28 AUSTRALASIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 
The transverse-quadrate head and broad abdomen with the narrow thorax 
give the insect almost the habitus of a w ingless Cyaipid and the body lacks the highly 
polished appearance of most Diapriidee. 
Genotype the following species :— 
ANTARCTOPRIA LATIGASTER, Sp. nov. 
(Text-figs. 9, 10, and 22.) 
Length 2.0-2.7 mm. Black, the thorax and legs ferruginous or fuscous; antennal 
scape and the pedicel in part, rufous; palpi yellowish; head behind dull rufous. Head 
when seen from above about one-half wider than long; the temples about twice as 
wide as the eyes; rounded behind. Eyes nearly round; ocelli in a somewhat flattened 
triangle, the posterior pair closer to one another than to the eye-mazgin. Antennal 
scape half as long as the remainder of the antenna, not distinctly bispinulose at tip; 
pedicel twice as long as wide; first flagellar joint as long, but more slender; four 
following joints moniliform, growing scarcely wider, following gradually broader, and 
transverse, except the last, and forming the club. Mesonotum with a few punctures; 
groove at base of scutellum with a more or less distinct median raised line. Propleurze 
smooth; mesopleure with short horizontal strize behind. Petiole of abdomen rugose- 
not very distinctly fluted; body of abdomen inpunctate, sparsely clothed with pale 
erect hairs, as are also the remainder of the body and the legs; second segment about 
twice as long as wide. 
Types:—Holotype and paratypes from Macquarie Island. Holotype in 
Australian Museum, Sydney. No. Co.2; paratypes in Coll. Bussey Inst., and 
Australian Museum. 
