BY ROWLAND E. TURNER. 95 



punctured, fusiform; first segment with a sulcus from the base 

 not reaching the apex; segments 2-5 strongly depressed at the 

 base, the apical margin narrowly depressed, with a raised mark 

 before the apex, faint in the middle and emarginate. Hypo- 

 pygium with parallel sides, triangular at the apex, with a very 

 short spine. Black, with thin cinereous pubescence; mandibles 

 except at apex, apex of clypeus, two small spots between the 

 antenna?, a narrow interrupted line on the anterior margin of 

 pronotum and postscutellum j^ellow; tibiae and tarsi, and femora 

 at the apex ferruginous. Wings fusco-hyaline, nervures black. 

 Length 17 mm. 



Q. Head much broader than long, rounded at the posterior 

 angles, closely punctured, a short longitudinal sulcus on the front 

 which is produced on each side of it between the antennae into a 

 small tubercle; clypeus with a carina from the base to the apex. 

 Thorax and median segment punctured; pronotum rectangular 

 broader than long; median segment obliquely truncate posteriorly, 

 the surface of the truncation very minutely and closely punctured. 

 Abdomen punctured, most closely on the fourth and fifth seg- 

 ments; second segment with a transverse carina near the base 

 and the apical margin raised, the intervening space coarsely, 

 transversely rugose. Fifth ventral segment strongly punctured. 

 Pygidium simple, rugose, with a low longitudinal carina. Black; 

 the antennae, the legs and the apex of the pygidium ferruginous. 

 Length 10 mm. 



Hah.— Victoria (French; <J9); Mittagong, N. S.W. (Froggatt; 

 <?9 in cop.). 



3. T. (Phymatothynnus) distinctus Guer. 



Lophocheilus distinctus Guer., Mag. de Zool. xii. p. 12, P.103, 

 ngs.14-15^). 



I have not seen the type of this insect, and am unable to 

 recognise it from the description, which is xzvy poor. It seems 

 to be near T. nltidics Sm., which may possibly have to be sunk 

 as a synonym, but at present I think it best to keep them separate. 



Hub. — Australia. 



