308 MR. R. E. TURNER OX THE [Feb. 15, 



Black, with very sparse grey pubescence ; the tarsal ungues 

 fuseo-ferruginous. Wings fusco- hyaline, nervures fuscous. 



Length 16 mm. ; length of costa 8 mm. 



Hab. Claremont, W. A. (H. M. Giles). December. 



Well distinguished by the truncated median segment and the 

 coarse longitudinal carinte on the pygidium. 



Anthobosca gilesi. sp. n. (Plate XXXII. fig. 4, J .) 



6 . Clypeus convex, closely punctured, rounded at the sides, 

 truncate at the apex. Antennae shorter than the thorax and 

 median segment combined, very stout, inserted nearer to each 

 other than to the eyes ; the second joint of the flagellum nearly as 

 broad as long, much shorter than the third joint. Head, thorax, 

 and median segment very finely and closely punctured ; the 

 posterior ocelli as far from each other as from the eyes ; the 

 pronotum rounded anteriorly ; the scutellum broadly truncate at 

 the apex, with an obscure median carina on the apical half. 

 Median segment very little longer than the scutellum, almost 

 rectangular, nearly twice as broad as long' Abdomen tapering 

 to the apex, the apical segment very narrowly rounded, the 

 basal segments finely shagreened, the two apical segments very 

 finely and closely punctured. Second abscissa of the radius twice 

 as long as the first and half as long as the third, the first 

 recurrent nervure received just beyond the middle of the second 

 cubital cell, the second just beyond one quarter from the base of 

 the third cubital cell. 



Black ; the base and sides of the clypeus, a broad band on the 

 posterior margin of the pronotum, and the tegula? yellow ; femora, 

 tibia?, and tarsi ferruginous. Wings hyaline, nervures black, 

 yellow at the base. 



Length 11-14 mm. 



Hab. South Perth, W. A. (//. M. Giles). January. 3 c?. 



The first abdominal segment is longer than the second and is 

 narrowed towards the base. The tarsal ungues are thickened and 

 bluntly produced at the base, not bidentate at the apex. The 

 abdomen is much broader at the base than in A. australasice 

 Guer., and the tarsal ungues are less distinctly toothed. The 

 yellow marks on the clypeus vary much both in size and position, 

 in one specimen the base is black and the apex yellow. 



Fam. Cekopalidj;. 



In working on this family I have attempted to use the classifica- 

 tions of Kohl and Ashmead. The former is, however, hardly 

 to be taken as more than a sketch, and is not worked out with 

 much detail, though useful as far as it goes. Ashmead on the 

 contrary makes many new genera, some of which will doubtless 

 stand, but the characteristics given are often insufficient ; and 

 too much importance is attached to minute points of neuration, 

 which an examination of a large collection shows to be often more 



