9 6 R. W. CROSSKEY 



weaker than basals or subapicals (never a second pair of laterals). Abdomen 

 of <$ with hair on T4 unmodified. Ti + 2 and T3 with or without median marginal 

 setae. Smaller forms (length 6-8 mm) 



SISYROPA Brauer & Bergenstamm [part: undetermined spp.] 



24 Eyes bare. Abdomen patterned, T3-T5 thickly coated with whitish pollinosity 



except for a shining black transverse fascia on each intermediate tergite which 



is narrowly broken in the mid line but on each side extends round on to the 



ventral surface of the tergite. Legs orange-yellow with blackish brown tarsi 



QUADRA Malloch 

 - Eyes haired. Abdomen without such pattern, appearing generally blackish or 

 reddish black with an inconspicuous coating of yellowish grey pollinosity. 

 Legs mainly black or brownish black, only tibiae reddish yellow 



'Quadra' dissimilis Malloch (? gen. n.) 



Tribe GONIINI 



This small tribe is easily distinguishable from all other members of the subfamily 

 Goniinae occurring in Australia by the strong reclinate ocellar setae (in other 

 goniine tribes the ocellars are either proclinate or absent). It is represented in 

 eastern and western Australia but appears to be absent from Tasmania. Two 

 genera are known from Australia, both of which have an extensive distribution 

 in Africa and the Oriental Region; one of them (Pseudogonia) occurs also in the 

 southern Palaearctic and eastwards as far as New Guinea and the Solomons. 



Key to Australian Genera of GONIINI 



Three sternopleural setae (2 + 1, one of anterior pair sometimes almost hair-like). 

 Scutellum without lateral setae (therefore with only two pairs of strong horizontal 

 marginal setae). Parafacials bare. Facial ridges setulose on most of their height 



GONIOPHTHALMUS Villeneuve 

 Four sternopleural setae. Scutellum with a pair of extremely strong lateral setae 

 (therefore with three pairs of horizontal marginals). Parafacials strongly but 

 sparsely haired (hairing nearest facial ridges setiform). Facial ridges bare 



PSEUDOGONIA Brauer & Bergenstamm 



Tribe ERYCIINI 



This tribe is little more than a useful aggregate of genera to recognize 

 temporarily, until more is known of the biology of the included forms (especially 

 their reproductive habit). Almost certainly the tribe is polyphyletic and will 

 later need to be dismembered and its constituent genera reassigned to freshly 

 defined tribes. At the moment the tribe contains those genera of Goniinae with 

 large pre-alar seta that will not satisfactorily fit into other tribes (at least, not 

 without widening the definitions of these and destroying the homogeneity they 

 have at present). In practice if a goniine with large pre-alar setae does not show 

 the recognizable facies of a winthemiine, carceliine or sturmiine then it almost 

 certainly belongs in this tribe and its genus is most likely to be recognizable from 

 the eryciine generic key. 



