BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 
1177 
narrow at the base, a little broader than the thorax posteriorly ; 
fulvous, densely clothed with a short black pubescence ; ovipositor 
short, fulvous. Coxse and tibise ochraceous, densely covered in 
front Avith very short black hairs ; tibiae and tarsi dusky ; the 
latter almost black. Tibial spurs black. In the fore-legs the meta 
tarsus somewhat longer than the tibiae. Wings the length of the 
body, pellucid, with a pale fulvous tint ; veins fulvous, the costal 
and first, second and fourth longitudinal veins dark. Costal vein 
extending beyond the junction with the second longitudinal vein 
about one-third of the distance from that to the tip of the anterior 
branch of the thii’d longitudinal vein ; auxiliary vein reaching the 
costa opposite to the tip of the marginal cross- vein; anterior branch 
of the second longitudinal vein at an angle of 4.5°, its base situated 
at a point about two-fifths of the distance from the tip of the 
first longitudinal to the tip of the second longitudinal vein ; fifth 
longitudinal vein very pale, disappearing a short distance from the 
margin. 
-Had . — Sydney (Masters and Skuse). May. 
149. Platyura jionticola, sp.n. 
(J. — Length of antennje 0‘045 inch ... PI 3 millimetres. 
Expanse of wings 0'130 x 0'050 ... 3-30 x P27 
Size of body 0-130 x 0-020 ... 3-30x0-50 
9- — Length of antennse 0-040 inch ... POl millimetres. 
Expan.se of wings 0-130x 0-050 ... 3-30x 1-27 
Size of body 0-120x0-025 ... 3-04x0-62 
(J. — Antennje about the length of the thorax; 9 shorter than 
the thorax and rnot-e slender than in the ^ ; joints of the scapus 
ochraceous-brown, with a few short hairs ; flagellar joints dark, 
their den.se minute pubescence with a greyish reflection. Hypo- 
stoma brown. Front black. Palpi ochraceous-brown. Thorax 
fuliginous-brown, almost black in .some specimens, levigate, with a 
somewhat greyish reflection, rather densely covered with tolerably 
