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vertex and frons smooth and shining, the occiput with fine 

 polygonal scaly sculpture ; a carina runs from front ocellus 

 to antennal prominence. Thorax as wide as long; scutum 

 with distinct polygonal scaly sculpture, vanishing against 

 posterior margin ; parapsidal furrows as deep abbreviated 

 grooves, rather less than one-half complete from posterior 

 margin; scutellum smooth, shining, with a foveate row along 

 anterior and posterior margins ; postscutellum with a rather 

 long acute spine or tooth ; metanotum extremely short, 

 unarmed. Abdomen broadly oval, scarcely longer than 

 greatest width ; first segment strongly transverse, the second 

 as long as first, the third plainly longer than first and second 

 combined, and fully twice as long as the following united ; 

 first and second strongly striate, the third with fine impressed 

 striae mesally, smooth laterally and posteriorly, the remain- 

 ing segments with fine scaly sculpture. Legs slender. Fore- 

 wings attaining beyond apex of abdomen ; moderately broad, 

 the apex rather broadly rounded ; hyaline ; discal cilia rather 

 coarse, moderately dense ; venation terminating slightly before 

 one-half length, thick and distinct, yellow-brown ; stigmal 

 vein moderately long for the subfamily. Scape normal; 

 pedicel two-and-a-half times as long as wide ; the funicle 

 joints somewhat narrower, the first two-and-a-half times as 

 long as wide, the second distinctly shorter, one-half longer 

 than wide, third as wide as long, fourth wider than long ; 

 club 6-jointed, rather compact, joints 1-5 distinctly wider 

 than long, second a little the largest. Length, L25 mm. 



Jlab . — New South Wales: Brooklyn. One female, 

 labelled "Sweeping in forest, partly boggy, October 31, 1914, 

 A. A. Girault," 



Type. — I. 5428, South Australian Museum. A female 

 on a tag, antennae and forewings on a slide. 



Both dubius, Dodd, and flavicomis, Dodd, have the 

 second funicle joint as long as the first, also the antennae are 

 partly yellow ; varipez, Dodd, has no well-defined spine on the 

 postscutellum. 



Trimorus nitescens, n. sp. 



9 • Black ; coxae fuscous, the legs yellow suffused with 

 dusky; antennae black, the scape yellow at extreme base. 

 Head transverse ; smooth and shining, the lower face above 

 <ind around mouth with converging striae ; a faint line runs 

 from front ocellus to near antennal insertion : eyes large, 

 very feebly pubescent. Scutum much wider than long, 

 smooth, shining, with a few scattered setae : parapsidal fur- 

 rows consisting of a row of foveate punctures, widening 

 posteriorly and forming irregular rugose shallow sulci ; 

 posterior margin of scutum with a row of punctures ; scutellum 



