13S AUSTRALIAN PROCTOTRYPOIDEA. 



second segment occupying a I'ttle more than half of surface, 

 striate at its base, then shining and ^vith fine scaly sculpture, 

 and a few scattered pin-punctures. Anterior and posterior 

 femora much swollen. Forewings reaching apex of 

 abdomen ; very broad, truncately rounded at apex ; with 

 a large dark area beneath stigmal, stigma, and apex of 

 submarginal veins, and occupying almost all centre of 

 wing ; base, apex, and inargins nearly hyaline ; discal 

 ciHa fine, very dense ; stigmal vein scarcely curved, nearly 

 twice as long as the semicircular stigma ; venation fuscous, 

 scape swollen ; pedicel short ■*. funicle joints hmg and 

 cvlindrical. the first longest, nearly thrice as long as its 

 width at apex. 



Hab : New South Wales (Upper Tweed River). 

 Described from one male caught by sweeping in open 

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



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

 tag, the antennae and forewings on a slide. 



CONOSTIGMUS UNICOLOR, Sp. UOV. 



$ Length, 2.05 mm. 



Black ; tibise (except posterior pair), and all tarsi, 

 golden yellow : femora and posterior tibiae, fuscous ; 

 antennte scape suffused red. 



Head, viewed from above, much wider than long, 

 the vei'tex not thin ; densely scaly, this not very fine ; 

 eyes occupying whole side of head, pubescent. Thorax 

 one-half longer than wide ; scutum and scutellum with 

 scattered pubescence, and polygonal scaly sculpture, this 

 latter very fine except around margins of scutellum where 

 it is divStinctly coarse ; scutellum longer than wide ; metano- 

 tum very short ; median and parapsidal furrows of scutum, 

 deep and distinct. Abdomen pointed conic-ovate ; no 

 lonoer than the head and thorax united, no wider than 

 the thorax ; straight above, convex beneath : second 

 segment occup^^ng barely half of surface, with several 

 strong and numerous fine striae at its base ; the abdomen 

 otherwise smooth, except for scattered pubescence on apical 

 segments. Forewings reaching apex of abdomen ; broad ; 

 lightly infuscate, this deepest beneath marginal and stigmal 



