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stripe on upper face, its dorsal half against the scrobe, ending 

 at eye nearly opposite antennae ; a narrow, concaved line across 

 pronotum near cephalic margin, hind margin of same save 

 laterad (the yellow cephalic margin to a dark red caudal mar- 

 gin of pronotum) ; lateral margin scutum at caudal half ; hind 

 margin scutellum; a dot on cephalo-lateral angle propodeum; 

 an ovate spot base coxa 3 dorsad ; an oblique, elliptical mark 

 each side meson, base dorsal abdomen, a wide stripe across 

 whole dorsum and nearly all pleurum, abdomen 5 (save cephalic 

 and caudal margins) ; basal (more widely) and dorsal margin 

 thinly of lateral aspect femur 3. Following parts reddish: 

 Antennae save scape above and sides near base, funicles more 

 or less ; a dot center scutum, each side of meson ; tegulae ; coxal 

 apices narrowly, tibiae, tarsi, knees (including apices of all 

 femora, in hind the red invading the black along ventral margin 

 to tooth 4. Hind femora laterad as widely yellow at base as 

 red at tip ; mesal aspect black, distal fourth red. Stigmal much 

 exceeding marginal, which is barely longer than wide. Scape 

 yellow ventrad. Middle femoral furrow smooth. Mesal aspect 

 femur 3, punctulate. Coxa 3 acute distal half dorsal edge. 

 Lateral margin propodeum obtusely ridged ; a curved lateral 

 carina. Like vespoides otherwise and resembles a common, 

 small, paper-nest wasp of the forest, Isaria gregaria, maybe, 

 but more closely a non-petiolate, 2-banded wasp of about the 

 same stature and of the jungle. 



Nelson, window, December 16, 1918. 



Thaumasura nonstylata, new species. 



Length, 7 mm. Aeneus save long 1 of tarsus 2, which is 

 white; abdomen normal, non-stylate, ovipositor not extruded, 

 plate of scutellum projecting from apex like a blunt cone and 

 bears a carina on each side of meson. Fore wing with thick 

 but rather light crescentic cloud from stigmal knob, curving 

 nearly to apex submarginal. Postmarginal twice stigmal. 

 Funicle 1 a ring-joint, 2 thrice longer than wide, exceeding the 

 long pedicel, 8 exceeding 7, equal club. Sparsely punctate; 

 propodeum with a thin median carina and no others. 



Wynnum, Queensland. 



