444 TWO NEW HYMENOPTERA OP THE SUPERFAMILY PROCTOTRYPIDAE, 



a little shorter than 2, joints 5-10 suliequal, subglubose, aliuul as long- as wide; 

 apical joint conical, one-third longer than preceding. Thorax normal, twice as 

 long as its greatest width; pronotal neck short and stout, the pronotuin itseli' 

 hardly \'isible from above; scutum and scutellum smootli and shining, with a few 

 small sctigerous punctures; scutum almost as long as its greatest width, broadly 

 rounded anteriorly, the parapsidal furrows very deep, complete, and foveate; 

 scutellum longer than its width at apex, subquadrate, at base with two large 

 deep almost circular foveae, situated slightly obliquely to each other, each tra- 

 versed by two or three more or less obscure earinae, their inner margins carin- 

 ate, the narrow area between appearing as a shallow fovea (sometimes there are 

 two of these shallow foveae) ; lateral margins of scutellum without a fovea, the 

 posterior margin finely foveate; postscutellum conspicuous, carinate; median seg- 

 ment long, rugose, at base with an acutely laised carina (from lateral aspect 

 appearing as a raised tooth) which branches to form laterally a distinct blunt 

 tooth on either side, below these teeth are the blunt-toothed or subacute latero- 

 posterior angles, and there is also a blunt tooth or protuberance on either side 

 against the lateral margins anteriorly; median segment jiosteriorly with a short 

 stout neck, rorewing-s very long and broad, extending a little beyond apex of 

 abdomen; stained yellowish; venation thick and distinct, fuscous; submarginal 

 vein well distant from the costa which it joins at half wing length; marginal 

 vein somewhat thickened, almost as long as the stigmal vein which is perpendicu- 

 lar and very long for tlie family; pale yellow lines indicate basal, median, dis- 

 coidal, recurrent, and radial veins. Hindwings two-thirds as long as the fore- 

 wings, narrow slender, with a long costal vein. Petiole of abdomen stout, a 

 little longer than wide, its lateral margins carinate, rugose, and with a paired 

 median carina that projects into the incised abdomen ; body of abdomen slender, 

 about three times as long as its greatest width, conical, but the apex is blunt; 

 \iewed from the side gently convex above and beneath, and aljruptly truncate at 

 apex; smooth and shining, with a very few scattered setae; consisting of one 

 segment only; anterior margin triangularly incised to form a short basal fovea. 

 Legs slender; trochanters long and slender; femora slender for basal third, then 

 much thickened ; tibiae and tarsi slender, the latter 5-joint.ed with a pair of slen- 

 der tarsal claws; intermediate tibiae a little longer than their femora, their tarsi a 

 little longer than t'le tibiae; posterior tibiae plainly longer than their femora, 

 and a little longer than their tai-si, the basal tarsal joint as long as 2-4 united ; 

 legs pilous, the tarsi spiny; posterior tibiae with two apical spurs. 



Described from the following series; three females collected by L. Wilson 

 at Mai-sden, South-west Riverina, N.S.W., 15.5.19in, and bred from pupae of 

 one of the sheep-maggot flies; one female lired from jiupae of Opln/ra iiifjra 

 Wied., Uardry, near Hay. N.S.W., 20.8.101(1, J. L. Froggatt; three fcm."iles 

 bred from pujiae of CaViplioni {NcopoUinnxa) viUosa R.D., Moree, N.S.W.. .T. 

 L. Froggatt; one female caught by sweeping pine scrub, Grenfell, X.S.W., 1918, 

 W. W. Froggatt. Thus the species is well established in the State. 



In Farmer's Bulletin No. 113, June, 1917. of the Xcw South "Wales Deiiart- 

 ment of Agiiculture, "Sheep-Maggot Flics, No. ."?." l)y W. W. Froggatt and J. 

 L. Froggatt, on page 32 the discovery of this parasite is recorded and a general 

 description gix'cn, and on the opposite page \cry good fig-iircs are gi\en. The 

 following extract is taken from this bulletin : "This is a very dififerent hymenop- 

 teron from the previous ones found attacking the maggots and pupae of the 



