liY ROWLAND E. TURNER. 245 



antennae the ends reacliing the transverse carina, tlie enclosed 

 space longitudinally rugulose with a smooth line immediately 

 below the transverse carina. Clypeus with two carinte diverging 

 from the base but not reaching the apex, the space between them 

 elevated, narrow and rugulose, the sides of the clypeus punctured. 

 Prothorax obscurely transversely rugulose. Mesothorax and 

 scutellum coarsely and rather sparsely punctured. Median seg- 

 ment almost smooth, vertically truncate posteriorly, the posterior 

 angles prominent. Abdominal segments slightly constricted at 

 the base, sparsely punctured; the epipygium truncate at the apex, 

 irregularly longitudinally striated. Hypopygiura with the usual 

 recurved aculeus armed with a strong blunt tooth on the upper 

 surface. First abdominal segment beneath with a tubercle near 

 the base. Black, the abdomen fusco-ferruginous, the legs 

 testaceous-yellow, the coxse black and the tarsi obscure fuscous. 

 [Wings missing]. Length 19 mm. 



}[ah. — A ustralia. 



I'ype in Oxford University Museum, ex Coll. Westwood. 



E. INTEGER Fab. 



Thynmis inteyir Fab,, Syst. Ent. p. 360, n.3, \llb{$). 



Rhaglgaster utteger Sm., Cat. Hym. B.M. vii. 60, 1859((J). 



Smith has published a good description of this insect. The 

 type, which is as far as I know still unique, is in good condition 

 in the Banksian Collection. Probably, like most of the Australian 

 insects in that collection, it was taken at Cooktown, Q. 



E. DECEPTOR 8m. 



Thynnus deceptor Sm., Descr. n.sp. Hym. p. 169, n.30, 1&79((J). 



$ The clypeus has a prominent A-shaped carina, the front is 

 produced over the base of the antennae, and there is a short 

 transverse carina below the anterior ocellus. The median seg- 

 ment is vertically truncate posteriorly, and the abdomen is finely 

 and densely punctured. Epipygium strongly longitudinally 

 striated, broadly truncate at tlie apex with a very slight median 



