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This species was described from the Herbert River, Queens- 

 land, from specimens reared from the eggs of Locusta australia. 

 In a forest near Nelson, North Queensland, I captured a male and 

 a female specimen of this species by sweeping grass, April 19, 

 1912. Its original description does not give all the necessary 

 specific characters which I have noted in foregoing. Thus, for 

 this genus, in order to describe species recognizably it is necessary 

 to give not only the sculpturing in detail, but also the degree of 

 wing fumation, the shape of the stigmal spot, the details of the 

 venation and those of coloration. A variation in the coloring of 

 the antenna seems to be correlated with a variation in the vena- 

 tion. Of itself, I think one would hesitate to consider a species 

 of this genus distinct did it differ from another only in the fact 

 that the first two or three antennal joints were of a different color, 

 since a variation of this kind would be expected to occur with 

 many of the species. 



I describe the male herewith: 



Like the female, b\it differing in the following characters: The 

 antennae are as in the male of ovi, but differ in coloration in that 

 they are brown at base, only the first two funicle joints and the 

 pedicel being darker brownish and the tip of the scape blackish; 

 they are alike structurally. One male specimen, captured later, 

 was only two-thirds the size of the others. Later, I found australis 

 common at Nelson, usually accompanying ovi. The following 

 specimens were captured: Two females, four males from surface 

 of the ground in a meadow, May 18, 1912; a female June 6 in the 

 same place; three females on the ground along a road, April 29, 

 1912; two females May 6, on the ground mingled with young 

 danica and finally two females from the ground, along the grassy 

 borders of a tram-line at Nelson, mingled with the young of 

 danica, May 18, 1912. 



In the original description of australis, Froggatt (loc. cit. p. 34, 

 ^F 7) seems to have made a mistake in this statement: "the thoracic 

 segments, which are well defined, are thickly marked with fine 

 parallel stria on the undersurf ace ; these striae are shorter, as there 

 is a smooth shining patch at the junction of each segment." The 

 abdomen was doubtless in mind, since the ventral thorax is like 

 the dorsal, the abdomen striate in my specimens, while both the 

 figure of Froggatt and his statements to me in a letter bear this 

 out. 



3. Scelio froggatti Crawford. 



This species was described in the Proceedings of the United 

 States National Museum (Washington, D. C., U. S. A.), vol. 41, 

 1911, from Childers, Queensland. On December 24, 1911, while 

 sweeping along the floor of a forest on the coast of North Queens- 



