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Subfamily ii.— CLEONYMINJE. 



Genus T n a u m a s u r a, Westwood. 



(23) Thaumasura TEREBRATOR, Westwood. 



A single specimen of this remarkable and rare species is 

 labelled "No. 125, South Australia" (W. W. Froggatt). 



(24) Thaumasura rubropemoralis, n.sp. 



(J>. — Length 10 mm.; to tip of ovipositor 14 - 5 to 15 mm. Head 

 and thorax metallic bronzed-green, tinged with blue, and clothed 

 with a whitish pubescence; abdomen above blue, beneath bronzed, 

 segments bearded with white hairs at sides; flagellum brown; 

 coxa? metallic blue-green, all femora red, rest of legs fuscous or 

 brown-black. Wings hyaline, venation brown. 



Type— No. 4891, U.S. KM. 



Hob.— Sydney, N.S.W. (W. W. Froggatt). 



Genus Dinoura, Ashmead, n.g. 

 (25) Dinoura auriventris, n.sp. 



9. — -Length 48 mm. ; to tip of ovipositor nearly 7 mm. 

 Head bluish or blue-green, with a metallic green spot on vertex 

 enclosing ocelli; thorax above metallic green, at sides and beneath, 

 with metathorax, blue or blue-green; femora, except tips, aeneous- 

 black, anterior pair more or less bluish; rest of legs pale yellowish, 

 hind tibia? obfuscated medially. Wings hyaline, venation dark 

 brown. Abdomen gold-green and terminating in a prominent 

 ovipositor which is dilated into three broad leaf-like expansions, 

 like a propeller in a naphtha launch. 



£. — -Length 3-G mm. Antenna? 9-jointed, flagellum filiform, 

 clothed with a short, dense, felt-like pubescence, joints longer 

 than thick; all legs aeneous-black, with white tarsi; abdomen 

 oblong-oval, bronzed-black, metallic greenish above towards base. 



Type— No. 4892, U.S. KM. 



Hab.— Sydney, N.S.W. Bred by Mr. Froggatt from galls of 

 Brachyscelis p ileata. 



