BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 123 



75. Epidosis gibberosa, sp.n. 



9. — Length of atitenniu 0'040 inch ... 1 -01 millimetres. 



Exi)an.se of wings 0-080 x 0030 ... 202x0-76 



Size of body 0.070x0015... 1-77x0-38 



Antenme light reddish-brown, 2-+ 11-jointed, half the length of 

 the wings ; first basal point almost pyriform, twice as long as the 

 second, the latter globose ; flagellar joints almost fusiform, with a 

 clavate pedicel at the apical end ; joints three tinies as long as the 

 pedicels ; verticels sparse, moderately long. Thorax considerably 

 gibbo.se; light umber-brown, nitidous, with yellowish hairs; 

 pleurse dull ochraceous-brown ; scutellum paler umber than the 

 thorax, prominent, rounded-ol>long. Poisers ochraceous-ln'own. 

 Abdomen umber brown, with yellowish hairs ; ovipositor ap- 

 parently short, no visible lamelhe. Legs moderately long, robust, 

 umber Vjrown, thickly haired; tip uf the fourth and remaining 

 joints of the tarsi white ; third tarsal joint very little longer than 

 the fourth. Wings pellucid, with a very pale brownish tint, 

 anterior margin with a dense moderately long uniform fringe 

 from the base to the end of the second longitudinal vein. First 

 longitudinal vein rather close to the costa ; second longitudinal 

 vein a little sinuose before the transverse vein, reaching the margin 

 immediately beyond the apex ; cros.s-vein distinctly visil)le from 

 the root of the first longitudinal ; third longitudinal vein almost 

 straight, anterior branch scarcely distinguishable, close to the 

 posterior border (PI. ll., fig. 14). (Description drawn from dried 

 specimen). 



Bab. — Elizabeth Bay (Masters). 



Oba. — This description was drawn from two imperfect specimens, 

 but they belong to such a distinct 8[)eei<;8 that it cannot fail to l>e 

 recogTiised from the above ; it almost appears to me that this 

 Species should inaugurate a new Bub-ger»us. 



Section II. 



Wings with four lougititdinal veins. 



8ub-genu8 11, Abvnai^a, Loew. 



Aiynapta, \\. L<.ew, D.II. IV. 1K5(), p. 21 ; Winnert/.. L.K. 



1853, p. Itt'J; Itondani, Stirp. Cec. 1«G0, pp. 2«7 and 2'J3 ; O.- 



