410 Mr. 1!. E. Turner on new 



reaching beyond the apex of the fourth, all the joints much 

 Longer than broad, ungues normal. On the sides of the 

 abdomen are oblique bands of whitish pubescence. The 

 terebra is recurved and does not extend beyond the apex of 

 the abdomen. Base of the petiole very finely transversely 

 nigulose. 



$ . Very similar to the female, but the joints of the hind 

 tarsi are not so strongly asymmetrical, the outer lobe of tho 

 third joint does not extend as far as the apex of the fourth. 

 The abdomen is longer and more slender than in the female. 



Hob. Yallingup, S.W. Australia (Tamer), October 1913; 

 eight males and fourteen females. 



The asymmetrical hind tarsi show an approacli to those of 

 Hemifcenus brevithorax, KiefL, but the joints -are broader 

 and less strongly asymmetrical than in that species. I cannot 

 regard Hemifcenus as a good genus ; II. brevithorax appears 

 to differ less from the section of Hyptiogaster to which the 

 present species belongs, which seems to be the typical "roup, 

 than that section differs from the section of H. ncfa } Westw. 



Hyptiogaster incequalis, sp. n. 



2 . Ferruginea, macula circum ocellos, mesonotoque fascia longi- 

 tudinal! nigris ; alis hyalinis, venis ferrugineis; terebra recur- 

 vata, haud exserta. 



Long. 10-11 mm. 



? . Head narrowed behind the eyes ; the posterior margin 

 raised and strongly emarginate, separated from the eyes by a 

 distance equal to nearly half their length. Vertex and face 

 almost smooth, subopaque ; the front strongly convex in the 

 middle, with a longitudinal carina from between the antenna} 

 nearly reaching the anterior ocellus ; on each side of the 

 carina the front is very finely rugulose. Posterior ocelli as 

 far from the eyes as from each other. Second joint of the 

 fiagellum nearly live times as long as the first, very little 

 shorter than the third and fourth combined. Mesonotum 

 coarsely rugose, rounded anteriorly, with two short longitu- 

 dinal carinas from near the middle of the anterior margin ; 

 pronotum not produced at the angles; scutellum transversely 

 rugose-striate ; pleurae minutely punctured ; median segment 

 punctured-rugose: hind coxae linely and closely punctured. 

 Petiole as long as the four following segments combined, ihe 

 terebra recurved and usually hidden, not i caching beyond 

 the apex of the abdomen. Hind metatarsus longer than the 

 three following joints, about twice as long as broad, the three 

 intermediate joints as broad as long, not asymmetrical ; the 



