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vein distant from the costa and joining it at nearly half the 

 wing length ; marginal vein long ; stigmal moderately long, 

 its apex curved and pointed distad, one-third as long as the 

 marginal; basal vein distinct, the median indicated by a brown 

 line beyond junction of basal vein ; radial not indicated, the 

 recurrent indicated, directed towards junction of basal and 

 median veins. Hindwings with a costal vein; without a closed 

 basal cell. Scutum very convex from oephalad. Body of 

 abdomen composed of three segments only. 



The long petiole and semirugose scutellum will serve, 

 inter alia, to distinguish the genus. Running, in Kieffer's 

 table, 1910, near Pantolyta, Foerster. Type. — The following, 

 species. 



PSTLOMMELLA PETIOLATA, U. Sp . 



•9 . Black ; legs blood-red, the coxae and posterior 

 femora and tibiae washed with dusky ; first ten antennal joints 

 clear testaceous, the apical five dusky-black ; tegulae fulvous. 

 Forewings long and broad ; a little infuscate, with a darker 

 obscure blotch in centre just beyond marginal vein ; venation 

 fuscous. Head and scutum with numerous scattered punctures, 

 not large ; lateral lobes of scutum faintly depressed. Pedicel 

 quadrate ; the first funicle joint a little longer, one-third longer 

 than wide, 2-7 gradually shortening, the seventh a little wider 

 than long; club joints, except the last, wider than long. 



//«7;.—New^ South Wales : Upper Tweed River. Described 

 from one female causfht by sweeping in forest, 1,000 ft., May 

 17, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — I. 5096, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a tag, head, antennae, and wings on a slide. 



Meuselia, Kieffer. 

 A European genus previously containing but one species, 

 M . fuscicornis, Kieffer. The species described below may, on 

 account of the thickened scape, nonclavate antennae, and 

 shorter apical abdominal segment, form a new genus, but the 

 characters appear hardly sufficient for that purpose. 



Meuselia aureipes, n. sp. 

 9 . Dull black ; legs wholly golden-yellow, also antennal 

 scape and pedicel. Antennae 15-jointed ; scape thickened, as 

 long as next three joints combined ; pedicel one-half longer 

 than wide, the first funicle joint a little longer ; flagellum not 

 clavate, joints 2-12 subequal, wider than long. Mandibles 

 small. Maxillary palpi slender. Parapsidal furrows deep, 

 and complete ; the thorax convex dorsad ; scutellum with a 

 circular fovea at base ; metanotum tricarinate. Forewings 



