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longer thau 3 and 4 united ; mesothorax convex, smooth, 

 with very few minute punctures ; scutellum broad and 

 flattened ; area of metathorax cup-shaped, smooth and 

 shining:, scarcely defined ; margin of tubercles tomentose ; 

 sides of metathorax with a hairy fringe ; tegulse small, light 

 apricot-colour. AYiugs dusky hyaline ; stigma dark reddish 

 brown, nervures lighter; second s.m. hardly half as long as 

 first, receiving the recurrent nervures not far from its base 

 and apex ; basal nervure falling far short of transverse- 

 medial. Legs light red, with thin white hair, the femora 

 darkened, except at base and apex ; hind tibise tuberculate 

 on the basal half of the outer edge ; pygidial plate extremely 

 narrow. 



Tfab. Shoalhaven, New South Wales, 4. 10. 1894 (TF. W. 

 Froggatt, 175). 



Euryglossa cygneUa, sp. n. 



^ . — Length 5 mm. 



Slender, black, with the second and third abdominal 

 segments above orange, except the broad hind margins and 

 the sides more or less ; on the ventral side segments 2 to 

 4 are pale orange ; head and thorax with scanty, but rather 

 long, dull white hair ; head transversely oval, eyes converging 

 below ; antennae long, the flagellum stout, and pale yellowish 

 ferruginous beneath : mesothorax dull and very densely 

 punctured ; area of metathorax large, triangular, with a very 

 narrow basal band enclosed by a raised line, and marked by 

 numerous little transverse (antero-posterior) ridges ; behind 

 the basal band the area is covered for a space with very fine 

 raised lines, and its lateral margins are more or less marked 

 by little raised lines ; tegulse very pale testaceous. Wings 

 hyaline, stigma large aud piceous, nervures very dark 

 brown ; second submarginal cell about or almost as long as 

 first, receiving the first r. n. a considerable distance from its 

 base, and the second very close to its apex. Femora black, 

 with a little reddish on the knees ; anterior and middle tibise 

 and tarsi clear ferruginous ; hind tibiae ferruginous, with a 

 dark cloud anteriorly, and conspicuous bristles in little groups 

 of two or more on the hind edge ; hind tarsi fuscous ; 

 abdomen narrow and flatfish, the first segment narrow and 

 long, the black parts with a dull satiny lustre. 

 JIab. Swan Kiver, Australia, ''69. 50. '' 



Euryglossa lyalkeriana, sp. n. 

 ? . — Length about 5n mm. 

 Head and thorax very dark bluish green ; abdomen broad, 



