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Masner — Genera of Diapriinae 
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Austropria gen.n. 
Female. — Most of head heavily punctured ; punctures dense, deep 
and rather large; seen from above head distinctly longer than wide; 
frons deeply excavated at antennal shelf, bordered with a con- 
tinuous serrate crest anteriorly, the latter with largest teeth right 
above eyes; frons above clypeus longitudinally bulging, flanked by 
two smooth oblong impressions just above mandibles; eyes round, 
rather small, hairy, composed of large facets; ocelli small yet distinct, 
lateral ones closer to orbit than to median ocellus; mandibles pro- 
truded to form a beak directed almost backwards (opisthognathous) ; 
maxillary palpi 5-segmented, labial 2-segmented; antenna 11 -seg- 
mented, with an abrupt 3-segmented club. 
Mesosoma extensively modified due to apterism ; most of the 
sutures obliterated or indistinct; prothorax rather large, suture 
dividing prothorax from mesoscutum very faint and almost invisible; 
mesoscutum almost flat, fused with scutellum and metanotum ; suture 
dividing scutellum from metanotum indicated by an indistinct row 
of minute punctures; tegulae in the form of minute points, wings 
wholly absent; propodeum very long, separated distinctly from 
thorax by deep cleft, unarmed, flat, in same level as the rest of 
mesosoma; a faint suture running down from tegula to front coxa; 
tarsi 5-segmented; spur of front tibia unusually long. 
Petiole cylindrical, slightly longer than wide; front margin of 
great tergite slightly elevated to form a foveolated collar, notched 
medially; great tergite occupying most of the length of metasoma; 
terminal segments very narrow, yet rather loose and not fused in a 
solid plate; great sternite with no fold basally. 
Type species: Austropria serraticeps sp.n. 
Austropria serraticeps sp.n. 
(figs. 1, 2, 3) 
Female holotype. — -Sandringham, Vic., May 1928, J. C. Goudie 
coll. (National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne) ; unique. 
Length 1.5 mm. Ferrugineous; antennal club, eyes and tip of 
metasoma black. 
Head covered all over with dense silvery hairs, longer than wide 
(20:10), much wider than mesosoma (16:12), seen laterally longer 
than high (20:16) ; punctures on occiput, temples and genae large 
and deep yet less dense, not contiguous; punctures on vertex obscured 
by fine shagreened sculpture (between eyes) ; frons between an- 
tennal insertion and serrate crest almost smooth and shining, deeply 
concave; teeth of the serrate crest extending along the inner orbit, 
