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2 longer than 3, the second stripe of fore wing somewhat narrower and more faded caudad, 
the nonpilose, subglabrous caudo-mesal part of scutum, the declivous scutellum, the much shorter 
cephalo-mesal triangular raised part of scutum, here scaly, in racinei densely shagreened like 
the scutellum. The head is shagreened, nearly as much as the scutellum. Axille shagreened, 
distinctly separated. Eyes nearly naked. In some specimens, the silvery band of abdomen is 
present, distinct. 
The male has the first two pairs of legs (except coxe) bright reddish yellow, the wings 
hyaline (a very obseure ovate spot from apex of stigmal vein), the postmarginal vein shorter, 
the scutum normal with faint complete parapsidal furrows, the head and thorax grass green, 
the pedicel and first four funicle joints reddish brown. Antenne 11-jointed with one transverse, 
true ring-joint, the first funicle joint twice longer than wide, wider distad, longest, funicles 
7-8 subquadrate, larger than the very short pedicel; club solid. Compared with type of 
racinet. 
Described from fourteen males, twenty-eight females from an egg-case of a mantid, 
April 22, 1914 (G. F. Hill). 
Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. 
Types: No. Hy 2879, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, three females on a tag and male 
and female antenne and a female hind leg on a slide with type aristotelea. 
18. ANASTATUS MAXIMUS new species. 
Female :—Length, 4.40 mm. Similar to blattidifuraz but more robust and the ovipositor 
is distinctly but shortly extruded and reddish brown. Funicle 1 a little longer than 2 or 3. 
Tarsi reddish brown. Infuscation of fore wing deep, that at base distinct. Segments 2-4 of 
abdomen slightly incised at meson of caudal margin. Much more robust than aristotelea. 
Scutellum more densely sculptured than rest of thorax. 
Deseribed from one female captured in the forest, September 22, 1914. 
Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 2880, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female in alcohol with type of 
Atoposoma unguttatipes Girault. 
DIAGNOSTIC TABLE OF THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF ANASTATUS 
MOTSCHULSKY. ; 
FEMALES. 
The wings are perfect and of full length. Compare Hupelmus multicolor. 
1. Wings with two distinct fuscous cross-stripes; abdomen with a distinct silvery band near 
base (rarely the second wing stripe is incomplete caudad). 
Body varicolored. 
Fore wings with two complete cross-stripes. Scape obclavate. 
Honey yellow, the head and abdomen metallic; scape dark metallic green at 
proximal half, the rest together with the pedicel and funicle 1 reddish 
yellow; funicles 2-5 silvery white; rest of antenna black; an intervening 
part of ovipositor valves honey yellow; funicle 2 thrice or more longer than 
wide. See description ins Me =e be .. tricolor Girault. 
Fore wings with the second stripe incomplete caudad, the first narrower, one third 
length of hyaline between the two; scape normal. 
Orange yellow; center of vertex, most of scutum, middle of pronotum and 
the mesoventer and propodeum metallic green; abdomen purple, with 
a silvery band near base; scape pale; antenne otherwise black except 
joints 3-6 of funicle which are silvery white. Fore wing with one 
cross-stripe and a triangular fuscous area from stigmal vein. See 
description .. bs fa ta at ae .. pasteuwri Girault. 
