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Phanurus hilli, sp. nov. 



9 . Shining-black ; legs (including the coxae) golden- 

 yellow; antennae a little suffused with yellow. Head sub- 

 quadrate, as wide as the thorax; thorax slender, one-half 

 longer than wide. Abdomen as long as the head and thorax 

 united, narrower than the thorax; first and base of second 

 segment striate; second segment longer than wide, equal to 

 one-half the abdominal length. Antennae 11-jointed; scape 

 long and slender ; pedicel a little longer than wide ; funicle- 

 joints all small, narrower than the pedicel ; first as long as 

 wide; 2-4 wider than long; club 5-jointed, joints 1-4 wider 

 than long ; first joint small ; second slightly the longest and 

 widest. Forewings reaching apex of abdomen ; rather narrow, 

 the apex rounded ; hyaline ; longest marginal cilia equal to 

 one-sixth greatest - wing width; discal cilia moderately dense, 

 fine, arranged in about 16 rows; submarginal vein attaining 

 the costa a little before the middle of the wing ; marginal 

 vein as long as the stigmal, which is rather oblique and short ^ 

 postmarginal vein three times as long as the marginal. Length, 

 1 mm. 



S . Abdomen shorter than in the female. Antennae 

 12-jointed; golden-yellow; third funicle-joint enlarged, wider 

 than the others, which are more or less subequal, small, as 

 wide or wider than long. 



Hab. — Northern Territory: Stapleton. Described from 

 numerous specimens of each sex received from Mr. G. F. Hill, 

 Government Entomologist, Northern Territory, and labelled r 

 "From Tabanid egg-clusters, Stapleton, N.T., 7.1.13." 



Type. — I. 2180, South Australian Museum. Three 

 females, one male on a slide. 



I have much pleasure in naming this species after its dis- 

 coverer. 



Telenomus ossa, sp. nov. 



9 . Like ceta, Dodd, but the tibiae are almost wholly 

 black; first funicle-joint distinctly shorter than the pedicel, 

 scarcely longer than wide ; the others wider than long ; an- 

 tennal club more transverse, the second joint being the widest 

 and longest ; the venation is fuscous, yellow in ceta; the stigmal 

 vein is scarcely as long and is slightly bent in the centre. 

 Length, 1'10 mm. 



Hab.— North Queensland: Nelson. Described from one 

 specimen caught by sweeping in forest, July 7, 1913 (A. P. 

 Dodd). 



Type. — I. 2181, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a slide. 



