Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse's new Mymaridae. 537 



level of the posterior dilatation. Abdomen subsessile, <a])parently 

 compressed [not in good condition]. Ovipositor extremely long, 

 the portion projecting beyond the apex of the abdomen as long as 

 the whole insect. Legs slender, the tarsi four-jointed, the basal 

 joint very long. 



I think this genus may be placed near Anaphes, with 

 which it agrees in having a very small third antenna) 

 joint, and in the general form of the wings. It differs in 

 having eleven joints to the antennae and in having long 

 slender legs and tarsi. The ovipositor is unlike that of 

 any Mymarid known to me, and is much longer even than 

 in Eustochus. 



Selenaeus Turneri, sp. n. 



$. Pitchy black, the back part of the mesonotum brownish 

 yellow. Head rather large. Antennae '95 in length ; tlie basal 

 joint brown, finely rugose; the second joint brown; the third 

 very small, subglobose, yellow ; the fourth, fifth and sixth elongate, 

 pale yellow ; the seventh and eighth shorter and broader, brown ; 

 the club elliptical, distinctly three-jointed, brown. Front wings 

 r35 X '32 mm., hyaline, but all the margins slightly clouded 

 with b^o^\^^ish yellow, and there is a distinct pale brown shade 

 across the wing below the vein. The surface hairs are very fine, 

 rather short, not very close together. The cilia are long, even 

 those along the front margin, the longest '2 m. The hind-wing 

 slightly clouded with brownish yellow, not curved forward as in 

 Anaphes, posterior cilia long, about 42 in number. Ixgs yellow, 

 the claws fuscous; the hind tibiae very long, slightly swollen 

 towards the apex ; tarsi rather long, the basal joint not quite equal 

 to the three following taken together. Ovipositor yellow (the 

 sheaths light brown), its total length from base of abdomen to apex 

 about r45 mm. 



Length I'l mm. 



Hab. S. Tasmania, Mount Wellington, 2,300 ft., March 

 22, 1913. . 



Palaeoneura, gen. nov. 



General characters and appearance of Polynema. Antennae of 

 female nine-jointed ; the third, fourth, and fifth joints elongate, tiie 

 club consisting of one joint. Front wings ample, the vein slightly 

 elongate (less punctiform than in Polynema) emitting from its apex 

 a fine vein (sometimes interrupted) which runs close to the front 



