BY WILLIAM H. ASHMEAD. 331 



antennae, except towards apex from fifth joint, and legs, including 

 coxae, yellow; antennae from fifth joint brown; wings hyaline, 

 ciliate, veins brown. 



First joint of flagellum longest, a little more than four times as 

 long as thick, second a little shorter, being only about four times 

 as long as thick, joints beyond to the fifth imperceptibly 

 shortening, the following slightly thicker and subequal. Meta- 

 thorax sparsely pubescent with two parallel carinaa down the 

 middle. 



Type— No. 4876, U.S.N.M. 



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



Superfamily vii.-CHALCIDOIDEA. 

 Family lxi.— TORYMID^E. 



Subfamily ii. T0RYMIN.E. 

 Genus Torymus, Dalman. 

 (8) Torymus eucalypti, n.sp. 



$. — Length 2 8 to 3 mm.; ovipositor as long as body. Gold- 

 green with cupreous reflections; head in front and mesopleura 

 blue-green; mandibles rufous; palpi white; antennae brown-black, 

 scape and pedicel aeneous; tegulae and legs, except coxae and the 

 hind femora which are metallic green, pale yellowish, tibial spurs 

 and tarsi white; wings hyaline, stigma and marginal vein brown. 



Head shagreened and punctate, ocelli red; thorax above 

 transversely wrinkled or striate, with some sparse punctures 

 scattered over its surface; metathorax smooth, with some short 

 lineations at extreme base just back of scutellum; mesopleura 

 smooth, impunctate, except some delicate lines on anterior 

 margin; hind coxae large, coarsely reticulated. 



£. — -Length 2 to 2-5 mm. Agrees well with the female 

 except in the usual sexual differences, and in having sometimes a 

 brownish or metallic band on the anterior and middle femora, 

 the extreme base of the scape being yellowish, while the flagellum 

 is stouter, with the joints a little wider than long. 



