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metallic-blue, the aiitennge black, the legs concolorous, the 

 tips of tibiae and the tarsi whitish ; exserted portion of the 

 valves of the ovipositor as long as in pax, black at tip, its 

 proximal two-thirds whitish. Forewings with a distinct dusky- 

 blotch from the marginal and postmarginal veins and slightly 

 beyond, the apex hyaline and also the rest of the wing ; two- 

 thirds the way across to the caudal margin the blotch dis- 

 appears or nearly, so that it is rectangular, but irregularly so. 

 Abdomen shaped as in pa.r. Otherwise as in the preceding 

 species, excepting that the venation and scutellum differ some- 

 what in details. Length, 3 mm. 



Described from a single female. 



Hah. — New South Wales: Lawson (A. M. Lea). 



Type. — I. 1274, South Australian Museum. The above 

 specimen and a slide bearing an antenna and the legs. 



Parasolindenia, new gen. 



9 . Running to Solindenia, Cameron, but differing at 

 once in the wings, which are vestigial, small but perfect, and 

 banded with black; the head is not wider than the thorax, 

 triangular from cephalic aspect; antennae 13-jointed, one ring- 

 joint, the club 3-jointed. The small wings with a long, rather 

 broad, marginal vein, a very short stigmal with a knob, the 

 postmarginal absent or nearly, the blade densely hispid except 

 in places. Submarginal vein long, the costal cell wide. 



d" . Not known. 



Type. — The following species. 



Parasolindenia hemiptera, new sp. 



9 . Head and abdomen dark metallic-green, the thorax 

 reddish, the legs concolorous with it ; a white band across base 

 of abdomen ; proximal half of antenna yellowish-white (scape, 

 pedicel, ring-joint, and first three funicle-joints, the third 

 funicle- joint suffused with dusky), the rest black. Forewings 

 fuscous and hispid from base of marginal vein to apex but 

 interrupted more than half-way to the apex by a central, 

 triangular naked and hyaline spot, which extends nearly 

 to the margins from opposite sides. First funicle- joint 

 longest but yet subequal to the third, the following shorten- 

 ing, the club shorter than the scape. Head with a scaly 

 sculpture, and also the thorax and abdomen, but less rough. 

 Posterior wings hyaline. Length, 3'50 mm. 



From one specimen on a card. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns (A. M. Lea). 



Type. — I. 1275, South Australian Museum. The above 

 specimen with a slide bearing legs, antenna, and forewing. 



