'PEKMITES FK0:\1 'I'HE AUSTKALIAN KEEKJX. 
angles rounded, sides slo])ing to the wide and slightly sinuate 
posterior margin. Posterior margin of meso- and metanotum 
markedly sinuate. 
n o<//.y (Figs. 18d, 184).— The two anteriormost veins parallel 
and close together, dark ; the remaining veins, excepting the first 
five or six branches of the cubitus, indistinct but discernible to the 
wing border ; the margin densely ciliate excepting along the proximal 
one-third of hind border : the radial sector with numerous setae 
along its entire length ; the media traversing the wing a little above 
the middle and reaching the margin near the apex, generally with 
two or three branches to the posterior margin ; cubitus generally 
with seven branches in the forewing and nine or ten in the hindwing, 
the last generally branched. Wing-stumjis covered densely with 
setae, as on ])ronotum ; suture nearly straight. Membrane with 
scattered setae and densely covered with minute micrasters. 
Legs. — Short and moderately stout ; inoderately setaceous. 
Abdomen. \ cry long and slender, the tergites very setaceous, 
like jjronotum ; sternites clay colour, suffused laterallv with brown, 
clothed with short, fine setae. 
Measurements. 
fjength with wings 
^ 7 -GO; 
9 
,, without wings . . 
^ ;P75; 
9 
Heafl. to apex of labrum, long . . 
0 
85 
„ to clypeofrontal suture, long- 
0 
57 
wide 
0 
68 
,, deep 
G 
3G 
Ih'onotum, long 
0 
3G 
wide 
G 
51 
Wings, forewings, long 
5 
47 
,, wide 
1 
42 
,, hiiidwings, long 
5 
65 
., ,, wide 
1 
5:5 
Abdomen, wide 
G 
71) 
Soi.DlEU. 
Additional measurements.- - 
Head, with mandibles, long 
,, wide 
Mandibles, long . . 
Pronotum, long . . 
.•) wide 
Tibia iii, long 
Locality.- Northern Territory 
1 )arwin 
mm. 
42 
62 
57 
25 
48 
0-47 
