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male scape is yellow, the funicle less excised than with crawfordi and there are 

 tivo ring-joints, the first very short but distinct. Vertex punctured in both sexes. 

 Middle tibias dusky. 



Described from four females, two males in the U.S.N.M. labelled " 0. 

 Craivfordi. From Icerya. Alex. Craw. California. Imported from Australia. 

 G. Compere, July, 190*0." Also, a large series in the U.S.N.M. labelled " 12. 

 Sydney, N.S.W." 



Types: Catalogue No. 19687, U.S.N.M., a pair on tags plus a slide with 

 antennae of both sexes and the female hind leg (Australia). Cotypes: No. 

 Hy 3566, Queensalnd Museum, two females on tag. 



OPHELOSIA VIRIDITHORAX new species. 

 Female: — Length, 1.50 mm. 



Yellow-brown, the abdomen purplish black, also the antennal club, the 

 propodeum entirely and the centre of the occiput narrowly; ocellar area and 

 the thorax, except pronotum, dark metallic green ; venter of abdomen yellow 

 brownish. Caudal femora and tibiae dorsad at distal two thirds, purplish. Other- 

 wise about as in liypatia. 



From one female on a tag in the U.S.N.M. labelled "Australia. Koebele," 

 The type is in the U.S.N.M. Catalogue No. 196S8. 



OPHELOSIA BIFASCIATA lu w species. 



Female : — Of usual length. 



Differs from the other species in being uniformly reddish brown, the 

 axillae very slightly aeneous, the flagellura, cephalic margin of the propodeum 

 (broader laterad), a tolerably narrow stripe across base of abdomen and another 

 across its middle (just before apex of segment 2), black. Also the caudal tibiae 

 and the dorsal margin of the caudal femora. Funicle 1 like a large ring-joint, 

 distinctly wider than long, 2 subquadrate, longest, 5 widest. Pedicel longer than 

 any funicle joint. 



Described from one female in U.S.N.M. labelled "Australia. Koebele. 

 From Dep. Agric. 12." Associated with coccinellid larvae. 



Type: Catalogue No. 19689, U.S.N.M., the above specimen on a tag. 



OPHELOSIA VIRIDINOTATA new series. 



Female: — Of the usual length. Yellow-brown, like the other species but 

 marked with dark metallic green as follows: Centre of occiput narrowly, a 

 diamond-shaped marking centre of scutum, its widest portion cephalad of the 

 centre, extending also on to meson of the pronotum, cephalic and caudal margins 

 of scutellum and its median line, all rather broadly, mesocephalic half or nearly 

 of each axilla, postscutellum, a broad stripe across cephalic margin of the 

 propodeum and all of abdomen except proximal fourth which is more or less 

 concolorous. Flagellum and the caudal two pairs of tibiae, black. Funicle joints 

 widening distad, 2 subquadrate. 



Descri1)od from a female labelled "Australia. Koebele." 



Type: U.S.N.M., the above female. 



All of the foregoing species have heretofore passed for the genotype. 



