RECORDS OF W.A. MUSEUM. 
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A NEW SPECIES OF EMBIIl) FROM MT.STERX 
AUSTRALIA 
— BY — 
Dr. K. FRIEDERICHS (Apia, Samoa). 
(The English translation has not been revised by the Author). 
The following description is founded on two dry examples 
which I received for identification from the Western Australian 
Museum at Perth. 
OLIGOTOMA HARDYI, n. sp. 
Male. Winged. Posterior branch of the radial ramus ^ not 
forked in either wing, rather strongly developed, but not reaching the 
tip of the wing ; the same reniark.s apply to the median, whilst the 
cubital is absent. Anal present. 
The wing- veins which are present, as well as the line of the 
absent cubital, are brown-edged ; so that, apart from the anal, five 
double brown longitudinal lines are present and the wings look 
rather darkly striped to the naked eye. 
Transverse veins numerous. In the forewing six between the 
anterior margin of the wing and the first radial branch (these are 
only weak, the rest are stronger) ; four between the first and 
second radial branches ; three between the latter and its successor ; 
and two in the space to the median. In the hindwing the corres- 
ponding numbers are; three, four, two, two. As in the other 
species the number of transverse veins varies. 'I'his species may 
be said to have much better developed wing-veins than all other 
known oecies. 
A’. .ennae with 21 segments. Eyes large, projecting, kidney- 
shaped, broader than long (as seen from above). The whole head 
about times as long as the eye. Lateral borders of the head 
converging posteriorly and slightly rounded. 
1 The terminology employed is that of Enderlein’s Monograph of the 
Embiidae. 
