BY ROWLAND E. TURNER. 257 



■subcyliiidrical. Ferruginous-brown; the abdomen fuscous, except 

 the apical segment. Length 9 mm. 



Hah. — Adelaide. 



The male closely resembles Eirone ruficomis 8m., in general 

 appearance. 



L cuBiTALis, n.sp. 



^. Clypeus slightly advanced, truncate at the apex, a median 

 carina from the base ending in a minute tubercle a little before 

 the apex, very tinely punctured. Head densely punctured, 

 narrowed behind the eyes, with two small tubercles between the 

 autemiaB. Prothorax shining, very finely punctured, the anterior 

 margin raised, with a faint, depressed, shining line behind the 

 margin. Mesothorax punctured, the scutellum subtriangular, 

 narrowly rounded at the apex. Median segment delicately 

 reticulate, slender. Abdomen subpetiolate fusiform, shining, with 

 minute shallow punctures and long cinereous pubescence on the 

 sides of the apical segments Black; the antennae from the third 

 to the eighth joints, the mandibles at the apex, the tibise, tarsi, 

 <ind posterior femora ferruginous; the mandibles at the base, a 

 narrow line on the anterior margin of the clypeus, a narrow, 

 interrupted line on the anterior margin of the prothorax and a 

 narrow transverse line on the postscutellum, creamy-white. 

 Wings hyaline, slightly iridescent, nervures dark fuscous. 

 Length 7 mm. 



9. Head rectangular, longer than wide, slightly rounded at the 

 posterior angles, shining, with a few minute punctures, a very 

 short median frontal sulca, front between the antennae deeply 

 emarginate. Thorax and median segment with sparse, large, 

 elongate punctures, prothorax rectangular, longer than broad, 

 rather narrower than the head; median segment longer than the 

 prothorax, moderately broadened to the apex. Abdomen C3''lin- 

 drical, more closely punctured than the thorax, the apical portion 

 of the epipygium smooth with a longitudinal median carina. 

 Eirst abdominal segment beneath with a minute tubercle at the 



