411 



Running in Kieffer's table to IJejayi'to, Kieffer, or BotJiri- 

 opria, Kieffer. Type, the following species. 



POLYPRIA NIGRIVENTRIS, n. Sp. 



9 . Black ; legs and tegulae golden-yellow, the femora 

 and tibiae somewhat dusky; prothorax and mesothorax dark 

 deep-red ; antennae black, the last joint pale-yellow, the pre- 

 ceding washed with yellow. Forewings long and broad; a 

 little infuscate, with an obscure blotch beginning beyond basal 

 vein, this area with a white curved longitudinal streak. 

 Pedicel a little shorter than first funicle joint, which is twice 

 as long as wide, the others shortening, the sixth a little longer 

 than wide; club joints 1-4 wider than long, the fifth small, 

 narrower, and no longer than preceding. Length, 2*70 mm. 



(S . Antennae black, the last joint pale-yellow ; first 

 funicle joint fully twice as long as pedicel ; 3-10 shortening, 

 the tenth over twice as long as wide. 



//«6.— Queensland : Cairns district. Described from 

 several specimens of either sex : a com.mon species in and 

 around jungle. 



Type. — I. 5119, South Australian Museum. A male and 

 female on two tags; female head and antennae, male antennae, 

 and forewings on a slide. 



Neurogalesus, Kieffer. 



9 • Head quadrate, viewed from above, the vertex very 

 much roughened, its surface with obtuse irregular carinae and 

 large shallow punctures (in (Ussimih'K distinctly less roughened 

 and the punctures smaller) ; with a depression in centre against 

 occipital margin, running toward ocelli ; antennal prominence 

 very large and conspicuous, when viewed from above projecting 

 conspicuously beyond the frons and not much wider than long : 

 face straight from antennal prominence to caudal margin 

 (ventrad), the mandibles thus projecting backwards; eyes 

 large, bare. Scutum with deep complete parapsidal furrows, 

 the lateral lobes feebly or deeply depressed, the median lobe 

 somotimes with a depression on either side cephalad and one 

 caudad, these sometimes absent ; scutellum with two large 

 foveae at base, and one along either side : metanotum with a 

 raised scale at base, its posterior margin rather deeply exca- 

 vated. Petiole stout, scarcely wider than long, its lateral 

 margins with a sharp excision or only feebly swollen, covered 

 with long pubescence, or this only present on its sides, the 

 dorsum then showing carinae. Body of abdomen not raised 

 from petiole, its dorsal surface flat, its cephalic margin incised, 

 with a long deep median groove or impression at base, scarcely 

 wider across centre than at base, the second segment occupying 



