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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
11. ELASMUS ORIENT ALIS Girault. Female. 
Like palUdicornis but tlie antenme concolorous with the body, the scape 
pale brown and the cephalic tibia and all knees white; the funicle joints 
are subequal, all distinctly longer than wide. 
Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1611, Queensland Museum. 
12. ELASMUS MARGISCUTELLUM Girault. Female. 
Dark metallic green, the distal margins of scutellum and postscutellum 
margined with lemon yellow; intermediate orange yellow portion of abdomen 
with a longitudinal, row of from 3 to 4 black spots on each side. Mandibles with 
eleven teeth. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1612, Queensland Museum. 
13. ELASMUS IGNORABILIS new species.* 
Female: — Length, 1*75 mm. 
At once distinguished by the colour of the abdomen which from above has 
two rather narrow transverse orange yellow stripes across it at about proximal 
third and proximal two thirds, otherwise (dorsad) shining black (metallic green 
proximad of the first transverse stripe). Dark metallic purplish, the abdomen 
beneath and the legs pale yellow, also the scape ; flagellum and hind eoxte above 
concolorous or blackish. Mesopostscutellum obscurely lemon yellow. Tarsi 
blackish. Valves of ovipositor black. Tegula? pale yellow. First two funicle 
joints subequal, each a little longer than the third which is longer than wide, all 
longer than the pedicel. 
M ale : — N ot known . 
Described from one female captured by sweeping along a jungle path, 
July 13, 1913. 
Habitat: Harvey’s Creek (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1613, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag. 
14. ELASMUS SPLENDIDUS Girault. 
A female by sweeping forest, July, 26, 1913, at Meerawa (Cairns), 
Queensland. 
Magnification of this and following species as previously. 
