AUSTBALIAN HYMENOPTEBA CHALCIDOIDEA.—GIBAULT. 211 



together. The fringe at the apex of the front wings is much shorter than the 

 greatest width of these. The basal joint of the hind tarsi is very long, subequal 

 to the other three joints together. 



Black and smooth, except for very fine microscopic sculpture, the three 

 basal joints of the antenna3 in both sexes, all the legs, except the apical joints of 

 the tarsi, and the abdominal pedicel are yellow, or brownish yellow. The pedicel 

 is elongate, and about equal in length to the hind coxa?. The surface of the wings 

 is uniformly clothed with short dark hairs. Length 1 mm. 



Hab : Hawaiian Islands ; parasitic in eggs of Eeduviolus blachhurni. 



N.B.— A second species closely allied to this, but differing slightly in 

 color, and with a shorter marginal vein has probably similar habits, as also 

 P. hawaiiensis described by Ashmead (Faun. Haw. vol. i, p. 332,) which agrees 

 in nearly all structural points with the one here described. These two species 

 are usually bred from leaves covered with Aphis and might easily be supposed 

 to be parasitic on plant-lice by a careless investigator. " 



ANAGRUS FREQUENS Perkins. 



" Anagrus, Hal. 



Ocelli in a subequilateral triangle, and close together, the posterior very 

 remote from the eyes ; antennae of female 9-jointed, scape long, second joint 

 widened, third very short, the fourth and following equal, club about equal to two 

 preceding. Antennae of male filiform 13-jointed, second joint dilated, third also 

 wide on its flat face and short, much shorter than the following, all the other 

 joints subequal. Axillae produced forwards into the scapular region of the 

 mesonotum ; tarsi 4-jointed, wings with long apical cilia, much longer than the 

 greatest width of the wing. Abdomen sessile, ovipositor a little exserted. (Plate 

 XII, fig. 4 and 6; antennae.) 



Anagrus frequens, sp. nov. 



Female: Orange red or reddish yellow, the occiput for a large part, the 

 antennae except the two basal joints, two contiguous or subcontiguous large marks 

 on the front of the mesonotum, one on the anterior end of each of the scapulae, 

 one on the axillae, two or three of the basal abdominal segments more or less, 

 a.«: well as their lateral margins very narrowly, and the sheaths of the ovipositor, 

 dark, blackish or fuscous. Wings hairy, but with a long bare area on the lower 

 side of the apical half. Ovipositor very little exserted. 



Male generally like the female apart from the structural differences in 

 the antennae as stated above, and in the usual abdominal characters. Markings 

 as in the female, probably more pronounced as a rule, but similarly situated, the 

 abdomen apically dark above. Length § mm. 



Hab : Queensland ; bred from eggs of Delphacids. An apparently 

 slightly different race inhabits Fiji, but I cannot separate it specifically." 



I have seen the type of Anagrus columbi Perkins which in antea is stated 

 to be the same as frequens and armatus. 



The Family ELESMID^. 



Genus EURYISCHIA Koebele. 



Myiocnema Ashmead of the Aphelinina> is a true synonym as I know b}'^ 

 examining the types of the genotype of the latter. 



