IJymenoptera of the Ausfralian Her/ion. 101 



Meroglossa decipiens, sp. n. 



Face of male formed as in M. sciilpfissima, pale markings 

 of thorax and teguliie as in eucalypti. Clypeus black ou 

 posterior half and the niahu* space black, the face otherwise 

 like that of fuca/i/pti in e(;lour. Thorax black, abdomen 

 reddish brown, subinfuscate in parts. Stipites of the male 

 genital armature continued into an elongate suhmembranous 

 lacinia fringed with very long hairs on the apical part out- 

 wardly, and with shorter ones along its exterior margin, 

 where it underlies the stipites for half or more than half the 

 length of the latter ; inwardly before the apex of the stipites 

 it gives off on each side a chitinous, somewhat pointed, elon- 

 gate process, furnished before the apex exteriorly with a 

 single long bristle, the inner margin to the apex fringed with 

 short hairs. 



Female with thoracic markings of eucalypti, the head 

 above black, the face red, the abdomen a dull red colour. 



Hub. Port Uarwin and Herberton district, Queensland 

 (Dudd). 



Mei'oylossa deceptor, sp. n. 



Face formed as in eucalypti, the clypeus becoming dark 

 (brown or pitchy) on a line with the lateral angles of its 

 prominence ; malar space dark or with a very fine apical 

 line, otherwise coloured much as like eucalypti. Pronotum 

 black or more or less obscurely reddish; mesonotum red, more 

 or less sordidly infuscate in some specimens ; tubercles not 

 spotted, dark ; a spot on the teguke and one on the axillse 

 yellow ; abdomen black, more or less reddish-tinted in 

 parts, basal segment all black or largely red in the middle. 



Genital armature with the submembranous lacinia much 

 less developed than in the preceding ; near the apex furnished 

 with only two or three outer and three inner long setae instead 

 of the regular fringe of many apical setse ; the acute chitinous 

 inner processes, which cross each other above the sagittae, 

 bare, without hairs or setae, ^ . 



It is uncertain whether these are distinct species or merely 

 local races of M. eucalypti and sculptissima, with which they 

 agree in size, sculpture, &c. It is observable that the species 

 identical with sculptissima in superficial structure has almost 

 the colour of eucalypti. I should have hesitated to give names 

 to these forms but for the interest of the male genitalia, 

 and in the hope that eucalypjti and sculptissima may now be 

 examined and described. 



Hab. Cairns, collected by myself j Herberton {Dodd). 



