96 R. W. CROSSKEY 
weaker than basals or subapicals (never a second pair of laterals). Abdomen 
of f with hair on T4 unmodified. Tr + 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. 
KrEy TO AUSTRALIAN GENERA OF GONIINI 
1 Three sternopleural setae (2 + I, 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 winthemuine, 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. 
