55-i ^Ii". H. Vj. Turner on Fosson'al llijinenoptera. 



This is given by Saussurc as Tasmanian (Reise Nov., 

 Zool. ii. p. 74). It is a very common species in North 

 Queensland, and is also found at Sydney. Tliough I have 

 not seen rasnianian specimens, I have no reason to doubt the 

 correctness o£ the record. 



Larra auslralis, Sauss. 



Tachi/tes australis, Sauss. Mem. soc. pliys. & List. nat. Geneve, xiv. 



p. 19 (1854) (nee Sauss. 1867). 

 Lanada australis, Sauss. M^lang. Ilym. ii. p. 69 (1854). 



JIab. EafTlehauk Neck ; March. 



I am not sure tiiat my identification of this species is 

 correct. Saussure states that the median segment is as long 

 as tlie mesonotum, but in my specimens it is distinctly 

 longer. Saussure's figure, however, shows it longer than 

 the mesonotum. 



In my specimens the pronotum is sunk much below the 

 mesonotum, t!ie middle portion higher than the sides, in tliis 

 respect approaching Sotogonia^ but the tarsal ungues are 

 shorter than is usual in that genus. 



Larra (?) nigripes, Sauss. 



Larrada ni(/n'pes, Sau?8. Reise Nov., Zool. ii. p. 74 (18G7) ; Scliulz, 

 Zool. Ann. iv. p. 191 (1911). 



Schulz (iivQS a description of the specimen marked as the 

 type of this species in the Geneva Museum. But Saussurc's 

 description is of a ? , apparently without a head, whereas 

 the specimen described by Schulz is a c?, with a head. 

 This causes doubt as to whether the specimen is really the 

 tj'pe or whether the label may not have been accidentally 

 shitted. Schulz is inclined to place the species in Tachyfes, 

 though carefully pointing out how it differs from that genus 

 in the oval posterior ocelli, in the long median segment, 

 and in the form of the pronotum. I formerly considered the 

 species identical with L. psilocera, Kohl, but after Schulz's 

 remarks on Saussure's collection, 1 do not feel that this can 

 be maintained. I have no evidence that L. 2)silocera occurs 

 in Tasmania. I have not seen any species answering to the 

 description given by Schulz. 



The localities given in the Reise d. Novara are not always 

 reliable, and it cannot be considered at all certain that the 

 present species is Tasmanian. 



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