AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTEBA CRALCIDOIDEA.—GIBAULT. 207 



PTERYGOGRAMMA ACUMINATA, sp. nov. 

 Head and mesoiiotnm ferruginous, or brownish, the latter with a pair of 

 fuscous marks in front ; scutellum, and rest of thorax above, pale yellow ; 

 abdomen black. Wings more or less fuscous on the basal half, the dark colour 

 tending to form three dark areas. Tarsi and the tibia? more or less pale yellow, 

 the femora for the most part blackish or infuscate, the middle and posterior 

 pair pale at base and apex. Length | mm. The specimens were badly preserved 

 and mounted in balsam. 



Hab : Bundaberg, Queensland ; bred from eggs of Jassid embedded in 

 twigs of Eucalyptus. Koebele's number 2298." 



PARUSCANOIDEA AUSTRALIA new species. Female. 



Length, 0.60 mm. Black, the tarsi and tips of tibiae pale, the margins of 

 the scutellum yellowish, the fore wings distinctly but not very deeply clouded 

 for their entirety, without discal cilia except a faint line of about seven minute 

 cilia running from apex of the stigmal vein to apex of the blade and a pair oE 

 these in a line longitudinally (i.e., two cilia), one pair cephalad of the apical 

 end of the long line, one disto-caudad of its end. Marginal cilia of fore wing 

 moderately short, not a sixth of the greatest wing width, about as in Tricho- 

 grammatoidea. ^Marginal vein linear, over thrice the length of the stigmal. 

 Caudal wings narrow, their longest marginal cilia distinctly longer than the 

 cilia of the fore wing, bearing a distinct, median, complete line of discal cilia 

 and no other. Abdomen as in Pterygogramma. Caudal femora swollen, coarsely 

 scaly. Club obliquely divided, its first joint wider at apex than long, its second 

 one about twice the length of the first, conic-ovate. Ring-joint distinct, minute. 

 Pedicel subquadrate. Scape short. Stigmal vein ovate, its neck short, narrow. 

 Ovipositor not extruded. 



Described from one female on a slide in the U.S.N.jNI. labelled " 2029. 

 Aspidiotus on Eucalyptus. Botany Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, December 

 21, 1899. Ilem. eggs present. Koebele" and with a Perissopterus. 



Type: Catalogue No. 19675, U.S.N.M., the foredescribed specimen. 



In III, page 148, line 12 from bottom, insert parentheses about the word 

 Girault; page 150, in the first line under Latliromella insert after female the 

 words of the genotype ; page 150, line 3, Ratzhurg should be Eatzehurg. 



Family MYMARID^. 



In I, p. 129, line 13, the third word should be capitalized. 



In III, p. 154, sentence 1 under Camptoptera gregi is mistaken ; page 156, 

 line 9 from bottom, place parentheses about the word Perkins; page 168, footnote, 

 V should read III and XV should be XIV; page 169, line 9, omit the comma after 

 globosiconiis. Camptoptera gregi has a " ring-joint"' between joints 1 and 2 of 

 the funicle (female). 



LEIMACIS AUSTRALIA new species. 



Female: — Length, 0.40 mm. Small for the family. 



Black, very finely sculptured. Proximal two thirds of abdomen golden 

 yellow; legs, scape, and pedicel dull yellow; coxai dusky proximad. Wings 

 practically hyaline. 



