JAVANESE CHALCID-FLIES. 



By A. A. GiRAULT (Cairns, Queensland; Australia), 



The following were received for naming, mostly from Dr. W. Roepke. 

 Description based on females unless otherwise stated. 



Coccophagus tristis (Zehntner). 



Three females reared from pupae of Aleyrodes bergi at Gordonvale, 

 Queensland, on cane, Dec. 9, 1918. In my table runs to nigriventris, but 

 cephalic Vs scutum. Except lateral margin, axillae, propodeum, meso- 

 metapleurae also black, funicle 1 longest, equal pedicel, a bit longer than 

 wide, others subquadrate. Stripe on forewing very faint or absent. Fringe 

 % width of wing. Krueger's colored figure makes the parapsides all blackish. 

 The dorsal thorax lateral of scutellum is blackish. Characterized by the 

 black axillae contrasting with the yellow scutum, scutellum and parapsides. 

 New to the Australian fauna. 



Epaenasomyiä new genus. 



Runs to Paraenasomyia but ovipositor not extruded, body nonmetallic, 

 scape moderately dilated, marginal a bit longer than wide, a bit exceeding 

 postmarginal or subequal, sligmal a half longer than marginal. Head rounded, 

 from cephalic aspect the frons wide. Femora 1 compressed, also 3, hind tibial 

 spurs double. Scrobes converging, short. Mandibular teeth acute, subequal. 

 Costal eel rather wide, densely ciliate. Resembles Encyrtus. Axillae united. 

 Thorax depressed. Ovipositor free. Maxillary palpi with 3 much thé "longest 

 and apical. 



