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Type. — T. 1372, South Australian Museum. A female 

 and male, tagmounted, plus two slides bearing male and 

 female antennae and forewings. 



Genus Ceratoteleia, Kieffer. 

 Kieffer erected the genus Ceratoteleia in 1908 to contain 

 most of Ashmead's species of CaJoteleia, Westwood. In 1910 

 Kieffer listed sixteen species from America and Europe. 



Ceratoteleia splendida, sp. nov. 



9 ■ Black ; a large patch involving nearly all the thorax, 

 a, square patch in the centre of the abdomen, legs, scape, 

 pedicel, and funicle- joints reddish-yellow. Head finely sculp- 

 tured, not as wide as the thorax. Antennae 12-jointed; scape 

 long and moderately slender ; pedicel three times as long as 

 wide ; first funicle-joint as long as the pedicel ; second half the 

 length of first, a little longer than wide; third shorter, quad- 

 rate ; last funicle-joint shorter and wider, transverse, twice 

 as wide as long ; club 6- jointed, joints 1-5 much wider 

 than long, 1-3 subequal, widest, last joint short, a 

 little longer than wide. Thorax longer than wide, punctate ; 

 mesonotum without furrows. Forewings when closed barely 

 extending to end of abdomen ; broad ; infuscated ; the mar- 

 ginal cilia short ; the discal cilia very dense, arranged in about 

 fifty lines ; submarginal vein attaining the costa about the 

 middle of the wing ; marginal vein very short ; stigmal vein 

 long, oblique, knobbed at tip ; postmarginal vein barely as 

 long as the stigmal ; basal vein not very distinct, distant from 

 the marginal by one-half its own length. Abdomen as wide as 

 the thorax, as long as the head and thorax combined ; much 

 narrowed at the base ; wholly longitudinally striate dorsad ; 

 the third segment the longest, longer than wide ; basal seg- 

 ment with a pronounced horn. Length, 2' 75 mm. 



cS . Unknown. 



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



Described from a single specimen. 



Type.—l. 1373, South Australian Museum. A female, 

 tagmounted, plus a slide bearing forewing and antennae. 



Ceratoteleia flava, sp. nov. 

 9 . Golden-yellow ; apex of abdomen, head, a small 

 patch on the mesonotum, another on the scutellum, tubercle 

 on abdomen, and antennal club black. Differs from splendida 

 in structure as follows : — Head slightly wider than the thorax. 

 Second funicle-joint of antennae nearly as long as first ; last 

 funicle-joint only slightly wider than long ; club rather 

 slender, the joints not one-half wider than long, second joint 



