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2. A. NIGRIPENNIS Sm. 



DimorjjJioptera nigrij^ennis Sm., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1868, 

 p.239(5). 



Myzine nigripennis D.T., Cat. Hym. viii. 125, 1897((^). 



Hah. — A ustralia. 



3. A. NIGRA Sm. 



A. nigra Sm., Cat. Hym. B.M. vii. 59, n.2, 1859((J). 



Thynnns reischii D.T., Cat. Hym. viii. 114, 1897((J). 



This species is almost entirely black, the anterioi- tibise are 

 fuscous and the spines of the tibiae white. Head finely punc- 

 tured, thorax and abdomen finely shagreened. 



^a6._Woodford, Blue Mtns., N. S. W. (G. A. Waterhouse); 

 Victoria (French). 



4. A. AETHIOPS Sm. 



A. aethiops Sm., Descr. n.sp. Hym. p. 175, n.3, 1879((J) 

 Thynnvs stolzii D.T., Cat. Hym. viii. 116, 1897((J). 

 The median segment is short, quadrate and transversely rugu- 

 lose; the scutellum is truncate at the apex. 

 Hah. — Champion Bay, W.A. 



5. A. LONGIPALPA, n.sp. 



(J. Clypeus short, transverse, very slightly emarginate at the 

 apex. Head and thorax finely shagreened; median segment 

 very finely shagreened, shining at the apex, with a faint depressed 

 mark on the disc near the centre. Abdomen very finely 

 shagreened, a fine, short median sulca from the base of the first 

 segment; the apical segment narrowly truncate at the apex. 

 The three apical joints of the maxillary palpi are rather long, 

 the apical one filiform and of a testaceous colour. 



Black, a narrow line on the posterior margin of the pronotum, 

 a transverse line on the postscutellum, a mark at the base of tho 

 posterior tibiae and the spines of the tibiae, yellowish-white; a 

 spot on each side of the epipygium testaceous-yellow. The 

 anterior tibiae ferruginous, the anterior tarsi and the intermediate 



