74 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



by a carina from the cribrate punctate median segment. Petiole 

 finely trans-striate with extreme apex smooth, as long as rest of 

 abdomen, which is smooth and shining. Terebra slightly longer 

 than body, black with white subapical band, the spicula rufescent. 

 Hind coxae trans-striate, their femora finely alutaceous and shining, 

 bidentate, tibise compressed to beyond middle, alutaceous, the 

 explanate part less coarsely sculptured. Wings hyaline, nervures 

 brown. 



Black ; head except vertex, two basal antennal joints and the 

 anterior legs rufescent. 



Length 12 mm., abdomen 8 mm., petiole 4 mm., terebra 13 mm. 



China ; Haut Mekong, Tong King ; E. V. de Salvaza, April 

 13th, 1918. Type in British Museum. 



Distinguished by the sculpture of the frons and vertex, and 

 especially by the striation on outer lobes of scutellum. 



16, Belsize Grove, N.W. 3. 



NOTES ON STEPHANIDM. 

 By E. a. Elliott, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



In the ' Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology ' 

 at Harvard College, U.S.A., Mr. C. T. Brues describes Para- 

 stephanellus orhitalis, a new species from Solomon Islands, and 

 gives a key, founded mainly on colour, for the species known to 

 him, seven in number, all of which occur in the Indo-Malayan 

 region. Thirteen are known to me, this new species being the 

 fourteenth. Three have been found in Australia onl}', and one 

 both in New Guinea and iii continental Australia. The new species 

 is a male, and has tridentate hind lemora — a peculiarity shared 

 only by P. martini, Stadelm., ^ , from Sumatra, and thus easily 

 distinguished from the others. They may be distinguished thus : 



Head red ; mesopleurse shining, apically punctate ; median 

 segment coarsely cribrate punctate, 15 mm. — P. martini, 

 Stadelm. 



Head black, pale yellowish to just above antennaB, orbits pale ; 

 mesopleurse pubescent in front, smooth and shining behind ; 

 median segment with a few large, inegular punctures; 7-8 mm. 

 — P. orhitalis, Brues. 



Diastephanus salomonis, Westw. 



The type specimen is labelled *' Solomon's Island (New 

 Hebrides) "; the other specimen hi the British Museum was 

 taken by Woodford in the Solomon Islands, and Mr. Brues 

 describes a third specimen from the same locality, or rather 

 one which he considers to be this species. It differs in having 

 the anterior legs black instead of bright ferruginous ; the pecu- 



