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Hah. — Queensland: Yungaburra, 2,500 ft. Described 

 from one female caught by sweeping in jungle, May 10, 1915 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — I. 5172, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a tag, antennae and forewings on a slide. 



This species falls nearest to rufinotum, Dodd, but that 

 species differs, inter alia, in having the third abdominal 

 segment smooth, the scutum and scutellum without the fine 

 punctures, with the fine scaly sculpture only. 



ScELio AUSTRALis, Froggatt. 

 The range of this common species, formerly recorded from 

 various districts in Eastern Queensland and New South Wales, 

 must be further extended, since a female has been forwarded 

 by Mr. G. F. Hill, labelled ^'Darwin, N.T., G. F. Hill." 



MiCROTELEIA PULCHRICQRPUS, n. Sp. 



9 . Head, thorax, and first abdominal segment bright 

 orange-yellow, the legs golden-yellow; abdomen shining black; 

 antennae varicolored, scape dusky-yellow, the next two joints 

 black, the four following pale yellowish-white, the apical five 

 black. Head a little wider than the thorax, the vertex very 

 narrow ; viewed from in front, wider than long ; smooth, 

 except for scattered minute punctures ; eyes occupying whole 

 side of face, bare; ocelli in a slightly curved line, the lateral 

 pair slighly nearer the eye margins than to the median ocellus. 

 Scutum and scutellum smooth, without sculpture ; parapsidal 

 furrows parallel, very wide apart, delicate, but complete ; 

 scutellum much wider than long. Abdomen oval, no longer 

 than head and thorax united, narrowed at base; the first seg- 

 ment transverse, third the largest, occupying about one-third 

 of surface ; the first striate, second more feebly so and smooth 

 laterad, third with irregular impressed lines forming fine 

 impressed reticulation, fourth with the fine reticulation with 

 no longitudinal tendency, the rest practically smooth. Fore- 

 wings just reaching apex of abdomen ; moderately broad ; 

 marginal cilia rather short ; discal cilia fine, not dense ; with a 

 dark band across wing at apex of submarginal and most of 

 marginal vein, and a broader band from before apex of stigmal 

 vein almost to wing apex, these two bands black and joined in 

 centre of wing ; submarginal vein attaining costa at slightly 

 before middle of wing, the marginal somewhat longer than the 

 stigmal, which is oblique, rather short ; postmarginal over 

 twice as long as stigmal. Pedicel over twice as long as wide', 

 the first funicle joint two-thirds longer than wide, the second 

 a little longer than wide, the next three wider than long ; no 

 distinct club, but the sixth funicle joint abruptly longer than 



