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spicuoiis black bristles on each side. Hypopyg-ium of male 

 deeply channeled on the right side, and shortly and finely pilose; 

 at the tip with a large fovea or impression. Ovipositor distinct- 

 ly curved from base to tip. Length 3.25-c; mm. (PI. V, fig'. 

 126, VII. fig. 1,6,7.) 



HAB. Cairns district, on the coast and in the mountains; 

 bred several times from a species of Hcraliis, (Koebele's speci- 

 mens are numbered 2268) and also by Mr. Koebele from a very 

 different Jassid nymph (No. 2275). 



2. P. eucalypti, sp. nov. 



Male: Head in front, and face, with glistening white tomen- 

 tum; behind the eyes in the middle with dark, at the sides with 

 whitish. Antennae dark, black or blackish; third joint pitchy, 

 l^ointed at the apex, but hardly produced. 



Thorax dull black, with thin fuscous tomentum, in front later- 

 ally, the metanotum, and the pleura, with white or greyish 

 white; the scutellum with fine marginal hairs, which are qaite 

 easily seen, being considerably longer than the few that are on 

 the disc. Wings nearly clear, neuration dark, stigma brown, 

 third and fourth costal segments subec|ual, posterior cross-vein 

 very oblic|ue, its upper extremity about opposite the apex of the 

 second longitudinal; halteres largely pale, dark basally. Legs 

 black or pitchy, knee-joints pale, tarsi above yellow or yellow- 

 ish brown, but sometimes aj^pearing dark from the many short, 

 black hairs; tibiae more or less brownish or yellowish. 



Abdomen black, with some fuscous tomentum, and with whit- 

 ish lateral tomentose spots, as well as an apical band on the 

 basal segment; the latter with the usual lateral row of bristles; 

 all the segments with shortish hairs, very distinctly outstanding 

 from the side of each; h}'popygiuni with a subovate or subtri- 

 angular apical area, very dull, and of different texture from 

 that of the rest of the segment. Length 4 mm. (PI. V, fig. 4.) 



HAB. Bundaberg; one male bred from the nymph of a Jas- 

 ' sid on Eucalyptus by Mr. Koebele (2297) ; by a slip of the pen 

 recorded in his notes (under this number) as being bred from a 

 Fulgorid. 



3. P. crinys, sp. nov. 



Female; head black, bare for about half the distance from 

 the ocelli to the antenna, the face and front being covered with 



