AUSTSALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA.—GIRAVLT. 227 



Genus EURYCRANIUM Ashmead. 



Synonymic with Anysis Howard and the genotype differs from the 

 genotype of Anysis [australiensis) in having fiinicle 8 longer than wide and the 

 abdomen all reddish brown except near tip and narrowly across base ; the wings 

 are subhyaline. The scntellnm is very finely transversely lined but distad of an 

 indicated cross-suture, it is coarsely scaly (as also in australiensis). In 

 australiensis the abdomen is suffused with brownish. In the male alcochi, the 

 abdomen is all concolorous, the antenna} not clavate as in the female hut much 

 longer and filiform, 9-jointed, the third club joint not very distinctly articulated, 

 the pedicel very short, fuscous, funicle 1 elongate, subequal to the club, 3 longer 

 than wide, subequal to club 1. The male flagellum is clothed with spearlike, 

 flattened seta?. Types of genotypes compared and slides made. 



EURYCRANIELLA new genus. 



Genotype: Eury cranium haeusomorplia Girault. 



Since Eurycranium equals Anysis and the latter belongs to the ]\Iiscogas- 

 terid^, the above species must represent a new genus. It differs from Anysis 

 in other characters. 



Genus ANYSIS Howard. 



Belongs to the i\riscogasterida} which see. 



MUSCIDEOIDEA new name. 



Miiscidea Girault is preoccupied by Muscidea Motschulsky, a valid genus 

 as I find later, so that the above name is proposed for the first. 



OPHELOSIA CRAWFORDI Riley. 



The genus is correctly described by myself. The genotype female bears a 

 very scanty tuft of short setai just at the side of the petiole on segment 2 of 

 abdomen. The colour of the genotype is light yellow, the part of the propodeum 

 laterad of the prolonged part dorsad and the antennal club, black.- There is no 

 jeneous on the thorax as in saintpierrci. The male antenna is 8-jointed with one 

 ring-joint, the club solid, the funicle joints as in the male E-urytoma; the pedicel 

 is subglobular, funicle 1 longest, stout, a third longer than wide but shorter than 

 the club. Funicle 4 oval, a little longer than wide. The lateral parts of the 

 mesoscutum in the female are not black. 



The tvpes are three females, two males on tag, a male antenna on a slide. 

 Catalogue No. 1510, U.S.N.M. 



OPHELOSIA HYPATIA new species. 



Female: — Differs from crawfordi in being much darker and in having 

 metallic colour on the thorax dorsad. From saintpierrci in having all the antenna 

 black except the yellow scape and the entire abdomen and hind tibia; also the 

 propodeum is black, except the middle prolonged portion, the general colour 

 reddish brown. From pinguis in having the entire abdomen black and so on. 

 The metallic colour shows mostly along the caudal margin of the scutum and the 

 cephalic margins of the axillae. AxillaB and the scutellum at apex, glabrous. 

 Ring-joint or funicle 1 wider than long, 2 longest, slightly longer than wide, 

 the following three joints a little wider than long, larger than 1. Fore and hind 

 femora compressed. What appeared to be the male Avas dark metallic green 

 with the legs and antenna? all dark except tarsi, the wings as in the female. The 



