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longer than wide. Forewings reaching apex of abdomen; very 

 broad ; slightly infuscated ; discal cilia moderately coarse and 

 dense ; submarginal vein terminating about the middle of the 

 wing ; stigma distinctly longer than wide ; stigmal vein scarcely 

 curved, no longer than the stigma ; venation light-fuscous, 

 the stigma lemon-yellow. Length, 2*50 mm. 



Hah. — North Queensland: Kuranda. Described from one 

 female caught by sweeping foliage on edge of jungle, May 19, 

 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — I. 2012, South Australian Museum. A female, 

 tagmounted, plus a slide bearing antennae and forewings. 



Lygocerus australicus, sp. nov. 



S . Shining-black; tibiae, tarsi, and antennal scape fer- 

 ruginous. Head transverse, a little wider than the thorax ; 

 thorax scarcely longer than wide, finely polygonally sculp- 

 tured; mesonotum large, median furrow distinct, parapsidal 

 furrows delicate; scutellum longer than wide. Abdomen 

 pointed ovate, scarcely longer than the thorax, and not as 

 wide. Antennae 11-jointed ; scape long; pedicel very short; 

 first four funicle- joints constricted at the base, excised at the 

 apex, almost triangular, but the apical margins concave ; giv- 

 ing off long hairs; last five joints almost filiform, the hairs 

 not so long. Forewings reaching apex of abdomen ; broad, 

 the apex squarely rounded ; hyaline ; marginal cilia short ; 

 discal cilia fine and dense ; submarginal vein terminating about 

 the middle of the wing ; stigma large, a little longer than 

 wide ; stigmal vein slightly longer than the stigma, scarcely 

 curved. Length, 1*50 mm. 



TIab. — North Queensland: Nelson. Described from one 

 male caught by sweeping in open forest, January 29, 1912 

 (A. A. Girault). 



Type. — I. 2013, South Australian Museum. A male, 

 tagmounted, plus a slide bearing antennae and forewings. 



Lygocerus splendidus, sp. nov. 



9 . Shining-black ; legs and antennal scape ferruginous ; 

 rest of antennae dark-brown, a little suffused with yellow. 

 Structure as in australicus , Dodd, but the parapsidal furrows 

 are distinct, the thorax is distinctly longer than wide, and 

 the abdomen is as wide but no longer than the thorax. Fore- 

 wings very broad ; hyaline with a broad, longitudinal infus- 

 cated stripe under the stigmal vein ; venation dark-fuscous; 

 stigma very large, slightly longer than wide; stigmal vein 

 nearly twice as long as the stigma, scarcely curved. Antennae 

 11-jointed; scape long and slender equal to next three joints 



