104 MKMOIBS OF THE QVEEX SL.iy 1> MU.SEiM. 



2. CHRYSOPOPHAGUS PURPUREICINCTUS new species. 



Female: — Length, - mm. Ovipositor sliglitly extruded, silvery white. 



Orange yellow, the scutnni with a tolerably broad (over distal half) purjde baud across 

 its caudal margin. Abdomen purplish across base and at apex dorsad and laterad and half 

 way down lateral margins from base. Coxie, knees, tarsi and tips of hind tibis silvery white. 

 Caudal tibiiB, funiele and club purple. One side of apex of joints 1-5 of funicle pale yellowish. 

 Pedicel longer than any of the funiele joints of which 1, 3 and 4 are longest, 4 wider than 1 

 and 3, compressed; 5 and C still wider, barely longer than wide; 1 a half longer than wide. 

 Caudal tibial spurs double. Fore wings about as in mazzinini liut more darkly infuscated, the 

 jjair of hyaline areas at apex of venation larger, the base of the wings more broadly infuscated, 

 the distinct concave curve of the submarginal vein distad is more pronounced and the infusca- 

 tion is accented over the discal cilia proxiinad of the hairless line. Also, the stigmal vein is 

 twice longer, 'the postmarginal only slightly shorter than it. Besides coloration, differs from 

 mazzinini in having the antenna; less compressed, the ocelli in a flat triangle (isosceles in the 

 other species, or nearly), the mandibles stouter. Axilte with a carina between them. Purple 

 band of scutum with silvery pubescence. Disk of scutellum lemon yellow. Thorax scaly. 

 8cutum wider than long, shorter than scutellum. 



From one female caught in forest, .Inly '11. 1911. 



Hahitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. By 30:33, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the sjiecinien on a tay ; head, fore 

 T\-ing and hind tibia; with slide type of OwneyrUis hieolor Girault. 



Genus COCCIDENCYRTU.S Ashmead. 

 1. COCCIDENCYRTUS BICOLORICORNIS new species. 



Female: — Length, 0.7a mm. 



Purplish black, the wings hyaline; distal half of middle tibia?, tijis of other tibia;, 

 knees and tarsi yellowish white; tiji of scape and first four funiele joints white. 



Antenna; inserted at the mouth border, the scrobes long, the head rounded, the cheeks 

 longer than the eyes, the frons moderate; antenna? capitate, the club large and appearing 

 somewhat topheavy, thick, oval, three fourths as long as the funiele, the joints of the latter 

 gradually enlarging distad, all wider than long, 1 shortest, the pedicel twice its length yet 

 only a little longer than wide. Club truncate at apex. Mandibles rather long, with three rather 

 small, subequal, acute teeth at ajiex, the middle tooth longest. Scape long, subcompressed. 

 Marginal vein jinnctiform, the postmarginal as lung as the marginal, the stigmal of moderate 

 lengtn, about two and a half times longer than the marginal, thus not long. Scutellimi densely, 

 longitudinally striate but at tip abruptly scaly and metallic green. Scutum and head obscurely 

 jjunctate. Abdomen short. d."pressed, triangular, tlie ovii>ositor not exserted, the surface shining, 

 feebly seuli>tured. Axilla; feebly senlpttn'ed, slightly separated. 



Male: — The same but the funiele and club honey yellow, the antenna; 10-jointed, the 

 club solid, longer than the funiele joints which are subquadrate, rather stout, bevelled off a 

 little "V one ]>roxinml corner and clothed with short, stiff hairs which are not whorled and not 

 very long. Lateral ocellus about its own width from the eye nuirgins. 



From (ine female, six nuiles labelled ''Xo. 29. 25-10-]3 on Eugenia fruit and flowers. 

 G. F. Hill." 



Habitat: Port Darwin. Northern Territory. 



Types: No. By 3031, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, fcnir males on a card, one female 

 liead and three males on a slide. 



.Vls'i, one female, forest, liurni'tt Heads, (Queensland, .luiie, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



