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outer (lateral) large ones and four small inner ones. Occiput wholly black. 

 Wings hyaline. 



From one specimen, f-inch objective, 1-inch optic, Bausch and Lomb. 



Male: Not known. 



Described from a single female specimen captured while sweep- 

 ing foliage and grass on a forest-meadow near the town of Pro- 

 serpine, Q., November 2, 1912. 



Habitat: Australia, Proserpine, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy. 1278, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the fore- 

 going female on a tag, plus the head crushed in xylol-balsam. 



In my table of the Australian species of the genus, this species 

 falls in with its ally, flavipostscutellum. 



Elasmus cyanella new species. 



Male: Length, 1.50 mm. Like cyaneus but the postscutellum has a trans- 

 verse yellowish line across it and the cephalic femora are as dark as the 

 others, as are also the proximal tarsal joints. The fourth antennal joint 

 of the female is very long, about twice the length of the club; the proxi- 

 mal club-joint forms half of the club. The mandibles are 5-dentate, three 

 small inner teeth, two larger, unequal, outer ones, the second tooth longest. 



From one specimen, magnified as above. 



One male captured by sweeping grass in a forest near Proser- 

 pine, Q., November 3, 1912. This species may be the male 

 either of cyaneus or else of proserpinensis. It nearly agrees with 

 cyaneus in all excepting the yellow on the postscutellum and 

 minor mandibular characters; it differs from proserpinensis in 

 general body coloration and in bearing two less mandibular teeth. 



Habitat: Australia, Proserpine, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy. 1279, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 male on a tag plus the head crushed on a slide in xylol-balsam. 



Elasmus flavipostscutellum Girault. 



This species was captured at Proserpine, Queensland, by sweep- 

 ing grass in a forest, November 3, 1912; a female, also a male at 

 the same time. On this male the band of the abdomen was lemon 

 yellowish with a silvery tinge and the postscutellum had only a 

 lemon yellow stripe across it near base, the caudal coxa j dark 

 only along dorsal margins. 



Elasmus mimiehaha new species. 



Mule: Length, 1.20mm. Dark metallic green the abdomen with a yel- 

 lowish band around it just out from the base; cephalic legs pale yellow, 

 including coxa;; all of tibiae the same color; intermediate and caudal coxa; 

 black except at tips; intermediate femora black except for some distance 

 from each end; caudal femora black at distal half except at tip, pale yel- 



