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

 first twice as long as wide, the others gradually shortening, 

 the seventh as long as wide ; club abrupt, 3- jointed, first joint 

 as long as wide, the second a little wider than long, the third 

 twice as long as preceding. Length, 1*50 mm. 



Hab. — New South Wales: Brookly-n. One female, 

 labelled "Sweeping grass, etc., November 18, 1914, A. A. 

 Girault." 



Type. — I. 5411, South Australian Museum. A female 

 on a tag, antennae and forewings on a slide. 



Bothriopria, Kieffer. 



Synonym, Polypria. Dodd: Ante, 1915, p. 410. 



The finding of the species connectens reduces the genus 

 Polyuria to synonymy with Bothriopria, and the type species, 

 nigriventris, Dodd, must be considered as merely a diverse 

 form of the latter genus. 



Bothriopria connectens, n. sp. 



O . Like nigriventris, but the legs wholly golden- 

 yellow; thorax brighter reddish, the metathorax and venter 

 black; penultimate antenna! joint not yellowish: vertex of 

 head smooth except for a very few rather large punctures far 

 laterad ; medium lobe of scutum without depressions, the 

 lateral lobes plainly depressed ; foveae of scutellum less large : 

 pedicel a little longer and wider than first funicle joint; 

 blotch beneath marginal vein very indistinct. Length, 2 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland : Cairns district. One female, jungle, 

 August, 1915 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — I. 5412, South Australian Museum. A female 

 on a tag, antenna and forewings on a slide. 



Bothriopria nigerrima, n. sp. 



9 . Black : antennae wholly concolorous ; legs concolor- 

 ous, the base and apex of trochanters, apex of tibiae, most 

 of anterior tibiae, and anterior tarsi, ferruginous, the other 

 tarsi suffused reddish. Head normal ; smooth, with a very 

 few scattered setae. Scutum without depressions, the parap- 

 sidal furrows distinct and complete, with several small 

 setigerous punctures on either side; scutellum with two large 

 oval foveae at base, situated rather obliquely to each other, 

 the lateral foveae narrow and obscure, the posterior margin 

 foveate ; metanotum rugose, with a plain median carina, the 

 posterior margin concave. Petiole one-third longer than wide, 

 with several strong carinae dorsad : body of abdomen no 

 longer than thorax, rounded posteriorly, the second segment 



