106 JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY 
PEDIOBINI 
Metacrias new genus 
Type—The following species. 
1. Metacrias australiansis new species 
Female—Length, 2.10 mm. Very dark metallic bluish, the 
head tinged with metallic green, especially on the face, the abdo- 
men brilliant metallic bluish-green, shining. Wings hyaline, the 
venation dusky. Knees, tips of tibia, distal third of posterior 
tibie and the tarsi (excepting distal joint) white. Venter of 
thorax steel blue. Antenne concolorous with thorax but the ring- 
joint white. First funicle joint nearly as long as the club, the 
pedicel subequal in length to the distal funicle joint. The legs 
and propodeum may be as in the male. Segment VI of abdomen 
(dorsad) densely polygonally retriculated. 
(From five specimens, the same magnifications). 
Male—The same but the abdomen less pointed, with an oval, 
large whitish spot centrally, near base, the antenne metallic 
greenish, the abdomen with more green, the propodeum and the 
dark parts of the legs brilliant metallic cyaneus; distal two 
funicle joints subequal, the first joint subequal to the club. 
(From single specimen, similarly magnified.) 
Described from one male and five female specimens, ecard- 
mounted, from the collections of the Queensland Museum, 
labelled ‘‘Bred out of fungus gall on wattle. Brisbane, H. 
Hacker, 14/7/11’’, 18, 2?’s and the same plus ‘‘23/6/11”’, 
32 ’s. 
Habitat—Australia—Brisbane, Queensland. 
Types—No. Hy 1199, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the 
above specimens on two cards as indicated plus two slides of 
xylol-balsam, bearing female antenna and posterior legs (one 
slide) and male flagellum. 
This genus differs from Acrias Walker in bearing nonfasciate 
wings and submoniliform antenne, the funicle joints more or 
less excised or constricted, and the club with one less joint. The 
following generic characters: Head large, wider than the 
thorax, the occipital margin carinate, the lateral ocelli not touch- 
