4()0 Mr. a. Meade- Waldo on 



fascirs apicalibus, luteis ; tegulis hyalinis, \ix luteo-maculatis ; 

 tibiis anticis extws luteis ; tarsis auticis ferrugiueis ; alls sub- 

 hyaliiiis, area costali iiifuscata. 

 Long. 11 mm. 



Mandibles of median tliickness, 3-dentate at apex; clypeus 

 convex, longer than broad, apically subtrancate ; joints of 

 flagc'lkini short, sub'^qual. Head with the vertex sub- 

 quadrate seen in profile, sharply atigulated behind the eyes. 

 Thorax long, narrow ; anterior margin of prouotum trun- 

 cate, the sides rounded ; seutelhun flat. 



Head and thorax closely and coarsely punctured ; median 

 segment and abdomen closely and more finely punctate. 

 Sternite 2 with a shallow ovate depression occupying most of 

 its surface. Wings slightly fuscous, darker along the costa 

 and in the radial cell. 



Length 11 mm. (to apex of tergite 2). 



1 ?. 



S.W. Australia : Yallingnp, Dec. 1913-Jan. 1914 

 {Mrs. R. E. Turner). 



I have much pleasure in naming this interesting insect 

 after its ca])tor, Mrs. R. E. Turner, who accompanied her 

 husband on his recent long collecting-tour in Australia. 



It is a typical Macrocali/mm^, and may be readily separated 

 from the only other described species, M. smithiamcnif 

 Perkins (1908), as follows:— 



31. smithianum. 1 M. alicice. 



Colours : black, ferruginous, aud Colours : blacli and jollow, no 



yellow. ferruginous (except anterior tarsij. 



AnteniifB mostly ferruginous. Autennse wholly black. 



Length 8-9 mm, I Length 11 mm. 



Discoelius elongatus, Sauss. (1851). 

 Mr. Turner caught a pair of this fine insect at Eaglehawk 

 Neck, S.E. Tasmania, ii.-iii. 1913. fSaussure described it 

 fiom " S. Australia." There is a specimen in the British 

 Museum from Victoria (C. French). 



Pareumenes australensis, M.- Waldo (1910). 



Eumenes {Pareumenes ?) australensis, M. -Waldo, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. (8) V. p. 44 (1910). d- 



Described from specimens taken near Cairns by R. E. 

 Turner in 1902. During his recent tour he caught eight 

 more specimens, four of them females, vvathin a mile of the 

 type-locality. 



