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15. ELASMUS MACULATIPENNIS new species. 
Female: — Length, 3-15 min. Robust. 
Agreeing in all details with the original description of splendidus Girault 
excepting that the face is lemon yellow below the antenme only, the abdomen is 
orange yellow and with four black spots between base and tip, the first two 
joined, forming a cross-stripe, the second two nearly so; also at tip a rather broad 
black (metallic) stripe precedes the black at tip; the scutcllum is wholly con- 
eolorous and all of proximal fourth of hind coxa except a small spot at base of 
upper margin; the yellow on the pronotum is caudad and just above front coxa: 
the antennae the same. Mandibles with five teeth. Characterized principally, 
however, in bearing on the fore wing a distinct sooty spot distad on the blade 
which forms a more or less distinct oblique stripe across the blade from beneath 
the postmarginal and distal half or less of marginal veins. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from a female captured by sweeping in forest, August 2, 1913. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1614, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag 
(with the type of the variety described next), the head on a slide (with the 
type head of the variety). 
Later a second female was found, captured in July. 
ELASMUS MACULATIPENNIS BICrUTTATUS new variety. 
Female : — The same as maculaiipennis but the abdomen bears only the 
two proximal black spots which in this case are small and perfectly round dots. 
Also the hind coxa, is as described for splendidus. 
Described from a female captured with the typical form. Type, see pre- 
ceding. Subsequently, another female of this variety was found, captured in 
December. 1912, by sweeping grass along a forest streamlet. 
16. ELASMUS STELLATUS new species. 
Female : — Length, 1 *80 mm. 
Like nigriscuiellum but the scutellum margined all round with lemon 
yellow : the dorsal half of occiput not black but with only a black loop ascending 
to meson of occipital margin, the central spot of vertex not connecting laterad 
with the eyes; there is a black spot on each side of axilla confluent with 
the latter’s blackness. First ring-joint large, triangular. Mandibles 5-dentate. 
On the mesoscutum there is a black dot at each side near edge about centrally; 
extreme cephalic end of pronotum black ; at base of abdomen, the three spots are 
