462 Mr. G. Meade-Wuldo on 



saucy insects^ who wore the Lirgest stings I had ever seen. 

 The pain I felt was extreme, and the effect so permanent 

 that when I aliglited in tlie evening on tliat leg from my 

 liorse, not thinking of the circumstances, I fell to the ground, 

 the muscles having been generally affected. The wound was 

 iiiarked by a blue circular spot, the size of a sixpence, for 

 several months.^' 



It is evident from this account that the insect must have 

 been a Po'isteSj the hanging nest and savage attack being 

 characteristic of these insects. Monerehia is a solitary wasp 

 making mud cells, which it stores in the i;sual way witii 

 larvae &c, for its progeny, Mr. Rowland Turner, who has 

 lived for many years in North Queensland, where Monerehia 

 is common, tells me that they can only be induced to sting 

 under great provocation, and then it is not a very serious 

 affair. Mitchell gives his descri]jtion in a footnote (/. c.) ; 

 the ^' Ahispa australiana" is probably Polistes tepidas. Fab. 



Ischnogaster {Parischnogaster) levifoveatus, sp. n. 



(S . Niger, luteo-variegatus, /. foveafce affinis, clypeo dense argenteo- 

 piloso ; clypeo (macula subquadrata excepta), pronoti margine 

 antico et postico, maculis pleuris, scutello duabus maculis, linea 

 postscutello, segmenti mediani apiee, luteis ; fascia basali tergite 3, 

 pedibus L et ii. plerumque tibiisqne posticis intus, luteis ; man- 

 dibulis antennisque intra ferrugineis ; alls subhyalinis, hirsutis. 

 Long. 12 mm. 



Clypeu.3 short, about as broad as long, the apex produced 

 to form a small tubercle; mandibles .'{-toothed, the two outer 

 teeth widely separated ; thorax as in /. mellgi, but scutelluni 

 and postscutellum shining, impunctate ; tegulfe shining, 

 impunctate; petiole about twice as long as thorax, very 

 slender, the apical third feebly swollen ; segment 2 with a 

 short basal stalk, its tergite with a conspicuous differentiated 

 area occupying the greater part of its surface ; the area flat- 

 tened, bordered laterally by two rounded carinae which dis- 

 appear before the apex of the segment; terminal segment 

 strongly com))ressed laterally; the sternite with two sharp 

 longitudinal ridges meeting at apex. Antennae massive, 

 joints 3 and 4 equal. Wings with a considerable covering 

 of hairs, the hind wings ciliated at the end ; third cubital 

 cell short, about one-third as long as second. Whole insect 

 nearly impunctate ; the mesonotum with feeble longitudinal 

 striation ; median segment with feeble transverse striation ; 

 abdominal segments 1 and 2 shining impunctate, the following 

 segments glabrous. Clj'peus densely covered with silvery 



