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most of surface. Fore wings ample ; venation terminating 

 about middle of wing ; marginal vein thickened, about twice 

 as long as wide, the stigmal very short ; no basal or median 

 veins. Antennae 13-jointed ; scape prolonged at apex and 

 covering base of pedicel ; club ill-defined, about 5-jointed. 

 For other characters see KiefiPer's diagnosis. 



Table of species. 



A. Abdomen with three grooves at base ; stigmal 



vein one-half longer than the marginal carinatus 



B. Abdomen with one groove at base; stigmal 



vein verj^ short. 



(1) Median lobe of scutum with two depres- 



sions cephalad, the lateral lobes 



with a deep fovea or depression ; 



vertex on either side of median 



impression, more or less roughened; 



petiole sharply excised on lateral 



margins. 

 (a) Scutellum Jongitudinally striate hackeri 

 (h) Scutellum not striate (jrondis 



(2) Median lobe of scutum without depres- 



sions cephalad, the latter lobes 



only feebly depressed ; vertex on 



either side of median impression at 



the most with a few punctures ; 



petiole feebly swollen on lateral 



margins. 

 (a) Vertex with a few large punc- 

 tures; legs and antcnnal funicle 

 red; carina running from above 

 eye, conspicuous; first funicle 

 joint distinctly shorter than 



pedicel ruhripes 



(h) Punctures on vertex small; legs 

 mostly black, tlie antennae 

 wholly so; carina running from 

 above eye, not conspicuous ; 

 first funicle joint not shorter 

 than pedicel dissimilis 



Neurogalesus carinatus, Kieffer. 

 The type and only previously described species is from 

 Australia, and its description appeared in the "Berlin Ent. 

 Zeitschr.,'' vol. li., p. 298 (1907). The original description 

 is not available in Northern Queensland, but from Kieffer's 

 generic diagnosis it is evident that carinatus differs from all 

 the species described in this paper, thus carinatus has three 

 longitudinal grooves at base of abdomen, and the stigmal vein 

 is a half longer than the marginal. Dissimilis does not possess 

 the carina running from above the eye to near the antennal 

 prominence present in the other three species, but in 

 (apparently) having the head less roughened, the absence of 

 the cephalic depressions on the median lobe of the scutum, 



