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separated a little, and the scutellum is uniformly densely scaly 

 punctuate. The body is more aeneous. 



One female with the preceding species. Common. 



Habitat: Muswellbrook, New South Wales. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, a female on a tag with a 

 paratype female of australis. 



Male club solid. The hypopygium covers the ovipositor to 

 tip of abdomen. Head as in Spalangia as to shape, the scrobes 

 forming a long triangle. 



Aphycus sanguinithorax Girault. 

 The scape is not much dilated. 



Aphycus coccidiphagus, new species. 



Female. — Length, 1.10 mm., excluding the ovipositor which 

 is extruded for a length a little over half that of the abdomen. 

 Golden yellow, the wings hyaline, the venation yellow; pro- 

 notum broadly mesad and cephalic margin of the axillae, em- 

 browned. Pedicel stout, slightly longer than wide, longer than 

 any of the funicle joints of which 1-2 are subquadrate, 3-4 

 each a little wider than long, 5 and 6 still wider, 6 largest. 

 Marginal vein punctiform, as long as the postmarginal, the 

 latter somewhat more than a third the length of the stigmal. 

 Mandibular teeth acute, 3 shortest. Hairless line of fore wing 

 closed caudad, with numerous lines of cilia proximad of it. 

 Club wider than the funicle and three-fourths its length. 

 Cheeks longer than the eyes, the face strangely inflexed, the 

 frons of moderate width. Fore wings densely, finely ciliate. 

 Venation dusky yellow. Caudal wings with about eighteen 

 lines of very fine discal cilia where broadest. Axillae a little 

 separated. Scape a little compressed. 



Six females from a Rhizococcus ( ?) on Leptospermum, 

 December 22, 1899 (A. Koebele). 



Habitat: Botany Bay. Sydney, New South Wales. 



Types: Cat. No. 20673, U. S. Nat. Mus., the specimens on 

 a slide. 

 Homalotylus microgaster, new species. 



Female. — Length. l.fiO mm. Dark metallic blue, the legs 



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