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into a blunt tubercle at the base of the mandibles, and with a 

 long curled beard of pale fulvous hairs. Prothorax short, the 

 anterior margin slightly raised, sparsely and shallowly punctured. 

 Mesothorax and scutellum coarsely punctured; median segment 

 very finely punctured at the base, finely reticulate on the apical 

 portion, with grey pubescence on the sides. Abdomen shining, 

 subpunctate, the first segment with a median sulca from the 

 base, not quite reaching the apex; second segment depressed and 

 slightly constricted at the base. Hypopygium prominent, witli 

 a median carina beneath, strongly narrowed near the base, then 

 gradually widened to the apex, which is strongly emarginate on 

 each side of the long apical spine, which is slightly recurved, the 

 apical angles are produced into short spines. Black; the man- 

 dibles on their inner margin and the legs, except the coxae and 

 trochanters, ferruginous. The pubescence on the head and disc 

 of the thorax pale fulvous, elsewhere grey. A few fulvous hairs 

 on the apical margin of the hypopygium. Length 10-14 mm. 



9. Unknown. 



Ilab. — Victoria (French). 



T. PiLOSULA Sm. 



Aelurus pilosulus Sm., Cat. Hym. B.M. p. 56, n.lO, 1859((J). 



The clypeus is finely punctured, with a delicate carina from 

 the base to the apex; the head and thorax are finely rugulose, 

 the scutellum punctured, the median segment delicately reticu- 

 late. The abdomen is finely coriaceous, the epip3^gium shallowly 

 punctured. The hypopygium is subtriangular with two or three 

 small lateral notches and a short apical spine. 



Hab. — Victoria; Sydney, N. ►S.W. 



T. COM BUST A Sm. 

 Aelurus combustus Sm., Cat. Hym. B.M. vii. 55, n.9, 1859((J). 

 Hub. — Moreton Bay. 



T. AURIFRONS Sm. 

 Aelurus aurifroiis Sm., Cat. Hym. B.M. vii. 55, n.9, 1859((J). 

 The head and thorax are rugose and opaque, the prothorax 

 and median segment shining and rugulose. Abdomen shining, 

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