342 NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA, 

 (26) DlNOURA CYANEA, n.sp. 



Q. — Length 5 mm.; to tip of ovipositor 10 mm. Head and 

 thorax blue, with a metallic green tinge on thorax above; basal 

 half of abdomen yellowish; anterior and middle tibiae, hind tibiae 

 along outer face and all tarsi ivory white Wings hyaline, as in 

 previous species. 



Type— No. 4893, U.S.N.M. 



ffab. —Wellington, N.S.W. Bred Aug. 20, 1891, by Mr. 

 Froggatt, from Brachyscelis ovicola, Schr. 



Family lxviii.— ENCYRTID^E. 



Subfamily i.— EUPELMIN5:. 

 Genus Eupelmus, Dalman. 

 (27) Eupelmus antipoda, n.sp. 



£. — Length 3 mm. Head metallic green, thorax bottle-blue 

 mesopleura with a greenish tinge ; abdomen aeneous-black, ovi- 

 positor prominent, yellow for two-thirds its length; wings fuscous, 

 except at basal third which is hyaline ; all coxae metallic green ; 

 sutures of trochanters, tips of tibiae and tarsi yellowish-white, 

 rest of legs aeneous-black. 



Type- No. 4894, U.S.N.M. 



Hab. — Sydney, N.S.W. Bred by Mr. Froggatt from the eggs 

 of a Mantis. 



Subfamily ii.— ENCYRTINJE. 



Genus Cerchysius, Westwood. 



(28) Cerchysius australiensis, n.sp. 



£. — Length 2-0 mm. Aeneous-black, head blue-black, face 

 below scrobes metallic bluish-green, scutellum, mesopleura and 

 abdomen decided^ metallic-greenish ; antennae black ; legs, 

 except hind coxae, apical half of hind femora and basal two- 

 thirds of hind tibiae brownish-yellow. Wings fuscous, with basal 

 third hyaline, venation dark brown, stigmal and postmarginal 



