Arsr];ALIAX HYME.WrTKUA (IIAI.CIIX)IDKA. I I'.—CIl.'A LIT. 253 



clougato ppilioel. Scape ye)loiv except at apex above. Eiug-joiiit - extremely short, the other 

 liree large. Mamlihles bidentate, tooth 2 broadly truncate. The yellow of abdomen at side 

 i.t base is distinct but less than a sixth of its length. The spot above at liase of alidomeii 

 also shorter than in the compared species. 



From one female caught in forest, .May 1.1, l;il4 (A. 1'. Dodd). 



Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River). Xmv South Wales. 



Tii/'i : No. li II ,■<:.:._:. (^)uefnslaucl .Museum. KiisIi.mui', the spei-imen on a tag; head on a 

 slide. 



I'dUipari'd \iitli type of the T nctui ihiiuhIi .s. 



Gr.\i-s KI'KNT.VSTlt'lll'S (liruuU. 

 1. EPENTASTICHUS WALLACEI n. w luim. . 

 Aproxtocftiis si.riiiittiiliis Girault, preoccupied. 



Female: — Length, O.SO mm. 



Agrees with the description of Ein >iliisliiliiix lloicllu but only tljc mesou ul propodi'uui 

 is dusky, the body is golden yelloiv, the abdomen bears three rcnuidish marginal dots on 

 a little over proximal half and is dusky across base narrowly. Also funiclo 1 is shortest, 

 quadrate, 2 and 3 somewhat longer than wide, each somewhat shorter than the pcilicel which is 

 somewhat shorter than with ftanoi. .\i: oblii|ue dusky stripe alcuig cephalic nutrgin of 

 |iropodeum on each side of meson. ( Itlierw isr. like ll<in(s. ('hib with a sluu-t tenniiuil spine. 

 Mandibles tridentate. Propodenm with a median carina. Wings broad. Hind wings with 

 about five lines of discal cilia where widest. 



From one female capitured in forest. .\]'ril ].j, 1914 (A. 1'. l)r)dd'l. ('loncurry. (ijueeuslaud. 



2. EPENTASTICHUS QUADRIMACULiS n.w siiecu-s. 



Fcmuli : — The same as ii iiUnci but llic uImIouicu I'Cais only t«o of the marginal 

 dots, the proximal two, and the body is a third larger. 



From one female captured with the above { ii-iilliirri) , April 1o, 1914. 



Tlnhitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. Forest. 



Tiipr: Xo. Hi/ :?tui'3, (Queensland Aluscum. i^>ristiaue, thi- sp(-iimen on a slide. 



3. EPENTASTICHUS FLAVELLA n.w species. 



See anted (these Memoirs, TI). ]i. L'4:i. F.)ie)\tasiiiliiis tianix ((rirault) which, together 

 with Quailrnxtichoden fJaiiis Girault, is a nnnieit mnhim. Additional clniracters are: licngtli. 

 I.IS nun. ,\ntenna' inserted a little .above the ventral ends of the I'ves. Mandibles tridentate. 

 ?>[arginal cilia of fore wings short. Scapie long, compressed. I'lub terminating in a niiijde. 

 The tyjie is a ln>ail (jii a slide. Tile type feui.-ile \vas raptured ou forest downs, July 14. 1912. 



, (;f,X7S SVXTOMdSl'H VKKLI.A llirault. 



1 SYNTOMOSPHYRELLA FUSCIPENNIS Girault. 



One fcuiale, type locality, December 4. forest, I 'ouip.'irc.l vi ith ty|ie. The head is nnu'e 

 or less brownish and tlie ]iostmarginal vein really ouly a fourth the leugtlL of the stigmal. The 

 species resembles SrVil rit'liodella fuseipoiuis. 



This species must stand as it is though it is I'xceedingly similar to Sdilrh-hculflin 

 futiriiKiiiii,-. Vet the latter is s;ii,| Ui ha\e a soliij cluli .and a grooM' (Ui tlie seutum. T'.ntli 

 species ha\e a short |iropodeum at mesiui which bears a comiilete nu^ilian carina (very short) 

 and no others. The wings are identical but distinr-tly broader in the S< lilrieliodelid and the 



