Rev. F. D. Morice's Notes on Australian Sawfiies. 277 



Hind femora immaculate, testaceous, concolorous with the 

 tibiae and tarsi. Abdomen testaceous, black at the apex. 



In size, habit, and most external characters, this species 

 much resembles hartigii, but its saw (PI. XV, Fig. 9) is 

 altogether different, and almost identical with that of bella. 



gravenhorstii, \Y< si w. 



Type at Oxford. 



30. Head, mesonotum (except its lateral areas which are sometimes 



blackened), scutellum, and abdomen, testaceous with copious 

 yellow markings, e. <j. a pair of spots behind the ocelli, 

 an elongate oval mark on the middle mesonotal lobe, a 

 series of marks (as in polita, antiopa, etc.) on the infolded 

 margins of the abdominal dorsal plates, etc Saw, PI. XV, 



Fig. 6 bella* Newman (1841) 



= "diwricata " \ {nee ;), W. F. Kirby (1893). 



(The $ associated by Kirby with his " <ltc<uic<tt<t " <$ 

 belongs in my opinion to this species. His $ — which 

 is the Type — I have already identified as the male of 

 castanea.) 



Victoria; 8. Australia (Adelaide). 



Yellow markings much as in bella, hut the general colour of the 

 body is not testaceous, hut very dark, black, or nigro-chaly- 

 beous, or nigro- violaceous 31. 



31. Hind femora black. Yellow marks of head thorax and abdomen 



as in bella, but the ground-colour very different, that of the 

 thorax black, that of the abdomen above chalybeous. Scu- 

 tellum black, except its apical lobes and a triangular space 



* The Type of bella seems to have long ago disappeared. It 

 was from Adelaide, " a single $ in the cabinet of the Entomological 

 Club.'' In 1844 the Club presented its collection to B.M. But 

 according to Kirby's List (1882) the three specimens of bella from 

 Adelaide then (and still) in the Museum were all " purchased." 

 If so — and Kirby's statement is borne out by the Museum " Register 

 of Accessions" — none of these can be the Type, which would have 

 been registered as "presented," and not as "purchased." (V. Smith 

 seems to have confounded bella with ferruginea, and West-wood 

 states that the two forms arc very near to each other. But I can 

 see no likeness whatever between them, and they certainly belong 

 to quite dill a nt groups, since they agree neither in neuration nor 

 saw characters.) 



