BY WALTER W. FROGGATT. 219 



CHRYSONOTA, Sm. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 304. 



Champion Bay, W.A. 

 CRASSIPES, Sm. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XII. (4) p. 294 (1873). 



S. Australia. 

 FEMORATUS, Sauss. (Tachytes), Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve, XIV. 

 19, fc. 8, fig. VII. (1855); Reise Novara, Hym. p. 74; 

 Sm. Brit. Mus. Cat. Hym. p. 285 (1856). 

 Australia. 

 NiGRiPES, Sauss. Reise Novara, Hym. p. 74. 

 Tasmania. 



151. ASTATA. 

 Astata, Latr. Precis Caract. Ins. (1796). 



.5 AUSTRALASIA, Shuck. Trans. Ent. Soc. II. p. 72 (1837) 

 Australia. 



Family NYSSONID^. 



This group comprises a number of genera, most of which contain 

 only one or two described Australian species. Of the genus 

 Slizus, Latreille, we have one species, *S'. pectoralis, Smith, from 

 Queensland, a large ferruginous-coloured wasp somewhat like a 

 Thynnus, but the shape of the body and the antennae enlarged at 

 the tips plainly show that it does not belong to the latter. The 

 genus Gorytes, Latreille, contains four described species, black 

 insects of medium size, generally variegated with yellow. Most 

 of the members of this family have been described by Smith in 

 the British Museum Catalogue, Part iv. (1856), in the Transac- 

 tions of the Entomological Society (1862-64, 1868, 1869), and 

 in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History for 1873. 



152. LARRA. 



Larra, Klug, Symb. Phys. V. (1829). 



HIRTULA, Sm. Brit. Mus. Cat. Hym. p. 344 (1856). 

 Adelaide, S.A. 



