128 AUSTRALIA^r PROCTOTRYPOIDEA. 



scutellum, and extreme sides of scutelluiu, bright red- 

 brown ; antennal scape, pedicel and the legs, golden yellow, 

 the coxae, apex of femora, apical third of the tibiae, and the 

 tarsi, dusky. 



Head transver.se, no wider than the thorax ; ocelli 

 close together, in an equilateral triangle : face striate, 

 the striae converging towards the mouth : the vertex also 

 longitudinally striate. Thorax somewhat longer than wide ; 

 scutum and scutellum reticulately rugulose ; spine on 

 postscutellum. large, blunt ; caudo-lateral angles of metano- 

 tum acute. Abdomen about as long as the head and thorax 

 united : 1st segment longer than wide ; 1st and 2nd segments 

 striate, the 3rd (except laterad and distad) finely longitu- 

 dinally rugulose : rest of abdomen smooth, except for 

 scattered pin-punctures, these dense at cephalic margin 

 of segments 4-6 where the surface is also finely granulate ; 

 venter of 1st and 2nd segments striate, remaining segments 

 with scattered setigerous pin punctures. Forewings reach- 

 ing beyond apex of abdomen ; broad, the apex truncately 

 rounded ; infuscated : discal cilia rather coarse, very 

 dense : marginal vein much shorter than the submarginal ; 

 the .stigmal vein long for the genus and with a distinct 

 knob, a fourth^as long as the marginal ; basal vein indicated ; 

 venation fuscous. Antennae not much longer than the 

 body : 1st funicle joint longest of funicle. slighth' longer 

 than 2nd, the latter sUghtly longer than 3rd : 3-^ subequal, 

 the 10th as long as 1st : pedicel very short. 



Hab : New South Wales (Upper Tweed River). De- 

 scribed from one male caught by sweeping foliage of jungle 

 plants, 1.000 feet, 17th May, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Tyj)e : In the South Austrahan Museum, a ^ on a tag, 

 the autennee and forewings on a shde. 



Genus Pestacantha, Ashmead. 



Pextacantha mgrinotum, sjj. nov. 



9 Length, 1.45 mm. 



Black ; thorax (except scutum and scutellum), and 

 first abdominal segment (except its horn) reddish brown ; 

 legs (including the coxae) golden yellow ; antennae wholly 

 black. 



