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of each axilla, a transverse spot on abdomen at base and a rather large round spot in center 
of abdomen, black or dusky black. Differs from Encarsia justitia in having the black mark- 
ings and shorter marginal fringes on the fore wings which here are not more than a sixth of 
the greatest wing width. From aureola in having funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, the 
concolorous abdomen and the black markings. From biguttatus in the somewhat narrower, 
more coarsely ciliated fore wings, the longer stigmal vein and the markings. Closely allied 
with aureola. Caudal marginal fringes of hind wings a little longer than the greatest width 
of those wings, funicle 1 a little shorter than the others; a minute ring-joint. Club joints 
jonger than wide. Discal cilia of fore wing uniform, five lines of it on caudal wings where 
widest. 
From one female taken along the Tweed River, May 3, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Tweed Heads, New South Wales. 
Type: No. Hy 2931, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 
This species is dedicated to Henry David Thoreau. 
12. COCCOPHAGUS CLARISCUTELLUM new species. 
Female :—Length, 0.75 mm. 
Reminds one of albiscutellum, the scutellum brilliant, contrasting silvery white but the 
ovipositor is not as in Ablerus, the scutum is honey yellow, blackish at cephalic third, the 
hind coxa and femur black, rest of legs white; face silvery and with a black cross-stripe at 
the clypeus, the vertex and rest of head orange yellow; fore wings with a dusky cross-stripe 
across from whole of marginal vein. Antenne and the small parapside orange; club joint 3 
black. Funicle 1 subglobular, smaller than the small pedicel, not quite half the length of 
funicle 2 which is distinctly longer than wide, longer than the pedicel, subequal to 3; club 
joints subequal to distal funicle joint or a little shorter, the club not well defined; a minute 
ring-joint. Distal part of club 2 dusky. Fore wings uniformly but not densely ciliate, their 
marginal cilia short, not a fourth the greatest wing width, shorter than the longest marginal 
cilia of hind wings, the latter with about four rows of distal cilia proximad, their caudal 
marginal cilia a little longer than their greatest width. Thorax without a median suleus. 
From one female taken by sweeping jungle along the Mulgrave River, April 12, 1914. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 2932, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 
18. COCCOPHAGUS BIGUTTATUS new species. 
Female :—Length, 0.72 mm. 
Pale honey yellow, the wings hyaline; pronotum at middle rather widely and a diamond- 
shaped spot on each side of thorax in the vicinity of the axilla black. Stigmal vein very short, 
nearly sessile, the fore wing very densely, finely ciliate discally. Funicle joints not long, 3 
quadrate, the other two a little longer than wide, subequal to pedicel, the club well-defined. 
Ovipositor and valves distinctly extruded for a length equal to nearly a fourth that of the 
abdomen, the valves dusky blackish. Scutum simple, scaly. Middle tibial spur long and 
slender. Abdomen distad with faintly indicated, narrow eross-stripes (just before apex). 
Marginal fringes of fore wing short. The two spots seem to be on cephalic two thirds of 
each axilla. 
From two specimens taken by sweeping lantana, October 20, 1911. 
Habitat: Mackay, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 2933, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a slide. 
