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NOTES ON SOME NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN 



PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS 



OF NEW GENERA AND NEW SPECIES. 



By William H. Ashmead, Assistant Curatoh, Division op 

 Insects, U.S. National Museum. 



(Communicated by W. W. Froygatt, F.L.S.) 



The following notes and descriptions of new genera and new 

 species of parasitic Hymenoptera are based upon a small but 

 most interesting collection of these insects, sent me last summer 

 by Mr. Walter W. Froggatt, Government Entomologist of New 

 South Wales, or upon specimens collected by Mr. Albert Koebele, 

 formerly an Assistant Entomologist in the U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture, but at present Government Entomologist in the 

 Hawaiian Islands. 



Superfamily iii.-ISSPOIDEA. 



Family xxxiii.— BETHYLID^E. 



Genus A t e l E o p t e r u s, Forster. 

 (1) Ateleopterus longiceps, n.sp. 



Q. — Length 4 - 5 mm. Very elongate, black and shining; head 

 anteriorly finely alutaceous, metathorax delicately shagreened ; 

 tibiae ferruginous, tarsi yellowish ; antennae, except the scape 

 basally, with the first four or five joints of the flagellum, yellowish; 

 scape basally and the other joints fuscous or dark brown. Wings, 

 except the basal third which is hyaline, are fuscous; subcostal 



