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rounded posteriorly, with a median carina lying in a sliallow 

 depression reaching from the base almost to the apex, with very 

 short oblique stride at the base, shining at the apex, the inter- 

 mediate space opaque. Abdomen elongate-ovate, minutely and 

 rather sparsely punctured, the apical margin of the_ segments 

 narrowly depressed, the pygidial area triangular with sparse 

 pubescence. 



Black; the mandibles, antennae, tegulse, and legs pale ferru- 

 ginous brown. Wings hyaline, iridescent ; nervures fuscous. 



Length 6 mm. 



Hob. Mackay, Queensland {Turner) ; January. 



ZOYPHIUM FRONTALE, Sp. U. 



5 . Clypeus very broad, truncate at the apex ; the antennae 

 inserted at the base of the clypeus, twice as far from each other 

 as from the eyes, thickened to the apex and no longer than the 

 head. Eyes very slightly convergent towards the vertex ; the 

 posterior ocelli more than twice as far from each other as from 

 the eyes. Front very broad, slightly concave at the sides, a little 

 elevated in the middle. Head, thorax, and abdomen very minutely 

 punctured, the abdomen shining. Pronotum short, narrower 

 than the head, and depressed below the mesonotum. Mesonotum 

 large, as broad as long and as broad as the head. Median segment 

 rounded at the sides, abruptly truncate posteriorly, much shorter 

 than the mesonotum, delicately obliquely striated, with a median 

 carina from the base situated in a dejDressed sulcus. Abdomen 

 subconical, the second segment a little bi'oader than the first. 



Black ; the clypeus, the front and the scape of the antennae 

 yellow ; the mandibles, flagellum, tegixla?, and legs ferruginous ; 

 the apex of the scutellum and the postscutellum fusco-ferruginous. 

 Wings hyaline, iridescent ; nervures fusco-ferruginous. 



There are only two cubital cells, the second transverse cubital 

 nei-vure being obsolete ; the second cubital cell neai^ly twice as 

 long on the cubital as on the radial nei-vure, the length on the 

 radial about equal to the length of the first transverse cubital 

 nervure. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hah. Mackay, Queensland [Turner) ; March. 



GORYTES DUBOULAYI, Sp. n, 



5 . Clypeus short and broad, closely and minutely punctured. 

 Head very minutely punctured, the front almost smooth, concave, 

 with a longitudinal sulcus from the anterior ocellus to the base of 

 the clypeus. Eyes very large, diverging towards the clypeus and 

 the vertex ; the posterior ocelli twice as far fi-om each other as 

 from the eyes. Antennae inserted further from each other than 

 from the eyes, thickened to the apex ; the second joint of the 

 flagellum half as long again as the third. Pronotum linear, 

 transverse, nearly as broad as the head. Thorax very minutely 

 and shallowly punctured ; the mesonotum half as broad again as 



