46 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



Type. — The above specimen on a tag and a slide with hind 

 legs and the head. 



Family MISCOGASTERID^. 



PIRENIN^. 



Erotolepsiella, new genus. 



Female. — Running to Erotolepsia Howard, but the stigmal and 

 postmarginal veins extremely long, subequal, each over three- 

 fourths the length of the marginal, the antennal pedicel somewhat 

 shorter thaii the solid club, the eyes naked or nearly so. There is 

 a single ring-joint and the first funicle joint is subquadrate and 

 narrower than the others, the second and third joints longest. 

 Fore wings banded. Cephalic femur somewhat swollen, but 

 simple. Mandibles tridentate. Parapsidal furrows complete, deli- 

 cate. Abdomen pointed conic-ovate, the second segment longest 

 but occupying only about a third of the surface, its caudal margin 

 entire. Propodeum with a neck but with no carin?e, rugose, the 

 scutellum with a not very distinct cross-furrow before apex. Abdo- 

 men with a short, stout petiole. Antennae 11-jointed. With the 

 habitus of the Pteromalida?. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Type. — The following species. 



1. Erotolepsiella bifasciata, n. sp. 



Female. — Length 1.80 mm. 



Purplish brown, the tip of the abdomen ringed narrowly with 

 white, the distal part of metathorax and the short abdominal 

 petiole also white. Legs concolorous, the- tarsi yellowish white, 

 the antennae concolorous. Fore wings with two conspicuous black- 

 brown bands across them, the first narrow and from the bend of 

 the submarginal vein, the second very broad and from the stigmal 

 -vein. Thorax punctate. 



Male. — Not known. 



Described from a single female captured by sweeping in jungle, 

 (October 28, 1911. 



Habitat. — Australia — Babinda, North Queensland. 



Type. — ;The above specimen on a tag and a slide with the head 

 and posterior tibia. 



