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terior ocellus is a shining, slightly depressed area ; postocellar area 

 defined laterally, with a longitudinal impressed line in the middle ; 

 eyes very prominent, almost circular in outline ; malar space large ; 

 antennal club longer than any other joint, broadest in the middle; 

 dorsulum and scutellum opaque, with fine punctures ; lobes of the 

 scutellum obtuse ; sheath obliquely truncate. Head and thorax above 

 brownish-ferruginous, with the pronotum, a little paler ; tergum ex- 

 cept the sides and apex bright reddish-yellow ; sides and apex of the 

 tergum, pleurae just beneath wings and the sheath dark brownish- 

 black ; venter, pectus, most of pleurae, legs except the infuscate middle 

 tibiae and tarsi the blackish posterior tibise and tarsi cream color; an- 

 tennae blackish, the apical two-thirds of the club pallid. Wings yel- 

 lowish hyaline, iridescent; venation dark brown, stigma reddish. 



Type locality : Kuranda, Queensland, Australia ; paratype 

 from Cairns, Queensland. Collected by Mr. R. E. Turner. 



Type : British Museum of Natural History. 



Paratype: Cat. No. 13,357 U. S. N. M. 



In color related to P. cameroni Westwood, but the second 

 cubital cell is not longer than the first, and the pleurae and 

 venter are paler than the body. 



Perga froggatti, new species. 



Female. Length, 14 mm. Clypeus and posterior orbits shining, 

 with large, widely separated punctures ; head and thorax opaque, with 

 close, small punctures; club of the antennae longer than the three 

 preceding joints, the apex rounded; scutellum with two lateral lobes; 

 second cubital cell quadrate; the third cubital cell as long as one and 

 two combined ; legs normal. Dark reddish brown ; the tibiae and 

 abdomen a little paler. Wings yellowish hyaline, iridescent ; venation 

 the color of the body. 



Type locality : New South Wales, No. 222. 

 Paratype locality: Cumberland, New South Wales. 

 Type : In the British Museum of Natural History. 

 Paratype : Cat. No. 13,358 U. S. N. M. 



Perga lucida, new species. 



Female. Length, 14 mm. Head and thorax shining with large, 

 sparse punctures, the punctures closer on the middle lobe of the meso- 

 notum ; scutellum flat, with very small apical lobes ; mesonotum with 

 the anterior lobe well defined ; antennas longer than the three preced- 

 ing joints, rounded at the apex; second cubital cell not quadrate; 

 third cubital cell much wider on the cubitus; legs normal. Shining 



