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and does not form an oblique stripe Ijut is an indefinite blotch. Funicle 2 longer than 3, 

 slightly shorter than 1. Mandibles o-dentate. None of the four marginal dots on abdomen are 

 joined transversely, the first a dot, the others wider than long. 'Tegula? yellowish. 



Described from one female captured in forest, August 9, 1913. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: Ko. HyS724. Queensland iluseum. Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 



A second female same place a year later; the propleurum was wholly yellow. 



8. ELASMUS TRIFASCIATIVENTRIS new species. 



Female: — Length. 2 mm. 



Very similar to punctaticaput Girault, the head punctate luit the two marginal spots 

 on abdomen are absent, the first cross-stripe of the distal two is half or less the length of 

 the second (subequal in the other species), the mandibles are 12-dentate. The hind and 

 middle femora are black in both species. Funiele 1 somewhat longer than 2 or 3, one and 

 a half times longer than wide, much longer than the pedicel, the club joints 1 and 2 quadrate. 

 Scape pallid. Fore wings obscurely infuscated distad of venation. Scutum entirely green. 



Described from one female caught January ii, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Bahitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 



Type: No. Ey372.j, Queensland ^luseum. Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 



9. ELASMUS MARGISCUTELLUM Girault. 



One female, forest, Gordonvale, August 13, 1913. 



The tibise are pale yellow; the yellow distal margin of scutellum was interrupted at 

 meson in this specimen, distal fourth (or nearly) of abdomen dark metallic green, preceded 

 by three pairs of marginal spots. Distal half of cephalic femur pale. Head punctate. 



10. ELASMUS DUBIUS new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.85 mm. 



Same as cyaneus but dark metallic green, the legs very dark brown, the postseutellum 

 lemon yellow; cephalic knees and tibiae pale yellow; mandibles G-dentate. Antennas not 

 seen. Scutellum with the usual several bristles. Fore wings lightly dusky throughout. 



From one female caught in forest, January 8, 1914. 



Hahitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 



Type: jVo. SySVSd. Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 



11. ELASMUS PICTURATUS new species. 



Similar to tiiiiguttains Girault but there is a rather broad stripe across the base of 

 the abdomen, the metallic coloration on the pronotum continues back to the scutum, the 

 propodeum is wholly dark metallic green (not merely broadly down the meson) and most 

 of the up])er edge of hind coxa distad similarly colored and with a metallic spot cephalad 

 n_ear base (dorsal aspect; only a basal dot present in the other species). The fore wings 

 are slightly, suft'usedly infuscated. Both species bear a metallic rather broad cross-stripe 

 at upper half of occiput tliis joining centrally the black area on the vertex. AntennsB and 

 mandibles similar. Funicle joints decreasing slightly in length distad, 1 being one and a 

 half times longer than its width, distinctly longer than the short pedicel. Large metallic 

 area of mesopleurum narrowly joined to the tegula (isolated in the other species). Tyj)es 

 comjiared. 



From one female caught by sweeping along forest streandet bordered with jungle, 

 ■May C. 1913. 



JJahitat : Gordonvale (Cairns). Queensland. 



Type: No. By27S7, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 



