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ASHMEADOPRIA LAEVIVENTRIS, 11. Sp. 



9 . Abdomen pale dusky-brown ; colour otherwise as in 

 other three species. Forewings rather narrower than in other 

 three species; the marginal cilia long. Antennae without a 

 distinct club, the apical three or four joints somewhat widened : 

 funicle joints scarcely narrower than pedicel ; pedicel two- 

 thirds longer than wide; first funicle joint two-thirds longer 

 than wide, the penultimate two joints as wide as long, the 

 jDenultimate distinctly larger than preceding. Scutellum with 

 a shallow depression at base, the median carina not very 

 distinct. Petiole barely twice as long as wide, without distinct 

 pubescence ; body of abdomen pointed conic-ovate, the second 

 segment occupying a little less than two-thirds of surface. 

 Length, 1'65 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns district. Described from one 

 iemale caught by sweeping in jungle, 1,200 ft., April 3, 1915 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — I. 5161, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a tag, antennae and forewings on a slide. 



Galesus, Curtis. 

 A wide-world genus containing about eighty species. 



Galesus atricoxa, n. sp. 

 9 . Black, the coxae concolorous ; rest of legs golden- 

 yellow ; antennae wholly black. Head, viewed from above, 

 distinctly longer than wide ; smooth, except for scattered 

 punctures, but rugose anteriorly ; anterior margin truncate, 

 carinate ; also a carina continued from lateral angles of anterior 

 carina for nearly one-half length of head ; the eyes moderately 

 large and situated below this latter carina : ocelli situated far 

 cephalad ; below the eye a deep sulcus runs from posterior 

 margin right round, and separates the dorsal anterior carina 

 from the cornuted antenna! protuberance : mandibles large, 

 conspicuous, dentate, situated at extreme caudad of head, 

 almost perpendicular. Antennae 12- jointed : the scape greatly 

 excised at half-length of inner margin, its apex covering base 

 of pedicel, which is somewhat longer than wide; funicle joints 

 slightly shortening, the first one-third longer than wide, the 

 fifth slightly so; club 5-jointed, joints 1-4 subequal, some- 

 what wider than long, the fifth nearly twice as long as wide. 

 Forewings attaining apex of abdomen, broad; subhyaline ; the 

 apex with a median slit continued toward base of wing, so that 

 in normal position the wing is folded double ; without veins, 

 except for an indistinct submarginal. Thorax dorsad slightly 

 convex ; pronotum slightly visible from above, rather densely 

 punctate ; scutum smooth except for a few small scattered 



