196 Parasitic HYMfiNOPTERA, ui., 



Black; head red, mandibles reddish-yellow, the apex 

 broadly black, palpi rufous ; scutelhim tinged with red, meta- 

 notum, metapleurae and basal segment of abdomen yellowish 

 white ; fourth and following segments with broad dark rufous 

 bands, the last segment entirely red, ventral surface sordid 

 white, hypopygium fuscous, broad : legs dull red, densely 

 covered with longish white pubescence, the outer side of the 

 fore coxae, the four posterior and their trochanters black : 

 hind tarsi fuscous. Wings fiiscous-violaceous, paler to the 

 parastigma, stigma and nervures black. 9 • Length, body 

 and ovipositor, 13 mm. 



Narrabeen (W. B. Gurney) ; Kenthurst (W. W. Froggatt). 



Head, pro- and mesothorax smooth ; propleural furrow stri- 

 ated. Scutellar depression large, deep, of equal width, with 

 seven stout striae. Apex of scutellum punctured in the centre 

 of apex. The depression bordering the postscutellum strongly 

 striated. Metanotum strongly punctured, the punctures irre- 

 gular, strongest in the middle of basal half ; there is a strong, 

 longitudinal keel on the basal fourth. Abdomen smooth, 

 first segment with some punctures and striae on the centre, the 

 two basal furrows closely crenulated, the third almost smooth. 



MICROGASTERIN.E. 

 Apanteles tasmanica, sp.n. 



Black ; ventral surface of abdomen rufo-fulvous, legs rufo- 

 t staceous, coxae black, hind femora broadly above and below, 

 more than the apical half of the hind tibiae, and the hind 

 tarsi black, the extreme base of the latter and the spurs 

 whitish ; wings hyaline, stigma and nervuies dark fuscous ; 

 the radius nervures form a broad, rounded curve. Palpi 

 white, mandibles rufo-testaceous. 



9 . Launceston, Tasmania (F. M. Littler). 



Densely covered with short white ])ubescence, that on the 

 eyes being also white. Head almost smooth, thorax above 

 finely, closely punctured, pleural bare, smooth and shining. 



