92 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



Hind wing soiled whitish with terminal gray line. Ex- 

 panse, 18 mm. 



Type, male, No. 21138, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Plantation 

 Uitolugt, Georgetown, British Guiana (H. W. B. Moore), bred 

 from larvae on arrow-grass (Anchris bicorne). 



NEW AUSTRALIAN CHALCID-FLIES 



(Hymenoptera, Chalcidida) 

 By a. a. GIRAULT 

 Coccophagus leptospermi, new species. 



Female. — Length, 0.90 mm. In the analysis of species in 

 the Memoirs Queensland Museum, IV, runs to triguttatus and 

 is like that species. Golden yellow, the wings hyaline, the 

 body marked with black as follows : Upper face of prothorax, 

 pronotum, cephalic margin of scutellum narrowly, caudal mar- 

 gin of propodeum across the meson narrowly and five narrow 

 stripes across the abdomen, the first at base and thickest, the 

 fifth curved and some little distance from apex. Club dis- 

 tinct, somewhat wider than the funicle, its joints not longer 

 than wide, 2 distinctly wider than long ; funicle 3 subquadrate. 

 2 a little longer than it, 1 a half longer than wide ; pedicel sub- 

 equal to funicle 2. Mandibles tridentate. Distal tarsal joint 

 black. Funicle and club armed with slightly thickened, black 

 setse; scutum with numerous, scattered, short, black set?e, the 

 scutellum with only a few long set?e. Marginal vein somewhat 

 shorter than the submarginal. 



Male. — Marked with black as follows : Abdomen, propo- 

 deum, caudal part of mesopleurum. the large diamond-shaped 

 axillae, a smaller yet conspicuous triangle at base of middle of 

 scutellum (at base joined to the black axillse), cephalic half of 

 scutum except very broadly along lateral margin, pronotum and 

 face of prothorax, upper half of occiput and a dot on cephalic 

 parapside at mesal margih. Funicle and club dusky ; pedicel 

 minute; funicle 1 twice longer than wide (with two rows of 

 the black setre). 2 and 3 shortening slightly in succession; club 

 as in the female but narrower. 



