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mediano area basali nitida; petiolo longitudine multo latiore; 

 area py<;idiali latitudine diiplo latiore, apice rotundato; alis sub- 

 hyalinis, inargine eostali iufuscato; dense baud crasse punctata. 



(J.Feminai similis; clypeo subconvexo, latitudine baud latiore, 

 af>ice truncate; petiolo latitudine sesqui longiore. 



Long. 9, 14 mm.; (J, 9 mm. 



Hah. — Mackay to Cairns, Q. 



Ckrcekis australis Sauss. 



Cerceris australis Sauss., Mem. Soc. Pbysiq. Geneve, xiv., p.6, 

 1855; Cerceris nigrocincta Sm., Cat. Hym. B.M., iv., p. 450, 

 1856. 



5. Nigra; mandibulis, apice excepto, clypeo, margine interiore 

 oculorum latissime, carina frontali, macula pone oculos, pronoto 

 utrinque, scutello macula utrinque, postscutello flavis; antennis 

 subtus, pedibus, segmento abdominali secundo, segmentisque dor- 

 salibus 4-6 fulvo-testaceis; segmento mediano intei'dum macula 

 Hava utrinque ; alis byalinis, cellula radiali obscurata, clypeo 

 apice subporrecto, margine apicali truncato in medio dentibus 

 binis minutis armato; mesopleuris baud tuberculatis; segmento 

 mediano area basali delicatissime punctata, in angulis striata; 

 area pygidiali elongato-ovata; petiolo subquadi'ato, apice con- 

 stricto. 



(J.Feminae similis; clypeo latitudine longiore; petiolo latitudine 

 sesqui longiore. 



Long. 2, 13 mm.; ^, 9 mm. 



9- Vertex, thorax and median segment closely and ratber 

 strongly punctured, abdomen very finely and sparsely punctured. 

 Antennae inserted less than one-half as far again from the anterior 

 ocellus as from the base of the clypeus, second joint of flagellum 

 distinctly longer than the third. 



(J. Abdomen as strongly and closely punctured as the head and 

 thorax. 



ffab. — New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland as far north as 

 Mackay. 



