232 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



tlie ;ixilI;L' divided by a more or lets distinct foveate suture: distal halves of femora, the tibia} 

 and tarsi yellowish brown. Abdomen as in Eiicharis. In the antennae, the second, third and 

 fourth funicle joints are subequal, somewhat longer than wide, the first joint longest, narrowing 

 proximad. 



Habitat: Mount Tambourine, Queensland. 



Type: No. 1. 1380, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 



CiExr.s rSlUKiASTER Blancluinl. 

 1. PSILOGASTER PULCHER Girault. Male. 



Length, 4.5 nun. 



Metallic ajneous green, the abdomen dark; scape and pedicel yellow, tlie Avings slightly 

 stained, the legs except eoxa> straw-yellow, the jjosterior femora washed with fuscons; venation 

 brown, the postmarginal vein long. Scutellum with a median grooved line, otherwise simple and 

 normal. Rugulosely punctate. Antenna) 10-jointed, the joints long and cylindrical, the club 

 shortest, the first funicle joints longer than the scape; distal funicle joint subequal to the 

 club; pedicel cup-shaped, very short. Differs from Brulle's iiaJlipcs, apparently, in having 

 ]0-jointed antenna, though it should be comiiared with that species. 



Habitat: Mount Wellington, Tasmania. 



Ti/pc: No. 1. 1S81, South Australian Museum. Adelaide. 



2. PSILOGASTER PALLIPES BruJle, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym.. IV, p. 574, ? . i (1846). 



Tasniania. .-Australia. 



3. PSILOGASTER THEOCLES (Wallier). 

 Eui-haris lliturlcs Walker. 18.39. jip. 11-12. 



PARAPSILOGASTER new name. 



FxilDijastcroicIrs Girault, preoccupied. 



Agreeing with Psilofiuxtcr Blanchard but having 12-jointed antenna^; fii'St funicle joint 

 long, the others short. 



1. PARAPSILOGASTER FAUSTA (Walker). Male. Genotype. 



Eiu-hans (aiisla Walker, lS3il, pp. 10-11. 



Ffiilo;/axteroi(.lcx faii.sta (Walker). 



' ' Mas. Viritlis cttpreo el cyanco niria. /)c(lcs fiilri, femora I'iridia, ahe litnpidir. 



Viridis, cupreo-varia: eajjitis frons cyaneo-viridis: oeuli et ocelli obscure rufi: thorax 

 subtus et postice cyaneo-viridis: abdomen iui>reuni: pedes f ulvi ; eoxR) virides; femora viridia, 

 apiee fulva; tarso apice fusci: ala> limpidie; squamula; picea>; nei'vi fulvi, apiee obscuriores, 

 (Corp. long. lin. 1%; alar. lin. 2%.) 



Hobart Town, Van Diemeu 's Land. 



Mas. — Corpus eonvexum, parum iiitens, rude jiunctatuni, }iarce pubeseeus: caput sat 

 magnum, breve, transversum, thorace latins; vertex latus, non inipressus; frons abrupte 

 declivis: oculi parvi, subrotundi, extantes: ocelli a]>proximati, vertice triangulum fingentes: 

 antennse 12-articulafa>. filiformes, pubescentes, thorace paullo longiores; articulus Ins longus, 

 gracilis, subllnearis; 2us cyathiformis; .3u5 longus; 4us et sequentes breves, lineares, usque ad 

 9um curtantes; lOus llus et 12us arete applicati clavam fingentes fusiformera 9o duplo 

 longiorem: thorax ovatus: segmentis sutune bene detenninata): prothorax brevissimus, supra 

 vix eonspicuus: mesothoracis scutum longitudine latius; parapsides eonspicuK, extantes; 



