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Hab. — Queensland: Cairns district, 1,800 feet. One 

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



Type. — I. 5426, South Australian Museum. A female 

 on a tag, antennae and forewings on a slide. 



AUSTROSCELIO LATUS, 11. Sp. 



9 . Black ; the coxae concolorous, the femora fuscous 

 except at apex, the trochanters, tibiae, and tarsi golden- 

 yellow ; antennae wholly black. Head large, very transverse, 

 distinctly wider than the thorax ; from in front distinctly 

 wider than long ; with rather shallow open raised reticulation, 

 the lower half or more of face rather shallowly depressed and 

 transversely striate; eyes large, pubescent; ocelli rather small, 

 very wide apart, the lateral pair touching the eye margins. 

 Thorax about as wide as long ; scutum and scutellum rather 

 finely longitudinally rugulose ; scutellum semicircular, rounded 

 posteriorly ; postscutellum transverse, unarmed, rather pro- 

 minent, projecting over the very short metanotum. Abdomen 

 broadly sessile, as wide as long ; second segment occupying 

 fully one-half of surface ; broadly rounded posteriorly and 

 almost truncate ; first segment longitudinally rugulose, the 

 second polygonally reticulate, raised, dense mesally, open 

 laterally, the remaining segments with shallow open reticula- 

 tion. Forewings attaining apex of abdomen ; broad, the apex 

 broadly rounded; subhyaline ; discal cilia dense, rather fine; 

 venation fuscous ; marginal vein short, one-half as long as 

 the stigmal, which is short, straight, and rather oblique, the 

 post-marginal wanting. Antennae short; scape rather long 

 and slender ; pedicel two-thirds longer than wide, the funicle 

 joints somewhat narrower, the first a little longer than wide, 

 2-4 wider than long; club compact, 6-jointed, joints 1-5 

 much wider than long, the first small, the second the longest. 

 Length, 1*10 mm. 



Hab. — Queensland: Cairns district, 1,800 feet. One 

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



Type. — I. 5427, South Australian Museum. A female 

 on a tag, the antennae and forewings on a slide. 



Differing from the generic diagnosis in having the 

 antenna! depression not very profound, the scutellum semi- 

 circular and rounded posteriorly, and the shorter, broad 

 abdomen. 



Xenomerus laticeps, n. sp. 



9 . Black ; legs golden-yellow, the coxae reddish ; 

 antennae wholly black. Head very transverse, somewhat 

 wider than thorax ; vertex very thin ; viewed from in front 

 distinctly wider than long: eyes moderately large, bare; 



