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



(supra) in having the apex of the radial cell close to the 

 margin of the wing, and no definite appendicular cell 

 beyond it. 



The B.M. collection contains at present 7 specimens of 

 Neoeurys, viz. (1) a f (the Type) of metallica, Rohwer, (2-4) 

 a $ and two 99 taken by Mr. A. M. Lea on the summit of 

 .Mount Wellington, Tasmania, (5 6) two $$ taken by Mr. 

 Turner on the same mountain, but not near its summit 

 (these are considerably smaller than Mr. Lea's <3\ and I 

 doubt if they belong to the same species, and (7) a <$ also 

 taken by Mr. Turner at Eaglehawk Neck — a very different 

 locality from the summit of Mount Wellington, namely 

 a low-lying sandy isthmus on the coast of Tasmania. 

 (It does not appear to me identical with the specimens 

 from Mount Wellington, but on such material as I have 

 yet seen it appears safest to reserve judgment.) 



I thought at first that Mr. Lea's captures were sure to 

 be identical with Mr. Rohwer's n. sp. tasmanica, of which 

 the 9 was taken apparently with them (cf. Ann. and Mag. 

 N. II., November, 1918). But I am now rather doubtful, 

 because Mr. Rohwer does not mention the most obvious, 

 though perhaps not most important, character, of the 

 B.M. 9 specimens — namely, the non-metallic pale reddish- 

 testaceous apex of the abdomen. If this character is not 

 constant, the B.M. 99 are probably tasmanica', and the 

 <$ accompanying them, though larger than the male assigned 

 to them by Mr. Rohwer (which was taken at Eaglehawk 

 Neck, and is no doubt identical with Mr. Turner's <$ from 

 the same locality) unquestionably belongs to them. Not 

 having seen Mr. Rohwer's Types, which are still in America, 

 I cannot clear up the matter; but provisionally I will 

 assume that his tasmanica $ is a different species from 

 Mr. Lea's captures now in B.M., and propose in that case 

 to call the latter Neoeurys caudata, n. sp. 



The 99 of metallica and caudata differ much in colora- 

 t ion . as follows — 



— Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous, reddish cupreous. 



The apex of (he al domen not dill'eiently coloured. 



metallica, Rohw. 



— Thorax and abdomen except its apex not al all reddish, bul 



black with a slighl greenish (aeneous) tinge. The apex of 

 the abdomen not at all metallic, but pale testaceous - . 



caudata, n. sp. 



