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mandible orange-brown with dark red tip, anterior faces of 
fore and mid tibia and inner faces fore and mid tarsi yellow- 
brown, tarsi with outer faces brown, metasomal terga with 
posterior margins translucent brown, sterna dark brown.— 
Clypeus densely punctate, supraclypeal area impunctate, 
polished; frons with strong, dense, medium punctures, 
fovea not impressed; scutum, scutellum and mesepisternum 
strongly and densely punctate, polished; metanotum with 
fine contiguous punctures; propodeal triangle coarsely 
rugose basally, propodeum laterally with large, contiguous 
punctures; metasomal terga strongly punctate except wide 
apical margins.— Face below mid frons densely covered 
with adpressed, silver-white pubescence; vertex with close, 
pale brown, erect, plumose hair; gena with similar white 
hair; scutal hair long, open, white and finely plumose; 
scutellum and metanotum with long, sparse, pale brown, 
finely plumose hair, denser around margins; metasomal T1 
with long, open, white hair on basal half, Tl,2 with white 
hair apicolaterally, T2-4 with broad basal bands of close 
white hair; S3,4 with long apical fringes, slightly shorter 
medially, S6 with weak fringe around apex but no apical tuft. 
Female.— Head width 2.3 mm, body length 7.5 mm. Relative 
measurements: HW 50, HL 46, UID 38, UFW 40, LID 33, 
HVO 2, WOC 19, OOD 10, IAD 9, ASD 4, AOD 9, SL 16, 
SW 4, FL 27. —Inner orbits convergent ventrally; clypeus 
transversely convex, base protruding in front of eye viewed 
laterally; labrum uniformly convex, smooth and polished 
(Fig. 5); mandible narrow with weak, rounded outer ridge; 
flagellum 0.54x as long as head width; metanotum with 
weak nodule; propodeum subhorizontal basally, rounding 
smoothly onto vertical half. Hind basitibial plate carinate, 
apically rounded; inner hind tibial spur with ca 5 well¬ 
spaced teeth; pygidial plate emarginate.— Integument black 
except flagellum brown, mandible amber with dark red 
tip, tibiae and tarsi with interior faces brown, metasomal 
terga with posterior margins translucent brown. —Clypeus 
polished, densely punctured except apically and along 
medial line; supraclypeal area impunctate, polished; frons 
with smaller contiguous punctures; fovea weakly impressed 
with indistinct margins, impunctate and dull, reaching 
lateral ocellus, as wide as basal width scape; scutum and 
scutellum densely punctate; metanotum with fine contiguous 
punctures; propodeal triangle coarsely rugose basally, 
propodeum laterally with dense, round punctures; metasomal 
terga polished, densely punctate except on broad posterior 
margins; sterna with punctures sparse basally becoming 
dense apically; pygidial plate not striate, but with fine, 
whorled lineolation like a fingerprint.— Face with small 
area of dense, plumose, white pubescence between antennal 
socket and eye margin; frons and clypeus closely covered 
with weakly-branched, erect, fine, curly hair (Fig. 5); vertex 
sparsely covered with weakly-branched, straight hair; scutum 
and scutellum closely to densely covered with very short, 
tightly-branched brown hair, becoming paler and longer 
around margins; mesepisternum closely covered with long, 
white, plumose hair; hind tibial scopa white; hind basitarsus 
with fringe of long white plumose hair on posterior margin; 
metasomal T1 with dense white hair apicolaterally, T2-4 
with close white hair bands basally (usually obscured by 
preceding tergum) and broad, dense, white, apical hair bands, 
interrupted medially on T2; prepygidial fimbria brown; S5 
with dense, pale brown apical fringe. 
Remarks. The sexes were associated by the shape of the 
labrum. A male and 3 females were taken in a single pan trap 
left in place for six hours, and specimens from the Charleville 
area were collected within days and a few kilometres of 
each other. 
Etymology. The specific name is a Latin adjective meaning 
curly, referring to the facial hair of the female. 
Leioproctus (Protomorpha) gibber Batley n.sp. 
Type specimens. Holotype S Ethabuka Station, Queens¬ 
land (23.756°S 138.474°E), 21 Apr 2012, M. Batley, ex 
Scaevola parvibarbata, in AM (K362309). 
Paratypes (9, all deposited in AM): Queensland: 
c?, Ethabuka Station (23.748°S 138.474°E and 
23.758°S 138.483°E), 14 Apr 2012, M. Batley ,exScaevola 
depauperata (K362310, K362311, K362354, K362355); § 
Field River (23.922°S 138.119°E), 18 Apr 2012, M. Batley, 
ex Scaevola depauperata (K362312); 9, Ethabuka Station 
(23.738°S 138.467°E), 21 Apr 2012, M. Batley, ex Scaevola 
depauperata (K362356); 2$$ Field River (23.804°S 
138.055°E), 22 Apr 2010, T. Popic, ex Scaevolaparvibarbata 
(K362313-4); $ Kunnamuka Swamp (23.355°S 138.230°E), 
23 Nov 2010, T. Popic, ex Scaevola parvibarbata (K362315). 
Diagnosis 
Female with large protuberance on vertex and stiff, pale 
orange setae across frons (Fig. 6). Male with slight projection 
on vertex, hind tibia with two large, almost straight spurs. 
Both sexes have mandibles with a prominent outer ridge and 
no preapical tooth. 
Descriptions 
Male.— Head width 1.9 mm, body length 5.7 mm. Relative 
measurements: HW 50, HL 44, UID 34, UFW 30, LID 23, 
HVO 0.7, WOC 19, OOD 9, IAD 8, AOD 6, SL 14, SW 
4, FL 34. Vertex of head weakly elevated medially; inner 
orbits strongly convergent ventrally; clypeus almost flat 
basally, gently convex on apical quarter; antennal sockets 
level with front of eye viewed laterally; mandible simple 
with prominent outer ridge; labrum basally, convex with 
medial depression, apically concave; flagellum 0.68x 
as long as head width; metanotum with weak nodule; 
propodeal triangle subhorizontal basally, separated abruptly 
from vertical half but not carinate. Hind femur almost flat 
ventrally; hind tibia moderately broad, maximum width 
0.27x length, bearing 8 stiff, apically bent setae, the most 
distal being particularly large and flattened (Fig. 12); hind 
tibial spurs large, almost straight, inner distinctly pectinate, 
outer 0.75x as long as inner; hind basitarsus dished, width 
0.40x length, with small apical extension of anterior margin. 
Metasomal T2 with postgradular area weakly depressed; 
S6 with polished medial ridge; S7,8 and genitalia as in 
Figs. 24-26. —Integument black except flagellum brown, 
mandibles orange-brown with dark red tips, anterior face 
fore tibia and fore tarsus yellow-brown, mid and hind 
tarsi dark brown, metasomal terga dark brown or black 
with posterior margins translucent brown, sterna dark 
