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nearly perpendicular at less than the basal half, then 
gently curves far disto-laterad ; the small, round spiracle 
is not right on to it and is cephalad. Sunken part of the 
parapside glabrous, its bristle meso-sephalad of its 
centre. Scutum and parapside transverse-reticulate; pro- 
podeon glabrous. Pronotum at caudal half glabrous, 
divided at the half. Scutellum scaly longitudinally, its 
apex and the postscutellum glabrous. Inner margin of 
the eye concave. 
As compared with the genotype (types) stouter 
slightly, the sculpture of the scutellum coarser slightly, 
and the hind femur is slightly stouter; the outer palpus 
is darker, its terminal seta exceeding the part. No other 
differences are seen. The basal and cubital nervures form 
the usual ciliated V in the wings of both species. 
Six females reared out from the larvae of Prome- 
catheca, a leaf-miner of cocoanut fronds, September 28, 
1936, Manus, Terr. New Guinea, B. A. O’Connor. Types 
in the foreign department of the Queensland Museum. 
Pseudacrias aspidomorphae nov. 
This species may be known from the seventeen or 
eighteen other species of the genus as found in Australia 
by the following characteristics: Legs and scape concolor- 
ous; meson of the propodeon bicarinate only, the carinae 
separated at base; spicule normal; mandibles bidentate; 
median carinae of the propodeon diverging from base; 
funicle joints sub equal to or exceeding the pedicel, at 
least the first oval or longer than wide ; scutellum entirely 
sculptured; hind tibial spur elongate; of usual size; first 
funicle segment equal the pedicel ; spicule bifurcate. 
As quadricarinatus as depicted in revised tables in respect 
to the parapsidal impression. Second segment of the 
abdomen two-thirds of the surface, nearly its distal half 
sculptured; first segment of the club equal to the pedicel. 
Close to livida. 
The female has never been seen, the species being 
founded upon six males reared from the pupa of 
Aspidomorpha found upon a convolvulaceous plant at 
Brisbane, October 10th, 1929 ; the collector was Mr. A. R. 
Brimblecombe, as also the rearer. 
EUPELM1NAE. 
Eupelmus scarabaei nov. 
In my synopsis of the Australian species, this one 
runs to lavoirsieri Girault, but differs in the following 
