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longer than the stigmal, which is very oblique, the end slightly 

 curved distad, apex distinctly knobbed ; postmarginal vein 

 slightly longer than the marginal. Abdomen a little longer 

 than head and thorax combined ; wholly longitudinally striate. 

 Length, 275 mm. 



Described from three female specimens labelled "Sweeping 

 on edge of jungle, streamlet, April 13." 



Hah. — North Queensland: Nelson, near Cairns (A. P. 

 Dodd). 



Type. — I. 1392, South Australian Museum. A female, 

 tagmounted, plus a slide bearing female antennae and forewing. 



Table of Australian species of Macroteleia, Westwood. 



(1) Abdomen not wholly longitudinally 



striate ... (2) 



Abdomen wholly longitudinally striate minima, Dodd 



(2) Parapsidal furrows distinct (3) 



Parapsidal furrows wanting torresia, Dodd 



(3) Abdomen more than twice as long as 



head and thorax combined magna, Dodd 



Abdomen not twice as long as head 

 and thorax combined angusta, Dodd 



Mallateleia, nov. gen. 



d" . Head transverse-quadrate ; scarcel}^ wider than the 

 thorax; eyes large, bare; ocelli in a triangle, the lateral ones 

 equally distant from the eye margins and median ocellus. 

 Antennae 1 2- jointed ; pedicel short; funicle- joints submonili- 

 form. Thorax longer than wide: pronotum distinctly visible 

 from above ; mesonotum wider than long, with two distinct 

 furrows : scutellum moderately large, semicircular. Forewings 

 without veins. Abdomen petiolate ; as long as head and 

 thorax united ; wider than the thorax : first segment longer 

 than wide ; third segment the longest. Legs rather long ; 

 tibiae as long as their tarsi. 



9 . Antennae 12-jointed; scape long and slender; pedicel 

 rather long ; funicle-joints small, narrower than the pedicel ; 

 first funicle-joint longer than wide ; the others wider than 

 long ; club 6-jointed. Basal segment of abdomen with a raised 

 tubercle. 



Type .—Mall at el eia riiraiilti, described herewith. 



Mallateleia gieaulti, sp. nov. 



(5 . Head reddish-yellow, the eyes and ocelli black : pro- 

 notum reddish-yellow; mesonotum and scutellum black, with 

 a semicircular reddish-yellow patch in the centre of the meso- 

 notum ; rest of thorax reddish-yellow ; abdomen black, slightly 

 suffused with reddish-yellow ; third segment golden-yellow ; 



