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2 and 3 brilliant blue-green, also a small area at base of 4 and 

 5 laterally, this area much larger on 6 and 7. Legs 

 concolorous, the trochanters, knees, apex of tibiae, and the 

 tarsi, white; antennae concolorous, the scape white. 



Head, scutum, and scutellum with very coarse 

 reticulation, the pronotum, propodeum, and abdomen 

 smooth. Apical spur on hind tibiae normal. Wings hyaline. 

 Scutum with about six bristles, the scutellum with one on 

 either side rather far laterally and posteriorly. Pedicel a 

 little shorter than funicle 1 which is twice as long as wide and 

 distinctly longer than 2 or 3, 3 a little longer than wide; club 

 1 somewhat longer than wide, longer than 2. 



Hab. — Queensland: Cairns district (one female on leaves 

 of sugarcane, May, 1915, A. P. Dodd). 



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



Mestocharomyia oophaga, n. sp. 



9. Length, 1'30 mm. Dark metallic-blue; the antennae 

 concolorous, also the legs, the tarsi (except apical joint) 

 white. 



Head no wider than the thorax ; viewed from above 

 much wider than long ; viewed from in front somewhat wider 

 than long; eyes large, bare; ocelli large, in an equilateral 

 triangle; vertex obscurely finely scaly; frons densely scaly, 

 below antennal insertion smooth ; mandibles bidentate, the 

 teeth subequal, acute. Thorax with raised lines of reticulation, 

 the lines not dense, the propodeum shining and finely 

 obscurely scaly; pronotum transverse; scutum large, with 

 several scattered bristles; parapsidal furrows posteriorly 

 forming large shallow depressions, which are smooth and 

 shining; scutellum longer than wide, simple; propodeum 

 transverse, without a neck, at meson with two diverging 

 carinae, and also true lateral carinae are present, these 

 curving around posterior margin and joining the median 

 carinae; spiracles small, rounded, no spiraeular sulci. Petiole 

 stout, wider than long, finely densely scaly; body of abdomen 

 ovate, no wider or longer than the thorax ; wholly densely 

 scaly, except at base of segment 2 ; segment 2 occupying over 

 one-half of surface, its posterior margin straight; surface 

 with a few scattered setae. Hind tibial spur long and slender, 

 almost as long as first two tarsal joints combined; 

 intermediate tibial spurs also long and slender. Antennae 

 inserted somewhat below middle of face, and a little above a 

 line drawn across ventral end of eyes : 8-jointed, with one 

 ring, three funicle, and two club joints ; scape slender ; pedicel 

 distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints, which are 

 globular, 1 a little the smallest; club not well separated 



