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Genus Leptoteleia, Kieffer. 

 Kieffer erected the genus Le'ptoteleia in 1908 to contain 

 the three American species of Baryconus, Foerster. 



Leptoteleia australica, sp. nov. 



<S . Black ; legs and first half of antennal scape reddish- 

 yellow suffused with black. Head scarcely as wide as the 

 thorax, which is two-thirds longer than wide ; abdomen nar- 

 rowed at the base, no longer than the head and thorax united, 

 as wide as the thorax. Antennae 12-jointed ; scape as long as 

 next three joints combined ; pedicel short and stout ; first 

 funicle-joint a little longer than the pedicel, one-half longer 

 than wide; second and third subequal, a little longer than the 

 first ; 4-9 gradually shortening ; last joint as long as 

 second and third funicle-joints. Forewings when closed ex- 

 tending well beyond tip of abdomen ; rather narrow ; infus- 

 cated ; submarginal vein close to the costa and joining it at 

 one-half wing length ; marginal vein two and a half times the 

 length of the stigmal, which is very short, oblique, with a dis- 

 tinct knob ; postmarginal vein one-half longer than the mar- 

 ginal ; basal vein almost perpendicular, distant from the mar- 

 ginal vein by one-half its own length. Length, 1"50 mm. 



Described from a single specimen caught by sweeping 

 miscellaneous vegetation October 5, 1911. 



Hah. — Queensland: Roma (A. A. Girault). 



Type. — I. 1382, South Australian Museum. A male, 

 tagmounted, plus a slide bearing antennae and forewing. 



Anteromorpha, nov. gen. 



9 . Head transverse - quadrate, as wide as the thorax ; 

 eyes large, bare ; ocelli in a triangle, wide apart, the lateral 

 one touching the eye margins; mandibles bidentate. 

 Antennas 12-jointed; scape long and slender; pedicel moder- 

 ately long ; first funicle-joint longer than wide ; the others 

 wider than long ; club 6-jointed. Thorax ovoid, distinctly 

 longer than wide ; pronotum not visible from above ; meso- 

 notum large, as long as w4de, the parapsidal furrows wanting 

 or indistinct ; scutellum semicircular ; postscutellum produced 

 into a triangular spine; metanotum short, unarmed. ' Fore- 

 wings rather narrow ; submarginal vein curving, and joining 

 the costa a little beyond the middle of the wing ; marginal 

 vein not as long as the stigmal, which is very oblique, with a 

 distinct knob ; postmarginal longer than the stigmal ; basal 

 vein wanting. Abdomen sessile ; a little wider than the 

 thorax ; as long as head and thorax combined ; first segment 

 short ; second twice as long as first ; third the longest, equal 

 to first and second united. 



