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laterad: scutellum at either latero-anterior angle with a 

 narrow oblique fovea : metanotum finely obliquely reticulate 

 in raised lines, with a triangular smooth mesal path at basal 

 half, the point of the triangle posteriorly, the triangle twice 

 as long as width at base. Abdomen normal. Anterior femora 

 much swollen. Forewings ample: hyaline; venation yellow, 

 the prostigma and stigma dusky ; venation much as in giranHi. 

 Pedicel hardly one-half longer than wicle, rather less than 

 half as long as the scape ; first funicle joint distinctly longer 

 than the pedicel, twice as long as the greatest width, the 

 second distinctly shorter than the first, the remainder 

 becoming smaller towards apex, the apical joint as long as 

 the second but not as wide. Length, 3'30 mm. 



Hah.— Queensland : Longreach (A. M. Lea, unique). 



Type. — I. 5418, South Australian Museum. A female 

 on a tag, antenna and forewing on a slide. 



Rhabdepyris eeythrogaster, n. sp. 



9 - Black ; the abdomen, except at base dorsad, bright 

 orange-red; coxae and femora dark-brown, the tibiae paler, 

 the tarsi testaceous; antennae wholly deep-brown. Pronotum 

 distinctly longer than the scutum, with numerous scattered 

 punctures and very faint, almost obsolete, surface reticula- 

 tion : scutum finely subtransversely lineolated, and with 

 scattered small punctures, the parapsidal furrows complete, 

 the lateral lobes with a half-complete groove from posterior 

 margin ; scutellum with fine surface lineolation, with a few 

 punctures laterad, and a deep-impressed transverse curved 

 groove at base ; metanotum with five longitudinal carinae, 

 of which the median one attains the carinated posterior 

 margin, the next pair nearly so, the outer pair distinctly 

 not so, between these carinae strongly transversely lined, 

 outside the carinae finely transversely lineolate. Abdomen a 

 little longer than the thorax. Forewings ample; moderately 

 deeply infuscate ; venation yellow-brown ; stigma rather small ; 

 stigmal vein very long, as long as the costal ; median and sub- 

 median cells about subequal, the basal and transverse veins 

 oblique, forming at their juncture an angle of about 90° ; 

 submedian and submarginal veins of equal length. Antennae 

 13- jointed ; scape fully twice as. long as the pedicel ; pedicel 

 and basal funicle joints cupuliform : pedicel one-half longer 

 than wide, slightly longer than second funicle joint, the first 

 shorter and somewhat wider than long, the second longest, 

 the remainder shortening, but all a little longer than wide. 

 Tarsal claws simple, or practically so. Length, 3'90 mm. 



If ah. — South Australia: Adelaide. One female on a 

 card with an ant, Ectatom/ma, sp., collected by A. M. Lea. 



