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AUSTRALIAN 

 HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA— XI.* 



The Family Eurytomidae with Description o( New Genera and Species. 



By a. a. Girault. 



Family EURYTOMID.^*:. 



This is doubtless the most rUfficiilt family of tlie whole comjilex and the genera need 

 careful revision. 



EURYTOillNI. 



Genus EURYTOMA Illiger.f 

 Synonym: Bt plnaleUa Girault. 



1. EURYTOMA PIDYTES Walker. Jlale and female. 

 Walker, 1839, p. 2. 



" iVIas et Fem. Atra, antennae nigrae, pedes nigri fulvo cincti, alae Jimpidae. 



Mas et Fern. — Atra: oeuli et ocelli rufi: antennfe nigrte: mari pedes fulvi; coxaa nigrie; 

 tarsi apice fusei; meso- et metapedum femora nigra, tibiae pieeo-cinetae: fern, pedes 

 obscuriores; tibiae plerumque nigrae: alae limpidae; squamulae piceae; nervi picei, basi 

 pallidiores. (Corp. long. lin. % — Vi ; alar. lin. 1% — Ij). 



Hobart Town, Van Dieman 's Land ; and in March at King George 's Sound, Australia. 



Fem. — Corpus eouvexiim, longum, subliueare, fere cylindricum, obseurum, punetatum, 

 paree hirtimi: caput transversum, breve, thoracis latitudine: antennae clavatae, graciles, thorace 

 paullo breviores; articulus lus gracilis, sublinearis: petiolus brevis: abdomen longiovatum, 

 subeompressum, nitens, laeve, fere glabrum, apice acuminatum, thorace vix brevius: segmenta 

 subaequalia: alae mediocres. " 



2. EURYTOMA TELLIS \\'alker. Female. 

 Walker, 1^39, ji. 2. 



"Fem. Atra, antennae nigrae basi fulrae aut piceae, peeles nigri fuiro-cincli, tarsi 

 llavi, alae siiblimpidae. 



Atra, pilis albis vestita: oculi et ocelli rufi: antennae nigrae; articulus lus fulvus, apice 

 piceus; 2us apice fulvus: oviductus fulvus: pedes nigri; trochanters fulvi, tibiae piceae, basi 

 et apice fulvae; tarsi tlavi, apice fusci; pi-otarsi fulvi: alae sublimpidae; squamulae piceae; 

 nervi picei, basi pallidores. (Corp. long. lin. 1; alar. lin. 1?,.) 



Var. R. — Antennis articulus lus piceus. 



Sydney, New South Wales. 



* Contribution No. 34, Entomological Laboratory, Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, nundaberg, 

 Queensland. 



t For additional descriptive details, sec table of species. 



