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first funicle joint as long and as wide as the pedicel, the 

 second as long as the first, the third distinctly shorter, the 

 fourth quadrate: club compact, 6-jointed, joints 1-5 trans- 

 verse, the first somewhat smaller than 2-5, which are about, 

 equal in length. Length, 1*75 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns district, 1,200 feet. One 

 female, jungle, July, 1915 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — I. 5425, South Australian Museum. A female 

 on a tag, antennae and forewings on a slide. 



Resembling maculattis, with which it agrees colouration- 

 ally, but of a more slender build, the abdominal segments 

 longer, and the third segment plainly not as long as 4-6 

 combined. 



Baryconus australicus, Dodd. 

 Leptoteleia austmlica, Dodd: ante, 1913, p. 145. 



Baryconus imperfectus, n. sp. 



9 • Black : abdomen dark-dull-brown ; coxae blacky 

 femora and tibiae fuscous, trochanters, knees, and tarsi pale- 

 yellow : antennae black, the funicle fuscous. Head no wider 

 than the thorax ; vertex moderately . broad ; frons broad, 

 without impressions ; with fine polygonal scaly sculpture ; eyes 

 large, bare; ocelli small, rather wide apart, the lateral ones 

 touching the eye margins. Thorax with fine polygonal scaly 

 sculpture: one-half longer than wide: scutum large, slightly 

 wider than long; parapsidal furrows delicate, failing 

 anteriorly ; post-scutellum and metanotum unarmed. Abdo- 

 men a little longer than head and thorax united, a little 

 wider than thorax; third segment the longest, occupying 

 one-third of surface, somewhat wider than long, as long as 

 first and second combined, and as long as the following 

 united ; first segment without a horn or tubercle, much wider 

 than long: first and second striate, the third feebly so, the 

 remainder with fine surface scaly sculpture. Forewings hardly 

 attaining apex of abdomen : moderately broad, the apex 

 rather broadly rounded : faintly infuscate ; discal cilia dense, 

 very fine ; submarginal vein attaining costa at fully one-half 

 wing length : marginal vein one-third as long as the long 

 stigmal, which is oblique, slightly convexly curved; post- 

 marginal over twice as long as the stigmal ; median and basal 

 veins indicated by obscure brown lines. Scape moderately 

 stout : pedicel twice as long as wide, the funicle joints a 

 little narrower, the first nearly twice as long as wide, second 

 a little longer than wide, third and fourth wider than long ; 

 club compact, 6-jointed, first joint small, 2-5 of nearly equal 

 length, 1-5 much wider than long. Length, L45 mm. 



