118 Dr. R. C. L. Perkins on Aculeate 



the basal segments more or less pitchy and the apical margins 

 pitchy red. A wide stripe down the middle of the clypeus, 

 the prothoracic tubercles^ a spot at the base of the middle 

 tibiae above and a line on the front and hind ones, white. 

 The legs pitchy brown. Wings hyalinCj somewhat smoky; 

 neuration dark. 



Face below the antennse polished, and at the sides with 

 sparse coarse punctures, impressed along the margins of the 

 clypeus, the latter inipnnctate down the middle; a dense 

 puncturation on the inner side ot the great impressions, in 

 which the antennae are inserted, these being elsewhere 

 smooth. Head seen from above with a flattened punctate 

 area, on which the front ocellus is placed, the vertex with 

 coarse punctures. Mesonotum finely and densely punctured 

 and dullish, but with two highly polished areas postero- 

 laterally, whereon there are few punctures, and in fact on 

 part of these areas none, but they are traversed by an 

 impressed line. Scutellum densely punctured all over. 

 Propoileum in front dull, with dense minute surface-sculpture, 

 appearing granulate. Basal abdominal segment finely and 

 somewhat irregularly punctured ; second and third very 

 densely and finely punctured, but with a smooth transverse 

 submedian impunctate line, which is interrupted in the 

 middle by a punctured portion ; fourth, fifth, and sixth with 

 extremely dense and fine puncturation and remote minute 

 tubercles. Abdomen above with very short sparse hairs, 

 beneath with much longer pale ones ; sculpture of ventral 

 segments very dense and rough ; scopa pale. 



? . Length 4*5 ram. 



Hab. Bundabcrg, Queensland ; taken by myself in 1904. 



Obs. This is so far the only representative of the family 

 Ceratinidse in Australia. 



EumenidaB. 

 IscHNoccELiA, Pcrkins. 



This genus is entirely distinct from Elinius, Saussure, 

 which it superficially resembles, by the quite different 

 mouth-parts. There are several species of each of these 

 genera in the British INluseuni collection. 



ECTOPIOGLOSSA, gCU. UOV. 



General form and api)earance of a yelloM-and-black 

 Emnenes. Antennae of male iJi-jointcd, tiie twelfth very 

 small, forming a base for the recurved hook-like thirtccutli 



