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A NEW SCELIONID PARASITE or LOCUST EGGS From 
tHE NORTHERN TERRITORY or AUSTRALIA.* 
By A. A. Giravuur. 
Tue following species was received from Mr. G. F. Hill, 
Government Entomologist, Northern Territory, Australia. 
Genus Scenio, Latreille. 
1. Scelio semisanguineus, n. sp. 
Female.—Length 3:20 mm. 
Blood red, the head, abdomen and distal six joints of antennal 
flagellum, black ; joints 5 and 6 of antennz suffused with blackish ; 
segments 2-5 of abdomen suffused more or less with reddish, ventrad 
and dorsad. Distal half of fore wings rather deeply infuscated. 
Scape long, about equal to the next six joints; pedicel somewhat 
longer than joint 3 which is somewhat longer than wide at apex; 
following joints wider than long, 7 longest of them, 5 and 6 shortest. 
Mandibles very long, strongly bidentate at apex, the teeth subequal ; 
maxillary palpi 3-jointed. Venation faint. Segment 4 of abdomen 
distinctly longer than the two preceding segments; segments 2 and 
3 of abdomen with longitudinal striz more or less anastomosed ; 
segments 4 and 5 densely polygonally reticulated, the lines raised ; 
6 striated like 3, also the entire venter; segment 5 with the striation 
along distal half. Thorax umbilicately punctate, the punctures 
unequal in size, smallest on propodeum; the latter also obliquely 
longitudinally striate but not densely, two of the striz down the 
meson as median carine which are separated for some distance. 
Lateral margin of propodeum and the shoulders fringed with silvery 
pubescence. Parapsidal furrows complete, rather distinct. Head 
coarsely punctate and with short silvery pubescence. 
Male.—Unknown. 
Described from five females labelled ‘‘ No. 31, Botanic Gardens, 
Darwin, N. T., Feb. 13, 1914, G. F. Hill,” and captured over acridid 
egg-beds on sandy soil. 
Habitat.—Australia: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. 
Associated with Acridiide. 
Types.—Queensland Museum, Brisbane, five females on a tag. 
NEW AUSTRALIAN BEES. 
By T. D. A. CockERELL. 
Huryglossidia purpurascens, sp. 0. 
3. Length about 84 mm.; black, the abdomen dark rich chest- 
nut-red, suffused with purple, the basal segment dark; antennz 
black, extremely long, reaching to third abdominal segment; head 
* Contribution No. 24, Entomological Laboratory, Bureau of Sugar 
Experiment Stations, Bundaberg, Queensland. 
