130 Mr. F. P. Dodd’s Notes upon some remarkable 
thorax, which in volusus has the humeral angles of the 
thorax conspicuously smooth and shining, not coarsely 
punctured and no carinze on the median segment. 
No. 10. SCHIZASPIDIA DODDI, form. nov. 
dg. Mandibles sickle-shaped with three teeth, apical tooth long 
acute, two small teeth on the inner margin ; clypeus short quadrate 
with the cheeks and face below the base of the antennz transversely 
striate, the stri# curving round upwards and becoming vertical 
behind and between the eyes, vertex longtitudinally striate ; 
scape of antenne smooth, flagellum finely granulose, 1st joint 
simple rounded, remaining joints throwing outwards comparatively 
short, slightly clavate rami. Thorax: short and stout, densely and 
somewhat deeply punctured ; scutellum : produced elongate conical 
overhanging the median segment and bearing a stout bifureate pro- 
cess at apex, the points of the fork blunt with a tooth on the inner 
side of each ; postscutellum and median segment vertical and verti- 
cally striate the division between them well marked. Abdomen 
petiolate, petiole shorter than the rest of the abdomen which is sub- 
obconical depressed above and broad and bluntly rounded posteriorly. 
Mandibles, scape of antennz, and cox, femora, tibize and tarsi of the 
legs pale yellowish-brown, flagellum darker brown ; head and thorax 
rich golden bronze with in certain lights scattered green and purple 
points ; wings hyaline iridescent ; abdomen shining bronze-brown, 
Length ¢ 5mm. Exp. 12 mm. 
¢ type in Hope Department. 
Hab. N. QUEENSLAND, Townsville (7. P. Dodd). 
Schizaspidia, Westw., is a genus, so far as is recorded, of 
small extent but wide distribution: forms of it occur in 
Australia, the Philippines, India and South America. 
