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Orange yellow, the parapsides cephalo-mesad marked with 

 metallic bluish, the propodeum and abdomen shining blackish or 

 dark metallic bluish, but the latter in the dorsal aspect of the base 

 of its distal half with a conspicuous yellow marking, incised medi- 

 ally from behind (caudad). Legs nearly all dark metallic bluish, 

 but with brownish markings at the knees and tarsi, the cephalic 

 tibia} nearly all brown. Venation brownish, the marginal, stigmal - 

 and postmarginal veins lemon yellow; the fore wings lightly em- 

 browned throughout and with a distinct, smoky brown cloud under 

 the apex of the submarginal vein, extending across the wing, but 

 interrupted caudad of its middle by a clear longitudinal streak; its 

 proximo-cephalic margin is accented and another shorter clear 

 streak enters it from proximad nearer the caudal wing margin. 

 Marginal fringes extremely short, as is also the discal ciliation, 

 which is speckled over the wing surface like minute pin-points, quite 

 irregular but not dense. Scape yellow, dark above and at tip, the 

 remainder of the antenna brownish yellow, sometimes bluish, proxi- 

 mal joint of club subequal to distal funicle joint, both wider than 

 long; funicle joints 2 and 3 subquadrate, subequal. Thorax finely 

 polygonally sculptured, the scutum with obscure punctures. 



(From many specimens, the same magnification.) 



Male.— Not known. 



Described from a number of specimens in the Queensland 

 Museum, mounted on cards labelled respectively: "Gall, No. 6 

 Brisbane. H. Hacker. 19-7-11." 4 9 's. Types:"Gall No. 

 6; 3 9 's": "Gall No. 6," three cards 5 9 's, 5 9 's and 6 9 's; and 

 "Gall No. 6. Brisbane. H. Hacker. 19-7-11." 3 9 's. 

 Evidently reared from galls. 



Habitat: Australia — Brisbane, Queensland. 



Types: No. Hy 1194, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the four 

 females on a single card as above noted, plus a slide of xylol-balsam 

 bearing an antenna and a pair of wings. 



Family Eucharidae. 



Epimetagea, new genus. 



Female. — The same as Metagea Kirby, but the antenna^ not 

 moniliform and only 10-jointed. Also agreeing somewhat with 

 Pseudochalcura Ashmead, but differing again in lacking one antcnnal 



