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punctured ; clypeus short, the anterior margin straight, not 

 reaching the mandibles, labrum exposed. Mesonotum and 

 pleurae shining, smooth, the median lobe of the mesonoluni 

 prominent, parapsidal furrows deep. First tergite less than 

 twice as long as its apical breadth. 



Hab. S.E. Australia and Tasmania. 



A parasite on Phoracantha larva?. Placed in Iphiaulax by 

 Froggatt on the determination of C. Morley. 



Genus GYMNOSCELUS, Forst. 



Gymnoscelus ntfoniger, sp. n, 



$ . Nigra, capite thoraceque rutis ; antennis, postscutelloque nigris ; 



segmento niediano nigro, dense albido-piloso ; coxis anticis rufis ; 



alis fusco-hyalinis, venis fuscis ; antennis 45-articulatis. 

 Long. 10 mm. ; terebrae long. 8 mm. 



? . Head broader than the thorax, smooth and shining, 

 the face very minutely punctured. Clypeus truncate at the 

 apex, the labrum slightly exposed; cheeks long, only a little 

 shorter than the eyes; frontal excavation deep. Thorax 

 smooth and shining, the median lobe of the mesonotum 

 rather prominent ; parapsidal furrows well marked, very 

 finely crenulated in the middle, the extremities smooth ; a 

 curved and strongly longitudinally striated depression at the 

 base of the scutellum. Median segment densely covered 

 with whitish hairs, not areolate. Abdomen smooth and 

 shining, not quite as long as the head, thorax, and median 

 segment combined, fusiform ; the first tergite about half as 

 long again as its apical breadth, covered with close-lying 

 white hairs, not carinated. Hind coxee subopaque, closely 

 and minutely punctured, sparsely covered with white hairs. 

 First discoidal cell sessile, nervulus slightly postfurcal, anal 

 cell of fore wing with two transverse nervures, the second 

 partly obsolete. First abscissa of the radius very shoit, 

 second half as long again as the second transverse cubital 

 nervure, the latter straight, forming a right angle with the 

 cubitus. 



Hab. Hobart, Tasmania (J. J. Walker) ; Victoria (French). 



In the Victorian specimen the white hairs spread on to 

 the sides o£ the second tergite. The species is not a typical 

 Gymnoscelus, differing in the shape of the second cubital cell 

 and in the partial effaeement of the second transverse vein of 

 the anal cell. It forms a link between Gymnoscelus and 

 Ti ichiuhelcou, differing from the latter in the absence of a 



