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shortest, the fifth pointed at apex, as long as the two preceding 

 united. Fore wings ample ; marginal vein linear, about thrice 

 as long as wide, the stigmal not half its length, short, and 

 oblique; basal, median, and recurrent veins scarcely indicated. 

 Hindwings without a basal cell. Antennae 15- jointed, with 

 a club of seven or eight joints. 



Differs from Pantolyta, Foerster, in having one less 

 abdominal segment, and in the less complete venation. 



Type. — P. splendida. 



Pantolytoidea splendida, n. sp. 



9 - Bright-reddish or chestnut-brown, the metanotum 

 sides of thorax, and petiole darker; first five club joints black 

 the apical three pale golden-yellow ; eyes and ocelli black 

 abdomen wholly concolorous or margined with blackish 

 Petiole with its meson tricarinate-s Forewings long and broad 

 infuscate, this deepest beneath venation and in centre of wing, 

 with a white strip in lieu of a median vein, and another con- 

 tinued through meson of wing ; venation blackish. Scape long 

 and slender ; pedicel one-half longer than wide, the first funicle 

 joint much longer, nearly thrice as long as wide ; 2-5 shorten- 

 ing, the fifth one-half longer than wide ; first club joint as 

 long as wide, 2-7 all wider than long, the club 8-jointed. 

 Abdomen barely twice as long as wide. Length, 3'60 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Yungaburra, 2,500 ft. Described 

 from two females caught by sweeping in jungle. May 10, 1915 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — I. 5092, South Australian Museum. A female 

 on a tag, antennae and forewings on a slide. 



Pantolytoidea rufinotum, n. sp. 



9 . Black ; thorax dorsad brilliant chestnut or reddish- 

 brown, the metanotum black, also a large blotch involving most 

 of each parapside, and another at cephalic third of median 

 lobe ; legs wholly golden-yellow ; scape reddish-yellow, the 

 pedicel and funicle joints deep-red, the club black. Abdomen 

 not plainly wider than the thorax, two and a half times as 

 long as wide. Forewings as in splendida, the marginal vein 

 a little longer. Pedicel two-thirds longer than wide, the 

 funicle joints narrower, the first two and a half times as long 

 as wide; 2-6 shortening, the sixth as wide as long; club 

 7-jointed, joints 1-6 distinctly wider than long. Length, 

 2*55 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Yungaburra, 2,500 ft. Described 

 from one female caught by sweeping in jungle. May 8, 1915 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



