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on the mesonotum and scutellum shorter and black ; the 

 scutellum subtriangular ; the tegulse smooth, with a few punctures 

 near the apex. Median segment very coarsely reticulated, very 

 steeply sloped posteriorly. Abdomen finely and closely punctured, 

 with long black pubescence on the side ; the first segment short, 

 much narrower than the second, moderately constricted at the 

 apex ; the apical segment smooth and shining, with a low median 

 carina, rather broadly truncated at the apex. Radial cell broadly 

 truncated at the apex ; three cubital cells, the first recurrent 

 nervure received beyond the middle of the second cubital cell, the 

 second less distinct and interstitial with the third transverse 

 cubital nervure. Second ventral segment tuberculate at the base 

 beneath. 



Black ; a small pointed patch of white pubescence at the apex 

 of each dorsal segment, except the first and seventh. Wings dark 

 fuscous, nervures black. 



Length 17 mm. 



Hab. Carlindia, North- West Australia, J $ in cop. ; Strelley 

 River, N.W. A., 2 5 (H. M. Giles). 



The female may be readily distinguished from other species of 

 the genus by the large depression on the second dorsal segment. 

 The shape approaches very nearly to the last species (cocytia). 



Ephutomorpha perelegants, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. fig. 3, $ .) 



$ . 'Head closely and not very finely punctured, nearly as broad 

 as the thorax, broadly rounded behind the eyes, without posterior 

 angles, a little narrowed anteriorly ; an oblique carina on each side 

 reaching from the antennal tubercle to the eye. Antennae as 

 long as the thorax, the third joint of the flagellum as long as the 

 second. Eyes large and moderately convex, situated nearer to 

 the posterior margin of the head than to the base of the mandibles. 

 Thorax very coarsely punctured, the punctures confluent longi- 

 tudinally on the posterior half, not more than one -quarter as long 

 again as the greatest breadth, narrowed gradually from the 

 middle and nearly half as broad again on the anterior as on the 

 posterior margin, the anterior margin slightly arched, obliquely 

 sloped posteriorly. Pleurae almost smooth. Abdomen ovate, the 

 basal segment short and not very narrow ; finely and closely punc- 

 tured ; the pygidial area finely longitudinally striated and rather 

 narrowly rounded at the apex. 



Ferruginous red, with sparse erect pubescence, black on the 

 abdomen, dark brown on the head and thorax ; the abdomen, 

 except the basal segment,* and the nine apical joints of the 

 flagellum black. A broad longitudinal band of whitish pubescence 

 on the middle of the dorsal surface of the abdomen from the base 

 of the second segment to the apex of the fifth ; the pubescence 

 on the sides and ventral surface of the abdomen sparse and 

 whitish. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hab. Townsville, Q. (F. P. Dodd). 

 Proc. Zool. Soc .— 1910, No. XVII. 17 



