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Hah. — Queensland: Cairns district (a large series bred 

 from larvae of the Hesperid butterfly, Telicota augias, on 

 leaves of sugarcane, October, 1915, A. P. Dodd). 



Types. — Three females, one male, on a tag; heads and 

 antennae on a slide. 



The parasites pupate loosely and naked beside the skin 

 of the host. Several heads crushed revealed no trace of 

 mandibles; are they absent? Belonging to that group of 

 species in which the head and thorax are unmarked metallic 

 except for the yellow postscutellum, the posterior coxae are 

 partially metallic, and the abdomen has the base and apex 

 metallic with a long intermediate yellow area, and containing 

 unguttativentr-is, Girault, and murwillumbahensis, Girault, 

 but differing from both in the long unmarked orange portion 

 of abdomen. 



EURYISCHIA SHAKESPEAREI, Girault. 



Several females reared from puparia of a small Dipteron 

 (Phorid ?) attacking the sugarcane aphid, Aphis sacchari, 

 October, 1915, Cairns district, A. P. Dodd. A single parasite 

 emerges from each puparium. 



EURYISCHIA ALEURODIS, n. Sp. 



9- Length, 0'75 mm. Dull black, unmarked; coxae, 

 femora, and hind tibiae dusky, the legs otherwise pallid; 

 antennae wholly clear golden-yellow. 



Face inflexed ; scutum and scutellum with fine scaly 

 surface sculpture ; abdomen conic-ovate, the ovipositor a little 

 exserted. Forewings indefinitely stained beneath marginal 

 vein; moderately broad; marginal cilia equal to about one- 

 fifth greatest wing width ; discal cilia fine and dense, at widest 

 portion in about 30 lines ; venation indistinct, fuscous ; stigmal 

 vein two-thirds length of marginal vein. Antennae 9-jointed, 

 with a ring joint ; pedicel slender, as long as first two funicle 

 joints combined ; funicle joints as wide or a little wider than 

 long, 1 distinctly smaller than 2 or 3 ; club wider than funicle, 

 joints 1 and 2 rather wider than long. 



Hab. — Queensland: Cairns district (four females reared 

 from Aleurodes on sugarcane, October, 1915, A. P. Dodd). 



Tt/pe. — Two females on a slide. 



A small inconspicuous species : the ciliation of the fore- 

 wings is as in shakespearei. 



Family PTEROMALIDAE. 



POLYCYSTOMYIA BENEFICA, 11. sp. 



9 . Length, 1*75 mm. Agreeing with the generic 

 diagnosis, but there are delicate obscure lateral carinae that 



