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nearly thrice as long as the following united. Forewings long 

 and broad ; subhyaline ; venation fuscous ; marginal vein stout, 

 barely twice as long as wide, the stigmal shorter, the basal 

 well-marked, the median hardly indicated. Scape normal ; 

 pedicel twice as long as wide ; first funicle joints somewhat 

 narrower, somewhat over twice as long as wide, the second 

 and third subequal, a third longer than wide, the fifth a 

 little wider than long; club not differentiated, hardly wider 

 than funicle, the joints (except the last) a little wider than 

 long. Length, 3 mm. 



Hob. — New South Wales: Brooklyn. One female, 

 labelled "Sweeping grass, etc., November 18, 1914, A. A. 

 Girault." 



Type. — I. 5413, South Australian Museum. A female 

 on a tag, antenna and forewings on a slide. 



Nearest to victoria e, Dodd, but the legs are darker, the 

 metanotum does not bear a raised scale at base, and the 

 foveae at base of scutellum are situated obliquely to each 

 other. 



Spilomicrus gracilis, Dodd. 



One female, jungle, 1,200 feet, Cairns district, July, 1915 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Family CERAPHRONIDAE. 



Ceraphron erythrothorax, n. sp. 



9- Of stout form. Head and abdomen black; thorax 

 rich ochreous, the sides and venter more or less blackish, 

 also centre of scutellum posteriorly ; legs golden-yellow, the 

 intermediate coxae darker : antennae black, the scape yellow 

 at base. Vertex of head rather broad; eyes large, pubescent; 

 face well depressed for its entire length, with a few transverse 

 obscure rugae ; head otherwise smooth, except for scattered 

 setae. Thorax stout, its dorsum somewhat convex : without 

 sculpture, but with whitish pubescence, this very sparse in 

 centre of scutellum ; median groove of scutellum distinct ; 

 scutellum plainly longer than wide ; post-scutellum with a 

 distinct blunt central spine or tooth ; latero-posterior angles 

 of metanotum with blunt prominences. Abdomen stout, 

 broad ; no longer than head and thorax united ; acute and 

 upturned at apex; with a few striae at base, smooth for the 

 rest ; second segment occupying most of surface. Forewings 

 long ; broad, rather broadly rounded at apex ; a little infus- 

 cate ; discal cilia very dense, fine ; venation yellowish ; 

 marginal vein barely one-fourth as long as the long stigmal, 

 the latter curved, its apex distant from the cost a by nearly 



