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Alan P. Dodd: 



Habitat: North Queensland (Upper Mulgrave River, near 

 Cairns) . 



Type: In the South Australian Museum, a <J tagmounted plus 

 a slide bearing head, antennae and forewings. 



Neuroscelio nov. gen. 



Female: Head transverse, as wide as the thorax; ocelli in 

 a triangle, close together; eyes large, bare. 



Antennae 12-jointed; scape long and rather slender; pedicel 

 twice as long as wide; Ist funicle joint a little shorter; 2nd and 

 3rd short, as wide as long; club 7-jointed, joints 1 — 6 very wide, 

 transverse, three times as wide as long 



Thorax scarcely longer than wide; pronotum not visible from 

 above; mesonotum short; parapsidal furrows present; scutellum 

 short, semicircular ; metathorax unarmed. 



Forewings rather short; broad; the following veins present: 

 a submarginal attaining the costa about the middle of the wing; 

 a short, thickened marginal vein; a postmarginal vein scarcely 

 developed; a long, almost perpendicular stigmal vein which gives 

 off a long radial vein almost touching the wing margin ; a recurrent 

 vein as long as the stigmal, and leaving the stigmal at the junction 

 of the radial vein, recurrent vein giving off a long cubital vein; a 

 short basal vein; a long median vein which does not touch the 

 wing margin and terminates well beyond the middle of the wing; 

 venation distinct. 



Abdomen sessile; broadly oval; wider and longer than the 

 thorax; scarcely longer than wide; Ist segment rather long; 2nd 

 segment equal to one-half abdominal length; remaining segments 

 short. 



Type: The following species. 

 Neuroscelio nervalis sp. nov. 

 Female: Length, 1.50 mm. 



Black; the abdomen a little suffused with brown; legs (in- 

 cluding the coxae), and first antennal joints golden yellow; re- 

 maining joints fuscous. Head and thorax (except the metathorax) 

 finely sculptured; metathorax rugulose; abdomen with Ist segment 

 striate; remaining segments smooth. 



Forewings a little infuscated ; marginal cilia moderately short ; 

 discal cilia very fine and dense; venation fuscous. 



(From 1 specimen, etc.) 



Male: Unknown. 



Described from a single $ specimen caught while sweeping 

 in forest and jungle, Nelson, N. Q., 9th May, 13 (A. A. 

 Girault) . 



Habitat: North Queensland (Nelson near Cairns). 

 Type: South Australian Museum, a $ tagmounted plus a 

 slide bearing head, antennae, and forewings. 



