BY ROWLAND E. TURNER. 267 



raised. The whole thorax punctured, the scutellum rounded at 

 the apex. Median segment smooth at the extreme Imse, witlj a 

 slight median depression, the remainder of the segment rugulose, 

 most finely near the apex; the segment is obliquely depressed to 

 the apex. Abdomen short, fusiform, delicately punctured; the 

 first segment with a short median sulca from the base. H^^po- 

 pygium broadly rounded, ciliated. Black; antennae, mandibles, 

 clypeus on the apical half, tegula? and legs yellow. Wings 

 hyaline, slightly iridescent, nervures fuscous, testaceous at the 

 base. Length 10-11 mm. 



O. Head rectangular, rather longer than broad, with fine 

 scattered punctures, the front more closel}^ punctured, with a 

 short median frontal sulca. Thorax and median segment sparsely 

 and finely punctured; the prothorax narrowed and rounded 

 anteriorly, as broad on the posterior margin as long; the median 

 segment as long as the prothorax, obliquely truncate at the apex, 

 where it is nearl}^ twice as broad as at the base. Abdomen 

 broader than the thorax, subcylindrical, punctured. Pygidium 

 short, nearly pointed at the apex. Black; ttie antennae fusco- 

 ferruginous; the protliorax, the two basal and tw^o apical abdominal 

 segments, the mandibles, clypeus, anterior legs, all the tarsi and 

 the extreme apex of the intermediate and posterior tibiae ferru- 

 ginous-red. Length 5 mm. 



^a6.— Mackay, Q.((J9 in cop.); Wagga, N. S.W.; Victoria; 

 S. Australia, 



The female from S. Australia has the legs entirely ferruginous 

 and the third and fourth abdominal segments black on the basal 

 half only. 



E. CRASSICEPS, n.sp. 



(J. Clypeus not much produced, with a short carina from the 

 base and an oblique triangular truncation at the apex, the surface 

 of the truncation smooth, the sides very finely punctured. Head 

 very large, very slightly narrowed behind the eyes, densely 

 punctured, a small V-shaped carina between the antennae, the 

 space between the carinas marked with a very faint median carina. 

 Prothorax finely punctured, the anterior margin raised, as broad 



