AUSTSALIAX IIYMEXOrTKKA Cn ALCJUOIBEA. VIL—GIRAULT. 7.-> 



more coiipery; niesopleiira shiiiins i.uri.lish. Legs almost wholly whitish. Alj.h. i yellowish. 



bordered with dark. Wings hyaline. 



llaliilat: Cairns and Townsville, C^neensland. Parasitic njion eggs of Siphaiila. 

 Types: Query. 



2. ECTOPIOGNATHA MAJOR Perkins. Female. 

 Length, 0.7.5 nnn. 



Head in front eopjiery. more brassy aliove, dull, with dense niinnte srnl|itnri'. the seape 

 black, rest of antenna pale, the distal part of elub subinfuseate. Mesonotum slightly shining, 

 very faintly sculptured, blue-black; scutellnni hardly metallic except at tip, where in some views 

 it is shining coppery. Legs whitish. Abdomen yellowish with a dark border. 



Habitat : Cairns, Queensland. I'arasitic on eggs of PUitijhrachys or an allied geuns. 

 And see below. 



This is a synonym of the first species. 



JIauy females, several males wlii,-h were all dark metallic \nu\A,- in coh.ration were 

 reared together with an Aiihclinus from pentatomid eggs ou Canya uiiatraU.i at Gordonvale, 

 April 7, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). The fore wings are very finely ciliate discally; tlie males are like 

 the females except that the scape is pale, thick but not dilated, the chili solid, a ring joint 

 present; funicle joints longer than wide, 3 longest, 1 and 6 subeipial, somewhat Linger than 

 wide. Funicle joints clothed with scraggly, rather long hairs. The pedicel is scarcely louger 

 than wide. The female antenna? also bear the very short ring- joint. 



Also many specimens from leafhoiijier eggs on Eiu-alyplns phil iiphylla, Gordonvale, 

 January, 1913 (A. P. Dodd) and from similar eggs on banyan, Townsville, Queensland, October, 

 1911 (A.A.G.). And several specimens from Mr. F. P. Dodd labelled " Fulgorid ova and 

 parasites." One female, Cooktown, Queensland, February. 1912, window. One female from 

 forest, Gordonvale, .January 5, 1914 and August 13, 1914. Also three females, four males, from 

 foliage of a wild citrus plant, October 30, 1911 and on egg-masses of a white jassid ou same 

 tree.' One female, February 26, 1913, sweeping along Herbert River, Halifax. 



Genus ECHTHR0G(JXAT(.)PU8 Perkins. 



Head shaped much as in EtJitlir<i(lrjiiiiu.i Perkins, the face inflexed, the eyes large, 

 the least S]iace between them much less than the w-idth of an eye; between the eyes the face 

 with very minute surface sculpture; lateral ocelli near the eyes, the latter sparsely hairy, the- 

 hairs inconspicuous. Antenna) inserted far below the middle of the face, the scrobes elongate, 

 the scape simple, elongate, the club large, about as long as the f\inicle, the joints of the 

 latter wide and short; antenna; 11-jointed, the cluli 3-jointed. Pedicel over a third the length 

 of the funicle. Mandibles with three strong acute teeth. Maxillary paljii 4-jointed, moderately 

 long, the distal joint longest; labial palpi 3-jointed, about half as long as the maxillary. 

 Axilla; ajiproxinmte. Mesoscutum with short, whiti', decumbent hairs, the scutellum with a 

 very dense sculpture, very dull, contrasting with the metallic aiul finely punctured scutum. 

 Oblique hairless line present on fore wing, the stigmal vein short, the marginal subelongate, 

 the postmarginal slightly developed; marginal cilia short. 



The eyes are much smaller in the male, the siiai-e between them wi<li'r than one of them; 

 the male face is metallic like the scutum, the antenna^ nuich more elongate, the funicle joints 

 elongate, the first subequal to the pedicel, the club subequal to the distal two funicle joints and 

 solid. 



* Babinda. QueensUind. 



