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has nine-jointed antennae, slender, well-separated, and not 

 remarkably thickened, that I have decided, with some 

 hesitation, to treat it as a new genus. 



Eurys tnconspicua, sp. n. 



Exp. al. 8 millim. ; long. corp. 4 millim. 



Female. — Head and thorax seneous black ; antennae short, 

 not much thickened, third joint longest, the rest of nearly- 

 equal length as well as thickness ; prothorax and legs 

 luteous ; meso- and metapectus black, with a slight a?neous 

 lustre ; tips of hind tibiae and more or less of four hind tarsi 

 black ; tip of antenna? greenish black, most broadly beneath. 

 Wings yellowish hyaline, with broad nervures. 



A single specimen. 



Chalcididae. 



Eves ailing. 



Rhipfpallus (?) Turneri, sp. n. 



Long. corp. 6 millim. 



Male. — Antenna? pubescent, twelve-jointed, scape rather 

 long; the fourth and following joints throwing off a double 

 series of long, stout, pubescent rami, the outer row one-third 

 longer than the inner. 



Antenna? black, head and thorax deep violet-purple ; vertex 

 narrow, metallic green ; ocelli testaceous, in a straight line ; 

 thorax rugose-punctate, with a green shade in front, on the 

 sides, and at the edges ; petiole blue-green ; scape of antenna? 

 beneath, jaws, abdomen, and legs rufous or rufo-testaceous ; 

 femora more or less blackish in the middle, hind femora some- 

 what thickened. 



In this species and in R. Camero?ii } Kirb., the abdomen is 

 shorter and more elevated than in R. volusus, Walk., the type 

 of Rhijripallus ; but the rami of the antenna? in R. Cameroni 

 are longer and more slender, and the hind femora are not 

 distinctly thickened. But I do not wish to multiply genera 

 until the Australian Chalcidida? are better known, and there- 

 fore include the three species provisionally in one genus. 



Described from a single specimen. 



