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long and broad ; a little infuscate : marginal vein long, several 

 times longer than wide ; radial cell closed, triangular, as long 

 as the marginal vein ; recurrent vein indistinct, directed 

 towards junction of median and basal veins; discoidal only 

 faintly indicated. Femora somewhat thickened, especially the 

 hind pair. Abdomen composed of seven segments; petiole 

 not twice as long as wide, carinate; body of abdomen ovoid, 

 barely more than twice as long as greatest width, gently convex 

 above and below ; segment^ after the second slightly more than 

 half as long as that segment ; 3-5 very short, 6 longer, 7 still 

 short, but as long as two preceding segment-s united. Length, 

 2-05 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Bundaberg. Described from one 

 female caught by sweeping in forest, June 26, 1914 (A. P. 

 Dodd). 



Type. — I. 5097, South Australian Museum. A female on 

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



AcLiSTA, Foerster. 



A world-wide genus of over 70 species ; Kieffer has 

 described one species from Australia. The two species 

 described herewith are placed here provisionally, since, being 

 apterous, their position is quite uncertain. 



AcLiSTA AUSTRALiENSis, Kieffer. 

 Berlin Ent. Zeitschr., vol. li., 1907, p. 264. * Australia. 



ACLISTA LEAI, n. Sp. 



9 . Bright chestnut-brown, the petiole and sides of 

 thorax somewhat darker, the apical half of second abdominal 

 segment black ; eyes and ocelli black ; legs clear testaceous, also 

 the antennae. Apterous. Eyes small ; ocelli minute. Scutum 

 with deep complete parapsidal furrows and numerous scattered 

 pin-punctures ; scutellum with a deep fovea at base, smooth ; 

 median carina of metanotum distinct. Abdomen composed of 

 eight segments ; petiole stout, a little longer than wide, some- 

 what swollen laterally, with a median carina only, its surface 

 somewhat roughened and with stiff black and finer white setae ; 

 body of abdomen stout, distinctly Avider than the thorax, 

 ovate, about twice as long as greatest width, with several 

 depressions and striae at its base, the second segment occupying 

 two-thirds of surface : 3-6 very short, the last two a little 

 longer. Antennae 15-jointed; scape as long as next five joints 

 combined; pedicel one-half longer than wide; first funicle joint 

 longer, twice as long as wide, the second quadrate ; 3-12 wider 

 than long, the apical seven or eight joints slightly' widened. 

 Mandibles bidentate. Length, 3*15 mm. 



