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Ti/pes. — In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one male, 

 sixteen females, on a slide in xylol balsam. 



2. Trichogramma minutum (Eiley). 



Four males, eleven females of this species reared from the 

 eggs of Chilo iiifuscatelliiin, Sn. 



A New Genus of Omplialine Eulophidce. 

 Ompbalini. 



I'arachri/socharis, new genus. 



Female. — -Like Chrysocharis, Foerster, but the post-marginal 

 vein absent ; antennas slender, three funicle and club joints, third 

 club joint terminating in a spur. Stigmal vein long. Thorax without 

 grooves ; the parapsidal furrows complete. 



Male. — ^The same, but the funicle four-jointed, three club joints, 

 ten antennal joints. Antennae clothed with long, line hairs. 



Type. — ParacJirysocliaris javensU, new species. 



3. I'arachrysocliaris javensis, new species. 



Female. — Length, 1-25 mm. Black, the base of the abdomen 

 rather broadly, the ventral half of the thorax and the legs golden 

 yellow ; venation and antenntfi dusky yellow ; face also mostly golden 

 yellow. Funicle joints all longer than wide, subequal and each 

 barely longer than the pedicel ; scape and pedicel paler. 



From nine specimens ; the same magnification. 

 Male. — The same. 



From three specimens, the same magnification. 



Described from three males, nine females, reared from leaf- 

 hopper eggs on the leaves of sugar-cane, the host probably 

 Flata ajjinis ; each egg holds one parasite. The hosts turn 

 black. 



Habitat. — Java. 



Host. — Flata affinis {teste P. van der Goot). 

 Types. —In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane^ one male, 

 two females on a slide in xylol balsam. 



4. Cyrtogaster jarensis, new species. 



Female.— I-iexigth., 1-90 mm. Dark metallic blue, the scutum 

 reflecting greenish, wings hyaline ; legs white and the antennae 

 yellowish, the latter with three ring-joints, each longer than the one 

 preceding ; the funicle joints subquadrate and more or less subequal. 

 Post-marginal vein distinctly longer than the long stigmal. Coxae 

 concolorous. Parapsidal furrows half complete from cephalad. 

 Punctate, the propodeum reticulated, with a median carina. Abdo- 

 men slender. Five funicle, three club joints, the club wider than 

 the cylindrical funicle. Mandibles four-dentate, the outer tooth 

 acute. Scutellum. smoother toward apex. 



