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15. Legs wholly feriTifirinous ; mesonotum with a yellow 



spot ; tegulse black A. errans Sm. 



Legs ferruginous marked with j'ellow; mesonotum 



_ immaculate; tegulse yellow A. flavopicta Turn. 



16. Wings hyaline 17. 



Apical half of wings with a distinct fusco-violaceous 



tinge A. hidentaia Cam. 



17. Abdomen immaculate A. lacteipennis Caxn, 



Dorsal abdominal segments 2-4 with large yellowish 



lateral spots A. erythronota Cam. 



18. Antennae orange ; wings fusco-violaceous A. chilensis G:\\e,\ . 



Antennae black ; wings hyaline 19. 



19. Abdomen spotted with yellow *A, erythrojpyga Eurm . 



Abdomen immaculate 20. 



20. Legs ferruginous A hipustulata Twrn. 



Legs black, marked with yellow 21. 



21. Length 13 mm. Yellow band on pronotum entire A. anteomafa Sm. 



Length 10 mm. Yellow band on pronotum interruj)ted. A. albomaculata Sm. 



33, Anthobosca Australasia Guer, (PI. LXXXIII. fig. 13.) 



Antkobosca australasice Guerin ; Duperry, Yoy. ' Coquille,' Zool. 

 ii. p. 237 (1839), <S . 



Anthobosca crabroniformis Sm. Oat, Hym. B. M. vii. p. 59 

 (1859), 6. 



Thynnus cathreinii D. T. Cat. Hym, viii. p. 103 (1897), c? • 



(S . Pronotum much narrowed anteriorly, nearly as long as the 

 scutellum. First dorsal abdominal segment slender, more than 

 half as long again as the apical breadth, much longer than the 

 second segment. Seventh dorsal segment very broadly rounded 

 at the apex. Hind tibiae feebly spined. Third abscissa of the 

 radius longer than the first and second combined ; first recurrent 

 nervure received close to the middle of the second cubital cell, 

 second at one-quarter from the base of the third cubital cell ; 

 first transverse cubital nervure curved, not sharply bent at the 

 base. Cubitus of the hind wing originating before the transvei'se 

 median nervure, separated from it by a distance exceeding half 

 the length of that nervure. 



Black ; mandibles, clypeus, margins of the eyes interrupted on 

 the summit, pronotum very broadly posteriorly, tegulse, a 

 quadrate spot on the mesonotum, a spot on the mesopleurse, the 

 middle of the scutellum and postscutellum, a curved transverse 

 band at the apex of the median segment, an interrupted trans- 

 verse band on dorsal segments 2-4, sometimes also a spot on each 

 side of the first and fifth segments, a spot on the anterior coxfe 

 and a line on the anterior tibiae yellow ; legs ferruginous. Wings 

 hyaline, tinged with yellow ; nervures ferruginous. 



Length 16 mm, 



Hab. New South Wales, Queensland, as far north as Cairns. 



The female is unknown, but the range of the species is about 

 the same as that of signata Sm, 



