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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
TENTHREDINIDiE. 
SENOCLIDEA ? FURVUS Konow. 
Monophadnus furvus Konow, Wein ent. zt. xvii, 1898 : 232. North Australia, Port Darwin,. 
1$, F. P. Dodd. 
This species, previously known only in New Guinea, is a very interesting 
addition to the Australian sawfly fauna as it represents the first true Australian 
Tenthredinid (not counting, of course, Caliroa limazina Retz., which is obviously 
an alien that has been introduced with fruit trees into a great many parts of 
the world). 
PTER YGOPHORI D.E. 
CLARISSA FLAMMEA, sp. nov. 
$ Colour reddish -yellow ; head black except for the pale mouth -parts, 
clypeus, supraclypeal area, and antennae ; a large cream-coloured spot covering 
the hind half of the outer quarter of abdominal tergum 2. Wings hyaline, 
slightly infuscate at the apex ; veins at extreme base of wing, including basal 
half of costa yellow ; rest of veins infuscate ; stigma infuscate, with a pale 
transparent basal patch. 
Length 6 mm. ; fore wing 5*5 mm. ; antenna 2 mm. 
Puncturation. — Head [and thorax dull with fine surface puncturation 
becoming rugulose on head ; abdomen rugulosely sculptured. Head : mouthparts 
normal ; malar space about as long as pedicel ; antenna 1 1 -segmented ; subclavate 
pedicel a little longer than broad ; segment 3 = 4 -f- 5 in length ; only segments 
9 and 10 broader than long ; median fovea as a slight rounded depression. 
Legs : hind-basitarsus about equal to three following tarsal segments. Abdomen : 
with sawsheath normal ; saw fig. 3. 
Queensland National Park, 1 $, 25-X-1923, H. Hacker (Queensland 
Museum). 
This species is superficially very similar to C. divergens W. F. Kirby, 
and would run to that species in my key — Benson 1934 (2) p. 469. Externally 
