12 — 



(From two specimens, similarlj^ enlarged.) 



Female: Described beyond. 



Described from two males taken on November 30, 

 1912 from the same galls from which Mestocharis 

 cyanea was obtained. 



Habitat: Australia — Nelson (Cairns), N. Q. 



Types: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 

 the above specimens on tags (2 pins) plus a slide of 

 xylol-balsam bearing a head and its appendages. Also 

 three tagmounted females. 



Female: Length, 5,1 mm. Long and slender. 

 Large for its group. 



Wholly metallic purphsh blue; legs including the 

 coxae white, the tarsi fuscous, the distal joint black. 

 Head and thorax roughly polygonally reticulated, the 

 axillae smoother. Othermse as in the male. Antennal 

 club 2-jointed, the funicle with the first joint longest, 

 about twice the length of the fourth. Abdomen very 

 long and considerably produced, the ovipositor not 

 exserted. Head more or less aeneous. Propodeum 

 smooth. 



(From three specimens.) 



Described from three females obtained from the 

 same host as were the males, December 2, 1912. Each 

 female filled the entire channel-like cavity of the gall 

 and is about the same size as the pupa of thek host. 



The following generic characters: 



Like Sympiesis but the antennae only 9-jointed, 

 one ring-joint. Propodeum with an abbreviated me- 

 dian carina, the lateral carinae absent. Postmarginal 

 vein very long, much longer than the stigmal; male 

 antennae with rami and the male abdomen normal 

 for the tribe, that is not produced. Spiracle of pro- 

 podeum large, oblong-oval. Pronotum somewhat 

 conical but only half the length of the mesoscutum. 

 Antennae inserted in the middle of the face. 



2. Sympiesis proserpinensis new species. 



Female: Length, 2,65 mm. 



Steely dark blue, not bright, the propodeum bright 

 metallic green, the coxae concolorous Avith thorax, 

 the legs white with the tarsi more or less fuscous, the 

 wings hyaline. Head and thorax raised polygonally 

 reticulated, forming areas like punctures; propodeum 

 similarly sculptured but smooth and shining, the 

 sculpture like scales. A complete median carina on 

 iwopodeum, broadened somewhat at base ; also a more 

 or less irregular lateral carina, no sulci. Abdomen 

 conic-ovate, about as long as head and thorax com- 

 bined, flat above, the second segment longest, metallic 

 green. Mandibles 6-dentate; funicle joints at apex 

 armed with nipple-like projections; also along their 

 sides. Otherwise as in nelsonensis . 



(From one specimen, similarly magnified.) 



Male: Not known. 



Described from a single female captured by swee- 

 ping foliage and grass in the dry bed of the Proserpine 

 River, Proserpine, Q., November 3, 1912. 



Habitat: Australia — Proserpine, Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 

 the above specimen (broken) on a tag plus a slide 

 bearing the head. 



57, 62 Ooptolabrus (51. 7) 



Coptolalbriis siuaragdiniis Fiscli. siibsp. 

 Iimshaiiensis Gr. H. 



Prof. Dr. O. Häuser, Erlangen. 



G. smaragdino Fisch, proximus, sed differt ely- 

 trorum structura pedibusque gracilioribus. 



Capite et prothorace plerumque rtifo-cupreis, rarius 

 aureo-cupreis, lumine a fronte incidente viridi-vel 

 viridi-aureo relucentibus. Prothorace longitudine sua 

 paulo angustiore (1,1 — 1,2, rarius 1,3) quam in 

 smaragdino (1,2 — ^1,3), lateribus minus subangulatim 

 vel fere rotundate (raro angulatim) dilatato, ante 

 angulos posticus plerumque mÂnus sinuato, niargine 

 antico leviter vel vix sinuato, margine postico recto, 

 angulis posticis lobuliformibus, plerumque manifeste 

 retrorsum et extrorsum prominulis, foveolis ante 

 lobulos plerumque sat profundis, impressione trans- 

 versa perspicua inter se conjunctis; disco paulo svb- 

 tilius punctato-rugoso, plerumque nitidiore quam in 

 smaragdino, linea media sat profunda. 



Coleopteris plerumque virescenti - cupreis (forma 

 typica) vel rufo-cupreis [ah. cupreus G. H.), raro 

 viridi-aeneis {ab. viridis G. H.), perraio valde obscu- 

 ratis (ab. obscurior G. H.), lumine a fronte incidente 

 semper magis minusve viridi-relucentibus, magis elon- 

 gatis, ellipticis, summa latitudine in ^ 1,9 — 2,1, in 

 $ 1,7 — 1,9 longioribus (lateribus in ^ saepius, in $ 

 perraro magis parallelis humerisque magis evolutis), 

 plerumque foititer convexis, sed haud raro, praecipue 

 in (J, manifeste deplanatis, apice sat breviter angu- 

 statis, plerumque non porrectis, singulatim obtuse 

 angulatis paulatimque vel subarupte horizontaliter 

 explanatis (perraro paulo longius angustatis, apice 

 magis porrectis conjunctimque angulatis), summo 

 dorsi fastigio plerumque lotige pone medium, deinde ad 

 apicem paulatim vel subabrupte declivibus; tuber- 

 culis omnibus plerumque valde deplanatis, primariis 

 mediocribus, subrotundis vel oblongis, interdum costu- 

 lis metallicis perspicuis inter se copulatis (saepe 

 tuberculis primariis majoribus, cum granulis super- 

 ficiel conjunctis irregulariterque formatis, interdum 

 inter se confluentibus), tuberculis secundariis (inter- 

 dum paulo) minoribuS; subrotundis, tuberculis tertia- 

 riis haud perspicuis ; superficie confertim, sed subtilius 

 quam in smaragdino ruguloso-granulata ; limbo viridi- 

 aeneo vel aureo, angusto, antice paulo latiore. 



Subtus ut in forma tjrpica. Pedibus gracilioribus, 

 tarsis posticis in ^ tibiarum longitudine. 

 Long. ^ 24—30 mm, Ç 27—32 mm. 

 Lat. (J 8—10 mm, ? 9,5—11 mm. j 



A Tleverendissimo Pâtre A. Coenen in montibus 

 Inn-shan (1000 — 2000 m) in Mongolia centrali col- 

 lectus. Occurrit etiam in montibus Ta-tsing-shan 

 prope urbem Kuku-khoto. 



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