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(2) Antenna* with the funicle 4- jointed, the club 3-join ted; two ring-joints. 
Fore wings with the discal ciliation arranged in more or less regular lines; postmarginal 
vein longer than the stigmal; propodeurn short but with a median carina; 
abdomen sessile, long, conical, pointed ovate. Mandibles trident ate. 
Seeodella Girault (Type: S. lineata Girault). 
(Compare Cluthaira Cameron.) 
Tribe EUPLECTRINI. 
Characterised by bearing two unequal, elongate spurs on the hind tibia*. 
Genus EUPLECTRUS Westwood. 
The Australian forms described by me have a 2- jointed club, the funicle 4- jointed, 
the scuteilum with no grooves. The antenna* 9- jointed. Mandibles absent? 
1. EUPLECTRUS AUSTRALIENSIS Ashmead. Female. 
Ashmead, 1900, p. 347. 
Black, antenna* light brownish; abdomen except extreme tip above and the legs except 
the black hind coxa*, peach yellow. Pronotum rather coarsely, confluently punctate, mesonotum 
with sparse, moderately large punctures cephalad but smooth caudad; scuteilum feebly 
shagreened. 
Habitat: Australia. 
Type: Cat. No. 4901, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 
2. EUPLECTRUS AGARISTiE Crawford. Female. 
(Crawford, 1911, p. 281. Cameron, 1912, p. 212.) 
Black, the abdomen largely reddish-testaceous; elypeal region whitish, all of legs reddish- 
testaceous; funicle 1 distinctly longer than the pedicel, the following joints shortening; joint 
4 about equal to pedicel in length. Scutum with a median longitudinal carina and rather finely 
rugose, the ruga* more or less transverse, the parapsidal area more finely sculptured than the 
median lobe; axillse much more finely striate; scuteilum finely indistinctly lineolately reticulated, 
the lines more or less longitudinal; wings slightly yellowish; proximal joint of hind coxa* 
slightly longer than second; abdomen margined all around with dark brown. 
Habitat: Sydney, New South Wales. Larva* of Agarista glycine. 
Type: Cat. No. 13, 972, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 
According to Cameron (he.), the larva* of this species feed exteriorly on the larva* of 
its host, forming their cocoons in company, t( enveloping them in a mass of dark greyish, 
coarse, woolly hair, on the remains of the devoured caterpillars.” Thus, the Australian 
members of the genus have the usual larval habits of its extra- Australian species. Cameron in 
the same place supposes this species to be common and variable, the median carina of scutum 
present or absent. 
3. EUPLECTRUS XANTHOCEPHALUS Girault. Female. 
Like anstr alien sis Ashmead but the head and hind coxa also honey yellow; petiole of 
abdomen black; a broad brownish stripe across the abdomen distad of middle followed by a 
narrow stripe, the two joined along the middle; scrolies blackish. Wings slightly stained 
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