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of propodeum farther caudad in this species, the lesser number of femoral teeth and the 
different coloration. From pax it differs in having the femoral teeth very different and the 
club not noticeably enlarged. 
Male:—The same but the second femoral tooth is very small. 
Described from one pair taken from a mantid eggmass on the foliage of Careya in 
forest, near jungle, June 15, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3319, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above female on a tag, the head 
and a hind leg on a slide. 
Dedicated to Hugo Grotius. 
9. PODAGRION BATESI new species. 
Female :—Length, 2.50 mm. excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal 
to that of the body or nearly. 
Colored like beneficium Girault nearly. Teeth on caudal femur six in number, from 
proximad, large, small, large, large, large, small; teeth 2 and 6 shortest, subequal, 3 and 4 
longest. subequal. Pedicel somewhat longer than funicle 1; funicles 1-3 quadrate, subequal, 
4 wider than long, a little longer than 5, 6 or 7 which are subequal, distinctly wider than long- 
Club two thirds the length of the funicle. 
Differs from beneficiwm Girault in bearing but six teeth on hind femur, in having the 
scutellum smoother at apex, the propodeum uniformly punctate, the distal four funicle joints 
wider than long, the wholly brown antenna. Median carina of propodeum V-shaped, diverging 
widely from base (cephalad). 
Differs from pavo in the different color of the male, in not having the mesal surface of 
hind femur reddish brown, in having the antennee wholly brownish and so on. From pax in 
lacking a minute tooth dorsad at proximal third of hind tibia, in not having the seutellum 
uniformly sculptured to apex, in having the propodeum between the arms of the median carina 
sculptured with dense punctures not rugulose; also in the shorter distal funicle joints. 
The single specimen of the male was lost just before describing it but the male is colored 
much like the female except that the abdomen bears much rufous dorsad. The teeth on the hind 
femur were not seen. 
From a single specimen taken from a mantid eggcase, April 19, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3320, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 
Dedicated to Henry Bates. 
10. PODAGRION HYALINA (Girault). Female. 
Podagrionella hyalina Girault. 
Length, 2.20 mm., excluding ovipositor which is black and longer than the body. 
Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline. Venter of abdomen and the legs, excepting coxe- 
and the posterior femora, reddish brown, the coxe concolorous, the caudal femora with more or 
less metallic green. Antenne fuscous, the scape metallic toward tip. Posterior femora with 
eight teeth, fae third one minute, barely indicated, the others distinct, the first longest. Distal 
funicle joints wider than long, the club enlarged, deep black. Petiole of abdomen very short. 
Propodeum without lateral carine, the median carina V-shaped from base, each arm running 
meso-caudad. Stigmal vein very short. Postmarginal vein only somewhat longer than the 
stigmal. Scutellum glabrous at apex. 
Type re-examined. 
Habitat: Longreach, Queensland. 
Type: I.1256, South Australian Museum. 
