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Phanurus nelsonensis, sp. nov. 



9 . Coal-black ; antennae fuscous ; legs golden-yellow, 

 slightly suffused with black. Differs from niger and montanus 

 in colour ; pedicel very narrow, three times as long as wide ; 

 funicle-joints all longer than wide, first the longest ; club- 

 joints all longer than wide : forewings when closed not reach- 

 ing tip of abdomen, as wide as in montanua and giraulti, discal 

 cilia in about sixteen lines only. Length, 0'80 mm. 



Described from a single specimen caught while sweeping 

 in forest, June 17, 1912. 



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

 Girault). 



Type. — I. 1405, South Australian Museum. A female, 

 tagmounted. 



Phanurus longicorpus, sp. nov. 



9 . Colour as in niger ; antennas as in nelsonensis ; fore- 

 wings as in niger; readily distinguished from the preceding 

 species by the long, narrow abdomen, which is distinctly 

 longer than the head and thorax united ; second segment the 

 longest, but only one-fourth length of abdomen ; forewings 

 only reaching to one-half length of abdomen. Length, 

 125 mm. 



Described from four specimens caught while sweeping in 

 forest, January 1, 1913 : February 7, 1913 ; and February 20, 

 1913. 



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

 Dodd). 



Type. — I. 1406, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a slide. 



Phanurus longipennis, sp. nov. 



9 . Agreeing with longicorpus, but joints of antennal 

 club wider than long ; forewings long, when closed extending 

 to tip of abdomen; also the legs are more suffused with yellow. 

 Length, 1'25 mm. 



Described from a single specimen caught while sweeping 

 in forest, January 14, 1913. 



Hah. — North Queensland: Ingham, Herbert River (A. 

 P. Dodd). 



Type. — I. 1407, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a slide. 



Phanurus nigricorpus, sp. nov. 



9 . Coal-black ; legs, including coxae, dusky-yellow ; 

 antennal scape and pedicel dusky-yellow ; rest of antennae 

 fuscous. Structure much as in longicorpus and longipe7inis, 

 but the abdomen, although long, is not one-half longer than 



