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triangular cloud is at the cubitus ; antennse black, the 
centre of the flagellum red, whitish above. Head opaque, 
except on the front ; closely punctured, above the antennae 
transversely striolated; antennal grooves deep, the space 
between them sharply triangular; eyes faintly pubescent, 
converging slightly above ; thorax rugosely punctured, 
opaque, except the pleural depression; parapsidal furrows 
indistinct; scutellum not clearly defined; metanotum short, 
crenulated ; the sides densely covered with long, white hair. 
Abdomen shining, impunctate, the apical segments fringed 
with white hair. Legs stout, the tibiae and tarsi densely 
pilose; hind coxae rugosely punctured; hind femora thickened, 
finely punctured ; hind tibiae curved and thickened at the 
apex, ending above in two short, stout spines ; and in the 
centre are three widely separated short spines ; spurs short, 
stout. Head and thorax covered with a depressed pile. 
The male, mufatis mutandis, agr ees with the female, the 
antennae as usual being thicker. 
Length 8 mm. ; terebra 19 mm. 
Hob. Port Lincoln, South Australia {Rev. T. Blachhurn). 
The very much longer ovipositor, among other differences, 
distinguishes B. erythropoda from the South Australian B. 
australica, West., the ovipositor in that species being 
scarcely longer than the body. 
Chrysidid^. 
Hedychrum japonicum, sp. nov. 
Brilliant green, the abdomen rosy red, the antennae, legs 
and ventral surface of abdomen, blackish, wings fuscous, 
lighter at the base. Antennae with the scape metallic green, 
longitudinally punctured and striated; the scape covered 
with a very short, sparse microscopic pile, almost glabrous. 
Head coarsely and uniformly punctured, except the hollow 
over the antennae, which is rather strongly transversely 
striated, and the part immediately between and on either 
side, the latter being finely punctured, and the former 
