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with marginal punctures only ; pro- and mesopleurae very finely 

 alutaceous, metapleurae almost smooth, and median segment with 

 scarcely any visible sculpture. The pleurae, abdomen beneath, and 

 the legs with erect white hairs. Petiole slightly longer than rest of 

 abdomen, very finely trans-striate, remainder smooth. The terebra 

 longer than body, black. Hind coxie finely trans-striate, hind 

 femora smooth, tridentate, tibiae compressed to middle. Wings 

 hyaline, stigma brown, nervures darker. 



Black ; head rufescent, with a white line under the eyes as in 

 damelicus ; a testaceous mark on frons just below the pale rufescent 

 anterior frontal tubercle. Legs rufescent, base and apex of tibiae 

 paler and the metatarsi white. 



Length 8 mm.; abdomen 4imm.; petiole 2|mm.; terebra 11 mm. 



iE^ri 6.— Singapore. " F. Sm. Coll." 



The almost entire absence of sculpture is characteristic. 



Parastephanellus alhiceps, sp. n. 



9 . Frons subarcuate striate, the strias centrally broken up into 

 granules, vertex and occiput finely granulate striate, temples smooth ; 

 second flagellar joint one and a-half times as long as first, third 

 slightly shorter than first and second together. Neck very short, 

 pronotum finely trans-striate throughout, mesonotum subglabrous, 

 scutellum normal, propleurse finely, obliquely striate, mesopleurse 

 alutaceous, metapleurse punctate, separated by a deep crenulated 

 sulcus from the alutaceous and punctate median segment. Petiole 

 trans-striate, shorter than rest of the smooth abdomen ; terebra 

 shorter than body, rufescent, apically black. Hind legs with the 

 coxae trans-striate, femora finely alutaceous, bidentate, tibiae com- 

 pressed to middle. Wings hyaline, stigma and nervures brown. 



Black ; mandibles basally flavous, all orbits broadly white ; antennae 

 basally, anterior legs and middle legs except coxae rufescent, hind 

 tibis^ and tarsi much paler. 



Length 9| mm. ; abdomen 5| mm. ; petiole 2^ mm. ; terebra 8^ mm. 



Victoria, Australia, R. E. Turner, 1907. 

 The very broad white orbits are distinctive. 



Hemisteplianus granulatus, sp. n. 



9 . Head excepting the smooth temples granulate rugose, vertex 

 and occiput more finely; posterior margin of head bordered, anterior 

 tubercle very prominent, three very conspicuous carinas between the 

 posterior ocelli. Scape as long as cheeks, second flagellar joint twice 

 as long as first, third nearly as long as first and second together. 

 Pronotum rather short, trans-striate, with smooth posterior margin ; 

 mesonotum centrally trans-striate, laterally punctate ; scutellum 

 closely punctate throughout, marginal punctures deep ; mesopleurae 

 finely and closely, metapleurae coarsely punctate, the latter separated 

 by a crenulate sulcus from the median segment, which is confluently 

 punctate, almost granulate. Petiole slightly shorter than rest of 

 abdomen, trans-striate, as is also the base of second segment; 

 remainder smooth, feebly shining. Terebra very nearly as long as 



