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scutum with two short grooves at caudal margin, wide apart, 

 the thorax somewhat wider than long. Abdomen a little 

 narrower than thorax, somewhat wider than long, the first 

 segment short, striate, the second occupying fully one-half of 

 length, with dense longitudinal scaly reticulation, the 

 remainder with fine pin-punctures. Forewings extending a 

 little beyond apex of abdomen ; rather broad ; hyaline ; discal 

 cilia fine and dense ; venation pale-yellow ; the stigmal vein 

 very long, the marginal not one-half as long, the postmarginal 

 over twice as long as stigmal. Scape slender; pedicel fully 

 twice as long as wide, the funicle joints slightly narrower, the 

 first barely twice as long as wide, the second quadrate, the 

 third transverse; club 6-jointed, the first joint small, the 

 second the longest, but wider than long. Length, I'OO mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns district. Described from two 

 females caught by sw^eeping forest growth, mountain side, 

 2,000 ft.. May 8, 1915 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — I. ^\11 , South Australian Museum. Two females 

 on a tag, forewings and antennae on a slide. 



EuMiCRosoMA, Gahan. 



Proc. U.S. National Museum, vol. xlvi., 1913, p. 442, pi. 

 xxxix., fig. 1. 



Baeoneura (Foerster), Dodd, Trans. Rov. See, S.A., 1913, 

 p. 176. 



BaeoneureUa, Dodd, I.e., 1914, p. 124. 



Eumicrosovia antedates BaeontureUa by several months. 

 BaeoneureUa has all along been wrongly described, on account 

 of its indistinct venation. Gahan's description of E . henefica, 

 the type species, and the accompanying figure, show its very 

 close relationship with the Australian species. 



Family CERAPHRONIDAE. 



Lygocerus unilineatus, n. sp. 



9 . Shining black, the scutum and scutellum rich 

 reddish-brown, Math a rather broad, black, median stripe, 

 running from cephalic margin of scutum to apex of scutellum ; 

 legs golden-yellow, the posterior coxae black for basal half ; 

 antennae black, the scape yellow, the next few joints fuscous. 

 Head distinctly wider than the thorax, the vertex not thin ; 

 vertex and upper half of face with setigerous pin-punctures, 

 the lower half scaly ; eyes occupying whole side of face, hairy ; 

 occiput coarsely scaly ; a foveate groove runs from median 

 ocellus to posterior margin of occiput. Scutum and scutellum 

 with fine, dense, scaly sculpture ; parapsidal and median fur- 

 rows of scutum deep and distinct, the former foveate, the 

 latter simple ; grooves between scutellum and axillae foveate ; 



