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Typt. — I. 5093, South Australian Museuin. A female 

 on a tag, antennae and forewings on a slide. 



Pantolytoidea castaneicorpus, n. sp. 



9 . Chestnut or golden-brown, the metanotum and 

 petiole darker, the head and sides of thorax nearly black ; legs 

 golden-yellow, also basal eight antenna! joints, the next six 

 joints fuscous, the apical joint pale yellow. Abdomen some- 

 what wider than the thorax, slightly over twice as long as wide. 

 Forewings as in splendida and rufinofum. Pedicel nearly twice 

 as long as wide, the first funicle joint a little narrower, two 

 and a half times as long as wide ; 2-5 shortening, the fifth as 

 wide as long; club 8-jointed, the joints all wider than long, 

 except the last. Length, 3*15 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland : Childers. Described from one female 

 caught by sweeping in forest,^ July 2, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — I. 5094, South Australian Museum. A female 

 on a tag, antennae and forewings on a slide. 



Pantolytoidea nigricans, n. sp. 



9. Black; pronotum, parapsidal furrows, posterior 

 margins of median lobe of scutum, margins of scutellum, and 

 first eight antenna! joints red ; the legs rather paler. Structure 

 as in casfaneicorpus. 



Hah. — New South Waies : Upper Tweed River. Described 

 from one female caught by sweeping in open forest, 1,000 ft., 

 May 17, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — I. 5095, South Australian Museum. A female 

 on a tag, antennae, head' and forewings on a slide. 



PSILOMMELLA, n. g. 



9 . Head normal, globular, the antenna! prominence 

 conspicuous ; eyes rather large ; ocelli rather large, close 

 together ; maxillary palpi long, 5-jointed, the labials 3-jointed ; 

 mandibles small. Antennae 15-jointed ; scape long and 

 slender; pedicel and funicle joints not long ; the club 6-jointed. 

 Thorax stout; pronotum not visible from above; parapsidal 

 furrows complete and distinct ; scutellum with a deep depres- 

 sion at base, caudad and laterad of this irregularly rugose- 

 sulcate ; postscutellum short, its caudo-lateral angles semi- 

 acute ; metanotum with a median carina. Petiole very long, 

 about six times as long as wide, viewed from the side distinctly 

 convex dorsad ; carinate. Body of abdomen ovate, pointed at 

 apex; no longer than petiole, and one:half longer than greatest 

 width ; fiat above, convex beneath, the second segment 

 occupying most of surface. Forewings ample; submarginal 



