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-Genus SPALANGIA Latvpillo. 



1. SPALANGIA GROTIUSI Oirault. 



The eross-Iine of fovea; on distal scuteH'imi is miu-li more distiuot than in atislraliensis, 

 punctate; there is a distinct cross-line of jmnctures ou scutum a little cephalad of middle and 

 caudad of this line a deep puncture at meson and a smaller one laterad near lateral margin; 

 the scutellum lacks the lateral longitudinal line of ])iii-pnnctures and other pin-punctures. 

 (Scutum glabrous and without otiicr sculjiture, iiractii'ully. Vace with a few scattered minute 

 punctures. 'I'yjie re-e.xamiued. 



2. SPALANGIA AUSTRALIENSIS Hirault. 

 Tlie lateral margin of pnipudcum is smooth. Scutellum with a curved lateral longitu- 

 dinal line of live piu-punctures from inner ape.K of axilla to cross-line of pin-punctures. The 

 scutum is very finely alutaceous. Pronotum faintly sculptured like the abdomen and with 

 scattered i^iu-puuctures. A line of punctures on propodeum parallel to lateral margin from the 

 spiracle to caudal margin. Scutum glabrous laterad; with a mesal foveolate impression with a 

 faint median carina through it. Type reexamined. 



3. SPALANGIA VIRGINICA Ciirault. 



The scutellum also lacks the fine punctures elsewhere. Propodeum faintly scaly. Abdom- 

 inal petiole distinctly longer. Head about as in orotiimi. Funicle 1 over twice the length of 

 2 which is oval, the others gradually leDgtlieuing. I'edii-t'l shorter than funicle L'. Type 

 re-examined. 



4. SPALANGIA PARASITICA new species. Femah^. 

 Kxactly similar to yruliiixi but the scutum is distinctly longer, not distinctly wider than 

 long, the cross-line of punctures somewhat lUshnl of middle. Funicle 1 is a little wider than 

 long, barely longer than 2 and plainly not half llie length iif the jieilici'l. Seguu'ut 4 of abdomen 

 occupying nearly half of the surface. 



« Described from one female cajitured liy sweeping in vicinity" of canefields, Herbert 

 liivei-, April 2, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Huhiiat: Ingham, Queensland. 



Type: No. lIy3Sri5, (^lueejishuul .Museniu, Brisbane, tlie abov,' female on a tag. 



Later, a feumle was found which h.-id 1 i captured in jungle, July 2:!. 1912 at lioondi 



near Innisfail (Johnstone Kiver). 



Both the species parasitica and inolinsi differ from the other two species in having the 

 propodeum laterad of the lateral liue of foveas, densely rugoso-punctate. The punctate lines 

 ou the head are alike in all four species. 



Only the abdomen of the Pteromalida;, as a rule, shrinks after death, so that it is 

 im])ortant to examine it closely just after taking the specimen froni alcohol. The Euaotina;. 

 Asaphini and Merisini need careful comparison. 



There are some interesting parallelisms in this family with the Lelapina; and other 2™'ips 

 of the Jliscogasteridtc. Forms seem to be repeated in widely divergent groups. 



ANTunxv .T.1MES Cu.MMINa, Oovemment Printer. Krisljanc. 



