20, 5 Cushman: Oriental and Australian I chneumonide 575 
strong, especially medially; ocellocular and postocellar lines 
equal, diameter of lateral ocellus slightly shorter; eyes large, 
bulging, parallel within, much longer than width of face; malar 
space barely as long as basal width of mandible; clypeus dis- 
tinctly separated from face, as long as interfoveal line, broadly 
truncate at apex; mandibles Short, teeth blunt, upper larger 
and very slightly longer than lower; apical joint of maxillary 
palpus only slightly shorter than fourth. Thorax largely finely 
densely punctate; pronotum rugose below, epomia strong but not 
reaching upper margin; scutellum shining, sparsely punctate, 
margined only at base, fovea with several longitudinal ruge; 
mesopleurum largely rugose above, speculum elevated and pol- 
ished only behind, the anterior part embraced by the rugosity; 
sternauli incomplete behind but deep and partly foveolate, the 
posterior end curving suddenly upward; propodeum punctate 
before and reticulate-rugose behind basal carina, weakly concave 
on posterior slope, pleural carina obsolete, being largely replaced 
by a foveolate groove, apical carina prominent laterally; cox 
punctate, especially posterior pair. Abdomen beyond first ter- 
gite very finely shagreened ; first tergite polished, petiole slender, 
tergite and sternite completely fused, postpetiole at apex 
about three times as wide as narrowest part of petiole, spiracles 
slightly nearer to each other than to apex, petiole flattened 
above, the flattening becoming a slight impression between the 
Spiracles; ovipositor slender. 
Ferruginous; head black, inner orbits, face except impres- 
Sioas, cheeks, indistinct line on posterior orbits, clypeus, man- 
dibles except apices, and palpi largely whitish; antenne black 
with a ventrally incomplete white annulus on flagellar joints 
7 to 14; upper margin of pronotum, tegule, wing bases, scutellar 
Carine, prepectus and subalar tubercle, and posterior margin 
of mesopleurum luteous; legs testaceous, apical tarsal joints 
on all legs, basal two joints of hind tarsus, and apices of its 
tibia and femur black; wings hyaline, slightly stained with 
yellow, venation black, stigma white at extreme base; tergites 
2 and 3 slightly stained with blackish at sides; ovipositor sheath 
black. : 
Type locality—Shoalhaven, New South Wales. 
Type.—Catalogue No. 24053, United States National Museum. 
One female (G. W. F., 1895). 
; Genus HEMIGASTER Brullé 
Only five species from the Oriental and Australian Regions 
have been described in this genus; and one of these, H. jacobsoni 
