BY ALAN P. DODI). 115 



face striate, the anteniial depression smooth. Abdomen 

 ventrad like dorsal but segments after 3 almost wholly 

 smooth, and with a few scattered punctur s. Punctures 

 on head denser on upper portion of face. 



Hah: Tasmania (Hobart). Desci'ibed from two females 

 received from Mr. W. W. Froggatt and labelled " Hobart ; 

 A. M. Lea.' 



Type : In the .South AustraUan Museum, a on a 

 tag. antennse and forewings on a slide. 



Cotype : In the collections of Mr. W. W. Froggatt, 

 Government Entomologist, Sydney, a $ on a tag. 



ScELio AUSTRALis, Froggatt (1910, Farmer's Bulletin Xo. '2d, 

 Department of Agriculture, N.S.W.) 



Taken on roadsides at Harwood, Clarence River, 

 N.S.W. , in company vWth ovi Girault, pilosiceps Dodd, 

 and sfriatifaries Dodd, May, 1914 (A. P. Dodd) ; on road- 

 sides Chindera, Tweed River, X.S.W., May, 1914, in 

 company with ovi (A. P. Dodd) ; on roadway, Childers, 

 South Queensland, 1st July, 1914 (A. P. Dodd) ; and many 

 hundreds around egg beds of Locusta danica, Halifax, 

 Herbert River, N.Q., March, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). On 

 warm, clear days it was noticed that dui'ing the middle of 

 the day, the Scelios remained inactive. In searching for 

 liost eggs, the female, with the antennae held cpiivering 

 in front of her head, digs obliquely in the earth "nith the 

 forelegs, which are kept in constant n.otion the while. 



SCELIO STRIATIFACIES, Sp. nOV. 



9 Length, 4.05 mm. 



Very simJar to nigricoxa Dodd, but somewhat stouter, 

 the abdomen distinctly so ; parapsidal furrows very distinct 

 (not or only faintly indicated in nigricoxa) ; metanotum 

 finely rugose (very coarsely so in nigricoxa) ; abdominal 

 segments after the 2nd finely striate, the cross-strise 

 distinct, the longitudinal ones hence irregular (in nigricoxa 

 abdomen strongly striate, the cross-strise not showing, 

 the longitudinal ones hence without irregularities) ; face 

 round antennal depression circularlj- striate, the strise 



