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rather dense whitish pubescence from small punctures, on scu- 

 tellum less dense and longer, surface of all minutely scaly. 

 Propodeum purple between spiracles. Funicles 1-2 half longer 

 than wide, equal pedicel, 6 wider than long. 



Meringa, jungle, November. Two females next day, Mul- 

 grave River. 



Xenostryxis, new genus. 



Runs in my table to Habrolepoidea Howard but head some- 

 what longer than wide, the scrobes practically absent, the face 

 not inflexed ; the marginal linear, thick, three and a half times 

 longer than wide, the postmarginal truncate, very short, the 

 stigmal twice it, short, a fourth the marginal. Mandible 2 

 truncate. Ovipositor extruded half the abdomen which is 

 conic but not compressed. Eyes subrotund, distinctly shorter 

 than the cheeks. 



Xenostryxis margiscutellum, new species. 



1.50 mm. Slender. Golden, wings subhyaline, following 

 jet : clypeus, lateral margin scutellum, latero-caudal corner 

 propodeum, tegulas, abdomen at base at lateral margin, a rather 

 wide cinctus on middle tibia, its own width from base, another 

 on hind tibia but a bit wider than the yellow basal of it and 

 the hind tibia above rather far from tips. Finely scaly. Funi- 

 cles all a bit longer than wide, thicker distad, pedicel a bit 

 longer than any ; club dusky, somewhat over half funicle and 

 somewhat wider. Hairless line of fore wing with six or more 

 lines of coarser cilia proximad of it, the main discal cilia very 

 fine and dense. Scutum and scutellum with few soft hairs 

 and setae. Ovipositor free, inserted near base. 



Gordonvale, forest. 



Nerotolepsia, new genus. 



Like Erotolepsiella but stigmal vein but of usual length, the 

 postmarginal shorter than it, hind tibial spurs greatly en- 

 larged, much unequal ; there is a tuft of black hairs on fore 

 wing at base of marginal; 2 of abdomen one-fourth surface, 

 3 and 4 nearly as long; parapsidal furrows incomplete. Pro- 



