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  Mr. 
  Alan 
  P. 
  Dodd's 
  Notes 
  on 
  

  

  Described 
  from 
  one 
  female 
  labelled 
  " 
  Adelaide 
  River, 
  

   North 
  Australia." 
  

   Type 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Scelio 
  australiensis 
  KiefTer. 
  

  

  Scelio 
  australiensis 
  Kiefier, 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Hist. 
  Nat., 
  Metz, 
  

  

  1905, 
  p. 
  100. 
  

   S. 
  australiensis 
  Kieffer, 
  Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Scient., 
  Bruxelles, 
  1908, 
  

  

  p. 
  133. 
  

   S. 
  australiae 
  Kieffer, 
  Genera 
  Insectorum, 
  1910, 
  p. 
  74. 
  

  

  Kiefier 
  has 
  made 
  the 
  strange 
  mistake 
  of 
  describing 
  the 
  

   same 
  insect 
  twice 
  under 
  the 
  same 
  name, 
  and 
  then 
  finding 
  

   a 
  new 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  second 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  insect. 
  The 
  

   type 
  specimen 
  is 
  from 
  Mt. 
  Victoria, 
  New 
  South 
  Wales. 
  

   Closely 
  allied 
  with 
  punctaticeps 
  Dodd, 
  and 
  may 
  be 
  identical. 
  

  

  Scelio 
  semisanguineus 
  Girault, 
  var. 
  nigrocinctus, 
  n. 
  var. 
  

  

  9. 
  Head 
  black 
  ; 
  thorax 
  bright 
  red, 
  the 
  scutellum 
  fuscous, 
  centre 
  

   of 
  thorax 
  ventrally 
  fuscous 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  red, 
  margined 
  narrowly 
  

   with 
  fuscous, 
  segments 
  5 
  and 
  6 
  fuscous, 
  beneath 
  wholly 
  red 
  ; 
  legs 
  

   reddish 
  yellow, 
  the 
  intermediate 
  and 
  posterior 
  coxae 
  black; 
  first 
  

   four 
  antennal 
  joints 
  yellow, 
  the 
  others 
  black. 
  

  

  Head 
  normal; 
  vertex 
  twice 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  long; 
  occii^ital 
  margin 
  

   concave; 
  eyes 
  large, 
  bare; 
  lateral 
  ocelli 
  against 
  eye 
  margins; 
  

   without 
  distinct 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  coarsely 
  rugo 
  -punctate, 
  this 
  sculpture 
  

   disappearing 
  beliind 
  anterior 
  ocellus 
  where 
  there 
  are 
  irregular 
  

   striae; 
  transversely 
  striate 
  against 
  occipital 
  margin; 
  with 
  con- 
  

   verging 
  striae 
  around 
  mouth 
  ; 
  frontal 
  depression 
  narrow, 
  short, 
  

   and 
  smooth. 
  Antennae 
  12-jointed; 
  scape 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  next 
  five 
  

   joints 
  combined; 
  pedicel 
  one-half 
  longer 
  than 
  its 
  greatest 
  width; 
  

   funicle 
  1 
  one-half 
  longer 
  than 
  its 
  greatest 
  width, 
  2 
  rather 
  wider 
  

   than 
  long; 
  club 
  stout, 
  6- 
  or 
  7-jointed. 
  Pronotum 
  truncate 
  

   anteriorly, 
  its 
  angles 
  rounded; 
  parapsidal 
  furrows 
  evident, 
  but 
  

   rather 
  obscure; 
  scutum 
  and 
  scutellum 
  coarsely 
  rugo-punctate 
  ; 
  

   median 
  segment 
  moderately 
  long, 
  longitudinally 
  obUquely 
  striate 
  

   and 
  finely 
  rugose, 
  with 
  fine 
  pubescence 
  laterally, 
  at 
  meson 
  with 
  

   two 
  straight 
  striae 
  appearing 
  as 
  carinae 
  ; 
  all 
  pleurae 
  strongly 
  striate. 
  

   Fore-wings 
  long; 
  broad; 
  hyaline 
  at 
  base, 
  deeply 
  cloudy 
  for 
  the 
  

   rest; 
  venation 
  indistinct; 
  stigmal 
  spot 
  obscure; 
  stigmal 
  vein 
  

   rather 
  long. 
  Abdomen 
  conic-ovate, 
  more 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  its 
  

   greatest 
  width 
  ; 
  segment 
  3 
  no 
  longer 
  than 
  1 
  and 
  2 
  united, 
  4 
  a 
  little 
  

   shorter 
  than 
  3; 
  2 
  distinctly 
  depressed 
  at 
  base; 
  1 
  and 
  2 
  densely 
  

  

  