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dark bro\vii; first joint of funicle conical, about as long as pedicel; 

 following joints transverse; parapsidal furrows obKterated by the 

 coarseness of the sculpture; propodeum longitudinally rugose; lateral 

 hind angles of propodeum produced; inflexed sides of pronotum 

 coarsely reticulately rugose, but not as coarse as dorsum; mesopleurse 

 coarsely punctured; metapleuree reticulately rugose; wings, except 

 the hyaline bases, dusky; abdomen strongly longitudinally rugulose, 

 narrow apical margins of the segments smooth; segment two strongly 

 depressed at base; venter more finely longitudinal^ rugose, the 

 rugae failing medially and apically. 



Male . — Unknown . 



Habitat. — Childers, Queensland. 



Type.— Cat. No. 13967, U.S.N.M. 



Two specimens bred from the eggs of the ''Plague locust" (wliich 

 Mr. Caudell says is the common name of Chortoicetes terminifera 

 Walker), by Mr. W.W. Froggatt and sent by him under his number 95. 



Named in honor of the sender. 



SCELIO FULGIDUS, new species. 



Female.— Length, about 3.5 mm. Head and thorax black, abdo- 

 men dark brown, legs fulvous, the coxae somewhat darker in color; 

 scape, pedicel and basal joints of funicle, fulvous; apical joints of an- 

 tennae brown; head smooth, polished, with a few scattered, small 

 punctures, sides of face below with a few striae converging toward 

 mouth parts; occipital foraminal depression margined, vertically 

 striate; dorsum of pronotum coarsely rugose laterad; parapsidal fur- 

 rows apparent, consisting of a row of large pits; parapsidal areas with 

 a few very large scattered punctures; anterior half of median lobe 

 similarly sculptured, the posterior half with close large punctures, the 

 medial punctures smaller than those laterad; scutellum with large 

 punctures separated from each other by about half the width of a 

 puncture; propodeum closely, coarsely, irregularly punctured, the 

 punctures laterad resembhng tliimble-hke punctures; posterior half 

 of mesopleurae longitudinally striate, the anterior half smooth, with a 

 few punctures; metapleurae with sculpture like the propodeum; wings 

 dusky with hyaline bases; abdomen fmely longitudinally striate, the 

 apical margins of the segments smooth; segment five with a median 

 area wliich is not striate ; venter longitudinally striate with the mid- 

 dle of the segments smooth. 



Habitat. — New South Wales. 



Three specimens sent by Mr. W, W. Froggatt, during 1900 under 

 number 60 with the additional record "parasitic in the eggs of Pachy- 

 tylus australis." 



Type.— C&t. No. 13969, U.S.N.M. 



Separated at once from the preceding by the striae on the face, and 

 the sparsely punctured mesonotum. 



