106 JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY 



PEDIOBINI 

 Metacrias new genus 



Ti/pe — The following species. 



1. Metacrias australiansis new species 



Female — Length, 2.10 mm. Very dark metallic bluish, the 

 head tinged with metallic green, especially on the face, the abdo- 

 men brilliant metallic bluish-green, shining. Wings hyaline, the 

 venation dusky. Knees, tips of tibise, distal third of posterior 

 tibife and the tarsi (excepting distal joint) white. Venter of 

 thorax steel blue. Antennae concolorous with thorax l)ut the ring- 

 joint white. First funicle joint nearly as long as the club, the 

 pedicel subequal in length to the distal funicle joint. The legs 

 and propodeuni may be as in the male. Segment VI of abdomen 

 (dorsad) densely polygonally retriculated. 



(From five specimens, the same magnifications). 



Male — The same but the abdomen less pointed, with an oval, 

 large whitish spot centrally, near base, the antennae metallic 

 greenish, the abdomen with more green, the propodeum and the 

 dark parts of the legs brilliant metallic cyaneus; distal two 

 funicle joints subequal, the first joint subequal to the club. 



(From single specimen, similarh^ magnified.) 



Described from one male and five female specimens, card- 

 mounted, from the collections of the Queensland Museum, 

 labelled "Bred out of fungus gall on wattle. Brisbane, H. 

 Hacker, 14/7/11", 1.5, 2 9''s and the same plus "23/6/11", 

 3$'s. 



Habitat — Australia — Brisbane, Queensland. 



Types — No. Hy 1199, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the 

 above specimens on two cards as indicated plus two slides of 

 xylol-balsam, bearing female antenna and posterior legs (one 

 slide) and male flagellum. 



This genus differs from Acrias Walker in bearing nonfasciate 

 wings and submoniliform antenna", the funicle joints more or 

 less excised or constricted, and the club with one less joint. The 

 following generic characters: Head large, wider than the 

 thorax, the oqcii)ital margin earinate, the lateral ocelli not touch- 



