327 NOTES ON SOME NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND NEW SPECIES. By William H. Ashmead, Assistant Curatoh, Division op Insects, U.S. National Museum. (Communicated by W. W. Froygatt, F.L.S.) The following notes and descriptions of new genera and new species of parasitic Hymenoptera are based upon a small but most interesting collection of these insects, sent me last summer by Mr. Walter W. Froggatt, Government Entomologist of New South Wales, or upon specimens collected by Mr. Albert Koebele, formerly an Assistant Entomologist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, but at present Government Entomologist in the Hawaiian Islands. Superfamily iii.-ISSPOIDEA. Family xxxiii.— BETHYLID^E. Genus A t e l E o p t e r u s, Forster. (1) Ateleopterus longiceps, n.sp. Q. — Length 4 -5 mm. Very elongate, black and shining; head anteriorly finely alutaceous, metathorax delicately shagreened ; tibiae ferruginous, tarsi yellowish ; antennae, except the scape basally, with the first four or five joints of the flagellum, yellowish; scape basally and the other joints fuscous or dark brown. Wings, except the basal third which is hyaline, are fuscous; subcostal