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margin of the fuscation convex; slightly distad of the middle, 

 where a rather broad band crosses, not quite its own length from 

 the end of the stigmal vein, and obscurely under the marginal vein. 

 Scape more or less brownish along proximal half. Coxse black. 

 Venation brown. Posterior wings clear. Head and thorax with a 

 scaly, polygonal reticulation, the propodeum less scaly, smooth and 

 shiny between the median carinae. 



Differs from the type of the genus {morrilli Howard) in being 

 black, in having the flagellum uniformly black, the wings more 

 conspicuously and differently f umated , the greater size, and in having 

 joints 4 and 5 of the funicle longest of that region; also, the abdo- 

 men is not distinctly petiolate, but only tapers at base — slender 

 there. The following important structural characters are noted: 

 The thorax is rather peculiar, for there is a mesopraescutum present 

 at the meson cephalad of the scutum, and which is moderately 

 large and subquadrate; the pronotum is short at the meson, but 

 dorso-laterally long, extending broadly halfway down the scutum 

 (but not by far to the tcgulae), then curving off; the axillae are 

 small, but distinct, not advanced into the parapsides and widely 

 separated. Scutellum subquadrate, as long as the scutum, the 

 latter with a m.edian grooved line. Parapsidal furrows complete, 

 short, curved, the parapsides short and wedge-shaped, with the 

 base of the wedge mxsad. Propodeum with a carina on each side 

 of the meson, the two rather widely separated; the spiracle minute 

 and round, near postscutellar margin. Tarsi 5-jointed. Ovi- 

 positor not exserted. 



(From one specim.en, ^-inch objective, 1-inch optic, Bausch 

 and Lomb.) 



Male. — Not known. 



Described from asingle female specimen captured by sweeping 

 grass and foliage in a forest at Nelson, N. Q., December 13, 1912 

 (A. P. Dodd). Other specim.ens were captured a few weeks later in 

 the same place. 



Habitat. — Australia, Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type. — In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 female in xylol-balsam. 



[Dedicated to Ernest Renan.] 



