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COCCIDENCYRTUS EUCALYPTI, n. Sp. 



9 . Length, 0'85 mm. Bright metallic brassy-green, 

 the abdomen darker; ooxae metallic, also anterior and hind 

 femora and hind tibiae, the rest of the legs yellow ; scape, 

 pedicel, and club submetallic, the scape and pedicel yellow 

 at apex, the funicle dusky-yellow. 



Head normal, the face inflexed, the antennal scrobes 

 long; frons moderately broad; eyes large, almost bare. 

 Pronotum very short ; scutum large, longer than the 

 scutellum; head, scutum, and scutellum densely reticulate- 

 punctate; axillae feebly sculptured, somewhat separated. 

 Abdomen triangular, short, distinctly shorter than thorax. 

 Forewings attaining well beyond apex of abdomen ; broad ; 

 hyaline ; marginal vein very short, thickened, the stigmal 

 short and straight, fully twice as long as the very short 

 postmarginal. Antennae 11-jointed; scape slender; pedicel 

 one-third longer than wide, much longer than any of the 

 funicle joints; funicle widening distad, the joints much wider 

 than long, 1 the smallest; club enlarged, as long as funicle, 

 truncate at apex, 3-jointed, joint 1 a little the longest. 

 Mandibles slender, tridentate, the teeth acute. 



Hah. — Northern Territory: Darwin (a large series 

 labelled "Galls on Eucalyptus miniatus, 1/8/15, G. F. Hill"). 



Type. — Two females on a slide. 



Differs from bicoloricornis, Girault, in colorational 

 details, in the sculpture of the thorax, rather different 

 antennal segmentation, and wing venation. 



Tetracnemella megymeni, n. sp. 



9 • Length, 1'35 mm. Of stout form, resembling the 

 Proctotrypoid genus, Hadronotus, Foerster. 



Dark metallic-green, the scutellum brilliant, also the 

 vertex, scutum, and base of abdomen; tarsi, knees, and all of 

 intermediate legs (except the coxae), intense golden-yellow; 

 antennae wholly concolorous. 



Head (dorsal aspect), broad; ocelli very small; eyes very 

 large, the frons between the eyes moderately broad ; face 

 normal, gently inflexed ; antennal scrobes shallow, not long, 

 the antennae separated by a rounded prominence. Head with 

 dense polygonal fine reticulation, finer on the thorax. Thorax 

 stout ; scutellum a little longer than the scutum ; axillae 

 widely separated. Abdomen stout, as wide at base as at 

 centre, a little wider than long. Teeth of mandibles small, 

 the inner tooth broadly truncate. Forewings with a smoky 

 band across wing terminating just beyond apex of stigmal 

 vein ; attaining apex of abdomen ; marginal vein short, no 



