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sculptured than the head, the surface appearing exceedingly min- 

 utely granulated; postscutellum more or less shining in certain 

 aspects; propodeum with close irregular or reticulate rugulosity. 

 Abdomen smooth, shining, with very feeble indefinite punctures, 

 and clothed with excessively short erect hairs. Stigma dark 

 brown usually concolorous or nearly so. 



Hab. Bundaberg and Townsville, Queensland. Bred. 



2. Neodryutus nclsoni, sp. no v. 



Rather like the preceding, but readily distinguished by the 

 antennae, the flagellar joints being black, except the four apical 

 ones. The front tarsi are black or piceous with the chelar claw 

 pale, whitish. The legs generally are darker, sometimes all 

 black, or with posterior tarsi reddish. The bands of the wings 

 are rather darker, and the sculpture of the pronotum different, 

 the posterior division of the pronotum being excessively finely 

 regulose, while the sculpture of the anterior division rather re- 

 sembles that of the posterior division of N. koebelei. More 

 over, the surface of the head is quite dull, not more or less shin- 

 ing. Length as in the preceding. 



Hab. Nelson on the Mulgrave, Queensland. Bred. 



3. Neodryinus raptor, sp. nov. 



Extremely close to A^. nclsoni, but often superficially more 

 like N. koebelei, since the antennae are often almost entirely 

 pale, though shorter. The sixth joint however is never so clear 

 as in the latter, and is often clouded or even black, as also fre- 

 quently are some of the adjoining joints. Structurally the species 

 resembles A^. nclsoni and is abundantly distinct from A^. koe- 

 belei. Length 3.5-5 mm. 



Male. Dififers from A^. koebelei in the colour of the stigma, 

 which is quite pale in the middle, this part contrasting very 

 strongly with the dark margins; the intermediate and posterior 

 tarsi are paler, almost white on the basal joint, and therefore 

 there is a stronger contrast 'between this part and the dark fus- 

 cous or blackish apical joints. The basal joints of the antennae 

 are darker beneath (or in front), being entirely black, or almost 

 so. 



N. raptor var wnbraius, var. nov. 



The second, third, and fourth antennal joints remain more or 



