240 REVISION' OF THE THYNMD.E OF AUSTRALIA, I., 



posteriorly and obliquely truncate. Abdomen cylindrical, finely 

 longitudinally rugulose. Pygidiuni narrow, arched. Chestnut- 

 brown, the three apical abdominal segments rather darker. 

 Length 8 mm. 



Hab.—MRckay, Q (gQ in cop.). 



R. CONSANGUINEUS, n.sp. 



(J. Clypeus with a shining, subpunctured, triangular area, 

 enclosed by slightly raised carinse. Head without frontal carinie, 

 densely punctured. Prothorax shallowly punctured, the anterior 

 margin raised with the lateral angles prominent, broadly emar- 

 ginate. Mesothorax and scutellum strongly punctured, the 

 scutellum narrowly truncate at the apex. Median segment shorty 

 obliquely truncate posteriorly, finely rugulose. Abdominal seg- 

 ments strongly punctured, constricted near the base, the epipy- 

 gium subtriangular, ver}' coarsely punctured. Beneath the 

 segments are marked with a depressed transverse line near the 

 middle, the basal portion finely, the apical strongly punctured. 

 Entirely shining black, with sparse grey pubescence. Length 

 1 1 mm. 



9. Head subquadrate, smooth; prothorax smooth, with a very 

 few fine punctures, rather broader posteriorly than anteriorly, 

 longer than wide. Median segment as long as the prothorax, 

 broadened to the apex, sparsely and finely punctured. Abdomen 

 cylindrical, shining, very finely punctured. Epipygium rounded, 

 with a slight depression on each side near the base, the margins 

 slightly raised. Shining black; the prothorax, median segment, 

 antennae and legs ferruginous; the margins of the abdominal 

 segments and the whole of the apical segment testaceous. Length 

 7 mm. 



Hab. — Albany, W.A. Types in Oxfoid University Museum, 

 ex Coll. Saunders. 



Genus En teles Westw. 



Enteles Westw., Arc. Ent. ii. 2, 143, 1844. 



g. Very closely resembles Rhagigaster, from which it may be 

 distinguished by the broadly rounded or truncated epipygium. 



