AUSTHALIAX II YMENOl'TERA CHALCITHII HEA, XH-.-dlVAULT. 



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Oenus ?:ur'LE('TRIlS Westunnd. 



1. EUPLECTRUS IMMARGIVENTRIS new spoeics. 

 Female: — Length, 2.65 mm. 



Black, the iintcuiuv, legs iiiid al.ilomeii jirile yellow; tlie pcdieel, distal third or more of 

 abdomen and hind coxip orange y.'ll.m ; abdominal petiole (piadrate, black; a narrow marginal 

 stripe at about proximal one seventii and around or across base of abdomen dorsad; two 

 distinct black stripes across abdomen at about base of distal third, both r.ather broad and side 

 by side. Fore wings with a distinct fiiscons, round spot apjiended from apex of stigmal knob. 

 Marginal black at base of abdomen about as long as thi' petiole. Scntnm scabrous; axillae 

 and seutelkiTn reticulated. Fuuicle 1 a littli< longer than the pedicel. l'ara]isides smootlier 

 caudo-mesad. (.)r;il area and tegula' white. Head and pronotum )u-actic.ally smooth. Other- 

 wise like the other Australian species. 



Hahiliil: Capeville (Penlland), Queensland. Forest, September IL', 1!) 11. Two females. 



Type: No. //,iyJ/./.9, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female in alcohol with type 

 A toposonid n ii nut In I ipes. 



CONCLUSION. 



"Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; Imt to brin^' I'ffht 

 from ol seuvity, by whotevev labour, must needs be delightful and rejoiciitji. " (David JIumc.) 

 I have aimeil at the light.* 



* No doubt I have committed mistakes, however. Indulgence for these is not sought because 

 T Unow that mistakes are inevitable. To indulge them is to increase them. In themselves they are 

 excusable hut it is inexcusable not to use every effort and resource to prevent, discover and correi t 

 ihcm. Rather than indulgence for them, then, I seek criticism of them. 



By Authority: Anthony James Ci'mmixg. (government Piinter, Rrislane. 



