BY P. CAMKUON. 337 



third black; wiiii^s hyaline, stiuina and neivurcs black: recurrent 

 nervure received at half the length of the transverse cubital 

 beyond it ; transverse median nervure interstitial ; legs tes- 

 taceous, tinged with rufo-fulvous, base of hind tibise, their 

 apex more broadly, and hind tarsi blackish. Length, 10 mm. 



Medowie, New South Wales; in April. Parasite on "Case- 

 Moth," Thi/ridopteryx hubneri{\V. W. Froggatt). 



Head and thorax closely punctured, covered with a short 

 white down; middle of metanotum closely transversely stri- 

 ated, more strongly in middle, this part being bordered 

 almost by keels, forming an elongated area of equal width. 

 Second abdominal segment closely longitudinally striated. 



On the same card as the specimen described above is a 

 male, which agrees with the female in the colouration of the 

 head and thorax, except that the scutellum is surrounded 

 with black ; the metanotum entirely black, as are also the 

 upper two-thirds of the mesopleurse ; an elongated conical 

 spot on the base below, the base of the metapleurae, narrowly 

 above, more broadly below ; the basal abdominal segment is 

 entirely black, the second with the basal three-fourths above, 

 almost the basal half of the third, and the apical two 

 entirely black. 



PIMPLIN.E. 



PlIILOPSYCHE PILOSELLA, Sp.n. 



O*. Black, densely covered with white hair, which is longer 

 and denser on sides of scutellum and metathorax, and, to a 

 less extent, on face, underside of antennal scape, tegulae, a 

 spot on pronotum in front of them, palpi and four front legs 

 bright lemon-yellow ; hinder trochanters, basal three-fourths 

 of hind tibiae, basal two joints of hinder tarsi except at apex, 

 and apices of basal segments of abdomen broadly, whitish- 

 yellow ; band on second segment slightly and roundly incised 

 ill middle at base; third, fourth, and fifth, more widely and 

 squarely incised in middle ; second, third, and fourth, with 

 a black spot on sides of the band ; second with a triangular 



