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slender, almost thrice as long as wide, with several carinas 

 dorsad ; body of abdomen without impressions at base, widening 

 toward apex of second segment, where it is almost truncate, 

 viewed from the side abruptly declivous at apex of this 

 segment. Forewings ample, broad; subhyaline; venation 

 terminating somewhat before half wing-length ; marginal vein 

 linear, rather long; tlie stignial Icng, over one-half length of 

 marginal ; basal thick and distinct, the median indistinct. 

 Antennae slender, 13-jointed ; without a distinct club, the 

 last five or six joints gently incrassate ; pedicel twice as long 

 as wide ; the first funicle joint narrower and longer, five or six 

 times as long as wide ; 2-10 shortening, the tenth a little longer 

 than wide. Length, 155 mm. 



I/ab. — Tasmania: Mount Wellington (A. M. Lea). 



Type. — I. 5106, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a tag, antennae and forewings on a slide. 



Spilomicrus, Westwood. 

 A genus containing over fifty species from all over the 

 world. The Australian species are not numerous. 



Spilomicrus gracilis, n. sp. 



9 . Dull-black ; legs, petiole of abdomen, and antennal 

 scape golden-yellow ; metathorax reddish, the antennae 

 fuscous. Head, dorsal aspect, distinctly wider than long; 

 scutum and scutellum smooth, shining; parapsidal furrows 

 deep and distinct ; scutellum with one large fovea at base ; 

 metanotum with an elevated median carina. Petiole of 

 abdomen very slender, four times as long as wide ; body of 

 abdomen gently convex above and beneath ; viewed from above, 

 conic-ovate, about as long and as wide as the thorax, the 

 second segment occupying most of surface, without impressions 

 at base. Forewings reaching beyond apex of abdomen ; broad ; 

 hyaline ; marginal cilia long ; venation terminating a little 

 before middle of wing ; marginal vein short, not as long as the 

 perpendicular stigmal ; basal vein distinct, the median less so. 

 Antennae 13-jointed; scape slender; pedicel over twice as long 

 as wide; funicle joints very slender, much narrower than 

 pedicel, first about five times as long as wide, 2-5 shortening, 

 but much longer than wide, next six joints forming a slender 

 club, of which joints 1 and 2 are a little longer than wide, 3-5 

 quadrate. Length, 1*40 mm. 



Hah. — New South Wales : Tweed River. Described from 

 one female caught by sweeping miscellaneous vegetation along 

 a roadside, May 11, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Ti/pe. — I. 5107, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a tag, antennae and forewings on a slide. 



