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fined by two curved raised lines which meet before the middle of the 

 segment and continue to the apex as a strong median carina; also 

 with an oblique carina on each side from the anterior angle to the 

 posterior margin enclosing an obliquely rugose area, external to this 

 is another similar rugose area that extends only to the middle of the 

 segment. Third segment irregularly longitudinally rugose on basal 

 third, without very distinctly separated anterior angles; fourth seg- 

 ment smooth except at extreme base, anterior angles not separated; 

 following segments entirely smooth and shining. Pleurae smooth ex- 

 cept for some delicate oblique aciculations on the propleura anteriorly 

 and for a few fine scattered punctures on the metapleura. Last 

 ventral segment prominent. Outer edge of stigma nearly twice as 

 long as the inner; recurrent nervure received at apical fifth of first 

 cubital cell; second section of radius three times as long as the first. 

 This species is similar to the Papuan 7. nova (juinensis Szep., but 

 difi'ers greatly in the sculpture of the abdomen, especially on the first 

 segment. 



AusTROOPius NOVA GUiNEENSis Szepligcti. 



Termes. fuzetek, 1900, 23, p. 64. 



There is one specimen from Ugi, British Solomon Islands. The 

 species was originally described from New Guinea. 



Cardiochiles similis, sp. nov. 



Type. — M. C. Z. 9,059. Solomons: Santa Cruz, Graciosa Bay. 

 W. M. Mann. 



cf. Length 4.5 mm. Black, conspicuously clothed with white 

 pubescence, especially on the posterior part of the mesonotum and the 

 scutellum. Mandibles, except base and apex ferruginous; anterior 

 legs with the tips of the femora and the tibiae and tarsi fulvous; 

 spurs of four posterior tibiae whitish; palpi piceous; first abdominal 

 segment reddish at the sides; posterior margins of segments 2-4 

 whitish. Wings deeply infuscated, with a subhyaline band across the 

 middle. Head slightly more than twice as broad as thick, the occiput 

 scarcely excavated; eyes densely hairy, their inner margins weakly 

 convergent below; malar groove almost as long as the width of the 

 mandibles at base; face shining, minutely punctate, without median 

 carina, but with a small median tubercle below the antennae; face, 



