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about twice longer than wide, a little longer than the pedicel. Club enlarged, somewhat over 

 twice wider than the tunide in one asjieet. Legs silvery white. One short ring joint present. 

 Hind coxffi black, the middle dusky. Hind wings short, narrow, with four rows of discal cilia. 

 Proximal tarsal .joint much longer than the others. Middle tibial spur small, truncate. The 

 stigmal vein nearly parallel with cephalic margin. 



From one female taken in jungle, March (i. 1014 (A. P. Dodd). 



Eabilat: Gooktown, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 3i>38, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, tlie female on a slide with type 

 Scelinencyrtu.t tricolor Girnult. 



9. COCCOPHAGUS SWIFTI new species. 

 Female: — Length, 0.7.5 nun. 



Sooty black, the scutellum and propodeum contrasting bright golden yellow, also ventral 

 third of head, the antenna? and legs pale yellow but the distal two joints of tlie club a little 

 dusky. Parapsidal furrows yellowish brown; fore wings dusky margin to margin under all 

 of marginal vein. Differs from Eiicarsia aurUlioriix in general coloration; funicle 1 is 

 distinctly longer and the stigmal vein somewhat shorter and parallel with cephalic wing margin; 

 also in aurithorax the hind coxa and femur is distinct'./ infuscated. Differs from albiscutel- 

 lum schillcri in having the propodeum golden yellow, the iUniele joints much longer and so on. 

 Prom antiopa in its much darker color, having the entire scutiun black except lateral margins 

 very narrowly, the jiropodeum light yellow ;>ad the hind wings decidedly broader and the 

 greater size. Parapside yellowish ceplialad. Funicle 1 thrice longer than wide, 2 and 3 

 subequal, two and a half times longer than wide; club joints 1-2 subequal, each somewhat 

 shorter than funicle 3; club 3 still shorter but longer than the pedicel. Antennse subfiliform. 

 Thorax finely, densely, longitudinally lined. Hind wings with six lines of faint discal cilia. 

 Ovipositor inserted distad of middle. Compared with tyjics of named species except the 

 variety of albiscuteUum. 



Prom one female taken in forest, .lune 10, l'J14. 



Uuhiial : Gordonvale (Cairns). Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 3939, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. 



Dedicated to .lonatlian Swift. 



10. COCCOPHAGUS ASHMEADI new .species. 

 FiiiKile: — Length, 0.7.~i mm. 



Exactly similar to iiirjriventrix except that funicle 1 is barely shorter than 2 and the 

 scutum cephalad is dusky. Also, the club is more definite and the sides of the thorax are 

 black. Compared with types of iiiiirircntri.'i. iiiitio[i{i and perpulchelhts. The funicle joints 

 are distinctly shorter than in the latter and the antennal coloration different. In <iiitiopii 

 the flagellar joints are all longer and the genera] coloration different. 



Frnni one female taken in forest on sand-ridges near coast. May 13. 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



lldhiUil : Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. 



Type: No. Hy 39:30, Queensland Museiin\. llrisljaiie, tlic specimen on a slide. 



Dedicated to Williarji II. Aslimeaii for his iiripcMtant slmlies on the majiir griiupings of 

 the llymenoptera. 



11. COCCOPHAGUS THOREAOTNI new species. 

 Female: — Length, o.7i) mm. 



Orange yellow, the wings hyaline, the abdomen, legs and antenna lemon yellow; a short, 

 wedge-shaped spot on cephalic scutum each side of meson, a faint round dot cephalic aspect 



