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Nortonia rechbergi. 



Nortonia viridis, Schulthess-Rechberg, Ver. zool.-bot. Cies. Wien, 

 vol. liii. p. 362 (1903), New Guinea. 



The species from New Guinea described by Schulthess- 

 Rechberg under this name consequently sinks to the older 

 species described by Smith in 1859. I propose that it should 

 be renamed Nortonia rechbergi, in honour of the author. 



Abispa, Mitchell. 

 Abispa australis, Smith, Cat. Hyra. Brit. Mus. vol. v. p. 42. 



The type is here stated to be a female, but the type-label 

 is under a male. The sexual difference in the clypeus is 

 marked ; the two teeth on that of the male are sharp and 

 distinctly prominent, whereas in the female they are blunt 

 and hardly perceptible. 



Abispa paragiuides, sp. n. 



<$ . Reddish orange ; mesonotum posteriorly, second 

 abdominal segment (except apical margin), black. Meso- 

 notum dark ferrugineous anteriorly. Wings flavo-hyaline, 

 fuscous at the apex, darkest in radial cell. Clypeus rather 

 longer than broad, narrowly produced towards apex, which 

 is emarginate ; scutellum with an inconspicuous longitudinal 

 furrow, postscutellum divided from it by a considerable 

 fissure, a blunt tubercle at each end; median segment 

 truncate and medially depressed, the apical angle on each 

 side produced to form a spiue. Abdomen elongate-ovate, 

 first abdominal segment rather narrower than the second ; 

 with a shallow longitudinal furrow. Punctured ; head and 

 thorax finely, median segment coarsely, and abdomen 

 minutely. 



Length 18 mm. 



Hob. Port Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia (Gilbert 

 Turner) ; 2 d . 



Distinguished from A. australis, Sm.,from Port Essingtou, 

 which has 3-tuberculate postscutellum, and the base of the 

 first abdominal segment black ; from A. ephippium, which 

 also has the postscutellum 3-tuberculate and the clypeus 

 more broadly emarginate ; and from A- splendida in the form 

 of the clypeus and general distribution of colour. 



The resemblance between the insects of this genus and 

 Paragia walkeri has been mentioned under the description 

 of that species, but between no two species is the likeness 



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