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MEMOIRS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
1. BARDYLIS AUSTRALIENSIS Howard. Female, male. Genotype 
Howard, 1907, pp. 84-85, fig. 21. 
Head, pronotum, scutum, tegul© and abdomen brown; scutellum, metascutum, mesopleura 
and metapleura dull orange yellow; antennas, cox© and femora light brown. Fore wings with a 
dusky cloud below marginal vein. Mesoscutum faintly aciculate, the occiput densely and finely 
so. In the male the clouded portion of fore wing is lighter than in the female. 
HaMtat: Swan River and Perth, West Australia. 
Types: Cat. No. 10,311, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 
Genus CASCA Howard. 
Antenna* 7-jointed, somewhat clavate, the club 3-jointed, its joints subequal, the region 
long; funicle joints longer than wide. Tarsal joints of middle legs all short and subequal, the 
intermediate tibial spur as long as the first two tarsal joints of middle legs taken together. 
Marginal vein somewhat shorter than the submarginal, the fore -wings uniformly ciliate, the 
marginal cilia long; no oblique hairless line. Male not known. Fore wing curved or broken. 
1. CASCA NIGRA new species. 
Male: — Length, 0.50 mm. 
Black; antennae, knees, distal halves or more of tibia) and tarsi pale yellow; scutellum 
brownish with slight yellow; fore wings embrowned out to the end of the marginal vein or 
slightly beyond. Funicle 1 quadrate, no longer than the pedicel, joint 2 transverse, joint 3 
a quarter longer than 1; the three club joints suboqual in length, each slightly longer than 
funicle 3. Mandibles tridentate. A very short ring-joint present? Removed from Archenomus 
Howard. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. Forest. 
Type: No. Ey 1748, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
The female of this species was discovered later, upon which the species was removed to 
Casca, -with which it agrees; accordingly, the male of Casca agrees with the female of Arche- 
nomus. I describe the female herewith. The tarsi of both sexes are alike, also the wings. 
Female: — Length, 0.45 mm. 
Black, the cox© and femora concolorous or dusky, rest of legs white; proximal half of 
tibia sometimes dusky; fore wing more or less distinctly infuscated out to end of venation and 
a more or less distinct broad hairless line back from end of venation; longest marginal fringes 
about a third of the greatest wing w T idth (fore wing) ; antenn© yellowish, the second funicle 
joint slightly longer than the first. Scutellum yellowish. 
Described from six or seven females reared from a Chionaspis on cockatoo apple, forest, 
December 18, 1911. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
The above male was captured by sweeping jungle growth along a forest streamlet, April 
15, 1913. 
