97 



Type. — I. 1287, South Australian Museum. The above 

 specimen on a card and a slide bearing the head. 



ASTILBULA PURPURA, neW Sp. 



S . Metallic-purplish, the abdomen much darker ; knees, 

 tarsi, and tibiae straw-yellow, the first three antenna! joints 

 brownish ; wings hyaline, the venation brown. Femora and 

 coxse concolorous. Sculptured as in the preceding. Joints of 

 funicle after the first cupshaped or nearly, erected on thick 

 peduncles; first funicle-joint cylindrical, long. Abdomen 

 ascending. Mandibles dentated as in the preceding (i.e.^ 

 regarding number of teeth). Length, 3 "75 mm. 



9 . Not known. 



Described from one male. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns (A. M. Lea). 



Type. — I. 1288, South Australian Museum. The above 

 specimen and a slide bearing the head. 



ELASMID^. 

 Elasmus, Westwood. 

 Elasmus cairnsensis, new sp. 

 9 . Like flavipostscutellum but the orange portion of 

 the abdomen much longer, decidedly twice the length of the 

 black distal portion which is at the tip and occupying not more 

 than between a fourth and fifth of the body of the abdomen. 

 Antennae like those of the species named. Caudal femora 

 metallic at proximal or upper third. Length, 2 mm. 

 (S . Not known. 

 Described from one female. 

 Hah. — Queensland: Cairns (A. M. Lea). 

 Type. — I. 1289, South Australian Museum. The above 

 specimen (head destroyed). 



ECTROMINL 



Paranusia, new gen, 

 9 . Cephalic aspect, head rounded, the antennae inserted 

 below the middle of the face, much below the eyes, but not 

 near the clypeus, widely separated, the scape very long, ex- 

 tending far beyond the vertex, cylindrical, the flagellum com- 

 pressed, clavate, the funicle- joints transverse and short, much 

 wider than long, the club solid, no ring-joint, the antenna 

 9- jointed ; pedicel very short. Lateral ocelli distant from the 

 eye margins ; a distinct transverse suture across face above 

 antennal insertions. Axillae not quite meeting inwardly. 

 Mandibles bidentate, both teeth strong. Abdomen short, 



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