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Type. — I. 5419, South Australian Museum. A female 

 on a tag, antennae, forewings, and two tibiae and tarsi on a 

 slide. 



Family DRYINIDAE. 



Paradryinus speciosus, n. sp. 

 Q . Mesotliorax and metathorax black : head and pro- 

 thorax clear-ochreous, the former dusky in centre of f rons ; 

 neck of pronotum with a dusky-black patch on either side 

 of meson, also a large blackish oblique patch on either side 

 of meson of pronotum at about half its length ; abdomen 

 dark-brown ; becoming ochreous toward apex ; forelegs 

 testaceous, the femora, tibiae, and basal tarsal joint suffused 

 somewhat dusky : intermediate and posterior legs mostly 

 dusky-black, the posterior coxae less so, the tarsi brownish, 

 their first joint and second more or less, also base of their 

 tibiae white; edge of clypeus white: antennae dusky, joints 

 1, 2, 6, and 7 testaceous. Head with rather strong surface 

 rugosity. Pronotum subconcentrically rugose ; the scutum, 

 scutellum, and postscutellum more strongly longitudinally 

 rugose, and with scattered fine whitish pubescence ; parapsidal 

 furrows evident ; postscutellum more than half length of 

 scutellum ; the long anterior portion of metanotum strongly 

 rugose-carinate, the posterior portion irregularly rugose. 

 Abdomen smooth, impunctate. Forewings trifasciate, the 

 third band as long as the first and with its proximal margin 

 straight. Length, 5 mm. 



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

 August, 1915 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — I. 5420, South Australian Museum. A female 

 on a tag. 



Very similar to koebelei, Perkins, with which species it 

 may be identical, but Perkins says for that species : — "Pro- 

 podeum reticulately rugose : third band of wing with its 

 inner margin oblique." The colour of the mesothorax and 

 metathorax is very intense, and would hardly appear variable. 



Paradryinus aterrimus, n. sp. 



9 • Jet-black : tip of abdomen ferruginous ; scape 

 suffused reddish, also anterior tarsi, the chelar claw pallid- 

 yellow ; mandibles somewhat suffused reddish, also inter- 

 mediate femora centrally, anterior trochanters apically, and 

 anterior femora slightly. Head, viewed from above, trans- 

 verse ; viewed from in front, triangular, barely wider than 

 long; smooth, shining, with only scattered minute indefinite 

 punctures : vertex straight from eye to eye : a carina runs 

 from front ocellus to antennal depression ; occipital cavity 



