By G. H. HARDY. 4{> 



Synonymy. — This species was described from Novae 

 Hollandi^ in 1775 from a specimen collected by Banks, and 

 in 1778 Fabricius gives China as a locality; both these 

 localities were repeated in 1794. Walker, in 1849, gives 

 Georgia as the locality (perhaps King George's Sound was 

 originally intended), and Osten Sacken in 1878 states that 

 the species is not American. 



In 1868 van der Wulp described and figured a specimen 

 from Aru Island under the name, and this determination is 

 accepted here as correct. 



The identity of Fabricius' species has been fixed by de- 

 scription and figure on the authority of van der "Wulp. 

 Species in various collections conforming to van der Wulp's 

 description are named by myself Hyperalonia satyrus, Fab- 

 ricius. The same species has been named by Major E. E. 

 Austen as Hyperalonia funesta, Walker, and is represented 

 by a specimen so determined in the Queensland Museum; on 

 this account Walker's name is placed here as a synonym. 

 The description of Exoprosopa insignis, Macquart, also con- 

 forms to this species. 



Hab. — There are twenty-four specimens in the Macleay 

 Museum with labels bearing the follov/ing localities: — 

 Northern Territory: Port Darwin. Queensland: Cape York, 

 Rockhampton, Port Denison, Port Curtis, Endeavour River, 

 and Lizard Island. New South Wales: Piper's Flats and 

 Newcastle. South Australia. There are further specimens 

 in other collections. 



In the Agricultural Department of Queensland there ig 

 a specimen, bearing a label by Mr. Edmund Jarvis, and it 

 conveys the information that the species is a hyperparasite 

 on the scolid wasp Dielis sp. (now known as Campsomerus 

 radula), which is a parasite on sugar-cane grubs. 



Under the name Hyperalonia funesta, Walker, Mr. Jar- 

 vis also informs me that this species is a parasite of an 

 Asilid, which is predaceous in the larval form upon the 

 banana root weevil, Calandra sordida. 



Hyperalonia, sinuatifascia, Macquart. 

 Exoprosopa sinuatifascia, Macquart, Dipt. Exot., suppl. 5, 



1855, p. 72, PL iii., fig. 6. 

 Exoprosopa macraspis, Thomson, Eugenics Resa, Dipt., 1868, 



p. 479. 

 Hyperalonia argenticincta, Bigot, Ann. Soc. Ent. France (7), 



xli., 1892, p. 343. 



