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Described from a single specimen caught while sweeping 

 on edge of jungle, May 20, 1913. 



Rah. — North Queensland: Kuranda, near Cairns (A. P. 

 Dodd). 



Type. — I. 1437, South Australian Museum. A male, 

 tagmounted, plus a slide bearing antenna and fore wings. 



Ceratoteleia inornata, Dodd. 



I have recently captured a pair of this species by sweeping 

 foliage in a jungle, Nelson, North Queensland, May 8, 1913. 

 Since the original description was taken from a specimen on a 

 slide, I herewith give a correct description. 



rf . Black, a little suffused with brown, the brown being 

 visible as a lighter-coloured patch in the centre of the abdomen ;. 

 all legs and antenna! scape golden-yellow. Antennae and fore- 

 wings as in the original description. Mesonotum with parap- 

 sidal furrows ; abdomen long and narrow, as long as head and 

 thorax united, no wider than the thorax, wholly longitudinally 

 striate. Length, 2 mm. 



9 • Basal segment of abdomen with, a raised tubercle,, 

 ovipositor not exserted. Antennas as in hrunnea. 



Hah. — North Queensland: Nelson, near Cairns. 

 Type. — -I. 1375, South Australian Museum. A female,, 

 tagmounted, plus a slide bearing antennae, head, and forewing- 



Ceratoteleia nigra, sp, nov. 



9- Black; legs and antennal scape reddish-yellow^ 

 suffused with brown. Antennae as in flava, but third club-joint 

 slightly the longest and widest. Forewings long ; narrow ; 

 infuscated : marginal cilia very short ; discal cilia fine and 

 dense ; submarginal vein attaining the costa about the middle 

 of the wing ; marginal vein two-thirds as long as the stigmal, 

 which is very oblique ; postmarginal vein slightly longer than 

 the stigmal : basal vein indistinct. Mesonotum without parap- 

 sidal furrows. Abdomen as" long as head and thorax united,. 

 wider than the thorax : first and second segments striate ; basal 

 segment w^th a horn ; ovipositor not exserted. Length,, 

 2'60 mm. 



Described from a single specimen caught while sweeping 

 jungle, Goondi, near Innisfail, July, 1912. Later females 

 were found from Proserpine, near Bowen, and Ingham. 



Hah. — North Queensland: Goondi, near Innisfail; Ing- 

 ham : Proserpine (A. A. Girault). 



Type. — I. 1438, South Australian Museum. A female, 

 tagmounted, plus a slide bearing head, antennae, and forewing. 



