130 Mr. F. P. Dodd's Notes upon some remarhaUe 



thoiax, which in volusus has the humeral angles of the 

 thorax conspicuously smooth and shining, not coarsely 

 punctured and no carinoe on the median segment. 



No. 10. SCHIZASPIDIA DODDI, form. nov. 



^, Mandibles sickle-sliaped with three teeth, apical tooth long 

 acute, two small teeth on the inner margin ; clypeus short quadrate 

 with the cheeks and face below the base of the antennae transversely 

 striate, the stria? curving round upwards and becoming veitical 

 behind and between the eyes, vertex longlitudinally striate ; 

 scape of antennoe smooth, flagellum finely granulose, 1st joint 

 simple rounded, remaining joints throwing outwards comparatively 

 short, slightly clavate rami. Thorax : short and stout, densely and 

 somewhat deeply punctured ; scutelluin : produced elongate conical 

 overhanging the median segment and bearing a stout bifurcate pro- 

 cess at apex, the points of the fork blunt with a tooth on the inner 

 side of each ; postscutellum and median segment vertical and verti- 

 cally striate the division between them well marked. Abdomen 

 petiolate, petiole shorter than the rest of the abdomen which is sub- 

 obconical depressed altove and Ijroad and bluntly rounded posteriorly. 

 Mandibles, scape of antennas, and coxa?, femora, tibiae and tarsi of the 

 legs pale yellowish-brown, flagellum darker brown ; head and thorax 

 rich golden bronze with in certain lights scattered green and purple 

 points ; wings hyaline iridescent ; abdomen shiinng bronze-brown. 



Length (J 5 mm. Exp. 12 mm. 



$ type in Hope Department. 



Hah. N. Queensland, Townsville {F. P. Bodd). 



ScJdzaspidia, Westw., is a genus, so far as is recorded, of 

 small extent but wide distribution : forms of it occur in 

 Australia, the Philippines, India and South America. 



