336 NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA, 



joint of funicle; funicle 5-jointed, joints nearly equal in size, sub- 

 moniliform; club 3-jointed, as long as last three joints of funicle 

 united. Wings hyaline, venation brown, subcostal vein yellowish 

 towards base. Hind coxfe outwardly towards base shagreened. 

 Abdomen conic-ovate, smooth and polished, except the short 

 petiole, which is rather coarsely shagreened; fourth dorsal segment 

 longer than second and third united. 



Type— No. 4883, U.S. KM. 



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



(16) EURYTOMA EUCALYPTI, n.sp. 



Q. — Length 2-6 to 3 mm. Black; anterior angles of pronotum, 

 as seen from side, with a yellowish spot, seen from above, 

 invisible; antenna?, except apex of scape and base of pedicel 

 which are black, mandibles, tegula?, and legs, except hind coxae 

 and middle of hind femora, ferruginous or brownish-yellow; 

 wings hyaline, costal vein yellow, marginal, stigmal and post- 

 marginal veins brown- black, the latter subpetiolate, ending in a 

 large rounded stigma with an uncus. 



Vertex of head and thorax above clothed with a rufous 

 pubescence, that on the face, sides of thorax and metapleura 

 white or silvery-white. 



Funicle 5-jointed, joints fluted and a little wider than long. 

 Sides of thorax and parapsides broadly along sutures opaque and 

 coriaceous. Marginal and postmarginal veins about of an equal 

 length, but the former stout, the latter acuminate; stigmal vein 

 very short, ending in a large, rounded stigma as in Megastigmus, 

 with an uncus. Abdomen ovate, and, except petiole and 

 segments 6 and 7, smooth, highly polished; the petiole, which is 

 hardly longer than thick, and segments 6 and 7 finely rugulose 

 or shagreened; fourth body-segment very long, occupying fully 

 half the whole surface of abdomen. 



<$. — Length 2 to 2-4 mm. Agrees well with the 9, except in 

 its antennal and abdominal characters: joints of funicle excised 

 and petiolate at apex, basal portion of joint with whorled 

 hairs; basal part of first joint nearly twice as long as 



