BY WALTER W. FROGGATT. 15 



Wales, and is much dreaded by bushmen on account of its 

 severe sting. It is most likely this species which stung 

 Major Mitchell ("Three Expeditions," &c, Vol. I., p. 104), 

 and not Abispa australiana, Mitch., as generally stated. 



Several of the most interesting specimens belong to the 

 family Thynnidce ; and though so many species of this large 

 family are restricted in their range, no part of Australia is 

 without some representative of this fine group. Australia is the 

 home of Thynnus, the only other parts of the world in which 

 the species are found being several of the islands in the Pacific, and 

 the western coast line of South America. According to Cresson's 

 Catalogue the genus does not extend into North America. 



14. Thynnus sp. (3 2s). 



The females being wingless, often quite unlike in markings, and 

 not one-third the size of, the males, it is almost an impossi- 

 bility to determine a species from female specimens alone. 



15. Thynnus pulchralis, Smith. 



This beautiful wasp was described from South Australia, and is 

 figured in Brenchley's "Cruise of the Curacoa" (1873). It 

 has also been recorded from Rockhampton and Port Denison, 

 Queensland, and the northern parts of New South Wales. 



16. Thynnus Brenchleyi, Smith. 



This distinctly marked insect was named by Smith after 



Brenchley, who captured it at Champion Bay, W.A., and 



presented the specimen to the British Museum. This species 



is not represented in any of the collections in Australia, and 



Mr. Musson's capture of it on the opposite side of the 



continent, almost in the same latitude (Champion Bay being 



about 100 miles north of Narrabri), is a very remarkable 



discovery. 



While referring to this group I should like to call attention to 



another species described and figured in Brenchley's work, under 



the name T. conspicuus. Smith, from the N.W. coast of Australia. 



A number of specimens of this species are in the Macleay 



Museum, which were taken by me feeding on the flowers of 



