94 Mr. Rowland E. Turner on 



$. Smooth and shining ; head transverse ; antennae as long as 

 the whole insect, excluding the terebra ; scape short, ovate. Parap- 

 sidal furrows distinct, but rather shallow. Abdomen as long as 

 the head and thorax, a little broader than the thorax, the sides 

 almost parallel; first tergite a little longer than its apical breadth; 

 second tergite shorter than the third, twice as broad at the base as 

 long. Radial cell reaching to the apex of the wing, the radius 

 originating just before the middle of the stigma; first abscissa of 

 the cubitus strongly bent at about one-third from the base; 

 recurrent nervure received very distinctly before the first transverse 

 cubital nervure. 



Hab. Tasmania, Eaglehawk Neck (Turner), February. 

 This belongs to the group of the European B. urinator, 

 Fabr. The brilliant red colour renders it very conspicuous. 



Genus Cyanopterus, Hal. 

 KEY TO THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES. 



1. Wings yellow from the base to the 



basal nervure. 2. 



Wings fuscous the stigma only yellow. C. irmolattis, Turn. 



2. A broad yellow band extending from 



the yellow stigma almost to the 



inner margin of the fore-wing . . C. profiscator, Fabr. 

 The stigma yellow, but without a 

 yellow band below the stigma . . C. rufus, Szep. 



I have not seen C. crassicaudis, Szep., which belongs to 

 the genus, the locality of which is doubtful. C. festivus, 

 Szep., from New Guinea and C. levissimus, Cam., from 

 Tenimber also belongs to the genus. The latter is Ipliiaidax 

 levissimus, Cam. 1912 (nee Cam. 1906), and is very nearly 

 allied to C. profiscator, differing in the rather shallower 

 (•marginatum of the apical margin of the second tergite 

 and in the red colour of the base of the hind metatarsus. 

 I do not agree with Szepligeti in including the group of 

 Bracon capitator, Fabr., in the genus. 



Cyanopterus profiscator, Fabr. 



Ichneumon profiscator, Fabr., Syst. entom., p. 335, 1775. 

 Bracon profiscator, Fabr.. Syst. Piez., p. 105, 1804. 



This species is very closely allied to C. rufus, Szep., 



