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the length of the stigmal vein, about a third of the greatest wing width. Discal bristle absent. 
Thorax transversely, finely lined. Caudal wings somewhat wider than their longest marginal 
cilia, about two thirds the width of the fore wing. Three ring-joints. Mandibles bidentate. 
From one female taken by sweeping forest on sand-ridges near coast, May 9, 1914 
(A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Chindera, New South Wales. 
Type: No. Hy 2969, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 
Dedicated to Ludwig von Beethoven. 
In this genus I have met with a striking case of parallelism but unfortunately the 
record was lost. However, a species captured in virgin jungle at Gordonvale, Queensland 
agreed in every detail with the description of a West Indian or South American species and it 
is hardly likely that the two can be the same species but rather similar forms developed from 
the same parent stem. Cases of this kind in other genera of this and other families are not 
- extremely rare. For example, Aphelinus fuscipennis Howard, an extremely common species in 
the cultivated orchards of North America, is duplicated by specimens reared from native coccids 
in the forests or bush of North Queensland. It is not likely that the Queensland specimens are 
really correctly identified as fuscipennis. There may be differences not yet seen but these 
differences do not seem really a necessity. The species may have been introduced into North 
America, not improbable in this particular case. Parallel development of species groups in 
genera is still more marked and cases of this are common. 
SUBFAMILY ENCYRTIN At. 
Trine AMIRINI. 
Male and Female:—Mandibles absent; postmarginal vein absent, the marginal vein 
punctiform, the stigmal well developed; posterior tibizw with two spurs. Otherwise like the 
Mirini. Costal cell wide, its margin convex. 
GeNusS AMIRA Girault. 
Female :—Head from cephalic aspect rounded, the frons narrow, the antennew inserted 
near the clypeus, the scrobes separate, converging above, the head punctured, the punctures 
minute. Lateral ocelli nearly touching the eyes, the latter convergent. Thorax punctured 
like the head. Abdomen flat, short, from above triangular, no longer than the thorax ; the 
hypopygium small, the ovipositor not exserted. Wings hyaline, the venation not quite attaining 
the costa, the long submarginal vein approaching the costa gradually, then turning off to form 
the stigmal. Axilla meeting inwardly. Second abdominal segment short, barely longer than 
the following three segments. Antennze 12-jointed, capitate, the scape somewhat convexed 
. beneath, the pedicel long, nearly half the length of the funicle, about thrice longer than wide 
at apex, the distal funicle joints much wider than long, the first joint of the funicle subquadrate ; 
one very short ring-joint, the club 3-jointed. Fore wings with a short hairless line from middle 
of stigmal vein; the same not much obliqued. Frons arched or convex, the scrobes not very 
long. 
Male: About the same but totally different in color and the pedicel much longer, as 
long as the funicle. 
1. AMIRA FABREI Girault. Female ; male. Genotype. 
Female :—Length, 2 mm. Robust. 
Shining black, the wings hyaline, the intermediate tibiw toward tip and tarsi brown. 
Head and thorax besides the pin-punctures, densely finely scaly, the abdomen also densely sealy. 
Discal ciliation of fore wing dense. Secutellum densely longitudinally lineolated or nearly. 
Male :—Length, 1.80 mm. 
Like the female but all the sides and venter of thorax and the legs, the head and 
antenne, the scutellum except a spot along the meson at apex, the axille and the sides of 
