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third and fourth a little wider than long ; club 6-jointed, 

 second joint slightly the longest and widest. Thorax coarsely 

 reticulately rugulose : parapsidal furrows not visible. Fore- 

 wings broad ; much infuscated : marginal cilia short ; discal 

 cilia arranged in about forty rows : venation very distinct ; 

 submarginal vein terminating about the middle of the wing ; 

 stigmal spot dark, nearly square with a narrow branch that 

 runs to the end of the stigmal vein ; stigmal vein rather short, 

 not knobbed at tip, with a long indistinct radial branch. 

 Abdomen wholly longitudinally rugulose, with a distinct carina*- 

 running down the centre. Length, 5 mm. 



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



Type. — I. 1371, South Australian Museum. A female, 

 tagmounted, plus a slide bearing female antenna and forewing. 



Genus Sceliomorpha, Ashmead. 

 ScELiOMORPHA FLAviPES, Kieffer, 1907, Australia. 

 I have not seen the description of this species. 



SCELIOMOI^PHA RUGULOSA, Sp. nOV. 



9 • Shining-black ; legs, including coxae, reddish-yellow ; 

 apical tarsal-joints fuscous; scape, pedicel, and first three 

 funicle-joints of antennae golden-yellow. Head and thorax 

 rugulose ; mesonotum with two distinct furrows ; abdomen as 

 wide as the thorax, no longer than head and thorax combined ; 

 first segment striate, the others longitudinally rugulose ; second 

 segment the longest, a little longer than the third. Antennae 

 12-jointed; scape long and slender, equal to next four joints 

 combined ; pedicel rather slender, twice as long as wide ; first 

 funicle- joint scarcely as long as the pedicel ] second and third 

 shorter, wider than long ; last funicle-joint a little widened ; 

 club 6-jointed, first joint distinctly the longest. Forewings 

 extending a little beyond tip of abdomen ; broad ; infus- 

 cated ; discal cilia moderately coarse and dense ; venation 

 lemon-yellow ; submarginal vein attaining the costa slightly 

 beyond the middle of the wing ; stigmal spot obsolete ; stigmal 

 vein long, very oblique. Length, 3 mm. 



S • Antennal scape, pedicel, and first funicle-joint 

 golden - yellow, remainder suffused more or less with black ; 

 pedicel shorter than first funicle-joint, which is twice as long 

 as wide; funicle-joints 2-9 subquadrate, a little longer than 

 wide; antennae slightly tapering towards the apex; last 

 funicle-joint elongate, as long as first. 



Hah. — North Queensland. A common species on the edges 

 of jungle at Nelson; also captured at Kuranda. 



