188 PARASITIC HYMENOPTEKA, iii., 



cubital nervures ; the areolet itself small, four-angled, receiv- 

 ing the recurrent nervure shortly beyond the middle ; trans- 

 verse median nervure interstitial, the apical nervures in hind 

 wings obsolete. Abdomen twice longer than head and thorax 

 united : the greater part of the basal three segments black, 

 the rest rufo-testaceous, j^aler on the ventral surface : the 

 ovipositor half its length. 9 • Length, 8 ; terebra, 2-5 mm. 



Common in flour mills in Victoria and New South Wales. 

 Parasitic on the introduced Flour-moth, Kplit^sfui li(hnieJhi 

 (C. French, Junr., and W. W. Froggatt). 



Head closely punctured, face and clypeus more strongly 

 than the vertex. Pro- and mesothorax more closely and 

 strongly punctured ; a broad striated belt down the middle 

 of propleurae, a broad oblique one, becoming narrowed below, 

 running down from the tegulae to the middle and bordered by 

 a smooth, shining space ; apex crenulated. Metanotum with 

 a small basal area and a large one extending to the apex in 

 the centre, the latter with the base obliquely narrowed above, 

 the rest from the end of the upper tliird becoming gradually 

 widened, the whole bein£r closely transversely striated ; there 

 is an almost semicircular basal lateral area, followed by a 

 longish triangular one, the narrowed end below, not reaching 

 to the apex : the inner keel bordering this is rounded, the 

 outer straight ; there is a large wide spiracular area, extend- 

 ing from the base to near the apex, where it is closed by a 

 waved keel ; the spiracles are about twice wider than long. 

 Legs and sheaths of ovipositor densely covered with short 

 white pubescence. 



This parasite has been recently found in a number of flour- 

 mills in New South Wales (Sydney, Wellington, etc.), where 

 they infest the larvce of the Mediterranean Flour-moth. It 

 is also known in England, and the King Flour Mills, Limited, 

 Ellermen Point, pi'oposed to introduce them into Australia 

 before it was discovered that they were well known in this 

 country. 



