BY R. E. TURNER. 619 



(J.Head finely rugulose; clypeus without a carina; eyes slightly 

 convergent towards the vertex, separated at the base of the clypeus 

 by a distance equal to twice the length of the scape, posterior ocelli 

 as far from each other as from the eyes; a low longitudinal carina 

 from the anterior ocellus nearly reaching the base of the clypeus. 

 Second joint of the fiagellum distinctly longer than the third. 

 Mesopleurae rugose, sides of the median segment obliquely striated. 

 Thorax coarsely rugose; the pronotum about twice as broad as 

 long, the anterior angles produced into short spines; median seg- 

 ment coarsely rugose, abruptly truncate posteriorly. Abdomen 

 shining, finely and closely punctured. First recurrent nervure 

 received near the apex of the first cubital cell, second interstitial 

 with the second transverse cubital nervure; second abscissa of the 

 radius shorter than the first, third longer than the first and second 

 combined. 



//a&._Kuranda, Q.; May to July. One male, in the Brisbane 

 Museum, from Stradbroke Island. 



Easily distinguished by the colour of the abdomen, and the 

 spines at the angles of the pronotum. Fairly common on dead 

 Eucalyptus trees. 



Subfamily Philaxthin*. 



CeRCERIS ALASTOROIDBS, sp.n. 



9. Nigra; mandibulis, clypeo, fronte sub antennis, fascia pone 

 oculos, macula utrinque pone oculos, antennis, prothorace, meso- 

 pleuris maculis duabus antice, scutello, postscutello, segmento 

 mediano area basali lateribusque late, abdornine, segmento tertio 

 excepto, pedibusque rufo-aurantiacis ; alis flavo-hyalinis, apice 

 inf uscatis, venis testaceis, apice fuscia; clypeo apice late rotundato 

 in medio denticulato, mesopleuris baud tuberculatis, segmento 

 ventral i secundo area basali elavata nulla. Long. 12 mm. 



9. Clypeus large, without a lamina, the middle lobe as long as 

 its apical breadth; the apical margin very broadly rounded, with 

 a distinct blunt tooth in the middle. Head, thorax, and abdo- 

 men strongly punctured; antenna? inserted as far from the 

 clypeus as from the anterior ocellus, the second joint of the 

 fiagellum longer than the third; the frontal carina narrow and 



