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Belono-s to Marshall's Section 1 of the fjenus with the 

 basal segment longer than its breadth at apex and tlie 2nd 

 cubital cell subtriangular and open. 



The minute hypei'parasites sent with this are shrivelled 

 and indeterminable. 



No. 6. Protapanteles rufiventris, form. nov. 



5 . Head lightly punctured ; face medially carinate below the 

 eyes ; antennaj long, pilose, 18-jointed. Thorax shining broad and 

 gibbous, anteriorly finely punctured ; scutellum triangular convex 

 divided from the mesonotum by a short broad transverse furrow 

 and with a punctured very narrow groove bordering bolli sides 

 and meeting at the apex ; median segment not carinate oblique, 

 slightly convex, somewliat more closely and coarsely punctvired than 

 the pro- and mesonotum ; wings hyaline iridescent ; legs robust, pos- 

 terior femora somewhat compressed. Abdomen broad, basal two 

 segments punctured like the median segment, remainder smooth and 

 shining, apex rounded, ovipositor only slightly exserted. 



Head, thorax and median segment black ; antennai reddish-brown ; 

 legs and abdomen brownish-yellow, basal segment reddi'ih-brown 

 above, apical segment shaded with fuscous. 



^ . Similar, slightly smaller ; abdomen shorter and more truncate 

 posteriorly. 



Length ? 4, ^J 3 mm. Exp. '^ ^ 9 mm. 



Types in Hope Department, co-types in British Museum 

 of Natural History. 



Rah. N. Queensland, Townsville (F. P. Dodd). 



This agrees in generic characters with Protapanteles, 

 Ashmead. In the classificatory tables given by this 

 author in the Proceedings of the United States National 

 Museum, vol. xxiii, pp. 1-220 (1900), the presence or 

 absence of a longitudinal carina on the median segment is 

 given as the chief point of difference between tlie genera 

 Apantelcs and Protapanteles. The p-esent form differs from 

 Apanteles deliadis [supra), besides other characters, in the 

 much more lengthened median segment. 



CHALCIDIDJE. 



No. 2. MiCROTERYS cceruleus, form. nov. 



$ . Head, thorax and abdomen smooth and shining, the face in 

 front and the prothorax anteriorly with a few scattered punctures. 



