124 AUSTRALIAN PROCTOTRYPOIDEA. 



Hah : Tasmania (Hobart). Doscribed from three 

 females received from Mr. W. W. Froggatt, and labelled 

 " Hobart, A. M. Lea.' 



Type : In the South Australian Museum, a 9 on a 

 tag, the antennse and forewings on a slide. 



Cotypes : In the collection of Mr, W. W. Froggatt, 

 Government Entomologist, Sj^dney, two 9 s on a tag. 



Telexomus ^geus, sp. nov. 



9 Length, 1. 00 mm. 



Shining black ; legs (except cephalic coxae) golden yellow- 

 also the antennal scape, the next six antennal joints yellow 

 siiffused dusky. 



Head viewed from above, not twice as vsdde as long, 

 the vertex and frons a little convex, a little wider than the 

 thorax ; mth fine polygonal scaly sculpture. Thorax 

 scarcely longer than wide, the scutum with the same scaly 

 sculpture and also vnth. fine setigerous pin -punctures, the 

 scutellum practically smooth and glabrous. Abdomen 

 as long as the head and thorax united ; as wide as the 

 thorax ; t^vice as long as wide ; almost pointed at aj)ex ; 

 1st segment short, striate, the 2nd occupying one -half of 

 surface, faintly striate at base, then with fine, scaly sculpt- 

 ure, its apical margin smooth ; remaining segments with 

 fine pin-punctures. Scape as long as next four joints 

 combined ; pedicel one-half longer than wide ; funicle 

 joints a little narrower than pedicel, first one-half longer 

 than wide ; 2nd barely longer than mde ; 3rd quadrate ; 

 4th transverse ; club 5-jointed, first joint very small, the 2nd 

 abruptly larger, 1-4 transverse, the 3rd slightly the largest. 

 Fore^vings reaching apex of abdomen ; not very broad ; 

 hyaline ; discal ciha fine and dense ; submarginal vein 

 attaining costa about middle of wing ; marginal vein one- 

 third as long as the stigmal, which is moderately long and 

 oblique ; postmarginal over twice the length of the stigmal ; 

 venation indi.stinct. 



Hah : North Queensland (Gordonvale, near Cairns), 

 Described from one female caught by sweeping in jungle, 

 30th July, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type : In the Scuth Australian Museum, a 9 ^n a 

 slide. 



