754 MK. E. A. ELLIOTT ON THE 



Length 8^ mm.; abdomen 5 mm.; petiole 2 mm.; terebra 

 8 mm. 



The "carina parva transversa" is unusually large, and its 

 bright red colour makes it very conspicuous. The small visible 

 portion of the true metanotum is longitudinally striate, but the 

 median segment is rugose. The hind femora are furnished in 

 the anterior half beneath with two comparatively long and very 

 sharp spine-like teeth, and can only be called bidentate. There 

 is a slight blunt pi"ojection near the base, more pronou.nced on 

 the right femur than on the left, but these do not count as teeth. 

 The white line on the head, extending, as one might say, from 

 ear to ear, is very characteristic. 



Enderlein ((1), p. 196) describes both sexes of a Paraste- 

 phanellus, which he considers to be identical with the present 

 species, differing in colour only. The neck coarsely longitudinally 

 striate, the semiannular slightly rugose in front, smooth behind ; 

 the petiole as long as remainder of abdomen and apically smooth. 

 No mention is made of the conspicuous carina on vertex, nor of 

 the white line on head, also petiole and legs are differently 

 coloured. They are closely-allied species, but that of Westwood 

 comes from Australia, whereas Enderlein's was taken in New 

 Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, and Borneo. For this species — 

 rubripictus Elliott — see p. 759. 



The measurements given by Westwood in lines are approxi- 

 mately correct, and the petiole, remainder of abdomen, and 

 terebra appear to be of equal length. Accurate measurements 

 show slight differences, which may be ignored for purposes of 

 identification, as in my table. 



The present species is closely allied to, and may even be 

 identical with P. pictipes Roman. 



The British Museum has of this species 7 5 5, taken by 

 K.. E. Tui-ner at Mackay, Queenlsand, and 1 5 from the S-wan 

 River. They vary in size from 65 mm., terebra 7 to 13 mm., 

 terebra 14| mm. The only difference from the type is in the 

 slightly longer terebra, which is shorter than the body in the 

 type but longer in these. I do not consider this sufficient to 

 create a new species. 



10. PICTIPES Roman. 



Parastephanelhis pictipes Roman (1), p. 1, 5 . 



5 . Head seen laterally scarcely higher than long. Frons 

 strongly but scarcely ti-ansversely rugose ; the five tubercles rather 

 prominent but obtuse, the vertex behind them furnished with a 

 short carina ; occiput towards base more coarsely and more 

 transvei-sely striate, with indistinct longitudinal impression ; 

 posterior margin of head emarginate, not bordered. Antennae 

 short, scarcely reaching beyond thorax, 23-jointed ; pedicellus 

 sub-elongate, half as long as scape ; first flagellar joint scarcely 

 longer than scape, second one and a half times as long as first ; 



