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(3) Sierola Websteki, n.sp. 



$. — Length 2-4 mm. Black; all tibiae and tarsi rufo- testaceous; 

 wings hyaline, tegula?, parastigma and stigma piceous-black; veins 

 brownish-yellow. 



Head and thorax above finely coriaceous, the former with a 

 few minute punctures scattered over its surface. Antenna: black, 

 except joints 2-5, the first joint or the scape subglobose, the 

 others small, moniliform. 



Type— No. 4872, U.S.N.M. 



Hab. — -New South Wales (received from Prof. F. M. "Webster). 



Superfamily vi.-CYNIPOIDEA I 



Family lviii. — FIGITID^. 



Subfamily iii. — ANACHARIN.E. 



Genus Anacharis, Dalman. 



(4) Anacharis zealandica, n.sp. 



9. —Length 1-6 mm. Polished black; antennae, except first 

 two joints and base of the third, and legs, except coxa;, tro- 

 chanters and most of femora, dark honey -yellow; wings hyaline, 

 venation dark brown. 



Head and thorax clothed with a sparse, silvery white pubes- 

 cence, dense on metapleura ; first joint of tiagellum the longest, 

 being as long as the scape and the pedicel united; parapsidal 

 furrows distinct, crenate ; scutellum with two large oblique fovea; 

 at base, its disc coarsely reticulate ; the mesopleura anteriorly 

 finely shagreened, the mesepipleura being perpendicularly acicu- 

 lated; metathorax rugose. Abdomen longly petiolate, the petiole 

 smooth and as long as the hind femur, body ovate, subcompressed 

 and highly polished. 



Tyjte—Ko. 4873, U.S.N.M. 

 'Hob. — New Zealand (A. Koebele, collector). 



(5) Anacharis australiensis, n.sp. 



(J.— Length L8 mm. Agrees closely with A. zealandica, except 

 as follows : — The antennae from the apex of the second joint and 



