BY ALAN P. DODD. 117 



-antennal depression in affinis is rugose immediately above 

 the insertion of the antennae, the upper part of the depression 

 smooth, in australis the upper portion of the depression is 

 finely rugose, below this smooth, also there is a distinct 

 median carina running from vertex of this depression to 

 iihe elevation on which the antennse are inserted ; the 3rd 

 funicle joint is not so much enlarged, wider than long, 

 no longer than 2nd (distinctly so in australis), and distinctly 

 shorter than 1st (as long as 1st in australis), also the antennse 

 are colored differently, the scape being red, next four joints 

 slightly suffused with red, apical five joints black. Com- 

 pared with ^ australis. 



Hah : North Queensland (Gordonvale, near Cairns). 

 Described ixova one male caught by sweeping in forest, 

 26th May, 1914 (A. A. Girault). 



Type : In the South Australian Museum, a ^ or a 

 tag, antennse and fore^vings on a slide. 



SCELIO LOCUSTS, Sp. YIOV. 



9 Length, 3.10 mm. 



V^ery similar to pilosiceps, Dodd, but the femora also 

 black, the pubescence not nearlj^ 'io distinct, the head more 

 quadrate, the rugosity on the head still finer and not trans- 

 verse caudad, the rugosit}' on scutum and scutellum having 

 a distinct tendency to become longitudnial, scutellum with 

 a median longitudnial carina, the meson of 4th abdominal 

 segment not smooth, the pedicel and funicle joints distinctly 

 shorter. 



Hab : North Queensland (Halifax, Herbert River). 

 Described from one female taken with ovi, australis, and 

 perplexus from egg bed of Locusta danica, March, 1914 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type : South Australian Museum, a 2 on a tag, the 

 antennse and fore wings on a slide. 



SCELIO PERPLEXUS, Sp. nOV. 



(J Length, 3.95 mm. 



Very similar to australis but the coxae are black ; 

 the funicle joints are more yellowish, the joints after the 

 1st wider than long, the 3rd not much enlarged ; sculpture 

 of abdomen as in orientalis Dodd. 



