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Guenee's type and of Grote's sexatilis. I have no note as to whether 

 the type of infiisa lacks them, and they occasionally exist in Mani- 

 toba specimens, but it was not on their absence that the supposed 

 species was based. The costa is not usually very contrasting and 

 occasionally the t. p. line is very indistinct, so I suppose Smith's 

 name should stand for a rather small form possessing these 

 characters, which are not characteristic of the prairie race as a 

 whcle. 



T have a female taken here on September 2nd, 1907, to which 

 the varietal name seems applicable, and have seen a male of the 

 ■species taken at Lethbridge by Mr. Wallis on August 8th, 1912. 



It is practically impossible to distinguish some Manitoba 

 females from some of that sex of British oheUsca Hbn. in my posses- 

 sion, though North American males appear to have finer antennal 

 serrations than males of ohelisca. 



634. E. colata Grt. — ^I saw a male in Smith's collection 

 labelled "Laggan. 6,800 ft.," presumably from Bean. A male 

 taken by Mrs. Nicholl at 8,000 ft. on Wilcox Peak is in the British 

 Museum, and is evidently the same species as the female type 

 there from Mt. Hood, Oregon. A third male, in splendid condition, 

 was taken by Mr. Sanson on the summit of Sulphur Mt., Banff, 

 about 7,200 ft. The species appears to be more closely allied to 

 mollis than to divergens, with which Grote associated it. 



(To be continued.) 



SOME CHALCIDOID HYMENOPTERA FROM NORTH 



QUEENSLAND. 



■BY A. A. GIRAULT, NELSON (CAIRNS), AUSTRALIA. 



(Continued from page 20.) 



Family ELASMID/E. 

 Genus Elasmus Westwood. 



1. Elasmus margiscutellum, n. sp. 



Female. — Length 1.70 mm. 



Dark metallic green, the distal margins of mesopostscutellum 

 and the scutellum margined with lemon yellow. Sides of thorax 

 and legs black, the tegula^, knees, tarsi and distal half or less of 

 intermediate and cephalic femora pale yellowish white, the antenuce 



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