164 AUSTRALIAN BLEPHAR0CER1DAE, 



EDWARDSINA AUSTRALIENSIS n.sp. 

 (Plates xliv., figs. 1, 2; xlv., figs. 1-7, a; Text-figs. 2, a, b; 3, a; 4). 



d. Total length 5, abdomen 3, forewing 9.5, expanse 20 mm. 



Head small, subglobular, dull blackish in colour, with greyish pubescence. 

 Occiput prominent; vertex with a small but conspicuous ocellar tubercle placed 

 between the inner posterior angles of the eyes and surrounded by a pale raised 

 ring. Median ocellus large, bright, facing forwards, lateral ocelli smaller, facing 

 laterally outwards. Eyes dichoptic and undivided, separated from each other by 

 the trapezium-shaped vertex, which narrows anteriorly to about the width of 

 the ocellar tubercle; colour dull blackish. .Intennae (Plate xlv., fig. 1 a and text- 

 fig. 2, a, b) inserted fairly close together, 3.2 nun. long, with 15 segments; colour 

 black; the two basal segments short and somewhat swollen, the rest longer, sub- 

 cylindrical, somewhat flattened; the first segment carries two stiff bristles, the 

 others only a very few short hairs; last four segments narrower than the rest, 

 terminal segment somewhat pointed at apex. Lab rum-e pi pharynx (Plate xlv., fig. 

 2 a) somewhat broader than usual in the family, the sides almost parallel, the 

 tip broadly rounded, colour dark brown. Hypopharynx of about the same 

 length as labrum, but narrower, the tip more pointed, the sides carrying minute 

 barbs. Mandibes absent. Maxillae (Plate xlv., fig. 3, a) with long (1 mm.), five- 

 segmented palpus, and with small, pale coloured, rather weakly formed galea, 

 sharply pointed at apex; the palpus blackish, densely clothed with greyish hairs; 

 first segment of palp very short, bulbous, closely attached to the palpiger; second 

 segment long and slender; third not so long, somewhat enlarged distally, and 

 carrying a conspicuous dark-coloured sense-organ (so) close up to apex on outer 

 side; this sense organ is of oval shape, and appears to be divided into three 



Text-fig. 3: — Labium of a, Edicardsina australiensis n.sp., ?, (x 100), /), Jfeo- 

 curupira nicholsoni n.sp., c?, (x 50). 



