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Neobetyla pulChricornis, n. sp, 

 9, Dark-brownish black, somewhat suffused with dark 

 red, the coxae concolorous, the femora and tibiae more or less 

 dusky, the tarsi testaceous; antennae red, the first three club 

 joints dusky, the last four joints honey-yellow. Whole body 

 with scattered long setae. Pedicel one-half longer than wide; 

 the first funicle joint a little longer and narrower, over twice 

 as long as wide; the others shortening, the sixth quadrate; 

 club joints (except the last) transverse. Length, 2*65 mm. 



Zr«6.— Queensland: Cairns district. Described from two 

 females caught by sweeping in jungle. 



Type.—l. 5101, South Australian Museum. A female oel- 

 a tag, head and antennae on a slide. 



Neobetyla aurea, n. sp. 



9 - Very similar to the genotype, but the body wholly 

 bright golden-yellow, apical two antennal joints still paler ; 

 depression of scutum shallow, the raised central portion not 

 distinct. Length, 2'70 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland : Cairns district. Described from two 

 females caught by sweeping in coastal jungle, October 18, 1914 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — I. 5102, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a tag, the antennae on a slide. 



Family DIAPRIIDAE. 



Numerous as are the species herewith listed, this paper 

 must be considered merely as a preliminary index to the Aus- 

 tralian forms. The rich jungles or scrubs of North-eastern 

 Queensland, yielding the dampness and humidity to which the 

 family is so addicted, must eventually produce many 

 times the species already obtained from their precincts. The 

 majority of the species described herein are from the jungles 

 of the Cairns district, at elevations up to 2,500 ft., the only 

 locality where extensive collections have been made. The 

 remainder, mostly collected by Mr. A. M. Lea, of the South 

 Australian Museum, and loaned by that institution, are from, 

 various localities in Eastern Australia and Tasmania; not one 

 has been obtained from other parts of the continent. Males, 

 as in the Belytidae, haA^e been left almost entirely alone; 

 possibly, at some futiire period, an attempt will be made to 

 make known the members of that sex. Meanwhile the state- 

 ment can be made that, on the whole, where the female has 

 12-jointed antennae those of the male are 14-jointed, and 

 where 13 joints are present in the female the male has the 

 same number; also it is probable that in those genera where 



