386 



broadly rounded at apex. Length, 4-10 mm.: to end of 

 oviduct, 630 mm. 



(S Like the female, but the yellowish patch on the 

 thorax somewhat larger. Funicle wholly black, not widened 

 toward apex, the tenth joint two and a half times as long as 

 wide, the last joint pointed at apex. Length, 4-10 mm. 



^^5. —Queensland: Kuranda, 1,200 ft. Described from 

 two females and one male taken on decayed log in jungle, 

 April 3, 1915 (A. P. Dodd). 



It is possible that the oviduct is freely retractile, as before 

 capturing the insects it was not noticed. Type.—l. 5087, 

 South Australian Museum. A male and female on two tags, 

 male and female heads, antennae, and wings on a slide. 



DisoGMUS, Foerster. 



Kieffer (1909) lists fifteen species, from Europe and North 

 America. 



DiSOGMUS NIGERRIMUS, n. Sp. 



9. Shining black; cephalic tibiae and all tarsi ferru- 

 ginous. Thorax convex dorsad ; scutum and scutellum smooth, 

 shining, the metanotum coarsely rugose; parapsidal furrows 

 deep and complete, almost joining caudad ; scutellum with a 

 deep groove separating it from scutum ; metanotum with a deep 

 transverse groove at base, this interrupted at nieson, the 

 sclerite nearly as long as the scutum. Petiole visible as a 

 transverse line ; abdomen compressed laterally, somewhat- 

 narrowed at base, as long as the thqrax, striate at base ; oviduct 

 about as long as body of abdomen (the oviduct appears 

 retractile, as in Acanthoserphvs, and possibly in life it is 

 withdrawn). Mandibles acute, edentate; maxillary palpi 

 5-jointed. Legs rather slender, the femora long, cylindrical. 

 Forewings long and broad ; subhyaline, with a large sauare 

 blotch commencing at base of stigma and continued some 

 distance beyond radial vein, extending fully half-way across 

 wing, duskv : venation fuscous, the stigma large, semicircular ; 

 radial cell small, not one-half as large as stigma; median and 

 basal veins indicated by brown lines. Antennae 13-jointed : 

 scape moderately long ; pedicel short, wider than long : funicle 

 joints long, filiform, the firet fully twice as long as wide, the 

 tenth a little shorter, the last joint somewhat longer. Length, 

 to apex of oviduct, 5-50 mm. ; without oviduct, 4-00 mm. 



//«&.- -Tasmania: Hobart (A. M. Lea). 



Type.—l. 5088, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a tag, head, antennae, and forewings on a slide. 



