Bev. F. D. Morice's Notes on Australian Sawflies. 279 



I have seen two specimens only (both $$) of this very 

 distinct species, which were received at the B.M. in MM I 

 from Mr. H. J. Hillier. Except these, I have seen no 

 Saw Hies at all from Central Australia; and though evi- 

 dently congeneric with the Xyloperga spp. of the coast 

 districts (Swan River, etc.), they differ exceedingly from 

 them all in coloration, resembling rather in this respect 

 certain groups of Hymenoptera which are chiefly found in 

 the sandy deserts of tropical and subtropical Africa and Asia. 



Central Australia (Hermannsburg). Type in B.M. 



- Antennae not blackish, but ferruginous or yellow . ... 34. 

 34. Apices of hind tibiae blackened. Head thorax abdomen and 



legs for the most part nearly eoncolorous (ferruginous), hut 

 the abdomen in some sjiecimens is more or less clouded or 

 streaked transversely with black. Length about 15 mm. 

 Details of saw. PI. XV, Fig. 13. . univittata, W. F. Kirby. 



(The resemblance between this insect and *' neivmanni" 

 Westwood (i. e. ferruginea, Leach), of which Konow 

 supposed it to be the $ is quite superficial. In all struc- 

 tural characters they wholly differ.) 



Queensland (Mackav). Type and other specimens 

 (&? and ?2) in B.M. 



- Legs quite pale, not blackened at the apices of the hind tibiae. 



Head above for the most part black 35. 



.">."). Mesonotum with the middle lobe only anteriorly, and the side 

 lobes only posteriorly, blackened, otherwise eoncolorous with 

 the dull pale-brownish scutellum. Tempora and a streak 

 behind each of the posterior ocelli whitish yellow, otherwise 

 the head above is black. Length about 12^ mm. 



Uncivil, Wcstw. 



Victoria. Type in B.M. 



— Mesonotum quite black, scutellum clear yellow. A handsome, 

 highly-coloured insect. Larger (about 14 mm. long) than 

 leachii, though Westwood says it is smaller, evidently by a 

 mere slip, as he also gives correctly the measurements of 

 the two in lines. Details of saw, PI. XV, Fig. I I. 



halidaii, Westw. 

 (The hiiliilnii of B.M. Catalogue has nothing to do with 

 this species. It is merely a small latreillii.) 



S. Australia (Adelaide). Type at Oxford. 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1918. — -PARTS III, IV. (mAR.'ID) U 



