262 KEVLSION OF THE THYNNID^ OF AUSTRALIA, I., 



carina, not reaching the apex, which is pointed. Shining casta- 

 neons-brown, abdominal segments 2-5 stained with black. Length 

 6 mm. 



Hab. — Melbourne (Bakewell). 



Types in Oxford University Museum. 



E. INCONSPICUA, n.sp. 



(J. Clypeus short, without a triangular truncation at the apex; 

 head delicatel}^ punctured, with a short, faint sidca between the 

 antennae. Anterior margin of the prothorax moderately raised; 

 the whole thorax punctured. The median segment finely reticulate. 

 Abdomen finely punctured, the median sulca on tlie first segment 

 extending from the base more than half-way to the apex, segments 

 2-4 with an impressed transverse line near the base, and with a 

 raised mark on each side near the apical margin, the marks 

 indistincth^ connected and widely emarginate in the centre. 

 Shining black, with white pubescence; the postscutellum white; 

 the mandibles, antennae and the tarsi of the anterior legs fusco- 

 ferruginous. Wings hyaline, iridescent, nervures black. Length 

 6 mm. 



9. Unknown. 



Hah. — Cairns, Q. 



Allied to E. imrca. 



E. PARCA, n.sp. 



(J. Clypeus hardly at all advanced, without a basal carina or 

 oblique truncation, transversely truncate at the apex, very 

 delicately punctured, pubescent at the sides. Head finel}- punc- 

 tured, with a very delicate longitudinal carina from the vertex to 

 the anterior ocellus. Prothorax long, the anterior margin raised, 

 except in the middle, very finel}'' and closely punctured, as is also 

 the mesothorax, which is very short. Scutellum subtriangular, 

 narrowly truncate at the apex, rather more sparsely punctured. 

 Median segment finely reticulate, almost smooth at the base. 

 Abdonien fusiform, very delicately and closely punctured, the 

 first segment with a short sulca from the base; segments 2-4 with 

 a raised mark on each side near the apical margin, and with the 



