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RHOPALENCYRTOIDEA new genus. 
Female :—Runs (in my table) to Hneyrtus but differs in having the ovipositor distinctly 
extruded for some length, the postmarginal vein somewhat longer than the stigmal, the latter 
somewhat longer than the marginal. Also, the frons is a little broader. Pronotum transverse- 
linear. Dilation of scape not great but distinct and foliaceous. Mandibular teeth short, acute, 
equal. Differs from Anasiella in having the eyes no longer than the malar space, the longer 
marginal vein and so forth. 
1, RHOPALENCYRTOIDEA PURPUREICORPUS new species. Genotype. 
Female :—Length, 0.83 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal 
to four fifths that of the abdomen. 
Dark metallic purple, the wings hyaline, the venation black; middie knees and tibix 
yellowish white (except the dusky distal joint of tarsi). Head and thorax densely scaly, the 
axilla with a carina between them, narrow. Scutellum extending to base of abdomen, the 
latter triangular, not quite as long as the thorax, finely scaly. Pedicel a little longer than 
any of the funicle joints which are all short, quadrate but gradually enlarging distad. Club 
somewhat over half the length of the funicle and distinctly wider. Cheeks long, as long as 
the eyes or a little longer, the face inflexed. Hind tibal spur single, the middle spur large 
and stout, a little longer than joint 1 of middle tarsus which is the longest of all tarsal joints. 
Frons nearly of moderate width. Cephalic femur compressed. Hairless line of fore wing with 
about six lines of coarser cilia proximad of it. Marginal vein not quite twice longer than wide 
(one and a half times longer than wide). Club conic-ovate. Fore wings with fine dense discal 
eilia. 
From one female specimen caught June 28, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Childers, South Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 8018, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, a 
fore wing and a middle and hind tibia on a slide. 
2. RHOPALENCYRTOIDEA CLARIPENNIS new species. 
Female :—Length, 2.30 mm., excluding ovipositor. 
Black-purple, the scutum green, the wings hyaline, the extruded valves of ovipositor 
concolorous; venation and antennew black, also the legs except trochanters, knees, tips of tibize 
(sometimes distal half of middle tibie#) and the tarsi which are reddish brown. Head and 
thorax very finely minutely densely scaly and with numerous obscure pin-punctures over the 
surfaces. Axille separated a short distance, transversely scaly. Pubescence not conspicuous. 
Mandibles with the two outer teeth subequal and longer than the inner. Scape distinctly dilated 
ventrad toward apex but not greatly so; pedicel short, a little longer than wide and barely 
longer than funicle 1 which is barely longer than wide; funicle joints alike but the distal three 
shortening a little, 6 a little wider than long. Club a little wider, hardly as long as the three 
preceding joints united. Wings long, extending nearly to tip of ovipositor valves; marginal vein 
a little over twice longer than wide, the postmarginal a little longer than it, the stigmal a little 
longer than the postmarginal. Oblique hairless line narrow, incomplete; discal cilia dense and 
fine; a little staining between stigmal and postmarginal veins; marginal fringes exceedingly 
short. Hind tibiz a little dilated at apex, the spur as long as the basal joint of the tarsus which 
bears yellowish comblike teeth as in many eupelmines. Hind femur compressed. Abdomen conic- 
ovate, acute, flat above, keeled beneath, a little longer than the thorax (excluding ovipositor) the 
valves of ovipositor distinctly exserted for a length equal to somewhat over a third of the 
abdomen’s length. Abdomen glossy, sculptured like the thorax but even finer and the punctures 
are absent. Vertex tolerably wide between the eyes, the ocelli in an equilateral triangle, the 
jateral ones just separated from the eyes. Head sculptured like the scutum, the face inflexed 
