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except on lateral basal areae, which are smooth and bounded 

 by crenulated furrows ; first area the larger, and transversely 

 triangular ; second smaller, and more semicircular in shape ; 

 third still smaller. Suturiform articulation deep, crenulated : 

 there are narrower, crenulated furrows near apex of third 

 and fourth, the extreme apex being smooth. Length, 11: 

 ovipositor, 8 mm. 



Gin Gin, Queensland; on 13th October (W. W. Froggatt). 



The plate below the antennae is short, broad, rounded, and 

 with a broad keel down the middle; the face is shagreened, 

 depressed on either side of the middle. Face with a few 

 long black hairs ; oral region and lower part of head densely 

 with longish white pubescence. Legs densely covered with 

 white hair. Black cloud at base of transverse basal nervure 

 roundly incised, before transverse median obliquely narrowed 

 below. 



Bracon froggattii, sp.n. 



9 • Black, shining, pro- and mesothorax with scutellum 

 red, sides of first abdominal segment white ; covered, especi 

 ally above, with white pubescence, which is longer on thorax 

 than on back of abdomen : legs black, densely covered with 

 short white pubescence. Wings uniformly dark fuscous, 

 stigma and nervures black ; basal two abscissae of radius 

 united as long as third ; second cubital cellule four times 

 longer than wide; recurrent nervure interstitial. Length, 5; 

 terebra, 1 mm. 



Reedy Creek, near Inverell ; in September (W. W. Frog- 

 gatt). 



First abdominal segment about thrice longer than wide, 

 roundly curved, central black pai't of equal width ; it is fully 

 one-quarter longer than second, which is wider than long. 

 It has a smooth keel, triangularly dilated at base on basal 

 half ; suturiform articulation distinct, crenulated and with- 

 out a distinct apical lateral branch ; it is the only furrow. 

 Parapsidal furrows narrow but distinct, extending from base 



