338 NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA, 



yellow, femora, except at tips, dark brown, hind coxae black, hind 

 tibia?, except tips, fuscous. Wings hyaline, venation brown- 

 Flagellar joints, except first, submoniliform, not or very little 

 longer than thick; first joint of flagellum as long as 2 and 3 

 united. Abdomen aeneous-black, petiole about four times as long 

 as thick, smooth and impunctate. 



Type— No. 4886, U.S.N.M. 



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



(19) METAGEA RUF1VENTRIS, Il.Sp. 



9. — Length 9 mm. Head and thorax bright metallic green, 

 coarsely rugose; mouth parts, scape, pedicel and legs, except coxa?, 

 yellow; abdomen, except petiole, second segment at base above 

 and hypopygium wholly rufous; flagellum and second abdominal 

 segment at base above black, petiole purplish; wings subfuscous, 

 hyaline at base. 



Flagellar joints 1 to 6 all longer than thick, terminal joints 

 alone moniliform; first three or four joints elongate, but gradually 

 shortening, first about five times as long as thick at apex, fourth 

 less than two-thirds length of first, the others still shorter, 7th 

 and 8th submoniliform. Abdomen, except as noted, red, petiole 

 about four times as long as thick, finely microscopically punctate 

 above. 

 ' Type -No. 4887, U.S.N.M. 



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



Family lxvi.— MISCOGASTERIDJE. 



Subfamily ii.-TRIDYMIN.E. 



Genus Asemantus, Forster. 



(20) Asemantus cecidomyi.e, n.sp. 



9. Length 2'4 mm. Metallic l>ronzed-green, finely, closely 

 punctate, head with some thimble-like punctures along anterior 

 orbits and on vertex; mesopleura blue, almost smooth; scrobes 

 distinct, semicircular; antenna? brown-black, scape aeneous-black, 



