, reaching downwards from the costa, the 

 anal cell is long. Legs short, tibiie feebly spinose, the tarsi 

 much longer than the tibia?. 



The neuration is similar to that of Stiffmus, but the general 

 form is very near Cralro. 



Type, P. Froggatti^ sp. n. 



Paracrabro Froggatti, sp. n. 



? . Head very large, quadrilateral, almost smooth, sub- 

 opaque. ]\Iesonotum sjiarsely and very minutely punctured, 

 with a faintly impressed median line, and a faint longitudinal 

 one on each side, not reaching the posterior margin. Median 

 segment with a broad subtriangular space at the base enclosed 

 by carinee, the enclosed space lon^^itudinally rugose striate ; 

 the segment behind the earinrc oblique, rounded and striate, 

 then abrujitly truncate and rugose to the apex. Abdomen 

 smooth and shining. 



Black ; the mandibles, antenna*, teguhx, and legs fulvo- 

 ferruginous. Wings hyaline, tinged with yellow; nervures 

 testaceous at the base, iuscous at the apex. 



Length 7 mm. 



JIub. Victoria. 



Genus SERicoriiORUS, Sm. 

 Sericophorus dipteroides, sp. n. 

 $ . Clypeus broad, finely punctuied, depressed transversely 



