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<3 . Like the female, but the abdomen flat, not convex 

 ventrad, segment 2 nearly twice as long as 3. 



Hab. — Queensland: Cairns district (one male, five 

 females, bred from puparia of a Drosophilid fly, the larvae of 

 which destroy the sugarcane mealy bug, Pseudococcus(l) 

 calceolaria* t September, 1915, A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — A female on a tag, head and antennae on a slide. 



In the female type and in the single male specimen, the 

 third ring joint is almost quadrate and suggests a small 

 funicle joint, somewhat as in Hypopteromalus dubius, Girault 

 and Dodd; in all the other females it is much more transverse. 

 The length of the second and third abdominal segments is 

 greater than in the genotype and agrees better with 

 Apterosemoidea, Girault, but Pterosemoidea and Apterose- 

 moidea appear to the author to represent one genus. A single 

 parasite emerges from each puparium. 



OOCTOMLTS AUREINOTUM> n. Sp. 



9 • Length, 1'85 mm. Head and abdomen black, also 

 practically all venter of thorax, metanotum, and parapsides, 

 the rest of the thorax bright ochreous; antennal scape yellow, 

 the pedicel dusky, the nagellum black; petiole pallid; coxae 

 white, margined with black, the legs otherwise golden-yellow, 

 the femora with an elongate black mark at basal half, the 

 two posterior pair of tibiae somewhat dusky. 



Head transverse. Pronotum short; scutum wider than 

 long, the parapsides convex ; axillae meeting at base of 

 scutellum; scutellum as long as wide; postscutellum very 

 short; propodeum long, as long as the scutellum, the meson 

 faintly depressed and with two very delicate median grooves; 

 thorax wholly with fine polygonal scaly sculpture. Abdomen 

 ovate, no longer than the thorax. Forewings long and broad; 

 somewhat infuscate, this darker and forming an obscure 

 blotch medially toward apex; apex almost truncate; marginal 

 cilia short; discal cilia very dense; marginal vein long, but 

 somewhat shorter than the submarginal. Petiole* a little 

 longer than wide, but distinctly shorter than hind coxae. 

 Antennae 11-jointed; pedicel one-half longer than wide; 

 funicle joints elongate, the third and fourth slightly the 

 longest, a little longer than first, which is slightly longer than 

 the eighth, the latter two-and-a-half times as long as wide ; 

 club very long, nearly as long as the three preceding joints 

 united. 



Hab. — Queensland: Yungaburra, 2,500 feet (one female, 

 jungle, May, 1915, A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — A female on a slide. 



