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9. Rhagigaster h^emorrhoidalis. B.M. 



Rhagigaster haemorrhoidalis, Guer. Mag. Zool. (1842) 2<? . 

 Hab. Australia (Swan River). 



10. Rhagigaster dimidiatus. 



Male. Length 9 lines. — Head, antennae, thorax, anterior legs, 

 and the intermediate and posterior coxae, black; the intermediate 

 and posterior tibiae, tarsi, and femora, and also the abdomen, 

 ferruginous ; the head and thorax with a thin cinereous pubes- 

 cence ; the wings fusco-hyaline ; the disk of the thorax trans- 

 versely rugose ; the abdomen with scattered shallow punctures ; 

 a transverse line on each segment a little before its apical margin, 

 the intervening space very closely punctured ; the terminal seg- 

 ment rounded at the apex and coarsely longitudinally rugose. 



Female. Length 5 lines. — Black, elongate, with the inter- 

 mediate and posterior legs, the anterior tarsi, and the two apical 

 segments of the abdomen, ferruginous; the head, thorax, and 

 basal segment of the abdomen with deep punctures, the second 

 segment transversely and finely striated, the apical segment lon- 

 gitudinally striated. 



Hab. Australia (Sydney). 



11. Rhagigaster obtusus. 



Male. Length 8 lines. — Black, slightly shining, and thinly 

 covered with griseous pubescence ; head roughly punctured, the 

 clypeus widely emarginate. Thorax roughly punctured ; the 

 prothorax with elongate transverse punctures, the anterior margin 

 reflexed; the metathorax truncated, the truncation hollowed 

 out on each side and transversely rugose ; the disk very coarsely 

 punctured ; the wings subhyaline, the nervures black. Abdomen 

 elongate, subcylindrical, strongly punctured ; each segment has 

 an impressed transverse line a little before the apical margin, 

 the space between which and the margin is more finely and 

 much more closely punctured ; each segment with an oblique, 

 smooth, shining elevation on each side; the apical segment 

 rounded at the apex and longitudinally coarsely rugose. 



Hab. Adelaide. 



12. Rhagigaster reflexus. 



Male. Length 7 lines.— Black : the head and thorax with 

 confluent punctures ; head produced behind the eyes, rounded 

 behind. Thorax oblong-quadrate, the sides before the wings 

 parallel, the metathorax truncate ; the disk of the thorax coarsely 

 rugose; the anterior margin reflexed, produced laterally, and 



