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The genus is distinguished, inter alia^ by the split fore- 

 wings and peculiar venation. Type. — The following species. 



Pantolytomyia ferruginea, n. sp. 



9 . Bright-reddish or chestnut-brown, the coxae con- 

 colorous ; petiole darker ; rest of legs and basal six antennal 

 joints bright golden-yellow, next six joints dusk3''-brown, the 

 apical three pale silver-yellow. Fore-udngs broad, subhyaline, 

 the venation rather pale. Pedicel one-half longer than wide, 

 subequal to third funicle joint, the first two-thirds longer, the 

 fifth slightly longer than wide; club joints (except the last) 

 somewhat wider than long. Length, 2*75 mm, 



(S . Antennae black, the apical three joints pale 

 yellowish ; pedicel no longer than wide ; first funicle joint as 

 long as the scape and more slender, the second two-thirds its 

 length; 2-11 gradually shortening, the eleventh nearly twice 

 as long as wide. 



Hab. — Queensland: Cairns district. Described from two 

 males, three females, caught by sweeping in jungle. The 

 colouration varies in intensity. 



Ty2)e. — I. 5100, South Australian Museum. Two females 

 on a tag, male and and female antennae and forewings on two 

 slides. 



Neobetyla, n. g. 



9 . Apterous. Head normal, globular, viewed from 

 above distinctly wider than long ; eyes rather small, not as 

 long as their distance from the occipital margin ; ocelli close 

 together ; antennal prominence conspicuous : mandibles not 

 large; maxillary palpi 5-jointed, labials 3-jointed. Antennae 

 15-jointed ; scape long and slender ; funicle joints all longer 

 than wide; club ill-defined, 7-jointed, the joints (except the 

 last) wider than long. Thorax narrowed, distinctly narrower 

 than the head ; over twice as long as greatest width ; pronotum 

 visible on the sides ; scutum distinctly longer than greatest 

 width, without parapsidal furrows, but with a depression 

 running all round, except on caudal margin, the central area 

 raised and gently convex ; scutellum rather small, with a deep 

 fovea at base; postscutellum^ short, emarginate; metanotum 

 covered with dense pubescence. Petiole somewhat longer than 

 wide, not pubescent but carinate, stout, its dorsal surface with 

 a distinct hump in centre ; body of abdomen stout, ovate, much 

 wider than thorax, convex above and beneath, without impres- 

 sions or carinae at base, the second segment occupying almost 

 all of surface : composed of four body segments. 



Distinguished, mter (ilia, by the absence of parapsidal 

 furrows. 



Type. — N . pulchi'icornis. 



