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ON A COLLECTION OF PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA 

 (CHIEFLY BRED), MADE BY Mr. W. W. FROGGATT, 

 F.L.S., IN NEW SOUTH WALES, WITH DESCRIP- 

 TIONS OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES. Part ii. 



By p. Cameron. 



(Communicated by W. W. Froggntt.) 



CHALCIDID^. 

 Chalcidinae. 



ChALCIS FRO(iGATTI, n.sp. 



Black; anterior tibise in front, and their base and apex behind, 

 middle knees and tarsi testaceous; hind femora behind and the 

 upper two-thirds, basal third and apical third of tibiae red; hind 

 tai'si paler than the others; hind femora closely punctured, their 

 teeth numerous, closely pressed together; wings hyaline, the 

 nervures black. Length, 4 mm. 



Kenthurst, N.S.W.; in August(W. W. Froggatt). 



Head umbilically punctate, more coarsel}^ above than along the 

 sides of front. Pro- and mesonotum umbilically punctate, scutellum 

 more coarsely than mesonotum; metanotum coarsely, irregularly 

 reticulated, the sides broadly rounded. Upper part of propleurae 

 roundly convex, transversely aciculated, bordered at base by a 

 broadly rounded, curved furrow, widest below. Mesopleurae 

 bordered by a row of large, round foveae, upper part smooth on 

 basal half, apical weakly striated, this part projecting below the 

 basal; the part under the latter covered with round deep punc- 

 tures, base of apical punctured below, like the basal part but 

 more sjjarsely. Metapleurse coarsely reticulated. 



Chalcis EUPLCEiE Hope. 



An Indo-Malayan species of wide range. Bred from Anthercea 

 simplex; Richmond River, N.S.W.(W. W. Froggatt). 



