212 PARASITIC HVMENOPTERA, iil., 



ClUTHAIRA AfJARIST^, Sp.?l. 



Dark blue, second segment of the abdunien of a bright blue; 

 legs dark blue, hind femora bright metallic blue; hind tibiae dark 

 blue or black, the four anterior, for the greater part, black: the 

 base and apex of the femora and tibiaj may be testaceous ; tarsi 

 white, except the last joint: wings clear h^^aline, nervures pallid 

 testaceous. Smooth, shining, mesonotum transverseh' striated. 

 9- Length, 2 mm. 



Sydney. Parasitic on Agarisfa ylycine(\\. W. Frof^att). 



EUPLECTRUS AGARIST^. Ciawford. 



This species is stated, by Mr. Froggatt, to feed on the outer 

 surface of the larva? of the x\ne-\W)t\\(Aiiarixta y/i/cinp), and to 

 form their cocoons in company, enveloping them in a mass of 

 dark greyish, coarse, woolly hair, on the remains of the devoured 

 caterpillars. 



E. australiensis Ashm., (Proc. liinn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1900, 

 p.347) is a closely allied species: it may be known by the hind 

 coxis being black, and by the mesonotum not being striated, but 

 eparsely punctured in front, smooth behind. 



E. agaristfc has been recently described from examples sent bv 

 Mr. W. W. Froggatt, in 1900, by Mr. J. C. Crawford, in Proc. 

 U.8. National Mus., Vol. xli., 281(1911) This species is pro- 

 bably common and somewhat variable, both in colouration and 

 sculpture: f.g., there may, or may not, be a keel down the middle 

 of mesonotum. 



Eupelminse. 



EUFKLMIS TKSTACKIVKNTRIS, Sp.n. 



Blue with bra.ssy tints on the base and sides of the mesonotUm, 

 antennal scape dark green, Hagellum l)lack: the second and fol- 

 lowing dorsal, and the whole of the ventral surface, yellowish- 

 testaceous: sides of second blue, base of the basal segment yellow, 

 ventral keel black; ovipositor almost one half the len<i-th of 

 abdomen, its basal third black, tlie rest yellow: legs pale strami- 



