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large, with three small teeth ; maxillary palpi 2-jointed, 

 labials 1-jointed. Antennae 10-jointed ; scape long and slender; 

 pedicel rather short; first funicle-joint cnpuliform, very nar- 

 row at the base; funicle-joints 2-7 short, subequal, twice as 

 wide as long; club solid, but near the base there is a slight 

 indication of w^hat appears to have been a division ; club no 

 wider than the funicle, twice as wide as long. Thorax one-half 

 longer than wide ; pronotum a little visible from above ; meso- 

 notum wider than long, without furrows ; scutellum very large, 

 semicircular, with a median carina; metanotum very short, 

 unarmed. Forewings broad, without a trace of veins. Abdo- 

 men sessile ; carinate on the sides ; as long as the head and 

 thorax united, and as wide as the thorax ; first five segments 

 of equal length. Legs with the femora and tibiae stout; tarsi 

 not as long as their tibiae; tarsal-joints 1-4 very short, 

 thick, transverse ; last joint enlarged, as long as the other 

 joints united. 



(S . Unknown. 



This anomalous genus is based on a single species reared 

 from a mantid ootheca. I think that its proper position is in 

 this subfamily, but the number of antennal joints, the veinless 

 wings, and the peculiar tarsi render its position uncertain. 



Type. — lliel'iomoryha mantis, described herewith. 



RiELIOMOEPHA MANTIS, Sp. nOV. 



9 . Head and thorax black : the abdomen is black dorsad, 

 a little suffused with brown ; ventrad it is brown ; legs, includ- 

 ing coxae, golden-yellow; antennae golden-yellow, the pedicel 

 and first funicle-joint black; oral area of head yellow. Fore- 

 wings long, broad, hyaline ; marginal cilia, very short ; discal 

 cilia fine and dense. Head, thorax, and abdomen with a 

 dense, fine, scaly sculpture ; head and thorax with a few scat- 

 tered punctures. Length, 275 mm. 



Described from eighty female specimens reared from a. 

 mantid ootheca found in forest, May, 1913. 



Type. — I. 1399, South Australian Museum. A female, 

 tagmounted, plus a slide bearing head and antennae. 



Cremastoscelio, nov. gen. 



Like Cremastobaeus, Ashmead, but first and second 

 funicle-joints forming one ovate piece, and divided obliquely ; 

 club compact, 4- jointed, divided obliquely; segments of the 

 abdomen only slightly constricted at the sutures. 



Type. — Cremastoscelio flavipes, described herewith. 



