236 Mr, R. B. Turner on 
Hab. Mt. Canala, June 12; 1 2. 
I doubt if the differences between Buodias and Skeatia are 
of generic importance. 
Family Thynnide. 
Eirone obtusidens, sp. n. 
¢. Niger; mandibulis, apice excepto, clypeo, scapo subtus, macula 
obliqua utrinque inter antennas, orbitis internis, orbitis externis 
latissime, pronoto margine antico, callis humeralibus, tegulis, 
mesonoti dimidio apicali linea longitudinali utrinque, scutello 
macula magna utrinque angulis basalibus, maculaque parva sub 
alis flavis; femoribus, tibiis tarsisque testaceis; scutello macula 
magna apicali, postscutello, segmento mediano, tergitisque 
secundo, tertio quartoque testaceo-ferrugineis ; alis flavo-hyalinis, 
venis testaceis, 
Long. 12 mm. 
&. Mandibles much broadened to the apex, the outer tooth 
acute, the inner tooth not well defined, represented by a broad 
oblique cutting-edge. Clypeus short and broad, scarcely at 
all convex, produced triangularly at the apex, sparsely punc- 
tured and sparsely clothed with long blackish hairs. Inter- 
antennal prominence bilobed, not strongly raised. Head 
transverse, shining and sparsely punctured. Antennze 
shorter than the abdomen, third joint of the flagellum dis- 
tinctly longer than the second, the four apical joints slightly 
arcuate beneath. Thorax and median segment shining, 
sparsely punctured, the punctures on the median segment 
very shallow; anterior margin of the pronotum distinctly 
raised and thickened. Abdomen narrow and elongate, 
segments 2-6 parallel-sided; very sparsely punctured, the 
segments scarcely constricted at the base, sternites finely 
aciculate and more closely punctured than the tergites, the 
sides of the segments sparsely clothed with black hairs. 
Seventh tergite long, subtruncate at the apex, rather deeply 
punctured ; eighth sternite much longer than broad, narrowly 
subtruncate at the apex, with an apical fringe of short fulvous 
hairs, not projecting beyond the seventh tergite. Second and 
third abscissze of the radius subequal, second recurrent ner- 
vure received just beyond one-third from the base of the 
third cubital cell. 
Hab. Noumea, January 23. 
Not very near any Australian species of the genus, differing 
both in the form of the mandibles and of the clypeus. The 
apical joints of the maxillary palpi are not slender or elongate. 
