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a card in the collections of the Queensland Museum 

 at Brisbane, the card bearing this label „Bi'cd from 

 Brachyscelis Gall. No. 28. 23. 10. 11". 



Habitat: Australia-( ? Brisbane), Queensland. 



Types: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 

 twenty-eight of the above females all mounted toge- 

 ther on the card noted. 



Genus Ooencyrtus Ashmead. 



The following species apparently falls in between 

 the Mirine genera Ooencyrtus Ashmead and 

 Psj^llaephagus of the same author but for 

 the present I describe it as a member o the first, 

 since it is parasitic upon the eggs of lepidopterous 

 insect. There has recently been decribed a related 

 genus from Japan parasitic upon the eggs of the 

 Gipsy Moth and this species may turn out to belong 

 therein. I think, for the present, it may be safely 

 placed \vithin this segregate. 



1. Ooencyrtus metallicus new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.10 mm. Short and 

 compact. 



Metallic purple with greenish tinges, the mesoscu- 

 tum with conspicuous thimble-punctures and very 

 densely finely polygonally reticulated, the scutellum 

 and face similarly sculptured and punctured; vertex 

 and head densely reticulated, the former without 

 thimble punctm-es. Pronotum very short but wide. 

 Lateral ocelli near to but not touching the eye margins. 

 Eyes at vertex margined obscurely with oohreous. 

 Venation smoky browii, the fore wings subhyaline 

 but near the middle with a large subhemispherical 

 chocolate browna cloud extending from margin to 

 margin from the marginal vein, its apex extending 

 distad much beyond the apex of the stigmal vein 

 and caudad before reaching the costal margin inter- 

 rupted by a clear line projecting into it; its proximal 

 margin is nearly confluent with the obhque hairless 

 line; marginal vein punctiform, the postmarginal 

 developed and half the length of the stigmae; mar- 

 ginal cilia extremely short, the discal very dense 

 and fine. Sides of thorax sometimes yellowish. 

 Axillae meeting in an acute point, the scutellum 

 diamondshaped posteriorly with two of the sides 

 forming a hemisphere: Legs yellowish washed with 

 dusky. Abdomen very short, subtriangular, wider 

 than long. Antennae yellowish white with the distal 

 funicle joint blackish and the scape and pedicel washed 

 with the same color; club not enlarged, the flagellum 

 slightly enlarging distad pedicel as long as the com- 

 bined lengths of the first two funicle joints, the distal 

 two joints longest and widest of the funicle, not much 

 longer than wide. Antemaae 11-jointed, no ring- 

 joint. Mandibles tridentate. 



(From six specimens, similarly magnified.) 



Male: — Not kno^vn. 



Described from six females remounted on tags 

 from alcohol, kindly given to me by Henry Tryon, 

 Government Entomologist and Vegetable Pathologist, 

 Department of Agricultiure and Stock, Brisbane, 

 Queensland, who reared them from the eggmasses of 

 Tara tephrosis obtained at Roma, Queens- 

 land, October 6., 1911. 



A single specimen to the host. 



Habitat: Australia-Roma, Queensland. 



Host: Tara tephrosis (teste Heniy 

 Troyn). 



Types: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 

 three females in xylol-balsara, one slide. 



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Liste neuerdings beschriebener oder 

 gezogener Parasiten und ihrer Wirte. 



m. 



(Fortsetzung.) 



Pimpla examinator 



— flavipes 



— graminellae 



— inquisitor 



Pimpla japouica 



— kuwanae 



— labordei 



— lurionellae 



— maculator 



madecassa 



muscii 



nigriscaposa 



oculatoria 

 Ontario 

 ornata 

 ovahs 



— parnarae 



— pedaMs 



— porthefriae 



— roborator 



— rufata 



— scanica 



— stigmatica 



Plastanoxus chittendeni 

 Platygaster lineatus 



— marchali 



— ornatus 



— ceccoiiii 



Sterrhoptcryx hirsutella 

 Thaumatopoea processionea 

 Tortrbc viridana 

 Yponomenta cognatellus 



— evonymellus 



— malinellus 



— padellus 

 Malacosonia neustria 

 Anthonomus pomorum 

 Archips argyrospUa 

 Malacosonia neustria 

 Conchylis anibiguella 

 Dendrolimus pini 

 Malacosonia neustria 

 Oenophthira pUlerana 

 Tortrbc viridana 

 Attacus pryeri 

 Parnara guttatus 

 Polyclirosis botrana 

 Dendrohmus pini 

 Polyclirosis botrana 

 Oenophtliiria pilleriana 

 Phytouomiis variabihs 

 Tortrix viridana 

 Hypsoides bipars 

 Denrlrolinius pini 

 Calamia lutosa 

 Tortrix viridana 

 Epeira umbratica 

 Tortrix tumiferana 

 Malacosoma neustria 

 Bombyx castrensis 

 Psyche hirsutella 



— unicolor 

 Zygaena trifolii 

 Parnara guttatus 

 Archips argyiospila 

 Lymantria dispar 

 Earias insulana 

 Epeira diadeniata 

 Tortrix viridana 

 Calamia lutosa 

 Conchylis anibiguella 

 Cis fuscipes 

 Contarinia pirivora 

 Diplosis pirivora 

 Perrisia ulmaricae 



Ehabdophaga saliciperda 



