AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, X—GIRAULT. 225 
AUSTRALIAN 
HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA—x.* 
The Family Eucharide with Descriptions of New Genera and Species. 
By A. A. GIRAULT. 
Famiry EUCHARIDA. 
Genus METAGEA Kirby. 
1. METAGEA KIRBYI Ashmead. 
Female :—‘‘ Length, 4 mm. 
Asneous black, tinged with blue or purplish in certain lights. Head anu thorax, except 
dises of parapsides which are smooth and neous, coarsely rugose. Legs brownish yellow, 
femora except at tips dark brown; hind coxe black, hind tibie, except tips, fuscous. Wings 
hyaline; venation brown. Flagellar joints, except first, submoniliform, not or very little 
longer than thick; first joint of flagellum as long as 2 and 3 united. Abdomen eneous black, 
petiole about four times as long as thick, smooth and impunctate.’’ 
Habitat: Gosford, New South Wales. (A. Koebele, collector.) 
Type: No. 4886, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C. 
2. METAGEA RUFIVENTRIS Ashmead. 
Female :—‘* Length, 9 mm. Head and thorax bright metallic green, coarsely rugose; 
mouth parts, scape, pedicel and legs except coxwe, yellow; abdomen, except petiole, second 
segment at base above and hypopygium wholly rufous; flagellum and second abdominal seg- 
ment at base above black, petiole purplish; wings subfuscous, hyaline at base. Flagellar joints 
1 to 6 all longer than thick; terminal joints alone moniliform; first three or four joints elongate, 
but gradually shortening, 1 about five times as long as thick at apex, 4 less than two thirds 
the length of 1, the others still shorter, seventh and eighth submoniliform. Abdomen, except as 
noted, red; petiole about four times as long as thick, finely microscopically punctate above.’’ 
Habitat: Gosford, New South Wales. 
Type: No. 4887, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C. 
38. METAGEA ZALATES (Walker). Male and female. 
Eucharis zalates Walker, 1839, pp. 13-14. 
4. METAGEA TUBERCULATICORNIS new species. 
Female :—Length, 3.80 mm. 
Dark metallic purple with dark greenish reflections, the abdomen with its petiole and 
the femora (except cephalic ones) chocolate brown; cephalic femur light brown. Coxe con- 
colorous; tibize and tarsi straw yellow. Wings lightly yellowish, the venation pale. Antennz: 
* Contribution No. 33, Entomological Laboratory, Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, Bundaberg,,. 
Queensland. 
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