137 



Described from two male specimens captured while sweep- 

 ing in forest, November, 1912, and April, 1913. 



Hah. — North Queensland: Nelson, near Cairns (A. P. 

 Dodd). 



Type. — I. 1368, South Australian Museum. A male, 

 tagmounted, plus a slide bearing male antennas and forewing. 



SCELIO NIGRISCUTELLUM, sp. nov. 



9 . Thorax beautiful reddish-yellow ; scutellum black ; 

 abdomen black; legs, including coxse, reddish-yellow. Pro- 

 notum visible from above on the sides only, coarsely rugulose ; 

 mesoscutum coarsely rugulose on anterior half, without sculp- 

 ture on the posterior half; parapsidal furrows distinct pos- 

 teriorly ; scutellum coarsely rugulose ; metauotum finely 

 reticulately rugulose. Abdomen wholly longitudinally striate 

 dorsad; second segment greatly depressed at the base; third 

 segment the longest. Length, 325 mm. 



The single specimen on which this species is based is with- 

 out head, antennae, and wings. It appears to be a typical 

 Scelio, and is much alike the other Australian species in 

 structure. 



Hah. — North Queensland (?). 



Type. — I. 1369, South Australian Museum. A female, 

 tagmounted. 



ScELio PiLosus, sp. nov. 



9 . Very like australis, Froggatt, from which it differs 

 in having funicle-joints 2-4 very short, three times as wide 

 as long ; not twice as wide as long in australis. Also in 

 pilosus the head, especially the cheeks, pronotum, and sides of 

 thorax, are covered with long whitish pubescence ; this is not 

 distinct in australis. Length, 375 mm. 



Described from a single female specimen received from the 

 South Australian Museum and labelled "Cairns dist. ; A. M. 

 Lea." 



Hah. — North Queensland : Cairns district. 



Type. — I. 1370, South Australian Museum. A female, 

 tagmounted, plus a slide bearing female antennae and fore- 

 wings. 



Table of some of the Australian species of Scrlio, Latrielle.^i) 



(1) Thorax reddish-yellow, the scutellum 



black; abdomen black nigri scutellum, Dodd 



Thorax shining - black ; abdomen 

 shining-black (except in fulgidus, 

 Cfawford) (2) 



(1)1 have omitted S. australice, Kieffer; .S'. australiensis, 

 Kieffer ; and S. hipartitus, Kieffer, as I have not their descriptions. 



