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basal third, centrally excised and apically inflated. Wings slightly 

 infumate throughout. — Black : mandibles and a spot before tlieir 

 base red ; petiole dark red ; abdomen piceous ; anterior legs, except 

 basally, red ; hind tibiae piceous, centrally clear red. 



A much stouter species than S. Ceijlonicus ; the peculiar 

 conformation of the hind tibiae appears remarkable, as also are 

 the unusually short second and third flagellar joints. 



A single female, sent me by Mr. Wickwar, was captured 

 during September, 1905, at Neduukernie, in the Northern 

 Provinces of India. 



ParastepJtanellus rujidornatus, Cam. 



Stephanus rufo-ornatus, Cam., ' Tijds, v. Entom.,' xlviii, 

 1905, p. 45, c?. 



The type is from the Burnett Eiver, in Queensland. I have 

 seen another male, taken (very probably with more of both 

 sexes, though the female is still undescribed) by Mr. Turner at 

 1100 feet about Kuranda, in the north of the same State, during 

 May-June, 1913. 



Parastephanellus ehunieus, sp. nov. 



A very small black species, with sparse white and testaceous 

 markings. Face rugously trans- striate ; frontal tubercles acuminate, 

 the anterior is apically deflexed ; posterior tubercles normal ; occiput 

 finely trans-striate, with its posterior margin bordered. Second 

 flagellar joint half as long again as the first, the third shorter than 

 first and second. Colliform prothorax smooth, shining, and quite 

 short, the semiannular part finely rugulose ; mesopleurse obsoletely 

 trans-striate and dull throughout ; metapleurae glabrous and niti- 

 dulous, separated from the metanotum by a deep sulcus ; median 

 segment smooth with large and difi'use punctures. Petiole longer 

 than remainder of abdomen, with its basal half finely trans-striate ; 

 rest of segments dull and obsoletely punctate ; terebra shorter than 

 body (i.e. 5 mm. to 6 mm.), immaculate black. Hind coxae obso- 

 letely trans-aciculate ; their femora bidentate, shining, and nearly 

 smooth ; their tibite compressed to centre. Wings clear hyaline and 

 not large. — Black : face, clypeus, mandibles except apically and a 

 streak at the inner orbits testaceous-white ; a broad streak from 

 base of mandibles below the eyes to near occiput clear ivory-white ; 

 scape and basal flagellar joints testaceous ; tegulffi and stigma pale ; 

 anterior femora and tibiae piceous, all tarsi testaceous, and both base 

 and apex of intermediate tibiae clear white. 



The cJ difl"ers very slightly in its smaller size of but 3^ mm., its 

 piceous petiole and testaceous genital valvulae. 



This is closely related to the last-named species from 

 Australia, but differs in the metanotal sculpture and the 

 colouration, more especially that of the anterior legs and 

 the intermediate tibiae. 



