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with a row of several small punctures within them; median 

 grooves of scutum not indicated ; lateral grooves of scutellum 

 situated far laterally; postscutellum long, at meson distinctly 

 longer than propodeum at meson; propodeum with fine 

 surface sculpture, short at meson, with a median carina, and 

 an irregular sulcus around spiracle tending toward latero- 

 posterior angle. Abdomen pointed conic-ovate, no longer 

 than head and thorax united ; straight above, deeply convex 

 beneath. Head with a few small punctures. Forewings 

 ample ; hyaline ; broadly rounded at apex ; venation thick and 

 distinct; stigmal vein moderately long, the postmargina! 

 one-half its length. Mandibles very stout; bidentate, the 

 teeth large. Scape a little swollen; pedicel twice as long as 

 greatest width, subequal in length to funicle 1, which is longer 

 than 2 or 3; club plainly 3-jointed, the joints about equal in 

 length, a very little longer than wide; four distinct ring 

 joints. 



(S . Length, 1*90 mm. Like the female, but the 

 abdomen wholly dull-green, shorter, somewhat convex above, 

 straight beneath. Antennae with four funicle joints; 

 flagellum with long hairs. 



Hab. — Northern Territory: Darwin (two males, one 

 female, labelled "On laboratory window, 18/5/15, G. F. 

 Hill"). 



Types. — A female and male on a tag, female head and 

 antennae on a slide. 



EUPLECTROMORPHA VARIICOLOR, n. sp. 



9 . Length, 2'95 mm. Head bright yellow, the occiput 

 black, lower half and centre of face red-brown ; posterior 

 two-thirds or less of scutum, scutellum, and mesal half of 

 axillae reddish-brown, rest of thorax black; abdomen lemon- 

 yellow, broadly margined with black, with a black band just 

 out from base, and about three dusky irregular bands on 

 posterior third ; margins of hind coxae, apical half of hind 

 femora, and all hind tibiae and tarsi, black, the rest of hind 

 legs lemon-yellow, the long tibial spur reddish ; anterior and 

 intermediate legs lemon-yellow, the anterior femora and 

 apical half of intermediate pair, dusky, also most of 

 intermediate tibiae, the anterior pair less so ; antennal scape 

 lemon-yellow, the pedicel dusky, the flagellum • fuscous; 

 pronotum black, with a reddish transverse band at half its 

 length. 



Thorax with dense scaly sculpture, finer on propodeum, 

 the pronotum with setigerous punctures also ; scutellum with 

 a single seta on either side at basal third and another at 



