Rev. F. 1). Morice's Notes on Australian San-flics. 269 



l.">. (.")) General colour yellowish- brown * with certain areas paler 

 (clear light yellow) especially the scutellum, the posterior 

 corner of the middle mesonotal lobe, and a series of marks 

 on the sides of the abdomen (where the lateral margins of 

 the dorsal plates fold over and become ventral in situation). 

 Mind femora widely blackened, tibiae so only at extreme 

 apex. Wings yellowish, but otherwise almost clear. The 

 longitudinal furrow on the scutellum is very noticeable, linear 

 at its base and growing wider and deeper as it approaches 

 the apex, but its lateral limits are not sharply defined. (The 

 absence mentioned by Leach of a 1st cubital nerve is not a 

 constant character, though Ashmead has treated it as generic ! 

 Even in Leach's own Type the nerve is not really absent in 

 either wing, and in most specimens it is quite normally 

 developed.) polita, Leach. 



Eastern Australia (from Victoria to Cairns in Queens- 

 land). Type, and many other specimens in B.M. 



■ — Very like polita but darker than normal specimens, and the 

 scutellum is not yellow but brown like the areas adjacent 

 to it. Hind femora and tibiae concolorous, pale throughout 

 in all specimens examined. Lateral marks on abdomen 

 much as in polita. Wings distinctly and even strongly 

 infuscated under the stigma. The furrow on the scutellum 

 seems distinguishable from that in polita by its more sharply 

 defined diverging margins. . . . castanea, W. F. Kirby, 



Kirby described what I take to be certainly the <$ of 

 this species under the name divaricata, but associated 

 with it a $ belonging to quite another group, namely a 

 bella. ( Vide infra. 31, and cf. PI. XV, Fig. 6, with Pi. XIV. 

 Fig. 17. and Pi. XV, Figs. 5, 7. 9.) 



Victoria. Type in B.M. 



14. (4) Abdomen black with no part red, but segments 7 and 8 

 (above) each with a broad apical band of pale yellow, that 

 on segment 7 deeply excised anteriorly (almost interrupted). 

 The 5 preceding segments are quite black above, but streaked 

 with yellow on the sides and venter. Scutellum yellow, but 



* The dorsum in Leach's Type-specimen is darker than usual, 

 and shows obscure metallic reflections (violaceous). Probably 

 this results from the great age of the specimen. It must have been 

 in the Museum for more than a century. 



