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pedicel one-third longer than wide ; first funicle joint narrower 

 than pedicel, one-third longer than wide ; 2-6 wider than long, 

 the sixth very transverse ; club very abrupt, 3-jointed, the 

 joints wider than long, the first longer than the second. 

 Length, 1*70 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland : Mount Tambourine. Described from 

 one female labelled ''Rotting leaves, A. M. Lea." 



Type. — I. 5142, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a tag, the antennae on a slide. 



Cardiopria, n. g. 



9 . Head, viewed from above, distinctly wider than long ; 

 smooth ; eyes moderately large ; mandibles small ; antennal 

 prominence distinct. Thorax convex above ; scutum and 

 scutellum smooth, shining ; parapsidal furrows wanting ; 

 scutellum with a very large circular fovea at base, without a 

 median carina; metanotum with a raised median tooth at base. 

 Petiole stout, one-half longer than wide. Body of abdomen 

 raised from the petiole ; the venter produced cephalad at base, 

 as in the Belytid genera, Acanosema, Kieffer, and Cardiopsilusy 

 KiefFer ; viewed from above, somewhat longer than the head, 

 thorax, and petiole united, produced into a long, narrow 

 point, the second segment thus occupying scarcely one-half of 

 surface. Forewings ample; venation as in Diapria, the vena- 

 tion terminating at about one-third wing length in a triangular 

 marginal vein. Antennae 12-jointed, without a well-defined 

 club, the last four or five joints slightly thickened. Type . — The 

 following species. 



Cardiopria ventralis, n. sp. 



9 . Shining-black ; legs blood-red, the coxae dusky-black, 

 also the femora and apical third of tibiae ; antennal scape and 

 apical five joints black, others dark-red. Head and thorax 

 with a few scattered long setae ; abdomen smooth, shining. 

 Forewings long and broad : subhyaline, with an elongate 

 fuscous blotch beneath marginal vein and continued distad. 

 Scape long and slender ; pedicel twice as long as wide, the first 

 funicle joint slightly narrower and about as long, the remain- 

 ing joints scarcely decreasing in length ; club joints distinctly 

 longer than wide. Length, 3*30 mm. 



Rah. — Victoria: Ballarat district. 



Type. — In the National Museum, Melbourne. A female 

 on a tag, antennae and forewings on a slide. 



Neopria, n. g. 

 9 . Head, viewed from above, distinctly wider than 

 long ; smooth : except for long setae scattered over its surface ; 



