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A NEW SCELIONID PARASITE of LOCUST EGGS from 

 THE NORTHERN TERRITORY of AUSTRALIA.* 



By a. a. Girault. 



The following species was received from Mr. G. F. Hill, 

 Government Entomologist, Northern Territory, Australia. 



Genus Scelio, Latreille. 

 1. Scelio semisangidneiis, n. sp. 



Female. — Length 3-20 mm. 



Blood red, the head, ahdomen and distal six joints of antennal 

 flagellum, black ; joints 5 and 6 of antennae suffused with blackish ; 

 segments 2-5 of abdomen suffused more or less with reddish, ventrad 

 and dorsad. Distal half of fore wings rather deeply infuscated. 

 Scape long, about equal to the next six joints ; pedicel somewhat 

 longer than joint 3 which is somewhat longer than wide at apex ; 

 following joints wider than long, 7 longest of them, 5 and 6 shortest. 

 Mandibles very long, strongly bidentate at apex, the teeth subequal ; 

 maxillary palpi 3-jointed. Venation faint. Segment 4 of abdomen 

 distinctly longer than the two preceding segments ; segments 2 and 

 3 of abdomen with longitudinal striae more or less anastomosed; 

 segments 4 and 5 densely polygonally reticulated, the lines raised ; 

 6 striated like 8, also the entire venter; segment 5 with the striation 

 along distal half. Thorax umbilicately punctate, the punctures 

 unequal in size, smallest on propodeum ; the latter also obliquely 

 longitudinally striate but not densely, two of the striffi down the 

 meson as median carinae which are separated for some distance. 

 Lateral margin of propodeum and the shoulders fringed with silvery 

 pubescence. Parapsidal furrows complete, rather distinct. Head 

 coarsely punctate and with short silvery pubescence. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Described from five females labelled "No. 31, Botanic Gardens, 

 Darwin, N. T., Feb. 13, 1914, G. F. Hill," and captured over acridid 

 egg-beds on sandy soil. 



Habitat. — Australia : Port Darwin, Northern Territory. 

 Associated with Acridiidse. 



Types. — Queensland Museum, Brisbane, five females on a tag. 



NEW AUSTRALIAN BEES. 



By T. D. a. Cockerell. 



Earyglossidia purpurascens , sp. n. 

 $ . Length about 8J mm. ; black, the abdomen dark rich chest- 

 nut-red, suffused with purple, the basal segment dark ; antennae 

 black, extremely long, reaching to third abdominal segment; head 



■•• Contribution No. 24, Entomological Laboratory, Bureau of Sugar 

 Experiment Stations, Bundaberg, Queensland. 



