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joints, about as loiio as tlic si'cdihI oliili Joint nhii-h is loTiucr tlKiii tiic liist and coniral. 

 Puniele 1 a little longer tlian wide. 2 ami :'. siil:i(|nadrate. the others shorter; funiele ] not 

 quite half the length of the pedicel. Dorsal asjiect of hind tibia armed with short, stout while 

 spur like setie somewhat like the blaek ones jiresent on the middle tarsi of many enpelminc 

 genera. Ovipositor not e.xserted. Distal two thirds of side of middle tibia ivory white; 

 tips of first two tibia3 reddish brown. Metaphnii nni punctate. First two tarsi roddisli brown; 

 joint 1 of hind tarsus white, rest blue. 

 ' Male: — Not known. 



Described from one tcuiale cajitured by sweeping foliage, forest, on the outskirts of . 

 the township, November 30, igi.S. 



Unliitat : Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Tjipv: No. HyS21:3, Queensland Museum. Brisli.-me, the siiecinu'u on a l:ig. I he antennae 

 and a hind leg on a slide. 



It is no wimder that Kirby w.is misled by this insect and allii'd i( uith the ( 'halcidid;e; 

 its normal hind tibia, metallic coloration .-umI the median carina on pro|io(leuni incline me to 

 think that Ashmead has correctly place<l it. The above species disagrees with the figure 

 given by Kirby in having but two club joints. The propodeal spiracles are large, the opening 

 reniform, the boundaries oval; iu> lateral carin;e. .\lso at Port Darwin, N.T. 



This species differs from .Vshnumd 's in liaving the tips of tibia' and first two pairs of 

 tarsi reddish brown not white, the middle tibia' white along oin' side. Ashmead "s species m.ay 

 not be congeneric. 



I have seen a female through the kindness <if Mr. A. 1'. Dudd whii'h was reared from 

 .a pale blattid egg-case in Itio:! at Horton l':u-k. New Snntli Wales (\V. \V. Froggatt). 



2. AGAMERION CCERULEIVENTRIS Ashnuad. ilale. 



Length, II. s mm. Koluist. 



Metallic blue-green; thorax abo\e bronzed grei>n ; face from ocellus, thorax at sides 

 and beneath, tegulsE and legs except as noted anil alidomen decidedly blue; flagelluni brown- 

 black; anterior and middle tarsi and hind tibiio. all .-ilong outer face, ivory or yellowish white. 



Head transverse, eyes large, convergent above, faci' below between base cd' eyes fully 

 twice as wide as the sjiace on vertex; scrobes distinct, long, in outline triangular; head above 

 and thorax above with a close thimble-like punctuation, finer and feebly on sides and on 

 hind coxa>. Wings hy.aline ; subcostal and stignial veins yellowish, ]iostniarginal and marginal 

 veins pale brown, the latter being two thirds the length of the subco.stal; |iostniargin;il longer 

 than the stignuil. 



Ifahitat: Australia. 



Tiipr: No. ISDd. Fuited States National Mnscnm. Washington. ll.C, U.S.A. 





Of.xis SVST()L()M(ll;l'll.\ .Xslnne.i.l. ' Ji^iy^^^ 



1. SYSTOLOMORPHA THYRIDOPTERYGIS .Vshnnad. Female. 



IjCngth, l.S to '1 nun. 



Black, shining; flagellnm brown; sutun-s cd' trochanters, tips of lennira and all of 

 tibia- and tarsi yellowish white; wings hyaline, venation brown. 



Head transverse, a little wider than tlnuax. about thric-e as wiih' as thick anterio- 

 posteriorly; scrobes delicately imjiressed but distinct ; o.-elli anange.l in an olituse triangle, 

 lateral ocelli being a little farther from each other than from the front ocellus; surface of head 

 ■distinctly coriaceous. Antennas short; flagellnm clavate; pedicel short, obconical, a little longer 

 than thick and much larger than the first tu.. joints of fnnicle; fnnicle joints short, wider 

 than long, all gradually widening to ,'lul.. Tli.nax in sln-ipe siniil-r to the Knrylotnid genus 

 Systole Walker; parapsidal furrows distinct, cntir.'; nn'soTiotnm ih'licately transversely acicu 

 late; seutellum coriaceous; axilla- meeting at their inner, hasid angles; m.-tathorax short. 



