170 Records of the S.A. Miseum 



9 Head half as broad again as Inn;^, hniadly rcnind'jd at the posterior 

 angles, moderately convex, shinint;'. with a few \ery fine and scattered 

 punctures and a short longitudinal frontal sulcus. IVunutuin mure than 

 twice as hrciad as long, finely and sparsely punctured, with a row of larger 

 punctures, each bearing a lung hair, alung the straight anterior margin. 

 Median segment obliquely truncate posteriorly. .\i:)domen shining, very 

 sparselv punctured : the second tergite with seven transverse carinae, includ- 

 ing the strongh' raised a])ical margin ; fifth sternite closely longitudinally 

 striated: pvgidinm elongate, ^ ery narrow, constricted before the base of the 

 oblique apical truncation; the dorsal ])late of the truncaticm ^■ery much 

 shorter than the \-entral, ver\- narrowly lanceolate, with raised margins, and 

 pointed at the apex; the \-entral plate narrowlv munded at the aj^ex. 



Hah. Port IJncoln, South .\ustralia ( Lea). 



Types. I. 10799, d 9 in South Australian Afuseum ; Cotype d retained 

 in British Aluseum. Allied to L. fraiiciifcldianiis Sauss, from Sydney, and to 

 L. mthiUpeiuiis Sni. from Queensland, but has the hypopygium of the male and 

 the pvgidinm of the female much narrower. The legs of the male are also black, 

 not ferruginous as in the species mentioned above and in L. n'odcstus Sm. The 

 hypopygium and |ivgidium are also much narrow than in L. viii'dans Sm. 



EIRONE BASIMACULATA sp. nov. 



6 Niger; mandibulis macula i)ar\a basali fla\a ; alis Inalinis, \-enis nigris. 



Long. : 8-9 mm. 



d Clypeus truncate at the ajiex. without a triangular truncation, rather 

 strongly convex and almost subtuberculate in the middle ; antennae rather 

 short, about as long as the head and thorax w-ithout the median segment, 

 the apical joints slightly arcuate beneath. Llead finely and closely ]nmctured, 

 a little broader than the thorax, the posterior ocelli about twice as far from 

 the eves as from each other and as far from the posterior margin of the head 

 as from the eves. 'I'horax shining, rather sparsely inmctured, the pronotnm 

 much more finelv punctured than the mesonotum, the mesnpleurae rather 

 coarselv [nuictured-rugulose. Median segment rather '■hort, \ery delicately 

 punctured-rugulose, the base shining and almost smooth. Abdomen shining, 

 very delicatelv punctured, the tergites without any distinct raised marks. 

 Hypopygium rounded and ciliated. Calcaria ])ale. Third abscissa of the 

 radius short, usuall_\- onl_\- about half as long as the second. Head, pleurae 

 and apex of the alidomen rather sparsely clothed with cinereous hairs. 



Hab. Hobart, Tasmania (Lea). 



