340 NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA, 



long, all gradually widening to club. Thorax in shape similar to 

 the Eurytomid genus Systole, Walker, parapsidal furrows distinct, 

 entire, mesonotum delicately trans versely aciculate; scutellum 

 coriaceous, axilla? meeting at their inner basal angles; metathorax 

 short, abrupt, smooth, with small, rounded spiracles. Wings 

 hyaline, with a faint discoidal cloud, venation brown, marginal 

 and postmarginal veins about equal, one-third the length of sub- 

 costal vein, stigmal vein a little shorter than marginal, gently 

 curved and ending in a small knob. Abdomen subglobose, sub- 

 compressed beneath and subsessile, not longer than thorax, second 

 segment (or first body-segment) nearly twice length of third, the 

 following subequal. Hind femora somewhat swollen, with a 

 slight tooth beneath before apex. 



Type— No. 4889, U S.N.M. 



Hab. — Adelaide, S. Australia. 



Host. — Lepid. : Thyridopteryx sp., on Eucalyptus sp. Bred 

 Oct, 22, 1886, by A. Koebele. 



Genus Agamerion, Haliday. 



(22) Agamerion coeruleiventris, n.sp. 



g. — Length 3*8 mm. Robust, metallic blue-green, thorax 

 above bronzed-green; face from front ocellus, thorax at sides and 

 beneath, teguke, legs, except as noted, and abdomen decidedly 

 blue; flagellum brown-black; anterior and middle tarsi and hind 

 tibia?, all along outer face, ivory or yellowish-white. 



Head transverse, eyes large, convergent above, face below 

 between base of eyes fully twice as wide as the space on vertex; 

 scrobes distinct, long, in outline triangular; head above and 

 thorax above with a close thimble-like punctuation, finer and 

 feebly on sides and on hind coxa?. Wings hyaline, subcostal and 

 stigmal veins yellowish, postmarginal and marginal veins pale 

 brown, the latter being two-thirds the length of subcostal, post- 

 marginal longer than stigmal. 



Type— No. 4890, U.S. KM. 



Hab. — Australia (A. Koebele, collector). 



