Vol. xxi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 467 



Some Australian Sawfltes. 

 By S. A. ROHWER, Washington, D. C. 



Through the kindness of Mr. R. E. Turner, while in Lon- 

 don last year, I had the pleasure of studying many specimens 

 of Australian Tenthredinoidea belonging to him. The follow- 

 ing species proved to be new. The Australian Tenthredinoid 

 fauna is very different from any other region the genus slr^c 

 being the only genus which is not restricted to the island and 

 its immediate environs, excepting the introduced Eriocampoi- 

 dcs lainaciiia (Retz.) Two species are described from the 

 collections of the British Museum of Natural History, and all 

 the types of all the species are in this Museum. Paratypes of 

 some of the species collected by Mr. Turner are in the United 

 States National Museum. 



Perga rubripes, new species. 



Female. Length, 16 mm. Head, excepting the shining clypeus and 

 posterior orbits, and thorax opaque, with fine, close punctures ; an- 

 tennal club nearly as long as the three preceding joints, rounded at 

 the apex; lobes of the scutellum broad, obtuse, projecting posteriorly 

 so as to form a nearly straight line with the sides of the scutellum ; 

 venation very like b'ella Newman. Black ; head behind the supra- 

 orbital line, most of the posterior orbits, sides of the anterior lobe of 

 mesonotum, and the scutellum dull rufous ; middle of the clypeus, man- 

 dibles (apices piceous), legs below the coxae, and the two apical ab- 

 dominal segments shining rufo-testaceous ; antennae, a spot at the 

 base of each antenna, margin of the clypeus, narrow posterior orbits, 

 line on pronotum, tegulas, lateral line on the side lobes of the meso- 

 notum, line on the pleura, spot above the posterior coxa, and seven 

 lateral spots on the abdomen white. Wings hyaline, iridescent ; vena- 

 tion testaceous. 



Type locality: Tasmania. Two females. 



Type: In the British Museum of Natural History. 



Related to P. foeresteri Westwood, but that species has 

 the lobes of the scutellum extending laterally so as to form an 

 angle with the sides of the scutellum. 



Perga leucomelas, new species. 



Female. Length, 12.5 mm. Clypeus impunctate, slightly emargin- 

 ate; head quadrate, dulled by small punctures; in front of the an- 



