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Type. — I. 13G2, South Australian Museuiu. A female, 

 tagmounted, plus a slide bearing head, antennae, and forewing. 



Genus Dichoteleas, Kieffer. 

 Type. — Dichoteleas rugosus, Kieffer, 1907, Australia. T 

 have not seen the description of this species. 



Genus Romilius, Walker. 

 RoMiLius DURis, Walker (1839). 

 (S . Black; antennae black; coxae black, apex of tarsi 

 fuscous ; rest of legs fulvous ; wings infuscated ; veins fus- 

 cous. Length, 3 '50 mm. 



Hah. — Tasmania: Hobart. 



Genus Hoploteleia, Ashmead. 



PIOPLOTELEIA AUSTRALICA, Sp. nOV. 



(S . Shining-black ; legs reddish-yellow ; antennse fus- 

 cous. Head transverse-quadrate, as wide as the thorax, rugu- 

 lose ; ocelli in a triangle, the lateral ones distant from the 

 eye margins by one-third their own diameter. Antennae 

 12-jointed ; scape long and slender ; pedicel short and stout ; 

 funicle- joints 1-3 subequal, distinctly longer than wide, 

 narrowed at the base ; 4-9 subequal, subquadrate, a little 

 shorter than preceding joint ; last funicle- joint one-half 

 longer than preceding joint, two and a half times as long as 

 wide. Thorax one-half longer than wide ; rugulose : meso- 

 notum finely sculptured, with three furrows. Fore wings 

 reaching to apex of abdomen ; broad ; hyaline ; marginal 

 cilia short ; discal cilia rather coarse ; submarginal vein attain- 

 ing the costa at nearly one-half wing length ; marginal vein 

 very short ; stigmal vein long, oblique ; postmarginal nearly 

 three times as long as the stigmal. Abdomen sessile; not as 

 wide as the thorax ; as long as head and thorax united ; 

 longitudinally striate ; truncate ; bispinose, the spines dis- 

 tinct. Length, 3 mm. 



9- Antennae 12-jointed; fuscous; first three funicle- 

 joints fulvous ; pedicel scarcely as long as first funicle-joint, 

 which is rather slender, twice as long as wide ; second a little 

 shorter than first ; third shorter than second, scarcely longer 

 than wide ; fourth wider than long ; club 6- jointed ; joints 

 scarcely wider than long ; second joint the longest and widest 

 of club. 



Hah. — North Queensland: Nelson. A very common 

 species. 



Type. — I. 1363, South Australian Museum. A male, tag- 

 mounted, plus two slides bearing male and female antennae and 

 forewings. 



