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Two other males are smaller, with a pair of yellow spots on seiitellum, 
the tibiae and tarsi yellow, the band on second tergite broad and entire, the 
pygidial plate yellow, with a small dark mark at base. 
One female, three males : Dunk Island, Queensland. The female collected 
May 1914 (Hamlyn- Harris) ; the males August 1927 (II . Hacker). Mr. Hacker 
marked the female “ near opposita Srn.” ; it is easily known from that species 
by the structure of the clypeus. The males caused me a good deal of 
perplexity ; at first I had them set apart as a distinct species, and even 
thought the larger and smaller males might be different. I conclude, however, 
that the whole series represents a single variable species, but commend the 
matter to investigators on the ground, who may be able to reverse this decision. 
The male is very much like that of G. venusta Sin. in many respects, but the 
lateral-face marks do not extend so far toward the middle of the face, the 
femora are largely black, the metathorax is spotted, the band on postscutellum 
is entire. In C. venusta the second cubital cell receives the recurrent nervure 
very near the base. The new species is named after Professor E. J. Goddard, 
in recognition of his organisation of the survey of the Dunk Island fauna. 
Cerceris calida Turner, 1915. 
Female : Babinda, Queensland, July 18, 1923 (IT. C. Dormer). The 
emarginate apex of clypeus is I feel sure not the morphological margin, but the 
emarginate lamina of C. goddardi, in this species becoming subapical. The 
second cubital cell is small and triangular, receiving the recurrent nervure 
about or a little before the middle. The second tergite is clear red, with a 
broad yellow base. The species was described from Kuranda. 
Cerceris darrensis n. sp. 
Female. Length about 8 mm., rather slender, coarsely punctured, black 
with few light markings, the thorax being entirely black, except for a couple 
of obscure red spots on prothorax above ; head very broad, with silvery hair 
at sides of face ; clypeus, broad lateral marks (very broad below, narrower 
above, truncate a little above level of antennae), and under side of scape 
creamy-white ; scape above clear red ; flagellum strongly blackened above, 
clear red below ; mandibles little curved, black at apex, red in middle, yellowish 
white at base ; lower margin of middle lobe of clypeus broadly black, shining, 
with a small median tooth ; disc of clypeus with an extended conical pointed 
spine or lamina, the apical part of which is black ; a small round shining 
somewhat elevated yellow spot behind the top of each eye ; area of meta- 
thorax rather small, triangular, moderately shining, but rugosopunctate, with a 
tendency to oblique striae ; other parts of metathorax extremely coarsely and 
densely punctured ; teg u l;e ferruginous, the margin anteriorly orange ; wings 
hyaline, marginal cell and apex dusky ; stigma dark reddish ; second cubital 
cell small, receiving recurrent nervure ■well before middle ; legs basally black, 
knees red, anterior and middle tibiae light yellow in front, infuscated behind ; 
hind tibiae black, yellowish at apex and with a rather obscure yellowish stripe 
