432 



seventh much wider than long ; club abrupt, 3-jointed, joints 

 1 and 2 not much wider than long. Length, 1*95 mm. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Mittagong : Queensland: 

 Cairns district. Described from one female labelled 'Mitta- 

 gong, N.S.W., A. M. Lea," and one female caught by 

 sweeping in coastal jungle, Cairns district, February 20, 1914 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — I. 5146, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a tag, antennae and fore wings on a slide. 



LoxoTROPA, Foerster. 

 Another large genus, containing over sixty species from 

 tliroughout the world. The Australian species are probably 

 numerous. 



Table of species. 



(1) Apterous ; head and thorax bright ochreous, 



the abdomen black grandiceps 



Wings fully developed (2) 



(2) Abdomen slender, gradually narrowing and 



pointed at apex ... graciliventris 



Abdomen broadly j'ounded caudad (3) 



(3) Petiole of abdomen distinctly pubescent ... (4) 

 Petiole without distinct pubescence (5) 



(4) Body wholly black ; petiole a little longer 



than wide quadriceps 



Thorax and petiole chesibnut-red ; petiole 



twice as long as wide puhescens 



(5) Petiole over twice as long as wide, its dorsum 



somewhat convex hlcolor 



Petiole a third longer than wide, its dorsum 



quite straight fuscinotum 



LoXOTROPA GRANDICEPS, n. Sp. 



9 • Bright-ochreous ; abdomen and antennal club black ; 

 rest of antennae and the legs golden-yellow. Head, viewed 

 from above, somewhat longer than wide, the eyes much smaller 

 than their distance from the occipital margin, the ocelli small 

 and situated far cephalad. Thorax slender, a little narrower 

 than the head ; pronotum distinctly visible on the sides ; 

 scutum not convex ; scutellum with one fovea at base ; meta- 

 notum without an erect scale at base. Petiole about as wide 

 as the metanotum, a little longer than wide, somicwhat 

 pubescent ; body of abdomen without impressions at base, 

 distinctly wider than the thorax, not long, the second segment 

 occupying almost all of surface. Antennae 12-jointed : pedicel 

 two-thirds longer than wide, the funicle joints plainly 

 narrower, the first a little longer than wide, the rest wider than 

 long; club abrupt, 3-jointed, the first a little longer than 

 second, both somewhat wider than long. Apterous. Length, 

 1"35 mm. 



