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rounded. The apical margins of the first and second segments 

 of the abdomen elevated into sharp carinse, also a sharp trans- 

 verse carina in the middle of the second segment. 



Hab. Adelaide. 



jElurus incanus. 



Female. Length 4} lines. — Black, closely punctm-ed ; the 

 vertex shining and sparingly punctured ; the antennae and legs 

 ferruginous ; thinly sprinkled with erect glittering hairs ; the 

 thorax deeply constricted in the middle; the metathorax obliquely 

 truncate, closely punctiu-ed and subopake ; the terminal segment 

 of the abdomen acute at its apex, which is pale testaceous, and 

 thickly covered with fulvous hairs. 



Hab. Adelaide. 



The male of this species is described at p. 53. 



Rhagigaster comparatus. 



Male. Length 5 lines. — Black : head and thorax coarsely 

 rugose ; the abdomen closely punctured, each segment with an 

 oblique shining impunctate raised space on each side ; the two 

 apical segments ferruginous, and not so closely punctured as the 

 preceding ; covered with a scattered griseous pubescence ; the 

 wings hyaline, the nervures black ; the tibiae and tarsi obscure 

 ferruginous ; the segments of the abdomen constricted. 



Female. Length 3} lines. — Black, elongate and narrow, 

 strongly punctured ; the antennae, legs, and two apical segments 

 of the abdomen ferruginous ; the thorax rounded anteriorly ; the 

 metathorax narrowed at its base and obUquely truncate at the 

 apex. 



Hab. Adelaide. 



This species very closely resembles R. hamorrhoidalis ; but in 

 that species the apical margin of the terminal segment of the 

 abdomen is deeply emarginate in the middle, in the present 

 species it is rounded and entire ; the legs are also of a diflferent 

 colour. 



