336 PARASITIC IIYMENOPTERA, I., 



Head wider than thorax, wide, sharply obliquely nar- 

 rowed. There is a stout transverse keel on the base of the 

 metanotum, roundly bent towards base in middle. Abdo- 

 men much more shining than thorax, and smoother. Meta- 

 notum more densely pilose than the rest of thorax. 



LiMNERIUM TASMANIENSE, sp.n. 



9 . Black, second and following segments of abdomen fer- 

 ruginous, base of second segment narrowly, the sides more 

 broadly black, second and third ventral segments yellowish, 

 with black lateral spots ; legs ferruginous like the abdomen, 

 coxae and basal joint of trochanters black, apical joint of the 

 latter yellow, apex of hind tibiae and of tarsal joints infus- 

 cated ; wings hyaline, stigma and nervures fuscous, areolet 

 appendiculated, pedicle a little shorter than first transverse 

 cubital nervure, recurrent nervure received shortly beyond 

 its middle. Length, 5 ; terebra, 1 nun. 



Hobart Town, Tasmania (A. M. Lea). 



There are two curved keels on the base of the metanotum, 

 forming almost semicircular arese, but the keels on the outer 

 side do not extend to the base of the metanotum. Head and 

 thorax covered, not very densely, with a white pile. Abdo- 

 men broader than usual. Eyes converging only slightly 

 above, hinder ocelli separated from each other by the same 

 distance as they are from the eyes. Transverse median ner- 

 vure received shortly beyond transverse basal. 



Hymenobosmina verimaculata, sp.n. 



9 . Yellowish-testaceous, abdomen more rufous in tint : a 

 broad band, twice the width of the yellow orbital part, on 

 front and vertex, slightly obliquely narrowed behind ocelli, 

 occiput except at outer edges, a wide mark on basal half of 

 mesonotum in the centre, a thinner one on sides, narrowed 

 at apex to a fine point : scutellar depression, basal half of the 

 narrowed base of first abdominal segment, a broad line down 

 basal two-thirds of second segment and basal fouitli of the 



