434: Mr. S. A. Rohwer on some 



a number of ways and does not seem to be closely allied. 

 Tlie unusual short ovipositor and ninth tergite cause the 

 abdomen to be rounded, not tapering, apically, and gives 

 this new species a distinctive appearance. 



Female. — Length to end of abdomen 8 mm. ; anterior 

 margin of clypeus rounded, medianly depressed, but with a 

 median protuberance, which at first sight gives the impression 

 tliat there is a small median tooth ; malar space about half 

 as long as the width of mandibles at the base ; surface of 

 clypeus with dorsad-ventrad striae; face and front reticulate; 

 middle fovea small, indistinct ; ocelli in a low triangle, the 

 postocellar line longer than the ocellar line ; vertex and 

 posterior orbits finely aciculate ; antennae distinctly tapering 

 apically, 18-jointed, the third joint distinctly longer than 

 fourth but not as long as 4 plus 5 ; pedicellum not half as 

 long as third joint ; scape subequal in length with third 

 joint ; proscutum broad, well defined by foveolate notauli, 

 but the median longitudinal furrow is feeble; surface of 

 scutum and prescutum reticulate, with a more sparsely sculp- 

 tured area at the anterior middle of prescutum and lateral 

 middle of scutum ; scutelium finely granular anteriorly, 

 smooth and shining posteriorly ; sides of pronotum granular, 

 but with many longitudinal raised lines in addition; anterior 

 part of mesepistemum reticulata, the posterior portion smooth, 

 polished ; abdomen finely granular, but the depressed apical 

 margins of the tergites are almost without sculpture ; ninth 

 tergite short, rounded apically, giving the end of the abdomen 

 somewhat the same appearance as in Oryssus ; ovipositor 

 broad ; straight above, obtusely pointed apically and tapering 

 from a broad base, not extending much beyond the apical 

 margin of tergites; legs normal; venation usual, the intra- 

 radius joins the radius about one-fourth the length of the 

 intraradius from the end of the second cubital. Black ; 

 antennae and legs ferruginous ; wings hyaline, with a faint 

 yellowish tinge; venation pale brown, stigma dark brown; 

 mandibles and sheath piceous. 



Type-locality. Kuranda, N. Queensland, Australia. 



Described from a single female collected May 3-June 2, 

 1913, by R. E. Turner at an altitude of 1100 ft. 



Type. British Museum (Natural History). 



Zenarginx:, subfam. no v. 

 Based on the genus Zenarge described below, and belongs 

 to the family Argidae, where it may be readily separated 

 from either of the subfamilies by the following key : — 



