HYMENOPTEROUS FAMILY STEPHANID^. 75 J 



lai'ge punctures. Petiole very finely transaciculate, shorter than 

 the remaining segments, which are smooth; second segment 

 basally somewhat elongately attenuate. Terebra longer than 

 body, sheaths entirely black. Hind coxte transaciculate, their 

 fehiora smooth with a few setiferous punctures, bidentate ; tibiae 

 longer than femora, constricted to middle. 



Black ; antennae and palpi inf uscate ; base of antennae, 

 mandibles except apices, clypeus and fi-ons fulvous ; face and 

 whole external orbits and all tarsi whitish. Wings hyaline, 

 stigma and nervures piceous. 



c? differs in having the whole head except the whitish external 

 orbits dull red ; base of occiput nitidulous ; basal flagellar joints 

 longer, though in the same pi-oportions ; propleui'se dull testa- 

 ceous ; anterior femora and tibise piceous. 



Length 9 mm. ; abdomen 5 mm. ; petiole 2 mm. ; tex'ebra in 

 2 11 mm. A single pair, now in British Museum, taken in the 

 Ding-Ding Island in the Indian Ocean during 1896 and 1900. 



6. ALBICEPS Elliott. 



Parastephansllus albiceps Elliott (2), p. 130, $ . 



2 . Frons subarcuate striate, the striae broken into granules, 

 vertex and occiput finely granulate striate ; second flagellar joint 

 one and a half times as long as first, third slightly shorter than 

 first and second together. Pronotum very finely trans-striate 

 throughout, neck very short; mesonotum subglabrous; scutellum 

 normal ; propleurae finely, obliquely striate ; mesopleurse aluta- 

 ceous ; metapleurae punctate, separated by a deep crenulated 

 sulcus from the alutaceous and punctate median segment. 

 Petiole trans-striate, shorter than the rest of the smooth 

 abdomen. Terebra rather shorter than body, rufescent, apically 

 black. Hind legs with coxae trans-striate, femora finely 

 alutaceous, bidentate ; tibiae compressed to middle. 



Black ; mandibles basally fiavous, all orbits broadly white ; 

 antennae basally, anterior legs except middle coxae rufescent, hind 

 tibiae and tarsi much paler. Wings hyaline ; stigma and 

 nervures brown. 



Length 9| mm. ; abdomen Sg mm. ; petiole 2^ mm. ; terebra 

 8g mm. 



Habitat: Victoria, Australia. R. E. Turner, 1907. 



Easily known by the extremely broadly white orbits. 



7. MACULiFRONS Cam. 



Megiseleus macidifrons Cam. (3), 1902, p. 32, S • 



S . Frons closely punctate ; vertex and occiput transrugose ; 

 posterior margin of head bordered. Second flagellar joint twice 

 as long as first, third shorter than first and second together, 

 Prothorax short, nearly smooth and shining, neck with a 

 transverse carina ; mesothorax closely and finely punctate, dull : 



