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APPENDIX. 



1. New s-pecics of Biaconidr© and Chalcidi(]?e/rc>»^ N. Queens- 

 land, hred hy F. P. DoDD. By Colonel Charles T. 

 Bingham, F.Z.S. 



BRACONID.E. 



No. 1. Apanteles deliadis, form. nov. 



$ . Head broader than long, face below the antenna; slightly 

 raised, front and vertex smooth, occiput not margined. Thorax 

 short, broad anteriorly, pro- and mesonotum and sciitellum minutely 

 but very closely punctured ; wings hyaline and iridescent, legs long, 

 posterior tibiae slightly incrassate. Abdomen short irregularly 

 obliquely truncate at apex, compressed, ovipositor .slightly exserted. 

 Black ; antennai reddish-brown ; the trochanters, femora, tibiae and 

 tarsi of the legs, and the basal three segments of the abdomen on the 

 sides, dark brownish-yellow. 



f^ . Similar in sculpture and colouring to the 9 I'l^^t the abdomen 

 is vertically not obliquely truncate. 



Length 9 3j mm., of ovipositor | mm.; ^ 3 mm. 



Exp. (^95 mm. 



$ and 9 types in Hope Department, Oxford University 

 Museum : $ and ^ co-types in British Museum of 

 Natural History. 



Hah. N. Queensland, Townsville {F. P. Dodd). 



A true Aimntcles, with the antenna3 18-jointed, eyes 

 minutely pilose, and the radial and cubital abscissi faintly 

 marked. No form of the genus has, so far as I know, been 

 previously recorded from Austialia. 



The hyperpara sites (No. 2) of the above species belong 

 to a new species of Ghalcididx described on page 127 as 

 Mierotcrys ccerulescens. 



Nos. 3 and 5. Microgaster basalis, form. nov. 



^. Head smooth and shining, vertex broad, ocelli prominent. 

 Antennae elongate 18-jointed densely pilose. Thorax broad, gibbous 

 anteriorly, smooth ; mesonotum with two longitudinal short deep 

 impressed lines, mesopleurae not furrowed smooth ; scutelhim 



