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shining. Pronotum longer than broad, emarginate posteriorly ; 

 scutellum about twice as long as broad, more than half as long 

 as the pronotum ; thorax and median segment smooth and 

 shining, with a few scattered punctures. Median segment 

 longer than the pronotum, much longer than broad, gradually 

 broadened from the base. Abdomen elongate, subcylindrical, 

 shining, sparsely and finely puncbured, with a few larger 

 elongate punctures. Pygidium with a broad median carina. 



Hob. Yallingup, S.W. Australia ; November. d 1 § in cop. 



The male is nearest to E. vitripennis Sm., but in that species the 

 head is rather strongly convex posterior^ and much less strongly 

 punctured. The female has the head broader than in vitri- 

 pennis, the scutellum longer, and the whole insect more polished 

 ' and less strongly punctured ; there is also no longitudinal 

 impressed mark on the dorsal segments. 



ElRONE RUFODORSATA, Sp. 11. 



J . Niger ; clypeo postscutelloque luteis ; pronoto, mesonoto, 

 scutello tegulisque ferrugineis ; alis hyalinis, venis nigris. 



Long. 9 mm. 



c? . Clypeus almost flat, with a carina, the apical margin 

 transverse ; head and thorax finely and closely punctured ; the 

 front between the antennas widely emarginate. Pronotuni less 

 closely punctured than the mesonotuin, narrower than the head, 

 the anterior margin transverse and slightly raised; scutellum 

 na.rrowly rounded at the apex ; median segment rounded, very 

 finely punctured. Abdomen shining, shallowly punctured; 

 hypopygium rounded and ciliated. Third abscissa of the radius 

 a little longer than the second ; first recurrent nervure received 

 at the middle of the second cubital cell, second at about one- 

 third from the base of the third cubital cell. 



Bab. Herberton, N. Queensland (Dodd). 



The colouring is quite different from that of any other species 

 of the genus. 



Eirone ferrugineicornis Turn. 



Eirone ferrugineicornis Turn. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 265 

 (1910), tf. 



The type came from Hermannsburg in Central Australia. 

 I took five males at Kalamunda, in the hills behind Perth, 

 in February. 



Family ScoLUDi;. . 



Subfamily Anthoboscin^e. 



Anthobosca clypeata Sm. 



Dimorphoptera clypeata Sm. Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 240 

 (1868), $. 



