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fork-cell longer than the cell; posterior cross-vein a little longer 
than the mid, rather more than its own length distant from it; 
scales on the apex of the wing dense. 
Fig. 205. 
Wing of Neomelanoconion chaetoventralis. 9. n. sp. 
Length.— 3/ mm. 
Habitat. —Kumanda, Queensland (Dr. Bancroft). 
Observations .—Described from a single 9 • The abdomen is 
curved downwards, but I am not certain if this is natural. It 
gives the specimen a very characteristic appearance. The last 
three segments are hairy vent rally, and the apex is hairy. The 
wing scales clearly place it in the genus Neomelanoconion. 
Fig. 206. 
Male palp 
and 
proboscis of 
Protomela- 
noconion. 
Genus PR0T0MELAN0C0NI0N. nov. gen. 
Head and thorax clothed with narrow-curved 
scales, the former with dense upright forked scales ; 
palpi of 9 very short, of $ more than three-fourths 
the length of the proboscis ; antennae verticillate in 9 ; 
densely plumose in $ . Lateral vein scales long and 
thin, much as in Neomelanoconion. 
The male palpi are composed of three segments, 
the apical one small and pineapple-shaped, the penul¬ 
timate nearly six times its length, curved and with a 
row of short spines on one side at the apex. 
This genus differs only in that the males have 
shorter palpi than the proboscis. 
