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22. P. synadclphns, sp. nov. 



Black, with always more or less of an aeneous tinge, and gen- 

 erally very distinct dull brassy. Front of head and face with 

 dense white tomentum; in the female the space between the eyes 

 in front of the ocelli is ra'ther shining and conspicuously impress- 

 ed, and bears verv little tomentum compared with the front. An- 

 tennae with the third joint acuminate, and niore or less pale 

 apically. 



Thorax with not verv dense fuscous tomehtum, and with a 

 pale spot on each side in front; the metanotum with dense whit- 

 ish grey tomentum; scutellum with at most a few hardly visible 

 hairs; halteres yellow, black at base. Wings clear, third costal 

 segment very short, not stigmated; small cross-vein beyond the 

 apex of the first longitudinal, at or rather beyond the middle of 

 the upper side of discal cell; posterior cross-vein verv oblique, 

 its upper extremity beyond the apex of the second longitudinal. 

 Legs black, knees and tarsi pale. 



Abdomen with a band of tomentum on the basal segment, and 

 with a line of distinct black bristles on each side; elsewhere 

 sparsely tomentose, and with very short black hairs, which are 

 tiuite easily seen; h'ypopygium of male somewhat tomentose 

 and with sparse and excessively short hairs, which are less con- 

 spicuous than those on the preceding segment; ovipositor of 

 female straigiit and slender. Length 25-3 mm. (PI. VI, fig. 4.) 



HAB. Bundaberg, Queensland, conmion; also at Cairns, and 

 Mr. Koebele bred one specimen from a Jassid taken on grass at 

 Childefs (2319). 



23. P. cpiclialcus, sp. nov. 



Aeneous, I lie abdomen in tlie female more or less copper- 

 coloured; front and face with greyish or white itomentum. which 

 in the female extends back to the ocelli ; posteriorly the head at 

 the sides has whitish tomentum; antennae dark with the third 

 jomt acuminate, and at the most only sordidly pale. 



Thorax with a pale spot on each side in front, and with whitish 

 (or subflavescent) tomen'tum on the pleura and sides of the 

 metanotum, elsewhere hardly tomentose; scutellum with a few 

 scarcely visible hairs; halteres pale, dark at base. Wings hya- 

 line, hardly infuscate, third costal segment very short, not stig- 

 mated, small cross-vein near the middle of the upper side of the 

 discal cell and beyond the apex of the first longitudinal; pos- 



