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Chalccrinys c.riiiiia, sp. nov. 



Metallic green, or in parts brassy-yellowish, the mesopleura 

 and abdomen black, at most slightly metallic, antennae yellow- 

 ish or testaceous, more or less sordid, legs yellow except tips 

 of tarsi. Head densely and minutely sculptured, and with evi- 

 dent traces of larger, very feeble punctures ; posterior ocelli 

 nearer to the eye-margins than to one another. Thorax with 

 very dense, minute sculpture, the mesonotum and scutellum with 

 similar . and inconspicuous pale pubescence, the scutellum 

 smoother and more shining apically. Abdomen subtriangular, 

 depressed above. Male like the female, but with the eyes very 

 widely separated and with long antennae, the scape, and first 

 joint of funicle distinctly marked with black, the club slender 

 and elongate, dark, the pedicel small, dark coloured or largely 

 so. Length ^^ to i mm. 



HAB : Sydney, N. S. \V., Childers and Bundaberg, Queens- 

 land; parasitic on small wingless Dryinidae of the genus Goiia- 

 topus or its allies. 



Saronoiitm, gen. nov. 



Of rather slender and elongate form ; head in front view sub- 

 elongate with the eyes of moderate size and diverging apically, 

 the front with dense microscopic sculpture of the surface and 

 sometimes with very faint punctures in addition. Ocelli in an 

 isosceles triangle, the posterior near to the eye-margins and 

 also nearer to one another than is either to the anterior ocellus. 

 Antennae with simple elongate scape, and gradually clavate to 

 the apex, the pedicel and basal funicle joints much less wide than 

 the apical ones, the club small, the pedicel shorter than the first 

 joint of funicle. Mandibles tridentate. Maxillary palpi with 

 very long apical joint, subequal to the other thr.ee joints to- 

 gether. Labial palpi short, the middle joint extremely short. 

 Mesonotum with appressed pubescence, the scutellum with erect 

 tuft of bristles. Wings infuscate on more than the apical half, 

 the submarginal vein much decurved before reaching the mar- 

 ginal, the latter long, the stigmal rather short, the postmarginal 

 little developed. The basal third of the wings is nearly bare 

 and from the marginal vein a very narrow, oblique, bare line 

 runs back into this portion. Hind legs long and slender. Ab- 

 domen rather elongate, pointed at the apex, depressed above, 

 the ovipositor not (or hardly perceptibly) exserted. Male not 

 known. 



