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29. EURYTOMA NIGRIPES new species. Female. 
Length, 3.30 mm. 
Black; knees, tarsi, anterior tibia and antennal scape reddish brown. Wings hyaline, 
the venation blackish. Marginal vein not distinctly thickened, fully four times as long as 
wide; stigmal vein two thirds the length of the marginal; postmarginal slightly longer than 
stigmal. Abdomen pointed at apex, no longer than the thorax; fifth segment the longest, 
occupying nearly one third of the surface. Disk of propodeum concave. Antenne 10-jointed, 
one ring-joint, five funicle joints and a 2-jointed club. Funicle joint 1 about two thirds 
the length of scape (excluding bulla), over twice as long as wide, 2-5 gradually shortening, 
the fifth somewhat longer than wide; club as long as scape, the first club joint subequal to 
funicle 5, second club joint one half longer than the first. Posterior tibize with two spurs. 
Scape black toward tip. 
Habitat: Victoria. Labelled ‘‘ 34.’’ 
Types: In the National Museum, Victoria, two females on a tag; head and the hind 
legs on a slide. 
30. EURYTOMA FUSCIPENNIS new species. 
Female :—2.50 mm. 
Black and coarsely punctate, the knees, most of cephalic tibiz and the tarsi reddish 
brown, the antennze wholly black. Fore wings smoky black except at base, the stigmal vein 
subequal to postmarginal and a little shorter than the marginal. Funicle joints cylindrical 
oval, the club 2-jointed, funicle 1 distinctly longer than wide, a little over half the length 
of the scape; pedicel small, globular, much smaller than distal funicle joint which is over a 
third shorter than funicle 1, subequal to 2, 3 and 4. Hind tibial spurs double. Cephalic 
margin of second segment of abdomen rimmed, the fifth segment much the longest. Propodeum 
rugose, at meson at base with a deep fovea limited laterad by a strong, oblique, short ruga 
and caudad by a coarse, long, transverse carina which is immediately followed by a deep 
declivous excavation. Secutum cephalad transversely striate. 
From one female captured by sweeping along the edges of jungle, November 1, 1913 
(A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3234, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head 
and hind legs on a slide. 
31. EURYTOMA SILVZ new species. 
Female :—Length, 2.75 mm. 
Like pulchra but the dorsal thorax black except the yellow lateral margins of sceutum 
and scutellum, base of the latter and two narrow oblique yellow streaks on pronotum, one on 
each side, obliqued in an opposite direction from the parapsidal furrows; lateral margin of 
parapside also yellow. Propodeum also excepted, being concolorous (yellow). The abdomen 
bears six cross-stripes of black (five in pulchra, the fifth small), the fourth broadest, the 
first three rather close together, the fifth arcuate (the fourth so in pulchra). Antenne with 
funicle 2 abruptly the shortest, scarcely longer than wide, funicle 1 longest, 3-5 subequal, 
cylindrical, distinctly longer than wide; pedicel shorter than funicle 2. Two hind tibial spurs; 
club 2-jointed. Pedicel, funicles 1-3 and side of club fuseous. Disk of propodeum coneave. 
In pulchra, funicle 2 is subequal to funicles 3-5 which are shorter than 1. The abdomen 
of nympha bears five stripes as in pulchra (types of pulchra and nympha re-examined). 
Described from one female captured January 16, 1914 by sweeping in jungle (A. P. 
Dodd.) 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3235, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 
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