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at basal third beneath, postscutellum lemon at distal half. 

 Mandibles 6-dentate. Head densely punctate. Funicles equal, 

 longer than wide. First femur black above at basal two-thirds. 

 An elongate species. Hind coxa all black. 



Sydney, New South Wales, forest, October, 1917. Also at 

 Gordonvale, bed of Mulgrave River, August, 1918. 



Elasmus voltairei, new species. 



Runs to australiensis but mandibles 6-T dentate, coxa 2 

 green at basal half, all of coxa -3 so, while femur 3 has a 

 broken, rather wide green stripe obliquely cross a bit distad 

 of middle, this stripe broken or interrupted at its middle ; 

 basal half of abdomen beneath red. Head densely punctate. 

 Scape dark along dorsal edge. Base of tegulse lemon, also a 

 cuneate spot between it and axilla. Postscutellum lemon save 

 at base. 



Sydney, forest, October, 1917. 



Elasmus dumasi, new species. 



Like flaz'i postscutellum but above nearly distal two-thirds 

 (distal half below) of abdomen black, the orange part only 

 half this or less and twice the basal green. Also the tegulse 

 are yellow. 



Gordonvale, forest, March. 



Elasmus shellyi, new species. 



Like male cyaneicoca but scape pale, orange of abdomen 

 exceeds by a third the distal metallic (distal third), four times 

 the basal (basal eighth) ; fore femur black along dorsal edge. 

 Mandibles 6-dentate. 



Cairns, forest, July 5, 1918. 



Elasmus silvensis, new species. 



Like kurandaensis but cephalic half scutum metallic save 

 extreme cephalo-lateral corner, cephalic half parapside me- 

 tallic, dot on meson of scutum, hind margin ; scutellum mar- 

 gined all around v/ith yellow, the distal stripe of abdomen is 

 not as long as the distal green, there is a still narrower cross- 

 stripe at over proximal third and across middle four dots, 



