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(S . Not known. 



Described from a single female specimen on a card. 

 Hab.—Kmg Island (A. M. Lea). 



Type. — I. 1247, South Australian Museum. The above 

 specimen ; an antennae on a slide. 



Perilampus australiensis, new sp. 



$ . Metallic cyaneus, with metallic-green reflections 

 about the head and abdomen ; tarsi light-yellow ; cephalic 

 knees and tibiae brown ; legs otherwise concolorous with body ; 

 sculptured like tasmaniensis , but the punctures on the 

 abdomen not quite so dense ; more robust than that species, 

 the marginal vein longer, the nipple-like distal club-joint 

 absent; the second funicle- joint more like the first in 

 tasmaniensis, the first funicle- joint in australiensis somewhat 

 longer than wide and with parallel margins. Club brown. 

 Length, 3'25 mm. 



(S . Not known. 



Described from a single female. 



Hah. — New South Wales: National Park (A. M. Lea). 



Type. — I. 1248, South Australian Museum. The above 

 specimen; antenna on a slide. 



Perilampus mittagongensis, new sp. 



9 . Metallic blue-green, the knees, venation, and anten- 

 nal club brown, the tarsi yellowish, the wings hyaline. First 

 and second funicle- joints subequal, subquadrate; postmarginal 

 vein twice the length of the stigmal ; otherwise like the pre- 

 ceding but smaller. Antennal club 3-jointed. Length, 

 1*85 mm. 



S . Not known. 



From one female. 



Hah.— "New South Wales: Mittagong (A. M. Lea). 



Type. — I. 1249, South Australian Museum. The above; 

 antenna on a slide. 



SPHEGIGASTERINL 



Sphegigasteroides, new gen. 

 $ . Agreeing with Pterosema, Foerster, but the antennae 

 with only one ring- joint, the mandibles only bidentate, the 

 second tooth broad, the posterior tibiae compressed toward 

 tip, the body nonmetallic and particoloured, the forewings 

 coloured. Antennae 13-jointed, the flagellum clavate, the ring- 

 joint large, the first funicle- joint subequal to the pedicel, the 

 distal funicle- joints wider than long. Marginal vein twice 

 the length of the stigmal, which is subequal to the postmar- 

 ginal. Ovipostor not exserted, the abdomen conic-ovate, the 



