AUSTH.ILIAX HYMKXOFTKRA CU ALCIUOWKA. III.^GIUArLr. 17o 



longer fhau ^\ide, 2 a little shorter. Heail |iinirt:ite. S''iitelluin nearly naked, si-utum hispid, 

 postscutellum lemon yellow. Propodeum lilack. Winys wholly, lightly iut'useated, clear 

 distad of postmargiual vein. Hind wings liyaiine. Hind tibia? with the usnal pattern. 



From one female canght by sweeping jungle (?), June ."!, 1914 (A. V. I'odd). 



HaMlat: Grafton, New South Wales. 



Type: No. Hi)27oo, Queensland Museum. lirisliane, the specimen on a tag. 



19. ELASWUS FICTUS new species. 



Female: — Length, 3.7-j mm. 



Like luiigiittaliis but at once differing in lacking the large black spot on mesopleurum, 

 tlic black on ]]ropodeuni and the piroximal (dorsal) fourth of caudal coxa is black except 

 caudad; from iiivtnnit{ix differs markedly in lacking the basal stripe across dorsal alidomen, 

 the black on prouotum and the large area on mesopleurum. Tip of abdomen, axilla), teguUe, 

 the round spot on abdomen near tip. ocellar area and a black area on occiput from the 

 eyes on each side (not forming a cross-stripe) are bhick or dark metallic green. These are 

 all the markings except the caudal coxa as noted. In iiiiitniltaUis the tip of the abdomen 

 is not black. Head with scattered rather small punctures. Hiud tibiai with the usual 

 j'attern. Wings subhyaline. ycape yellow, llagellum black. Funicle joints subeipml to 

 each other and the i)edicel. about a third longer than wule. ilandibles .j-dentate. 8cutellum 

 scaly, naked (except for the few large isolated seta;). 



From one female caught sweeping forest uplands. May 3. 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Maclean, Clarence Eiver. \ew South Wales. 



Type: No. By, 2734. Queensland Museum. l!risl)auc. the specimen on a tag with typo 

 vinijiittatua. 



20. ELASMUS FLAVIOS new species. 



Female: — Length, l.so mm. 



Similar to ignorahilis but at least two thirds of the caudal co.xa) are metallic (only 

 about the dorsal third in that species), the two stripes across the abdomen are not so distinct, 

 darker orange and closer together, about across the middle, the metallic coloration of 

 dorsum of abdomen lietweeu the stripes does not invade the lateral aspect as distinctly so 

 in it/norahili-^; there is a yellow d"t just uu>sail of teyida and the oral area up to antenual 

 insertion is lemon yellow. Otherwise colored the same or nearly. Scutelluni finely reticulated. 

 Scutum hispid. liea<l punctate as usual. Scape white, dusky dorsad; flagellnm black. Pedicel 

 shorter than any I'uuiile juint. Funicle joints suheipi.tl, each somewhat longer than wide, 

 1 slightly longer tlian tlie other two; all arc sicuii. .Mandibles 7-dentate. Wings hyaline 

 m botli species. Compared with tyjie of iiiiioralnlis. 



From one female caught in forest. May 2, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



llahilut: Tweed Heads (Tweed Kiver). New South Wales. 



Type: No. 7/ // ..•'?.;.<. (Queensland Museum, IJrisluiiie. thesiiocimen on a tag with type 

 of ignorahilis. • 



Differs most notably fioni mnseniilcs in having the yellow oral area and the vellow 

 dot just mesad of tegula. 



21. ELASMUS FASCIATIPES new species. 



Female: — Length, 2.10 mm. 



Dark metallic green, the abdomen or:inge yellow, a little over distal third of abdomen, 

 a broad stripe across base and three cross-stripes between them, eipially distriljuted, \ery 

 daj-k metallic. Postscutellum lennju yellow. Coxa? dark nuHallic except distal third of hist 

 two pairs. Legs otherwise white except dorsal edge of last two pairs of femora and a 



