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Ijroad ; with an obscure blotch beneath marginal vein and a 

 smaller one a little further distad : marginal vein over twice 

 as long as width at base, the basal rather delicate. Pedicel a 

 little longer than wide, the funicle joints a little narrowerj 

 the first thrice as long as greatest width, the fifth a little 

 longer than wide, the sixth a little widened ; club 5-jointed 

 the first almost quadrate, 2-4 a little wider than long, the 

 last joint very small. Length, 3*20 mm. 



ILah. — Queensland: Cairns district. Described from two 

 females caught by sweeping in jungle, 1,200 ft., September 12, 

 1913, and April 5, 1915 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type . — I. 5137, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 :a tag, antennae and forewings on a slide. 



HOPLOPRIELLA SULCATICEPS, n. sp. 



9 . Black, the tegulae and legs reddish-yellow, the 

 femora and tibiae somewhat dusky; scape and pedicel almost 

 black, the next six joints bright-red, the club black. Vertex 

 of head with a shallow^ depression between ocelli and occipital 

 margin, with numerous oblique irregular narrow sulci, the 

 frons above the antennae with these sulci transverse : head, 

 scutum, and scutellum with a few rather small punctures ; 

 parapsidal furrows deep and complete, the median lobe with 

 a shallow depression on either side of meson cephalad, extend- 

 ing for nearly half its length, the" lateral lobes plainly 

 depressed; foveae at base of scutellum large, oval, the lateral 

 pair much longer, the sclerite also with a median carina 

 extending half its length from caudad ; metanotum with a 

 raised triangular scale at base. Petiole over twice as long as 

 wide, carinate ; body of abdomen over twice as long as wide, 

 the second segment occupying a little over two-thirds of surface. 

 Forewings long and broad ; beneath marginal vein with an 

 obscure blotch continued distad somewhat ; marginal vein 

 over thrice as long as width at base, the basal vein delicate. 

 Pedicel one-third longer than wide, the funicle joints scarcely 

 narrower, the first rather more than twice as long as greatest 

 width, the sixth a little wider than long ; club 5-jointed, joints 

 1-4 distinctly wider than long, the last joint twice as long as 

 preceding. Length, 3 "10 mm. 



Kah. — New South Wales: Sydney. Described from one 

 female labelled 'Rotting leaves. National Park, A. M. Lea." 



Type. — I. 5138, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a tag, the antennae and forewings on a slide. 



Propentaprta, n. g. 

 9 . Head normal ; dorsal aspect wider than long : smooth ; 

 -eyes large. Antennae inserted on a frontal prominence; 



