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•others being distant from each other by more than their 

 own diameter : the spaces between the punctures are very finely 

 sculptured : parapsidal furrows deep and distinct, median fur- 

 row partly obliterated : scutellum with a median carina ; centre 

 of thorax ventrad, the punctures are much smaller and sparser ; 

 metathorax rugulose. Abdomen one-half longer than the 

 thorax, and not as wide; apex truncate, bispinose, the spines 

 short : wholly longitudinally rugulose ; first segment twice as 

 wide as long ; second one-half longer than first : third as long 

 as second ; fourth a little shorter ; fifth a little shorter than 

 fourth ; sixth shorter than fifth, wih a few scattered punctures ; 

 ventrad the abdomen is reticulately rugulose. Length, 4 mm. 



The single specimen on which this species is based was 

 minus head, wings, and most of the legs. It had probably been 

 shaken from a spider's web. 



Described from a single specimen caught while sweeping 

 foliage in jungle. May 8, 1913. 



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

 Dodd). 



Tnj)e. — I. 1441, South Australian Museum. A specimen, 

 tagmounted. 



HOPLOTELEIA ACUMINATA, Sp. nOV. 



d" . Shining-black ; legs reddish-yellow ; antenna! scape 

 reddish-yellow; remaining joints becoming suffused with black 

 towards the apex. Like fulchricornis, but lateral ocelli separ- 

 ated from each other by only their own diameter, twice their 

 own diameter in indchricoi'nis ; the very wide, shorter meso- 

 notum and the abdomen being narrower than the thorax, fore- 

 wings slightly infuscated, stigmal vein curved slightly caudad. 

 Differs from australica, insularis, and nigricornis in having the 

 mesonotum uniformly rugulose, like the head ; and the pointed 

 abdomen. Length, 3'50 mm. 



Described from a single specimen caught while sweeping 

 foliage on edge of jungle. May 19, 1913. 



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

 Dodd). 



Type. — I. 1442, South Australian Museum. A male, 

 tagmounted, plus a slide bearing antennae and forewing. 



Genus Paridris, Kieffer. 

 Paridris rufinotum, sp. nov. 



9 • Head, abdomen, scutellum, and antennal club black ; 

 thorax, except scutellum, reddish-brown ; legs, antennal scape, 

 pedicel, and funicle- joints golden-yellow. Antennae as in 

 queenslandica and tridentata. Forewings as in queenslandica , 

 but discal ciliation rather sparse. Mesonotum with two fur- 

 rows. Length, 1"40 mm. 



