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A. A. Girault: 



half of the scutum is continued caudad along the meson to the 

 scutellum where it is truncated; consequently it resembles an 

 inverted water-bottle with a st out neck and the yellow on each 

 side is divided. Postscutellum lemon yellow except at extreme tip. 

 Hind coxa colored at base and with a small slender matallic green 

 dot in the middle of its upper edge. Abdomen black at extreme 

 tip, the little black area preceded by a distinct black cross-stripe. 

 Male: Not known. 



From one female captured Ma\ 18, 1913 by sweeping jungle 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Australia — Kuranda, Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimen on a tag. 



2. Elasmus queenslandicus new species. 

 Female: Length, 2 mm. 



Agreeing with the description of formosus Girault but the base 

 of the abdomen with a distinct, moderately broad black stripe 

 across it, the abdomen otherwise orange yellow; tip of valves of 

 ovipositor black. 



Male: Not known. 



From one female captured by sweeping in the jungle, May 18, 

 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Australia — Kuranda, Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland, Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimen on a tag. 



3. Elasmus lividus new species. 

 Female: Length, 1.60 mm. 



Like proserpinensis Girault but metallic blue-green, the ab- 

 domen suffused with dark reddish ventrad except at tip and base, 

 the coxae black (hind coxa white at tip), also the femora (hind 

 femur white at base, others toward tip); knees and tibiae white. 

 Mandibles with seven teeth as in p roser pinensis but the tegulae 

 are concolorous. Propodeum with a median carina, scaly. 



Male: Not known. 



Described from one female captured May 18, 1913 by sweeping 

 in a jungle (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Australia — Kuranda, Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimen on a tag. 



Family Pter omalidae. 

 Sphegigasterini. 



Merismomorpha new genus. 

 Female: Like Acroclisis Foerster but the antennae with three 

 ring-joints, the second abdominal segment occupying only a fourth 

 the surface of the abdomen, a fourth longer than segment three 

 and somewhat shorter than segment 4 which is longest; segments 



