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<20) Females (part). Thorax not nar- 

 rowed; maxillary palpi 5-jointed, 



labials 3-jointed 



Males ; females. Thorax strongly 

 narrowed ; maxillary palpi 4- 

 jointed, labials 2-jointed 



(21) Males; females. Mesonotum with 



two furrows; males and females 

 without wings, or the wings rudi- 

 mentary 



Females (part). Mesonotum without 

 furrows, or with only a median 

 one; males always winged 



(22) Females; male unknown. Head flat- 



tened, the frons directed dorsad ; 

 mesonotum without furrows 

 Head not flattened, the frons 

 directed cephalad 



(23) Females (part). Scutellum dis- 



tinctly convex ; mesonotum with- 

 out furrows, or with a median one 



more or less distinct 



Males (part) ; females (part). Scutel- 

 lem scarcely convex ; mesonotum 

 always with a distinct median 

 furrow 



7. Conostigmus, Dahlbom 



16. Conostigmoides, gen. 



[nov. =Eumegaspilus, 

 [Ashmead, 1893 



17. Dichogmus, Thomson 



2. Dendrocerus, Ratzeburg 



18. Synarsis, Foerster 

 (23) 



10. Aphanogmus, Thomson 



11. Ceraphron, Jurine 



Dendrocerus sordidus, sp. nov. 



9 . Head and thorax dark-brown ; antennae fuscous ; 

 legs brown, suffused with yellow, the tarsi pale honey-yellow; 

 abdomen missing. Head subquadrate, a little wider than the 

 thorax; eyes pubescent. Thorax distinctly longer than wide; 

 mesonotum with a distinct median furrow, the parapsidal 

 furrows wanting ; axillae meeting at the base of the scutellum ; 

 scutellum longer than wide ; head and thorax with fine poly- 

 gonal sculpture and fine pubescence. Antennae 11-jointed; 

 scape equal to next four joints combined; pedicel one-half 

 longer than wide; first funicle-joint scarcely shorter than the 

 pedicel; funicle- joints 2-9 gradually and slightly widening 

 towards the apex ; funicle-joints 2-8 as wide as long, sub- 

 quadrate; last joint one-half longer than wide, scarcely longer 

 than the pedicel. Forewings moderately long; rather broad, 

 the apex squarely rounded; hyaline, with an obscure band 

 just involving the stigma and stigmal vein ; discal cilia fine 

 and dense ; stigma rather large, scarcely twice as long as wide ; 

 stigmal vein scarcely longer than the stigma ; venation brown. 

 Length of head and thorax, 0'75 mm. Total length, probably 

 about 1*50 mm. 



Hah. — North Queensland: Pentland. Described from 

 one female caught by sweeping in forest, January 8, 1913 (A. 

 A. Girault). 



Type. — I. 2010, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a slide. 



