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long as the pedicel ; other funicle- joints subequal in length but 

 widening. Club ovate, wider than funicle, its first joint over 

 twice wider than long. Posterior femur nearly all black. 

 Length, 2*50 mm. 



. Not known. 



From one specimen. 



Hab. — Queensland: Mount Tambourine (A. M. Lea). 



Type. — I. 1263, South Australian Museum. The above 

 specimen and a slide with antenna and posterior legs. 



MERISIN^. 

 ROPTROCERINI. 



Ormyromorpha, new gen. 



9 • Agreeing with Tribceus, Foerster, but the posterior 

 tibiae with but a single spur, which is very long, as long as the 

 proximal joint of the tarsi. Antennse with three ring- joints 

 and a solid club, 11-jointed, all the funicle- joints wider than 

 long, shorter than the pedicel, and subpedunculate. Abdomen 

 subsessile, stout, conic-ovate, somewhat longer than the head 

 and thorax combined, densely polygonally reticulated or scaly 

 and with numerous scattered thimble punctures. Forewings 

 banded, the stigmal and postmarginal veins rather long, sub- 

 equal, each about two-thirds the length of the marginal. Pro- 

 podeum with a median carina two-thirds complete, but no 

 lateral ones nor sulci. Parapsidal furrows indicated only 

 latero-cephalad. Mandibles both tridentate. Propodeal 

 spiracle armed with a tuft of white hairs ; mesonotum 

 pubescent, as in Catolaccus nearly ; intermediate tarsi 

 yellowish-white . 



cS . Unknown. 



Type. — The following species. 



Ormyromorpha trifasciatipennis, new sp. 



9 . Dark metallic blue-green, the pro- and meso-notum 

 green, the abdomen darker ; legs concolorous, the flagellum 

 brownish (including pedicel). Forewings with three black 

 stripes, the middle longest, the first across from the base of the 

 marginal vein, the second from the whole of the postmarginal 

 vein, its proximal margin convex ed, the third around the 

 apex ; of the two white stripes included between them, the 

 first is longest. Head and thorax finely shagreened, the inci- 

 sions of abdominal segments smooth. Length, about 2*50 mm. 



Described from a single female from Port Lincoln and 

 two others from Sydney. 



