Rev. F. D. Morice's Notes on Australian Sawflies. 291 



Larger, usually about 15 mm. long. Abdomen blackened at 

 least at the sides, or widely before the apex. Middle lobe 

 of mesonotum immaculate, entirely chalybeous. Fore-wings 



with elongate (not transverse) clouding 5. 



5. Abdomen above black or cyaneous at the sides only. Antennae 

 entirely black. Stigma fuscous, costa testaceous. General 

 colour rather brick-red than yellow or orange. 



interruptus, Klug. 

 All eastern Australia and Tasmania. 



— Abdomen above with at least three of the intermediate segments 



blackened right across. Costa and stigma yellow. General 

 colour inclining more to yellow or orange than to red (group 



of cinctus) <»• 



(i. Yellow banding of abdomen narrower, only one dorsal segment 

 — the third — entirely yellow. Sixth segment black except 

 narrowly at its apex. Seventh segment black ... 7. 



— Bands of abdomen broader, and the colour rather orange than 



yellow. At least the second and third segments and a part 

 of the seventh are of this colour. The fourth segment is 

 rarely entirely black, and when it is so the seventh segment is 

 entirely flavous. Generally both these segments are partly 

 black and partly yellow. (Whether these colour-differences 

 are more than subspecific seems very doubtful !) . . 8. 



7. Apex of clypeus widely and angularly (but very obtusely) 



emarginate cinctus, Klug. 



N. S. Wales (Woodford, etc.); Victoria; S. Queens- 

 land. 



— Apex of clypeus in the unique specimen in B.M. truncate; 



otherwise exactly like cinctus, of which it is possibly only an 

 individual aberration. (It is not a "subspecies," having 

 been taken along with the typical form of cinctus !). 



distinctus, Rohwer. 



N. S. Wales (Woodford). Type in B.M. 



8. Seventh dorsal segment of the abdomen, but not the fifth and 



pari only of the fourth, for the most part yellow. 



insignis, W. F. Kirbv. 



Only known from Queensland (Mackay). Type in B.M. 



— Seventh dorsal segment black, fourth and fifth entirely yellow. 



I have only seen one specimen of this form, viz. Mr. Rohwer*s 



