BY ALAN P. DODD. 135 



over twice as long as wide : first fuuiele joint as long as the 

 pedicel : 2nd and 3rd wider than long ; 4th the widest of 

 the funicle, rather abruptly larger than the preceding, a 

 little longer than wide : the others slightly decreasing in 

 width, all a little longer than wide. Femora (especially 

 the posterior pair) distinctly swollen. 



Hab : New South Wales (Chindera, Tweed River). 

 Described from one female caught by sweeping foliage 

 of.mangrove and other bushes, 14th May, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type : In the South Australian Museum, a 9 ''^^ ^ 

 tag, the antennae and forewings on a slide. 



A species close to australiciift Dodd. 



Megaspilus flavicinctus, sp. nov. 



9 Length, 2.10 mm. Of stout form. 



Golden brown : the eyes, ocelli, metanotum, and all 

 centre of abdomen, black : legs golden yellow, also the first 

 two antennal joints, the third brownish, the remainder 

 black. 



Head transverse : no wider than the thorax, with 

 dense thimble punctures, these with rather long whitish 

 pubescence ; eyes not large, pubescent. Thorax barely 

 longer than wide, the scutum and scutellum with rather 

 dense, thimble punctures and long whitish pubescence ; 

 scutellum no longer than wide ; median and parapsidal 

 furrows of scutum deep and distinct ; postscutellum with 

 a stout spine : projecting a little over the abdomen ; 

 metanotum very short at meson. Abdomen a little longer 

 than the head and thorax united, a little wider than the 

 thorax : second segment occupying over one-half of 

 surface, striate at its base, the rest smooth. Forewings 

 reaching a little short of apex of abdomen : broad, the 

 apex rather squarely rounded ; somewhat infuscate, this 

 deepest beneath stigma and stigmal vein ; discal cilia moder- 

 ately coarse and dense : venation fuscous ; stigma semi- 

 circular : stigmal vein scarcely curved, over twice as long 

 as the stigma. Antennae 11 -jointed ; scape as long as next 

 five joints combined ; pedicel stout, a little longer than 



