720 CATALOGUE OP THE DESCRIBED HYMENOPTERA OF AUSTRALIA, 



LATERiTius, Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. III. p. 267 (1841-43). 



Australia. 

 MCERENS, Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1868, p. 331 ; Westw. 

 Thes. Ent. Oxen. p. 129, pi. xxiv. fig. 6 (1874) ; Schl 

 I.e. p. 517. 

 Adelaide, S.A. 

 RUBIDUS, Schl. I.e. p. 510. 

 Queensland. 

 290 RUFiTARSis, Westw. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1868, p. 330 ; Schl. 

 l.c. p. 541. 

 Tasmania. 

 RUPUS, Westw. Trans. Ent. Soe. III. p. 266 (1841-43); 

 Westw. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. VI]. p. 538 (1841); 

 Schl. l.c. p. 511. 



81. MEGALYRA. 



Megalyra, Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. III. (1841-43). 



FASCiiPENNis, Westw. I.e. p. 270, pi. xv. fig. 3, $ (1841-43); 

 Westw. Griff. Anim. Kingd. Ins. p. 419, pi. 66, fig. 4, 9- 



Australia. 



82. STEPHANUS. 



Stepharms, Jurine, Nouv. Meth. Hym. et Dipt. I. p. 91 



(1809). 



DAMELLicus, Westw. Thes. Ent. Oxon. p. 126, pi. xxiv. fig. 1 

 (1874). 

 Australia. 



Family CHRYSIDID^. 



We are indebted to Mr. F. Smith of the British Museum for 

 descriptions of nearly all the following species, for until the 

 appearance of his " Revision of the Hymenopterous genera 

 Cleptes, &c." (Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1874), no species of these 

 handsome insects had been described from Australia. There is 

 no doubt that this list will be verv much enlarged when our 

 entomologists take up this group, as the insects are found all over 

 Australia, and are very plentiful in many places. Though most 



