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joints beyond the fourth with small oval whitish pits; long branched 

 hairs on abdomen beneath near end, and short plumose ones about 

 tubercles. Stigma and veins dark brown, well formed ; in the 

 following account of the wing the measurements are in microns (the 

 same also under the next species); stigma very large and deep, its 

 depth 153 ; marginal cell sharply pointed on costa, its length on 

 costa 357, its lower side beyond the submarginal cells slightly arched 

 inward ; first submarginal long, its length 290 ; second submarginal 

 on marginal 85, its lower side absent ; upper section of basal nervure 

 34, lower (not allowing for the curve) 220; basal _ nervure from 

 transversomedial 60, the latter obhque, and bent at its lower end ; 

 first recurrent nervure joining first submarginal cell 12 from its end. 

 Hah.— Msick&j, Queensland, December, 1899 {Turner, 388). 



Heterapis sculpta, n. sp. 



2 . Length about 4 mm. ; slender ; head and thorax black, 

 abdomen shining rufopiceous ; tubercles margined with yellow ; 

 mandibles ferruginous, dark at extreme base, feebly bidentate at 

 apex ; labrum dark ; scape in front and flagellum beneath pale 

 yellowish-ferruginous ; knees, anterior tibiae, middle and hind tibiae 

 at base and apex, and all the tarsi, pale ferruginous ; wings hyaline, 

 very iridescent, nervures and stigma dark brown ; tegulae brown. 

 Clypeus and adjacent sides of face microscopically tessellate, with 

 large shallow punctures ; clypeus very long, separated from the 

 supraclypeal area by a slight depression, but no suture ; supraclypeal 

 area finely longitudinally striate ; a fine longitudinal keel between 

 antennge and reaching far up front ; ocelli large, middle ocellus 100 /x 

 diameter ; front very strongly punctured ; second antennal joint 

 oval, fourth and fifth very short ; flagellum stout, subclavate, the 

 penultimate joint 135 /x diameter ; mesothorax shining, strongly and 

 very regularly punctured ; abdomen beyond first segment finely 

 transversely lineolate ; metathorax microscopically reticulate. Claws 

 deeply bifid, pulvillus large ; anterior tarsi with hooked bristles ; 

 hair on under side of abdomen branched on one side. Stigma large, 

 only moderately deep, its depth 153 ; second submarginal and third 

 discoidal cells completely confluent ; upper section of basal nervure 

 102 ; lower section very strongly arched, falling 135 short of trans- 

 versomedial; marginal cell 714 long, pointed on costa; first sub- 

 marginal 460 ; second submarginal above 93, its lower side absent. 



Compared with H. delicata, this is considerably larger ; the 

 head is differently shaped, being broad above, with the eyes 

 strongly converging below ; the metathorax is much less elon- 

 gated, and is rounded in lateral profile (angular in delicata) ; the 

 abdomen is broadest about the base of the second segment, 

 whereas in delicata it is broadest about the middle of the third. 



ifrtft.— Mackay, Queensland, May, 1900 {Turner, 1087). 



Euryglossa perpusilla, Ckll., 1910. 

 Mr. Turner sends me several females of this species {Turner, 

 1085). The orange supraclypeal band is sometimes absent. 



