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PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA, 11., 



again, is bordered on the inner side by an irregularly crenu- 

 lated furrow. The central part is finely rugose, divided into 

 two almost equal parts by a narrow smooth furrow ; the apical 

 part is depressed in the middle. 



Except for the large alar cloud, this species does not differ 

 from typical Podagrion, which have long been known to live 

 in the egg-cases of Mantis. 



Perilampins. 



Perilampus tasmanicus, sp.n. 



Dark blue, largely tinged with violaceous, head with the 

 violaceous tints more extended than they are on the thorax ; 

 a fiery red spot on the apex of the raesonotum on the sides, and 

 another on the apex of the mesopleurse above the middle ; the 

 ventral abdominal segments are lighter, more greenish in 

 tint ; apex of the second, and the apical dark red, the third 

 green ; legs dark blue to the apex of the femora, hind tibiae 

 almost black ; knees, base and apex of tibiae, and tarsi testa- 

 ceous ; wings hyaline, nervures dark fuscous ; antennae black, 

 densely covered with white pile; the underside fuscous. 5. Length, 

 3 mm. 



Hobart, Tasmania, (A. M. Lea). 



Head somewhat strongly striated ; striae clearly defined, 

 longitudinal on the vertex and front, roundly curved on the 

 top of the former ; occiput more closely and finely, trans- 

 versely striated. Pro- and mesonotum and scutellum umbili- 

 cally, rather strongly punctate, basal slope of the pronotum 

 smooth; metanotum irregularly, obliquely striated. There is 

 an oblique keel down the propleurae before the middle, divid- 

 ing the part into two, the basal (and smaller) irregularly 

 striated, the apical smooth. Mesopleurse with a quadrate, 

 smooth depression, longer than wide, on the upper basal half 



