114 AUSTRALIAN PROf'TOTRYPOlDEA . 



SCELIO NIGRICOXA, Dodd. 



" (Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte," Berlin, February, 

 11)14, p. 78.) 

 (J Antennse wholly black : 1st funicle joint one -half 

 longer than wide ; 2nd as wide as long ; 3rd only slightly 

 dilated, wider than long ; 4-7 much wider than long. 



One male caught by sAveeping in forest, Gordonvale, 

 28th July, 1914 (A. A. Girault). 



SoELio ovi Girault. (Proc. Ent. Soc. of Washington, 

 Vol. XV, No. 1, 1913. pp. 4-5). 



Taken in company with australis. Froggatt, on roadways 

 at Chindera, Tweed River, and Harwood, Clarence River, 

 N.S.W., May, 1914, also from egg beds of Locusta danica, 

 Halifax, Herbert River, N.Q., March, 1914 ; a,lso one male 

 caught on ground, Cloncurry, West Queensland. 16th 

 April, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



SCELIO DIEMENENSIS, Sp . YIOV. 



9 Length, 3.40 mm. 



Black ; legs (except the coxte) golden yellow, the 

 femora slightly dusky ; antennae wholly black. 



Head transverse, with scattered moderately small 

 punctures ; ocelli wide apart, the lateral ones touching 

 the eye margins. Thorax one-half longer than wide ; 

 scutum and scutellum densely confluently punctate, the 

 punctures not of uniform size, some very large, others 

 very small ; punctures not setigerous. Parapsidal furrows 

 indicated. Metanotum rugose. Abdomen as long as 

 head and thorax united, no wider than bhorax ; wholly 

 longicudinally striate, the striae after the 2nd segment 

 not regularly straight ; apex of 3rd segment mesad. and 

 a. median area on segments 4-5, smooth, except for a very 

 few scattered pin-punctures (dorsal aspect) : segmeiits 

 after 5, irregularly rugulose ; 3rd segment slightl}- the 

 longest. Forewings as in parvicornis Dodd. Pedicel 

 nearly as long as wide ; 1st funicle joint as long and as wide 

 as pedicel : club not distinctly 6-jointed, at least 7-jointed. 

 Occiput somewhat transversely rugose. Lower half of 



