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legs, antennal scape, and pedicel reddish-yellow; antennal 

 funicle black. Head finely sculptured; thorax pubescent; 

 first and second abdominal segments striate. Funicle-joints 

 2-9 subequal, slightly shorter than first, as wide as long ; 

 last funicle-joint one-half longer than joint nine. Forewings 

 hyaline ; both margins straight, equally inclined ; wings 

 broadest near the apex ; marginal cilia short ; discal cilia long 

 in the centre of the wing, very short near the wing margins, 

 arranged in about forty-eight rows. Length, 1*75 mm. 



9 . Antennal club black, rest of antennae reddish-yellow ; 

 scape equal to next six joints combined ; pedicel twice as long 

 as wide ; first funicle-joint a little longer than wide ; third 

 and fourth very short ; club 6-jointed, joints much wider than 

 long, third and fourth the widest. 



Described from a male and a female specimen labelled 

 "Sweeping in fields, Cooktown, February 2, 1912 (A. A. 

 Girault)," and "Sweeping in forest, Cape R., Pentland, 

 December 24, 1912 (A. A. Girault)." Later a second female 

 was taken by sweeping in a strip of jungle. Nelson, April 19, 

 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Hah. — North Queensland: Cooktown; Nelson, via 

 Cairns; Pentland, 200 miles west of Townsville. 



Type. — I. 1393, South Australian Museum. A male and 

 female, tagmounted, plus a slide bearing male antennas and 

 forewings. 



Mallateleioides, nov. gen. 



S , Head transverse-quadrate, slightly wider than the 

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

 ones close to the eye margins. Antennae 12- jointed ; scape 

 long and slender ; pedicel rather short ; first funicle-joint 

 longer than the pedicel ; second shorter than first, as wide as 

 long ; third longer than second, a little dilated on one side ; 

 4-9 subequal, moniliform. Thorax longer than wide; pro- 

 notum visible from above on sides only ; mesonotum with two 

 distinct furrows ; postscutellum and metathorax unarmed. 

 Forewings with brown lines indicating a submarginal vein 

 remote from the costa, which it joins before the middle of the 

 wing ; a stigmal spot replacing the marginal vein ; a short 

 stigmal vein ; a basal vein almost perpendicular ; a median 

 vein as long as the submarginal. Abdomen subpetiolate ; as 

 long as head and thorax combined ; a little wider than the 

 thorax ; first segment wider than long ; third the longest. 



Type. — Mallateleioides splendida, described herewith. 



Mallateleioides splendida, sp. nov. 

 ^ . Deep reddish-brown ; scutellum and most of meso- 

 notum black ; abdomen more or less suffused with black ; eyes, 



