186 MEMOISS OF TIIK (JCKENSLAXD MrSEVM. 



Genus SEMIOTELLUS Westwood. 



1. SEMIOTELLUS DICE (Walker). 



Miscogasler dice Walker, male, 1S39, p. 24. 



2. SEMIOTELLUS THEOPE (Walker). Male; female. 

 Misco/iaxlir tlicopt Walker, 1S39, p. 25. 



Genus ASEMAXTUS Foerster. 

 1. ASEMANTUS CECIDOMYIffi Ashmead. Female: male. 



Length, 2.-1 mm. ilotallic brdiized green, finely, closely imnetate; head with some 

 thimble-like punctures along anterior orbits and on vertex; mesopleura blue, almost smooth; 

 scrobes distinct, semicircular; antennae brown-black, scape Eeneous black, flagellum subclavate, 

 sparsely pubescent, funicle joints longer than thick. Parapsidal furrows distinct, entire; 

 thorax abruptly truncate anteriorly, the pronotum not visible from above except slightly at 

 lateral angles; scutellum large, axillic widely separated. Legs yellow, coxae except at tips, 

 metallic; trochanters, tarsi and tibia' yellowish white. Wings hyaline; marginal, postmarginal 

 and stigmal veins light brown, the marginal being very long, fully four fifths the length of 

 submarginal vein; postmarginal half the length of marginal; stigmal a little shorter than the 

 marginal and ending in a rounded knob. Abdomen conically elongate and about one third 

 longer than head and thorax united. 



Male measures l.S mm. Blue to bluish green; flagellum long, filiform, the joints more 

 than twice as long as thick, the first and second fully thrice as long as thick; legs, except 

 middle and hind coxai, wholly yellow; ;ib(l(iineM oblong, depressed and scarcely as long as 

 thorax. 



Habitat: Sydney, Xew South Wales. On Cecidumyia frauenfcUtti. 



Type: No. 4SSS. T'nited States National Museum. Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 



Genus SYSTASIS Walker. 

 This genus is similar to Parurklla of tlie Pteromalidte. 



1. SYSTASIS VARIPES new species. 



Female: — Length, 2 mm. 



j^Dneous green, the wings hyaline, tlie coxa*, first two pairs of femora at middle ventrad 

 and hind femur except at apex, concolorous, also the antenna. Legs otherwise reddish brown 

 including the trochanters, the tips of tibiie and tarsi white. A'ertex with shallow thimble 

 jHinctures, rest of head scaly, .\bdomen darker. Funicle joints subequal, 5 quadrate, barely 

 shorter than ], the latter a little shorter than the pedicel, slightly longer than wide. Mandibles- 

 tridentate, maxillary palpi white. Club 1 quadrate. Postmarginal vein a little longer than the 

 stigmal. Thorax densely, rather finely punctate, the scutum and scutellum with traces of 

 obscure larger punctures. Propodeum moderate in length, distinctly tricarinate, the lateral 

 carina at apex running sti'ongly mesad along caudal margin and also laterad and so up 

 lateral margin but more weakly. Abdomen longer than the thorax, scaly. 



From one female from tin- (^iKM'nslinul Museum collections. October 11, H. Hacker, 

 collector. 



Sahitat: Brisbane. C^ueenslaml. 



Type: No. Hy.llGJ, Queensland Museinii. Brisbane, the siiecimcii ou a tag; liind tibije 

 anil liead on a slide. 



