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and through the naked hyaline distal margin. Discal cilia from 

 base to fuscous stripe 1 coarser than that distad. Marginal 

 vein over twice longer than wide, subequal to the postmargi- 

 nal, the stigmal a half shorter nearly. Axillae separated by a 

 very short carina. Hind tibial spurs double. Head longer 

 than wide, lenticular, the cheeks a little over half the length of 

 the eyes. Club a little longer than funicle 1 which is about 

 twice the length of 6, thrice longer than wide. Pedicel about 

 as long as funicle 6. 



From one female captured by sweeping native trees in a park 

 at Muswellbrook, New South Wales, October 26, 1914. 



Type in the Queensland Museum, a female on a tag, the head, 

 fore wing, and a hind leg on a slide. 



Pleistodontes nigriventris (Girault). 



Transferred from Agaon. The species, through an error, 

 was twice described as new. First as an Agaon; it was then 

 transferred, upon re-examination, to its proper genus and de- 

 scribed again ; the first description was not known then to have 

 been published, I being at a distance and having requested its 

 withdrawal. 



Miscogaster australia, new species. 



Female. — Length 1.20 mm. Dark metallic purple, the wings 

 hyaline, the legs and venation yellowish brown except the coxse 

 and proximal two-thirds of cephalic femur. Coarsely, uniform- 

 ly scaly, the propodeum, petiole, and segment 2 of abdomen 

 subglabrous, rest of abdomen delicately scaly. Face glabrous, 

 but crosslined between the clypeus (itself glabrous but with 

 obscure punctures), ventral ends of the eyes and the antenna; 

 also the cheeks lined, the vertex scaly. Scutum with two irreg- 

 ular rows of thimble punctures a>cross it between middle and 

 cephalic margin, the deep parapsidal furrows, the base of the 

 scutellum and the deep cross-groove before its apex, punctuate 

 or foveolate. A row of long black setae across the cephalic 

 margin of the pronotum, the latter distinct, transverse, its 

 cephalic margin acute. Propodeum with a long median carina 

 and no others, foveolate at apex of neck and at cephalic mar- 



