443 



Type. — I. 5165, South Australian Museum. Thr^e females 

 on a card, head, antennae, and forewings on a slide. 



Tetramopria pulchra, n. sp. 



9 . Head and abdomen black ; thorax and petiole rich 

 chestnut-red ; legs and antennae golden-yellow, the antennal 

 club fuscous. Structure of body much as in longiciliata^ but 

 the thorax is somewhat flattened, scarcely convex ; scutellum 

 on either side at base with a minute fovea, widely separated ; 

 petiole not twice as long as wide; second segment occupying 

 over two-thirds of body of abdomen. Forewings not especially 

 slender; marginal cilia not long, the discal cilia dense. Scape 

 normal, also the pedicel and funicle joints ; pedicel twice as 

 long as wide, the funicle joints distinctly narrower; first twice 

 as long as vv^ide, 2-6 shortening, the sixth a third longer than 

 wide ; next joint widened to form part of club, but distinctly 

 longer than wide, the following joint a little wider, as wide as 

 long, the penultimate still wider, wider than long. Length, 

 175 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns district. Described from one 

 female caught by sweeping in jungle, July 21, 1913 (A. P. 

 Dodd). • 



Type. — I. 5166, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a tag, antennae and forewings on a slide. 



There is still another species from the Cairns district 

 resembling pulchra, but the body is distinctly more flattened, 

 and there are other differences. 



DiPHOROPRiA, Kieffer. 

 Based on a male from Australia. The genus is unknown 

 to me. 



DiPHOROPRiA RUFiPES, Kieffer. 



Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat., Metz, vol. xii., 1905, p. 103. Australia. 



DiAPRiA, Latreille. 

 See notes under Ashmeadopria, Kieffer. 



DiAPRiA ( ?) coccoPHAGA, Maskcll. 



Trans. New Zealand Instit., vol. xi. (1879), p. 229. Australia 

 (Kieffer). 



Family SCELIONIDAE. 



From time to time new members of this family present 

 themselves and call for description. It is a noteworthy fact 

 that all species described here fall into genera already recorded 

 from Australia. 



