204 PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA, iii., 



the second joint roundly narrowed at base, as long as wide, 

 the others to the club wider than long. Abdomen very smooth 

 and polished, the pedicle in 9 short : fourth segment much 

 longer than the others, fully one-half the total length of the 

 body. Stigmal branch with the knob longish, semicircular, 

 projecting at the apex above. 



Tepperella trilineata, sp.n. 



Fulvous-yellow, mesonotuni darker in tint ; antennae, tips 

 of mandibles, occiput except the orbits, basal slope of prono- 

 tum broadly, a line, dilated at the base, down the middle of 

 mesonotum, commencing near the base and extending to the 

 apex, a broad curved line on the sides of the apical three- 

 fourths, scutellar depression, metanotum except a triangular 

 mark in the centre, a large triangular mark on the meso- 

 pleuraj, the narrowed end at the base, sternum, metapleurse 

 except at the base, base of first abdominal segment, a line 

 down the centre, two oblique lines, united at the base, on the 

 second, penultimate and the greater part of the ventral sur- 

 face, black. Legs coloured like the body, hinder trochanters 

 marked with black. Wings hyaline, iridescent, margins cili- 

 ated, nervures black. 9 . Length, 3 mm. 



Melbourne Botanic Gardens, from galls on .1 raein decvr= 

 reus (C. French). Launceston, Tasmania (F. M. Littler; 

 from galls). 



Smooth, sparsely covered with white pubescence, legs 

 with the })ubescence longer and denser, antennae with the 

 basal four or five joints of the flagellum covered, moderately 

 thickly, with stiff blackish hair. The centre of the mesonotum 

 appears to be finely transversely striated. 



This species differs from T. //lariiJi.trufis Cam., in its main 

 features thus : — 



Head black, mesonotum immaculate, scutellum maculate, back of abdo- 

 men entirely black macuIisnUis. 



Head fulvous, mesonotum trimaculate, scutellum immaculate, back of 

 abdomen not entirely black ...trimandata. 



