BY WILLIAM H. ASHMBAD. 



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thick, basal part of the following being quadrate or nearly so; 

 abdomen with petiole four times as long as thick, shagreened, and 

 with a grooved line down centre; body subglobose, segments 

 subequal; hind coxae opaque, coriaceous. 



Type— No. 4884, U.S.N. M. 



Hab. -Uralla, N.S.W. 



Described from several specimens bred by Mr. Froggatt, from 

 galls on Eucalyptus. 



(17) EURYTOMA BINOTATA, n.sp. 



(J). — Length 3*5 to 5 mm. Black, clothed with a whitish 

 pubescence; pronotum with two oblong oval yellow spots, one on 

 each anterior angle, and both distinctly visible from above; 

 scape of antennae, pedicel at apex, and legs, except coxae and a 

 blotch on middle of femora above, pale ferruginous; rest of 

 antenna; and coxae black. Wings hyaline, venation brown, 

 marginal vein a little longer than postmarginal, stigmal vein 

 normal, very nearly as long as postmarginal. 



Head and thorax closely umbilicately. punctate; funicle joints 

 a little longer than thick; abdomen conic-ovate, subsessile, a 

 little longer than head and thorax united, acutely pointed at apex, 

 sides of segments 4-7 ciliate with white hairs, fourth segment 

 and beyond very delicately shagreened at sides. 



Type— No. 4885, U.S. KM. 



Hab. — Sydney, N.S.W. "Bred from galls on the turpentine 

 tree" (Froggatt). 



Family lxiv.— PERILAMPID^. 



Family lxv.- -EUCHARID^E. 



Genus M e t a g e a, Kirby. 



(18) Metagea Kirbyi, n sp. 



9. — Length 4 mm. Aeneous-black, tinged with blue or purplish 

 in certain lights. Head and thorax, except discs of parapsides 

 which are smooth and aeneous, coarsely rugose. Legs brownish- 



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