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MEMOIBS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
wedge-shaped, longer than wide. Wings hyaline. At distal third of abdomen, 
centrally, dorsal aspect, there is a wedge-shaped black dot. Extreme tip of 
abdomen black. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from a female captured by sweeping in forest, August 3, 1913. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. II y 1615, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag,, 
the head on a slide with the type head of Elasmus maculatipennis Girault. 
17. ELASMUS DIVINUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 2-75 mm. Slender. 
Differing from maculaiipennis in bearing no yellow on the head, only the 
postscutellum and a spot in front of the tegulai (crossing the lateral margin of 
scutum, directly cephalad of the axilla) being lemon yellow; the whole dorsum 
of the abdomen is concolorous and the distal fourth beneath. Fore wings 
characterized by bearing a distinct elavate sooty marking which leaves the distal 
end of the venation and curves directly eaudad along the longitudinal axis of the 
blade to about the midpoint toward base. This marking appears to be the 
proximal accented boundary of the slight but distinct and uniform fumation of 
the blade distad of it. Dark metallic blue; trochanters, tibia, proximal half of 
hind coxa and femora, distal part of first coxa, white ; scape white, the funicle 
joints equal (each a little longer than first club joint), all much longer than the 
pedicel; two ring-joints. Scape blotched with dusky along the sides. Mandibles 
7-dentate. 
Described from one female, August 13, 1913. Sweeping grass along a 
streamlet in forest. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
'type: No. Hy 1616, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag,, 
the head on a slide with the type head of E. uniguttata Girault. 
18. ELASMUS UNIGUTTATA new species. 
Female: — Length, 2 *00 mm. 
Characterized by bearing on the abdomen a moderately large, black, round 
spot dorso-mesad a little before tip ; otherwise coloured like serenus but the 
flagellum is black; black area on vertex wide, leaving the space between it and the 
eyes a narrow line of yellow; abdomen suffused with reddish; the very short 
blackish line across base of abdomen accented laterally a short distance down 
