AVSTBALIAN JiYUEyOFTEBA CHALCIEOIBEA, Ill.—GIBAVLT. 
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3. ELASMUS AURATISCUTELLUM new species. Female. 
Length, 2.60 mm. Dark purplish green, the scutellum, mesopleunini and abdomen 
except a rather broad stripe across base, a little over distal fifth and a distinct round spot 
at lateral margin dorsad near middle, deep orange yellow. I^ostsentelhun lemon yellow. 
Legs pale yellow except dorsal aspect of hind eoxte which are, as the abdonunal markings, 
concoloroiis with the body. Antennas black, iho scape orange yello^v except above, the 
pedicel elongate, nearly as long as the third fuuicle joint which is twice longer than wide 
and somewhat shorter than fnnicle 1; club missing; first ring-joint very short, the second 
large, a])pToaching to cpradvate. ilandibles 7-doiitate. Fore wings distinctly embrowned 
but siibhyaliuc caudo-dlstadt the distal margin of the brown leaving the end of the venation 
and running obliquely proximnd to caudal margin. 8cntum his}»id. scutellum bare but with 
the usual four long seta3 disposed at the corners of a square, together with the postscutellum 
and propodenni shining yet distinctly polygonally reticulated, the areas small, the lines not 
raised. Propodenni plane, noncarinate. 
Ilohitoi : Gordonvale (C!airns), Queensland. Forest. November 28, 1913. 
Type: No. Hy2733f Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Tag and slide. 
4. ELASMUS DODDI Girault. 
A female of this species was captured in the forest, December 10, 1913 and May 4, 
1914 at Gordonvale. The mandibles are 6-deutate. Funiele 1 is longest, distinctly longer 
than Avide, a little longer than the pedicel, The apical margin of sentellnm is also narrov-dy 
yelloAA', the pronotum black. 
5. ELASMUS QUEENSLANDICUS Girault. 
The mandibles are 6-dentate, the fore Avings indefinitely stained, the abdomen at apex 
not colored. One female, Gordonvale, edge of jungle, April, 1913 and one female from 
forest, May 23, 1914. Type re-examined. 
A female captured August 20 in o])en jungle bore a distinct dot on mesoplenrum a 
little above the middle coxa. Type locality. 
6. ELASMUS MUSCOIDES new species. 
Female: — Length, 2 mm. 
Very similar to ignorahiJis Girault Init there are not tAvo distinct cross-stripes of orange 
across dorsum of abdomen, the latter Avliolly black AA'ith faintly indicated (three) narrow orange 
yellow stripes on proanmal half. The logs are Avholly pale yelloAv except dorsal edge of hind: 
femur. Postscntelluni lemon yellow in l)oth species. In this species only the proximal three 
fourths of venter of abdomen is orange yellow. Head punctate in both species. Abdomen 
somewhat as in divunt,^ but that si)ecies differs in color. Antenine missing. ^Mandibles 
7-dentate (in ignorohilU about 12-dentate the teeth A'evy fine). Caudal coxa laterad all nietallie 
except distal end. Tyjie of ignontbilis re-exa?nined. 
Described from one fema.ie labelled Brisbane 10.8.13. TL Jlacker.^’ 
Habitat : Brisbane, Queensland. 
Type: No, Hy2723, Queensland Museum, Brisbaue, the specimen on a tag. 
7. ELASMUS PAPILIO neAA’’ species. 
Female: — Length, L90 mm. 
Similar to viaciilatip€7i'ms but the portion of the face just aboA’e antennae is also- 
yelloAV (A-entral half of face yelloAv), the sentellnm is margined all around Avith lemon 
yellow AAliile the posterior coxa is like that of macnlatipemiis bigittiatiis. Also the marking 
on the fore AA'ing im'olves only the base of the postmarginal vein, is thus farther proximad 
