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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
3. PERILAMPUS TASMANIENSIS Girault. Female. 
Bronze, the abdomen darker; legs concolorous, the tibiaa greenish, the tarsi flavous; 
antennae dark metallic; wings hyaline, the postmarginal vein longer than the stigmal. Scutellum 
unarmed at apex. Mandibles with three acute teeth, the lateral one long. Vertex and face 
striated. Funicle joints transverse, the first cup-shaped, very much longer than the pedicel; 
thirteen antennal joints, one ring-joint. Dorsum of abdomen finely punctulate. Club with 
an apparent fourth, nipple-like joint at apex (not counted here as a true joint). 
Habitat: Tasmania (King Island). 
Type: No. 1. 1247, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 
4. PERILAMPUS AUSTRALIENSIS Girault. Female. 
Metallic cyaneus, tinged with green about the head and abdomen; tarsi light yellow; 
cephalic knees and tibiae brown; sculptured like lastnuniensis but the punctures on abdomen 
not quite so dense and the body is more robust. Club brown; funicle 1 longer than wide,. 
2 cup-shaped. Nipple-like apex of club absent. 
Habitat: National Park, New South Wales. 
Type : No. 1.1248, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 
5. PERILAMPUS MITTAGONGENSIS Girault. Male. 
Metallic blue-green, the knees, venation and antennal club brown, the tarsi yellowish, 
the wings hyaline. Joints 1 and 2 of funicle subquadrate, subequal; postmarginal vein twice 
the length of the stigmal; smaller than australiensis ; otherwise similar to the fourth species as. 
listed here. 
Habitat: Mittagong, New South Wales. 
Type: No. 1.1249, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 
6. PERILAMPUS CAPENSIS Girault. Female. 
Resembles australiensis and mittagong ensis but smaller and the abdomen glabrous 
(dorsal aspect), with the fine sculpture on the last segment and lateral aspect of the others. 
Nearest to mittagongensis but somewhat smaller, the sculpture of head and thorax somewhat 
finer, the funicle brown, the head aeneous. From caudal aspect, the upper angles of the 
abdomen are not acute, the upper margin concaved, not straight as in mittagongensis’, 
mesothorax brassy green. 
Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Forest. 
Type: No. Hyl948, Queensland Museum. 
7. PERILAMPUS CAIRNSENSIS Girault. Female. 
Characterised by having all of the dorsal aspect of abdomen finely sculptured (rather 
dense pin-punctures). Differs from australiensis in being more robusi, in having the flagellum 
and tarsi chocolate brown and in being dark aeneous green; from mittagongensis in the same 
details and also in that the femora are metallic green, not blue and the abdomen from caudal 
aspect is shaped differently; differs from tasmaniensis in being twice more robust, the 
abdomen more uniformly sculptured (in tasmaniensis being smooth and shining caudad of the 
second segment nearly to tip> and coppery there) and the marginal vein is longer. Dark 
aeneous green, the legs concolorous. 
Habitat: Cairns, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1948, Queensland Museum. Jungle or swamp? 
