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



abdominal segment. Apex of clypeus, labrum, etc., tro- 

 chanters, and part of the tibiae whitish, the rest of the body 

 and legs black. Length of body about 7 mm. 



atrata, G. Turner. 

 N, Queensland. Type in B.M. 



— Thorax red; abdomen entirely black; apex of clypeus, labrum, 



and legs luteous or testaceous — the tibiae and posterior 

 tarsi widely blackened. Wings rather cloudy, their neuration 

 and the stigma brown. The antennae of the unique Type 

 are 14- jointed thoracica, n. sp. 



"Austkalia" (teste Westwood). Type at Oxford. 



3. Thorax above entirely testaceous. Antennae usually more than 

 10-jointed, but the number varies (10 to 13). Abdomen 

 testaceous with black apex. Length of body about 7 mm. 



divergens, W. F. Kirby. 



N. Queensland (Cairns and Mackay). Type in B.M. 



— Prothorax red, but mesonotum almost entirely black. Antennae 



usually 9-jointed, but sometimes 10-jointed. Abdomen 

 coloured like that of divergens. Much smaller than any other 

 sjjecies of Clarissa or Eurys, the largest $$ not above 4 mm. 



in length inconspicuus, W. F. Kirby 



(described as an Eurys). 



N. Queensland, also Adelaide. Type in B.M. 



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I do not know the 3 of thoracica. Those of the three 

 other species are coloured very similarly, black with tes- 

 taceous antennae and legs, and with the intermediate 

 dorsal segments of the abdomen more or less rufescent. 

 Inconspicua can be recognised at once by its tiny size, 

 barely 3 mm. long. In divergens the abdomen has a 

 broad red belt occupying at least the whole of segments 2 

 and 3 and often extending to segment 4. In atrata these 

 segments have their apices only red, but their bases black. 

 Both in divergens and atrata the antennae, and parts of 

 the legs (the femora and the apices of the tibiae and tarsi) 

 are somewhat infuscated; in inconspicua this is not so. 

 All the 33 are slightly shorter and considerably less broad- 

 bodied than their 99, and the prothorax in all of them is 

 entirely black. 



