OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XV, 1913. 5 



From the species choctoicetes Froggatt, ovi differs in having t lie- 

 proximal funicle joint of the antenna red, the wings darker and 

 all the abdominal segments in the dorsal aspect longitudinally 

 striate; also probably in venation, but the description does not 

 allow comparison. 



From 15 specimens, 2-3 inch objective, 1-inch optic, Bausch 

 & Lomb. 



Male. The same, but differing in abdominal and antennal 

 characters. Thus, the abdomen is blunt at extreme apex; the 

 antennae are 10-jointed, less compressed fusiform, but the middle 

 of the flagellum widest; the first funicle joint is not so long and 

 the following joints not so wide; the scape and pedicel are nearly 

 black, the first three funicle joints with more brownish but still 

 dark, the remaining joints reddish-brown like the legs. Antennae 

 with very fine, close white pubescence. Joint 3 of funicle widest, 

 cup-shaped, the second joint intermediate in length between the 

 first and third. 



From two specimens, the same magnification. 



Described from 15 female and 2 male specimens reared from 

 an acridiid egg-mass found in alluvial soil in a cane field adjoin- 

 ing the Mulgrave River at Nelson (Cairns), North Queensland, 

 April 8 to 10', 1912; also 2 females captured on the surface of the 

 ground along a bare strip in a paddock or meadow near acridiid 

 egg-masses; the same general locality, dark compact soil, April 

 19, 1912. The first eggs mentioned were most likely those of 

 Locusta danica Linnaeus, which has been very numerous at Nelson 

 the past several months, but Locusta australis has also been 

 mixed in with it to a certain extent. 



Subsequently the following specimens were found in my col- 

 lections: Five females captured from the surface of the ground 

 along a road, April 29, 1912; a female June 10, 1912, at light in 

 the evening at a private residence; a pair taken by sweeping in 

 a forest at Nelson, February 16, 1912; a female similarly captured, 

 January 29, 1912; three males captured with a female of australis 

 from the ground in a meadow, Nelson, June, 6, 1912; and a female 

 from the ground among the young of danica, May 6, 1912. 



Habitat: Australia North Queensland, East Coast (Cairns 

 District). 



Types: No. Hy / 989, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 2 males 

 2 females, tag mounted. 



Cotypes: Catalogue No. 15250, U. S. National Museum, Wash- 

 ington, D. C., 4 females remounted on tags from alcohol. 



2. Scelio australis Froggatt. 



Scelio australis Froggatt, 1910, Farmer's Bulletin No. 29, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, New South Wales, Sydney, pp. 34-35, figures 

 1, la. 



