498 MR. E. E. TURNER ON [May 12, 



and steeply sloped posteriorly, the sides finely and not very 

 closely punctured ; a smooth, shining, triangular area at the base, 

 produced at the apex of the triangle into a narrow shining median 

 line on the posterior slope. Abdomen ovate, closely and finely 

 punctured, the second segment the broadest and half as long 

 again as the third ; the first segment steeply sloped anteriorly, 

 not truncate, about half as long as the second; the apical 

 segment small and pointed, with a fine longitudinal carina. 



Black ; the base of the mandibles, the clypeus, the scape of the 

 antennte, pronotum, a spot on the mesopleurae near the base of 

 the antei'ior wings, the base of the tegulae, the tibise above, and an 

 obscure spot on each side near the apical angles of the second 

 abdominal segment, pale yellow ; the flagellum, the tibia? beneath, 

 the tarsi, and the abdomen ferruginous. Wings hyaline, iridescent ;. 

 nervures ferruginous at the base and on the costa, black at the apex. 



The first recurrent nervure is received near the apex of the 

 first cubital cell, the second at the apex of the second cubital cell, 

 almost interstitial with the second transverse cubital nervure. 

 The second cubital cell is of about the same length as the third 

 on the cubital nervure, less than half as long on the radial as on 

 the cubital nervure. The cubital nervure on the hind wing 

 originates far beyond the apex of the submedian cell. 



Length 7 mm., exp. 12 mm. 



Hah. Mackay, Queensland {Turner) ; March. 



This is nearer to Miscothyris than to any other section of 

 Gorytes, but difliei'S much fi-om thoracicus Sm., the antennae being 

 shorter, the second joint of the flagellum not unusually elongate ; 

 the eyes much more sti^ongly divergent ; the first abdominal 

 segment narrower and not truncate, the second segment much 

 larger and the apical segment pointed, not bi'oadly subtruncate as 

 in thoracicus. Smith describes thoracicus as a male, but the type, 

 the only specimen I have seen, is a female and has the antennae 

 twelve-jointed, not thirteen- jointed as in Smith's figure. 



Gorytes lucidulus, sp. n. (Plate XXYI. fig. 11.) 



5 . Clypeus very broad, truncate anteriorly, finely and closely 

 punctured. Antennae inserted above the base of the clyjieus, 

 nearer to the eyes than to each other, about as long as the thorax ;, 

 the scape as long as the fii'st two joints of the flagellum combined, 

 the second joint of the flagellum much longer than the third- 

 Eyes diverging towards the clypeus and towards the vertex ; the 

 posterior ocelli further from each other than from the anterior 

 ocellus and twice as far from each other as from the eyes. Head 

 shining, almost smooth, with a delicate sulcus from between the 

 antennae to the anterior ocellus. Pronotum almost vertically 

 depressed, the posterior margin nearly on a level with the meso- 

 notum. Mesonotum half as broad again as long, finely and 

 closely punctured ; scutellum short and transverse. Median 

 segment very short, steeply sloped, with a deep median sulcus 

 posteriorly, shining with a smooth triangular space at the base, 



