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and the funicle joints are shorter. Wings hyaline. Hind wings short and broad but acute at 
apex, where broadest with about 8 lines of discal cilia. Third tooth of mandible subobsolete. 
From one female taken by sweeping in forest, January 4, 1912. 
Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 7922, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. 
8. APHELINUS LITERATUS new species. 
A living female of this species reared from a Chionaspis on cockatoo apple, November 
10, 1913 and immersed in balsam showed to perfection its indescribable beauty and odd 
markings. Along each side of the abdomen are eight large globular to quadrate silvery spots 
and what appear to be the spiracles showing: centrally within these as black dots; an ovate 
spot of same on base of abdomen on each side of meson; on propodeum a triangle filling the 
meson with a transverse cuneate dash on each side; on postscutellum a square centrally distad 
and a larger triangle on each side; on scutellum an inverted tau of the lower case filling meson 
and on each side of it a lower case gamma followed laterad by a round dot (on axilla). The 
scutum bears an Upsilon capital with its arms extended and reaching to base, the arms extend- 
ing around caudal and lateral margins. The vertex has a pattern. The gammas on the 
scutellum are unsymmetrical being unlike. A row of black dots beneath the row of spots, 
lateral aspect of abdomen. Figure 8 on fore wing not complete. 
Differs from inexplicabilis Girault in having the thoracic and vertex markings (the 
vertex bears a peculiar pattern) and in the fore wings, the figure 8 being incomplete, the 
caudal circle not completed by the caudal line whose apex is drawn out thinly around the 
caudo-distal wing margin. Otherwise, the same. The pattern of silvery on vertex includes 
three straight lines running caudad which separate the lateral ocelli from each other and 
from the respective eye margins. 
From three females reared as indicated above. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 2923, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one of the females on a slide. 
9. APHELINUS NOX Girault. 
““ Two females, sweeping miscellaneous vegetation in an open field near town, Mackay, 
Queensland, October 19, 1911 (A.A.G.). The two funicle joints are short, transverse, each 
much shorter than the first club joint ’’? (A. P. Dodd). : 
In the table of species, antea, p. 183, all the types were seen except that of fuscipennis ; 
line 25 (one line before haeckeli), larger read longer. 
GENUS COCCOPHAGUS Westwood. 
Synonym: Prospaltella Ashmead. 
The species of Prospaltella intergrade and it is impossible to distinguish the genera in | 
the case of many species; even the stigmal vein is not constant. For extreme Prospaltella 
forms compare abnormicornis and allies. These form a distinct genus but there may be inter- 
variations. The species may or may not have a ring-joint. 
1. COCCOPHAGUS ANTIOPA (Girault). 
Prospaltella antiopa Girault. 
General color golden yellow, the abdomen, propodeum, pronotum and cephalic two 
thirds of seutum dusky. Funicle joints elongate, 1 over twice the length of the pedicel, 
shortest, 3 two and a half times longer than wide, longest, subequal to club 1. Type 
re-examined. 
