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(polygonal) sculpture, also the propodeum dorso-laterally (in 

 dorsal aspect glabrous) ; mesoscutum, parapsides, cheeks, and 

 axillae with the fin-er sculpture of Tetrastichus. First funicle- 

 joint longest, longer than wide, the others wider than long ; 

 pedicel the longest of the flagellum. Length, 3*15 mm. 

 Robust, long. 



Described from a female. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Lawson ; and Queensland: 

 Mount Tambourine (A. M. Lea). 



Type. — I. 1234, South Australian Museum. The Lawson 

 specimen and a slide bearing antennae. A second specimen 

 was in the same collection labelled Mount Tambourine. It 

 was less robust. 



PEDIOBIINI. 



Eriglypto]DEUS, new gen. 



9 . Like Metacrias, Girault MS., but the funicle- joints 

 long and slender, the funicle filiform ; also the postmarginal 

 and stigmal veins are long and subequal. Also closely allied 

 with Nesomyia, Ashmead, and Eriglyptus, Crawford, but the 

 two-named veins are long and the club is only 2- jointed ; nine 

 antennal- joints including a very short ring- joint, the funicle 

 4-jointed ; distal club-joint terminating in a spur which, not 

 being a joint, is not counted. Wings hyaline, densely ciliated, 

 the marginal fringes short. Propodeum reticulated, with no 

 caringe. Thorax and head polygonally punctate, the body 

 slender, not convex. Petiole short and stout. 



d . Not known. 



Type. — The following species. 



Eriglytoideus varicornis, new sp. 



9 . Dark metallic-green, the scutellum and propodeum 

 aeneous, the face sunken, blue. Legs concolorous, the tro- 

 chanters, tibiae, and tarsi yellowish ; scape pallid at each end, 

 the distal club- joint yellowish-white. Length, 1'50 mm. 



Described from a single female on a card. 



Hah. — South Australia: Murray Bridge (A. M. Lea). 



Type. — I. 1236, South Australian Museum. The above 

 specimen and a slide bearing forewing and antenna. 



• OMPHALINI. 



Secodes, Foerster. 



Secodes sumneri, new sp. 



9 . Dark metallic-green, the face blue ; propodeum with 

 a short median carina and smooth but polygonally reticu- 

 lated. Tarsi white except distal two joints; legs otherwise 



