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moderately narrow ; a little infuscated with a darker trans- 

 verse band at the stigmal vein ; submarginal vein attaining 

 the costa about the middle of the wing; marginal vein two- 

 thirds length of stigmal which is rather short, its apex curv- 

 ing slightly disto-cephalad. Length, 1 mm. 



Hab. — North Queensland: Nelson. Described from one 

 female caught on a window,, December 27, 1912 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — I. 1981, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a slide. 



Odontacolus australicus, sp. nov. 



9 . Head black ; thorax dark brown ; abdomen, legs, and 

 antennae (except the club) bright golden-yellow ; antennal club 

 dark-brown. Head transverse, as wide as the thorax. Thorax 

 scarcely longer than wide, finely polygonally sculptured; me- 

 sonotum without furrows ; metanotum with two short spines. 

 Abdomen petiolate, as long as the head and thorax united, 

 wider than the thorax ; first segment with a short horn ; third 

 segment a little the longest; 1-3 striate. Antennae 7-jointed : 

 scape long and slender, longer than next five joints com- 

 bined ; pedicel a little longer than wide; funicle- joints small, 

 first a little longer than wide ; 2-4 very short, transverse ; club 

 large, fully twice as long as wide, almost as lon^ as the scape. 

 Forewings reaching apex of abdomen ; rather narrow ; almost 

 hyaline ; marginal cilia short ; discal cilia fine and dense ; sub- 

 marginal vein attaining the costa about the middle of the- 

 wing ; marginal vein short ; stigmal vein moderately long, 

 oblique ; postmarginal vein a little longer than the stigmal ; 

 venation pale-yellow. Length, 1 mm. 



Hab. — North Queensland: Nelson. Described from one 

 female caught by sweeping on edge of jungle, July 10, 1913 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — I. 1982, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a slide. 



PSEUDOB^EUS RUFUS, Sp. nOV. 



d . Dark reddish-brown ; legs and antennal scape paler ; 

 eyes and ocelli black. Head a little wider than the thorax, 

 which is distinctly longer than wide; mesonotum without 

 furrows. Abdomen petiolate, as wide and a little longer than 

 the thorax. Antennas 12-jointed; scape equal to next four 

 joints combined ; pedicel short and stout, but a little narrower 

 than first funicle-joint, which is a little longer than wide ; 

 2-9 subequal, moniliform, a little wider than long ; last joint 

 twice as long as wide. Forewings a little infuscated; sub- 

 marginal vein attaining the costa before the middle of the 

 wing; marginal vein one-half as long as the stigmal, which 

 is moderately long, oblique ; postmarginal vein as long as the 

 stigmal. Length, 0*80 mm. 



