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head is smaller and more transverse than is usual in the 

 Helconinse, and the abdomen is placed lower on the median 

 segment, almost as low as in the Diospilina?, to which sub- 

 family the species shows some approach; but the abdomen is 

 long and slender, and I think it is best placed here. 

 Hab. New Zealand. 



Genus Bkulleia, Szepl. 



Brulleia chinensis, sp. n. 



3 . Rufo-ochraceus ; flagello, articulo basali excepto, mandibulis 

 apice, abdomine segmentis tertio, basi excepto, sequentibusque, 

 tibiis posticis diinidio apicali, tarsisque posticis, articulo apicali 

 excepto, nigris ; alis flavo-hyalinis, venis ferrugineis, stigmate 

 costaque nigris. 



Long. 20 mm. 



o* . Mandibles bidentate at the apex, the upper tooth 

 distinctly longer than the lower ; clypeus short, truncate at 

 the apex, the labrum exposed. Head transverse, broader 

 than the thorax, the whole, including the labrum, very finely 

 and closely punctured ; frontal excavation not very deep, but 

 well defined ; eyes about three times as long as the cheeks. 

 Antennae long, broken at the apex beyond the thirty-sixth 

 joint. Thorax finely and closely punctured ; middle lobe of 

 the mesonotum not prominent ; parapsidal furrows deep, 

 crenulated ; postscutellum distantly longitudinally striated. 

 Median segment rugose, with an indistinct semicircular basal 

 area and two indistinct longitudinal carinee very close together 

 near the middle; these cariuse diverge on the apical slope, 

 enclosing a small semicircular area ; the lateral margins of 

 the segment with strong carina;, the spiracles large and oval; 

 a longitudinal striated groove below the spiracles. First 

 tergite rugose, broadened from the base, three times as long 

 as its apical breadth, with a longitudinal carina running 

 from each of the basal angles nearly to the middle ; second 

 tergite finely punctured-rugulose in the middle, the remainder 

 of the abdomen very finely and closely punctured. Hind 

 metatarsus as long as the four apical tarsal joints combined. 

 Anal cell with two transverse nervures. First discoidal cell 

 sessile ; recurrent nervure received by the second cubital cell 

 near the base ; second abscissa of the radius nearly twice as 

 long as the first, fully as long as the second transverse 

 cubital nervure, which is oblique, but not bent; nervulus 

 interstitial. 



