Mr. Rowland E. Turner’s Notes on the Scoliiclac. 405 
Scotia {Diclis) fernigineipcs, Mant. 
Elis {Eielis) o.nmdata, Fabr., var. ferrugineijns, Mant., 
vVnn. Mus. Civ. Storia Nat. Genova, xl, p. 591, 
1900, $. 
I see no sufficient reason for regarding this as a variety 
of annulata, seeing that two or three very similar species 
occur in New Guinea. There is a specimen in the Berlin 
Museum from Ralura, in the Bismarck Archipelago. 
Family SAPYGIDAE. 
Parasapyga, gen. nov. 
Differs from Sapyga in the antennae, which are 
rather slender, thicker at the base than towards the apex ; 
the much more robust build, the vertical truncation of the 
median segment and the almost conical abdomen. The 
second cubital cell is longer on the radial nervure than 
high, as in Polochrum, and the third cubital cell is not 
much narrowed on the radial nervure, but the second 
recurrent nervure is received at about one quarter from 
the base of the third cubital cell, somewhat further from 
the base than in Sapyga and not interstitial with the 
second transverse cubital nervure as in Polochrum. 
Parasapyga mdlleri, sp. nov. (Plate L, fig. 8.) 
9. Clypeus broadened from the base to the apex, the apical margin 
feebly sinuate on each side, coarsely reticulate, with a low carina 
from the base not reaching the apex. Maxillary palpi small, six- 
jointed, the basal joint the longest. Head scarcely broader than the 
pronotum, coarsely punctured ; the posterior ocelli further from the 
eyes than from each other, the eyes deeply emarginate, not quite 
reaching the base of the mandibles ; the interantennal prominence 
broadly rounded at the apex, the sides raised and forming low carinae 
close to the base of the antennae. Mandibles strongly bidentate at 
the apex. Antennae inserted much further from each other than 
from the eyes, gradually tapering towards the apex, the scape finely 
punctured, the first joint of the flagellum short, the second and third 
about equal in length. Thorax, median segment and pleurae coarsely 
and closely punctured, the anterior margin of the pronotum almost 
straight, very broad, the median segment vertically truncate from 
just behind the postscutellum. Abdomen almost conical, shining, 
finely and rather sparsely punctured, the first segment very little 
