42 On Five new Species of Australian Saw-Jlies. 



the base of coxae, femora (which are rather thickened), tips of 

 tibiae, and tarsi black. 



Abdomen blue-black above, with a testaceous stripe on the 

 hind border of the second segment ; anal segment and under 

 surface pale testaceous ; base of segments beneath more or 

 less blackish ; a row of small but conspicuous black dots on 

 the sides beneath. 



Wings hyaline; fore wings much clouded with yellowish 

 and thickly studded with hairs ; nervures testaceous, costal 

 nervure and stigma broadly castaneous ; four submarginal 

 cells. 



Allied to P. Jurinei^ Westw., but rather more slender. In 

 P. Jurinei the lower part of the face and the under surface of 

 the abdomen are almost destitute of black markings, 



Cerealces cyathiformis. 



Long. Corp. 10 millim. 



Male. — Black, varied with yellow ; head, thorax, and pectus 

 covered with large depressed punctures ; head black, a groove 

 running from the occiput outside each of the outer ocelli ; eyes 

 bordered before and behind with testaceous ; antennee tawny, 

 eleven- or twelve-jointed, the two basal joints darkest, 

 sometimes nearly black ; joints 3 to 8 broad, about twice 

 as broad as long (joint 3 the longest) and cyathiform, 

 being widely expanded at the extremity, which gives them a 

 somewhat nodose appearance ; the terminal joints more 

 rounded at the extremity and the last rather small ; a testa- 

 ceous spot below and sometimes above each scape ; clypeus 

 rather narrow, testaceous, slightly concave, and bordered with 

 testaceous below; labrum black; jaws black or marked with 

 red ; prothorax with the hinder angles bordered with testa- 

 ceous in front of the tegulae, which are testaceous or pitchy ; 

 mesothorax with a groove in front and two slight ridges on 

 each side behind. Wings hyaline, with brown nervures, and 

 set with numerous but scattered short bristles. Legs with the 

 femora and coxge mostly black or striped with black (hind 

 legs darkest) ; tips of coxae, trochanters, and base of femora 

 white; four front tibia3 and tarsi testaceous; hind tibiaa and 

 tarsi reddish, the former slightly brownish at the extremity ; 

 scutellum black, grooved, laterally ridged, and narrowly edged 

 behind with testaceous, and ending in a short testaceous spine 

 on each side. Abdomen black, tirst segment with a Avhitish 

 spot on each side ; second with a waved testaceous stripe 

 above, on the middle, interrupted on the median line ; terminal 

 segment tawny. 



