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ic. Last abdominal steniite consisting of two similar plates, 

 whidh however do not nearly reac'h the lateral margins of the 

 abdomen. 2b. Eurymela, m sp- 



Eurymdoidcs, Ashmead. 



Enrymela Div. B. Signoret. 



Enrymeloides Ashmead, 1889, Ent. Amer., V, 126- 

 Ashmead has founded this genus in the most improper man- 

 ner, viz. : in one line of description, vvit'hout mention of species. 

 The venation both of teigmina and wings is often very 'irregu- 

 lar. Usually t'here is one vein standing on the cubital, some- 

 times two, sometimes none at all, in the same species. Some- 

 times the transverse apical veins are incomplete, a cell thus 

 readhing from the first forking of the median to the apex of ihe 

 tegmen. 



1. hyacintJius sp. nov. 



Black; eyes pale castaneous. Posterior margin of pronotuni, 

 a small spot (of varying size) on clavus, a larger (though still 

 small) spot on corium a!bout the apex of the basal third, and a 

 more of less narrow wedge-shaped band of varying thickness 

 and extent (sometimes reaching clavus, sometimes not) on 

 corium at a level with apex' of clavus, w'hite. Tegminal ground 

 color dark metallic purple, wings dark smoky. Posterior part 

 of scutellum (or only the lateral margins very narrowly) oclna- 

 ceous. Lateral margins of frons, lateral margins of lorae and 

 interior margins of genae, coxae, sternites (excluding genitalia), 

 tergites 'broadly postero-laterally, and middle two-thirds of 

 Ijasal segment of posterior tarsi — whitish testaceous. 



Length: iq|-I2 mill. 



Hab: Queensland, Cairns (vii-viii). ?^ielson (vii), Kuranda. 



Var: A narrow longitudinal stripe on vertex and two small 

 spots near anterior margin of pronotum. ochraceous. 



Nymph. No chitinous spines on the legs, only short, feeble 

 hairs. Vertex, two spots on pronotum. the ground color of 

 nota and abdomen above castaneous; frons, lorae, civpeus, ros- 

 trum, sternites. black. Genae pallid. Nota and terga marked 

 with black. 



2. cumulosus sp. nov. 



Head, pronotum and scutellum blackish brown, speckled with 

 testaceous; posterior two-thirds of genae and exterior half of 



