750 MR. E. A. ELLIOTT ON THE 



The almost entire absence of visible sculpture is characteristic. 



The colour of head and legs and the sculpture will easily 

 distinguish P. orhitalis Brues, which is the only other species of 

 similar size with tridentate hind femora. 



4. PYGMiEUS Enderl. 



Stephanus pygmceus Enderl. (1), p. 197, § c? . Parastepha- 

 nellus pygmmus Enderl. (2), p. 472 et seqq. ; (4), p. 289 et seqq. 



5 6 . Frons extremely finely and densely punctate ; all five 

 frontal tubercles acuminate, the posterior pair smaller ; vertex 

 and occiput obsoleteiy transaciculate ; posterior margin of head 

 sharply bordered. Antennse very slender, second flagellar joint 

 scarcely one and a half times as long as first ; third shorter than 

 first and second together. Neck almost smooth, its posterior 

 margin polished. Mesonotum rugose ; scutellum polished 

 smooth ; metanotum (the small visible part of the true meta- 

 notum) longitudinally striate. Mesopleurte smooth, pubescent, 

 diflTusely punctate in front only ; metapleurse coarsely and 

 deeply rugose, separated by a shining smooth space and a row of 

 punctures from the densely punctate median segment. Petiole 

 finely rugose and shorter than the remaining segments together. 

 Terebra about two-thirds of the length of body; spicula red- 

 brown, slieaths entirely black. Legs covered with fine erect 

 hairs, hind femora bidentate. 



Tellow-broAvn ; apical two-thirds of antennae, apex of man- 

 dibles, meso- and meta-thorax, pleurae and median segment 

 darker, yellow-brown to black-brown. Wings hyaline, external 

 submedian cell infumate ; stigma short and bi'oad, dai'k brown. 



Length, $ , 7-8 mm. ; S , 5-7 mm. 



Seven cJ d and 3 2 $ in Berlin Zoological Museum ; collected 

 by Nicholitz at Milne Bay, New Guinea. 



Dai^k specimens of the present species greatly resemble lighter 

 ones of F. daniellicus Westw., also from New Guinea, but are 

 easily known by the shorter and broader stigma, infumate spot 

 in Aving, shorter petiole, and, in 5 , shorter terebra. 



5. LiEVicoLLis Morley. 



Parastephanellus IcevicoUis Morley (1), p. Ill, 5 S . 



5 . Head finely and evenly trans-striate ; vertex coarsely 

 transcarinate ; posterior margin of head bordered ; cheeks smooth 

 and a little longer than scape. Second flagellar joint half as 

 long again as first ; third half as long again as second. Neck 

 very short and smooth, semiannular smooth, with a few fine 

 punctures, as is also the mesonotum. Scutellum quite smooth 

 and separated from mesonotum by crenulated lines. Mesopleurae 

 and metapleurpe obsoleteiy shagreened, not punctate, the latter 

 separated from metanotum by a basally obsolete cai"ina. Median 

 segment centrally smooth, apically rugulose, and basally with a few 



