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and does not form an oblkjuo stri])e but is an indefinite blotch. Funiele 2 longer than 3, 
slightly shorter than 1. iraTidil)les o-deiitate. None of the four marginal dots on abdomen are 
joined transversely, the first a dot, tlie others wider than long. Tegulre yellowish. 
Described from one female captured in forest, August 9, 1913. 
Edhitat : Gordonvale (Cairns) , Queensland. 
Type: No. Hyf7^4, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 
A second female same place a year later; the propleuruni was wholly yellow. 
8. ELASMUS TRIFASCIATIVENTRIS new species. 
Female: — Length, 2 mm. 
Very similar to punciaiicapnt Girault, the head punctate but the two marginal spots 
on abdomen are absent, the first cross-stripe of the distal two is half or less the length of 
the second (subeqiial in the other species), the mandibles are 12-dentate. The hind and 
middle femora are liliick in both species. Eimicle 1 somewhat longer than 2 or 3, one and 
a half times longer than wide, much longer than the pedicel, the cinb joints 1 and 2 quadrate. 
Scape pallid. Fore •udugs obscurely infuscated distad of venation. Scutum entirely green. 
Described from one female caught January .1, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat : Kuranda, (Queensland. 
Type: No. IiyS72o, (Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 
9. ELASMUS MARGISCUTELLUM Girault. 
One female, forest, Gordonvale, August 13, 1913. 
The tibia3 are pale yellow; the yellow distal margin of scutellum was interrupted at 
meson in this specimen, distal fourth (or nearly) of abdomen dark metallic green, preceded 
by three pairs of marginal spots. Distal half of cephalic femur pale. Head punctate. 
10, ELASMUS DUBIUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.85 mm. 
Same as cyaneus but dark metallic green, the legs very dark brown, the postscutellum 
lemon yellow; cephalic knees and tibise pale yellow; mandibles 6-dentate. Antennae not 
seen. Scutellum with the usual several bristles. Fore wings lightly dusky throughout. 
From one female caught in forest, January 8, 1914. 
Haltiiat : Capeville ( r’entlan d) , Queensland. 
Type: No, Uy 27:26, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 
11. ELASMUS PICTURATUS new species. 
Similar to nniyiitiatus Girault but there is a rather broad stripe across the base of 
the abdomen, the metallic coloration on the j>ronotum continues back to the scutum, the 
propodeum is wholly dai'k metallic gi’een (not merely broadly down the meson) and most 
•of the upper edge of hind coxa distad similarly colored and ■with a metallic spot cephalad 
near base (dorsal aspect; only a basal dot present in the other y])ec.ies). Tho fore wings 
are slightly, sutfusedly iiifusdited. Both species bear a metallic rather broad cross-stripe 
at upper half of occiput this joining centrally the black area on the vertex. Antennae and 
mandibles similar. Funiele joints decreasing slightly in length distad, 1 being one and a 
half times longer than its width, distinctly longer than the short jjedicel. Large metallic 
area of mesopleurum narrowly joined to the tegula (isolated in the other species). Types 
compared. 
From one female caught by sweeping along forest streamlet bordered with jungle, 
May 6, 1913. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy27§7, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 
