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Cristatithorax viridiscutum, Girault. 



Three females bred from ootheca of a common Blattid, 

 Ellipsidion pellucidum, on leaves of sugarcane, Cairns district, 

 April, 1915, A. P. Dodd. 



EUPELMUS, Sp. 



9 • Length, 1"65 mm., exclusive of the ovipositor. 

 Aeneous-green ; legs concolorous, the intermediate tibiae 

 golden -yellow, washed with metallic for basal third, the 

 knees, apex of posterior tibiae, and the last two pairs of 

 tarsi, yellow, the anterior tarsi dusky, the intermediate 

 femora yellow at base ; antennae wholly concolorous ; ovipositor 

 valves concolorus, with an intermediate whitish portion of 

 varying length, but never longer than the distal dark portion, 

 the white portion sometimes obscure, the valves then 

 appearing nearly wholly concolorous. 



Head, dorsal aspect, somewhat wider than the thorax ; 

 with open impressed reticulation ; eyes large, feebly pubescent. 

 Thorax densely scaly ; scutum rather long ; the median lobe 

 rather feebly depressed posteriorly; scutellum convex, the 

 axillae a little separated at its base. Abdomen no wider than 

 the thorax; widest at two-thirds its length; finely scaly; 

 segments 2-5 incised at meson of posterior margin; ovipositor 

 extruded for a length equal to less than one-third that of 

 abdomen. Intermediate tarsi with numerous black teeth. 

 Forewings almost attaining- apex of ovipositor; hyaline; 

 marginal vein long, about as long as the submarginal, the 

 postmarginal no longer than the stigmal. Scape slender; 

 pedicel a little longer than joints 3 or 4 of funicle; flagellum 

 gently incrassate ; funicle 1 short, ring-like, wider than long, 

 2 nearly thrice as long but distinctly shorter than 3 or 4, 

 which are fully twice as long as wide and longest, 8 quadrate. 

 Mandibles tridentate. 



d ■ Anterior tibiae and tarsi wholly yellow. Scutum not 

 depressed; propodeum distinctly longer than in the female, 

 with a median carina. Abdominal segments not incised at 

 meson of posterior margin. Antennae 11-jointed, with one 

 transverse ring joint, the club solid; scape not long but much 

 longer, than any of the funicle joints; pedicel stout, a little 

 longer than wide, ring joint very short; flagellum pilose; 

 funicle 1 over twice as long as wide, 1-4 subequal, the others 

 a little shorter; club twice as long as preceding joint, a little 

 longer than the scape. 



Several specimens bred from the bean-fly, Af/romyza 

 phaseoli, in stems of cow-pea, Cairns district, September, 1915 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



