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THIS great group, in the Australlian fauna, is very nearly as numerous in species as the Eulophide. Five distinct subfamilies are recognised—the Encyrtine, the Eupelmine, the Signiphorine, the Taneostigmine and the Aphelinine. The latter group in recent years has been placed with the Eulophide, untenably so. From a distance, this is the most unlikable family in the chalcidoid series but close acquaintance reveals so many fascinating qualities that students, after some experience, will no doubt choose it as a favorite. The remarkable diversity in structure, the wonderful color patterns, the unique and odd special structural enormities, the great structural likeness of the members of a genus, the jumping habit, the present uncertainty regarding relationships, the whole diverse and varied panorama is such that the most torpid of interests must finally become conscious of a spell. The family was to me a ‘‘black beast.’” It had been left until last and finally attacked with the determination born of despair. This was due mainly to my inability to place species in their proper genera and I must confess that for the first three months during which species in this group were steadily described hardly one was placed into its proper genus. My inter- pretation of a genus became gradually clearer as experience increased and Ashmead’s (1904) tables of the Eneyrtinew, formerly thrown aside as worthless, are now accepted in the main as good. The generic differences are smaller than I had thought. Such characters, however, as pubescence, sculpture and wing pattern must be ignored as regards genera. The genus Hupelmus is large. Ashmead’s table of the Eupelmine must be condemned; it is based, in this instance, upon too trifling characters—pubescence on the eyes and the incisions of the caudal margins of the abdominal segments are highly variable characters; some of the language used is misleading; a number of the genera must fall as synonyms. In some of the encyrtine genera, it is extraordinary that two species may oceur which are alike in every detail except for some structural characteristic easily overlooked; for example Baoanusia magniclava and B. persimilis; in the latter, the axilla are a little separated while in the former they are joined and with the usual carina between them. The family is open to philosophical treatment of the highest order. SUBFAMILY EUPELMIN A. Many of the genera in this group have been founded upon two variable characters and Ashmead’s table of genera, as stated before, is very poor. It is surprising that the antenne have not been used more for principal divisions. Some of the genera, apparently, do not possess these organs for all we know to the contrary. * Contribution No. 30, Entomological Laboratory, Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, Bundaberg, Queensland. 2 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. GENUS EUPELMUS Dalman. Where ring-joint is mentioned funicle 1 is intended, this joint often ring-like. The species may have one or two spurs on the caudal tibix. The axille are separated yet rather close together. 1. EUPELMUS VARICOLOR (Girault). Genotype of Episolindelia Girault. Length, 2.10 mm., excluding extruded part of ovipositor which is two thirds or more: the length of the abdomen. Bright metallic green, the conic-ovate abdomen golden yellowish and with a metallic green dorso-lateral stripe down each side for proximal two thirds, its dorsal base also some- what metallic. Antenne black, the ring-joint and tip of pedicel whitish, the third funicle joint longest, subequal in length to the pedicel. Legs lemon yellow, the coxe black except at tip,. the intermediate tibie ringed with black a short distance below the knees, the intermediate: femora with a black spot above on one side, the same distance before the knees. Wings hyaline. Ovipositor valves white, broadly black at base, narrowly brown at tip, the brown tip about half the length of the black proximal portion. A yellow stripe down each side of the thorax, broader cephalad. Head and thorax polygonally reticulated. Seape black. Ring-joint. somewhat wider than long; funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, 3 longest of the funicle. Hind tibial spur single. Mandibles tridentate. Front femur stout. Type re-examined. Described from one female captured by sweeping miscellaneous vegetation in forest,. December 5, 1912 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2826, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a card point plus- a slide bearing an antenna and one of each pair of legs. 2, EUPELMUS VULGARELLUS new name. Idoleupelmus vulgaris Girault, 1913, p. 94. * Eupelmus vulgaris (Girault), preoccupied. Female :—Length, 4.50 mm., excluding the extruded portion of the ovipositor which is: as long as the abdomen and yellowish white except broadly at base and tip. Bright ewneous green, the wings hyaline, the legs and tegule lemon yellow (except the- cox, a dusky brownish spot above before apex on hind femur, one just below knee and another just ventrad of the first and a spot on same place on middle femur, a ring around middle: tibia just out from the knee). Sides and venter of abdomen yellow. Head and thorax very finely shagreened. Antenne 13-jointed, no ring-joint, the club 3-jointed; pedicel rimmed with whitish at apex, the first funicle joint similarly rimmed at base. Postmarginal vein longer than the stigmal. Prepectus golden yellow. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, May 3, 1913. - Type: No. Hy 2827, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head and! hind legs on a slide. 3. EUPELMUS AUSTRALIENSIS (Girault). Female. Idoleupelmus australiensis Girault, 1913, pp. 94-95. Length, 1.20 mm. Same as vulgaris but much smaller and the valves of the ovipositor: are wholly black, the hind legs lack the black spots. Antenne 13-jointed, inserted just below the ventral ends of the eyes, the first funicle- joint minute, white, not a true ring-joint, 2 twice longer, 3 still longer, quadrate, the following joints longer, all much shorter than the pedicel. Mandibles tridentate. Middle tibiz without. black teeth, with scattered light ones. Abdomen mostly yellowish above. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, April 4, 1913. Type: No. Hy 2828, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on separate tags. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 3 4, EUPELMUS GROTII new species. Female; male. Length, 3.20 mm., excluding extruded ovipositor which is white and not quite as long as the abdomen. Metallic wneous green, the abdomen, axille and scutellum burnished purplish coppery. Legs concolorous except the articulations and the tips of tibize which are yellowish brown, the tarsi whitish. Fore wings with a narrow, rather indistinct brownish line across it at base of marginal vein, more obscure centrally. Ovipositor valves black at base. Scape metallic green; rest of antenna black. Hind tibia with only one spur. Antenne 13-jointed with one quadrate ring-joint; funicle 1 longest, subequal to pedicel, over twice the length of the ring-joint, the distal funicle joint plainly wider than long. Male:—The same but the wings hyaline, the antennz and legs yellow, the hind femur within with a midlongitudinal, elliptical fuscous marking. The distal funicle joint is only slightly longer than wide, the antenne 10-jointed excluding the club, the ring-joint present. The abdomen as in Anastatus. Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. Parasitic upon the eggs of mantids in forest. : Types: No. Hy 2829, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one male, four females on tags (two pins). Dedicated to Hugo Grotius. 5. EUPELMUS ANTIPODA Ashmead. Female. Length, 3 mm. Head metallic green, thorax bottle blue, mesopleura with a greenish tinge; abdomen eneous black; ovipositor prominent, yellow for two thirds its length; wings fuscous except at proximal third which is hyaline; all coxe metallic green; sutures of trochanters, tips of tibiz and tarsi yellowish white; rest of legs wneous black. Habitat: Sydney, New South Wales. Mantid eggs. Type: Catalogue No. 4894, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Cameron (1911, pp. 651-652) gives Sydney and Darrigo, New South Wales, September. And also ‘‘ This appears to be a variable species as regards colouration: Some specimens have more of the green tint than others; the blue merges into violaceous, and there may be brassy tints. The male is green with brassy tints, and, on the metanotum, the green merges into violaceous, the antennal scape and four front legs are yellow tinged with fulvous, especially on the femora; the hind legs are coloured as in the female, except that the femora are green for the greater part; and the tibie are not so deeply black, while their base may be testaceous. The color of the wings varies, some having the fuscous tint on the apical two-thirds much lighter than the others; in the males they may be almost hyaline. ’’ Which part of the ovipositor is yellow? 6. EUPELMUS TESTACEIVENTRIS Cameron. Female. Length, 2 mm.; length of terebra 5 mm. (?) Blue with brassy tints on the base and sides of mesonotum; scape dark green, flagellum black; third and following segments of abdomen dorsad and all ventrad yellowish testaceous; sides of third segment blue, base of 1 yellow, ventral keel black; extruded part of ovipositor about half the length of the abdomen, its proximal third black, the rest yellow; legs pale straw yellow; coxe blue to near apex; apex of tarsi black. Wings hyaline, -the venation straw yellow. Face finely, closely aciculated; malar suture distinct, curved. Palpi pale testaceous; seutum closely, finely, almost transversely striated, the middle lobe clearly separated, longer than wide at base, the apex broadly rounded, the lateral lobes with a distinct transverse furrow 4 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. at base, the middle one surrounded by a wide furrew which is widest at the apex where it is transverse. Scutellum pyriform, roundly narrowed to a blunt point cephalad. An irregular black spot near apex of middle femur, a more distinct line or band near base of middle tibiz and a broad black line on either side of the basal half of hind femur; hind tibie infuseated at base. Allied with Lupelmus antipoda Ashmead. Habitat: Boggabri, New South Wales. Associated with the fruit of grasses. January. Types: Query. 7. EUPELMUS BURMEISTERI new species. Female :—Length, 1.65 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a third the length of the abdomen. Dark metallic green, the first funicle joint white, the wings hyaline; not quite distal two thirds of extruded valves of ovipositor soiled white. Thorax and abdomen finely scaly. Funicle 2 a little wider than long, 4 longest yet scarcely longer than wide. Antenne and coxee concolorous. Legs golden yellow; middle femur with a dusky band just proximad of knee; middle tibia with one just distad of knee (both separated from the knee, however). First femur centrally washed with metallic green. Axille not approximate yet not much separated. No conspicuous pubescence on thorax. Teeth on middle tarsi not black. Hind tibial spur single. First femur simple. Postmarginal vein longer than the stigmal. Hind femur proximad sub- metallic. Ovipositor valves slightly black at tip. Described from two females on slides in the collections of the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, labelled ‘‘ Among grass and herbage, March 29, April 8, 1913. H. Hacker.’’ Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Forest. Types: No. Hy 2830, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a slide. Dedicated to Hermann Burmeister. 8. EUPELMUS RENANI new species. Female :—Length, 1 mm., excluding extruded portion of ovipositor which is only one third the length of the abdomen. Agrees with the description of Anastatus pax (Girault) but much smaller and funicle 2 is short, smaller than the pedicel, about a third of its length, the pedicel much longer than any of the funicle joints of which 4 is largest, a little longer than wide. Moreover, the color is dark metallic green, the extruded valves of ovipositor, the antenna, and legs concolorous. Body finely scaly. Axille distinctly separated, but not much. Fore wing lightly infuscated to apex from about the middle of the marginal vein. From one female caught by sweeping Leptospermum, April 16, 1913 (H. Hacker). Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. EB Type: No. Hy 2831, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the body (minus wings) on a tag, the head on a slide. Dedicated to Ernest Renan. 9. EUPELMUS MONTAIGNEI new species. Female :—Lenegth, 1.50 mm., exclusive of ovipositor whose extruded portion is a third the length of the abdomen. Similar to masini but the antennz wholly concolorous, the intermediate femur and tibia immaculate, the first femur only very lightly washed with metallic, the legs pale lemon yellow except cox and lightly, cephalic femur. Postmarginal and stigmal veins shorter, subequal. Distal fourth of ovipositor distinctly black, longer than the black proximal portion. Meso- pleurum suffused with brownish. Body finely sealy. Teeth on middle tarsi black. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 5 From one female caught by sweeping in forest, January 6, 1914, Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2832, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. Respectfully dedicated to the French essayist. 10. EUPELMUS PUDICUS new species. Female :—Length, 1.25 mm. exclusive of ovipositor. Like the preceding but funicle 1 white, proximal half of scape also; femora, tibie and tarsi lemon yellow; proximal fourth of ovipositor white, rest black, the extruded portion somewhat shorter. Funicle 4 plainly longer than wide yet not much more so. Postmarginal and stigmal veins not seen. Pedicel a little longer than funicle 4, not elongate. From one female taken by sweeping forest, April 10, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2833, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head and hind leg on a slide. 11. EUPELMUS COMPRESSICAUDA new species. Female :—Length, 2.10 mm., exclusive of extruded portion of ovipositor which is as long as the slender abdomen. Long and slender, the abdomen acuminate and longer than the rest of the body, the exserted portion of ovipositor black,* the valves compressed, their tips silvery white. Wings hyaline. Dark metallic blue, the knees, distal third or more of tibiz and the tarsi pale straw yellow. Teeth of middle tarsi colored like the tarsi. Hind tibial spur single. Seape subcompressed; funicle 1 distinctly longer than wide, longer than 8 which is quadrate, shorter than the pedicel, the latter only slightly longer than funicle 2 which is longest, somewhat over twice longer than wide; 3 somewhat shorter than 2; 4 still shorter yet somewhat longer than 1. Mandibles tridentate. Thorax and abdomen finely scaly; segments 2 and 3 of abdomen deeply incised at meson of caudal margin, the next three segments much less so, 2 and 3 rather long. Postmarginal vein longer than the stigmal. Secutellum rather narrow, declivous, the axille slightly separated inwardly, their meso-caudal sutures very faint, the axille barely defined. From one female caught by sweeping in jungle, April 16, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2834, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head and a fore and hind leg on a slide. 12. EUPELMUS FIELDINGI new species. Female :—Length, 1.80 mm., exclusive of ovipesitor which is extruded for a length equal to two thirds that of the abdomen. Like the preceding but dark metallic green, the abdomen normal, the normal valves of ovipositor not so long and the middle tibia is wholly pale yellow; also funicle 1 is wider than long, the body is much shorter. Hind tibial spur single. Scape very slightly flattened; pedicel a little longer than funicle 2 which is longest, 3 slightly shorter than 2, 8 quadrate. Post- marginal vein short, a little longer than the stigmal. Axille separated but not very widely. At least segments 2-4 of abdomen incised at meson of caudal margin. Whole body densely scaly. Axille well defined, the scutellum not declivous. From one female taken by sweeping in forest, November 13, 1912. Habitat: Proserpine, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2835, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; antenna and | hind tibia on a slide. Dedicated to Henry Fielding. * Meaning the valves; the color of the ovipositor itself is always brown. 6 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 13. EUPELMUS LAVOIRSIERI new species. Female, Like grayi but the middle white part of the valves of the ovipositor is smaller, distinctly shorter than the proximal black part which is only slightly shorter than the distal black portion (in grayi the middle white is distinctly longer than the proximal black). Funicle 1 is a little wider than long. The first two or three segments of abdomen, at least, incised at meson of caudal margin. From one female caught in forest, November 3, 1912. Habitat: Proserpine, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2836, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, an antenna and hind tibia on a slide. 14, EUPELMUS LONGICORPUS new species. Female :—Length, 3.50 mm. Shaped like motschulskini Girault. Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the coxe and sides of cephalic femur laterad (exteriorly) concolorous; rest of legs yellowish brown. Ovipositor distinctly but shortly exserted (a sixth or less the length of the abdomen), a little over proximal half of the exserted part white, rest concolorous. Postmarginal vein only slightly longer than the stigmal. Funicle 1 a little wider than long, 2 much longer, over thrice longer than wide, a little the longest, 3 and 4 somewhat shorter than it, longer than the pedicel which is subequal to 6. Hind tibial spur single. Vertex broad. Axille just separated at meson. Sculpture as in the seutum of worcesteri, the pronotum, abdomen and head scaly punctate like the scutum. Segments 2-6* incised at meson, the incisions lessening in succession caudad. Ridges of seutum pubescent. From one female taken in forest, March 21, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2837, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; antenna and a hind leg on a slide. A second female, same place on April 4. 15. EUPELMUS AUSTRALIS new species. Female :—Length, 2 mm., exclusive of ovipositor which is extruded to a length equal to that of the abdomen. Similar to australiensis but much more robust and only the side of the abdomen centrally is golden yellow. Also funicle 1 is a little wider than long, 2 quadrate, 3 somewhat longer than wide. Prepectus golden yellow. Legs except coxe bright golden yellow, the two spots on middle legs distinct. From one female caught in forest, April 20, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2838, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. 16. EUPELMUS GREELYI new species. Female :—Length, 2.10 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length a little exceeding that of the body. Colored like varicolor Girault but the marginal stripe of abdomen is somewhat longer, _ the legs are all pale yellow except the concolorous cox. Middle tibia, however, with a more or less obscure metallic dot just below knees, outwardly, the middle femur with one just above knees. Extruded valves of ovipositor black, whitish rather obscurely on second fourth. * Of abdomen. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. (sf Prepectus yellowish white. Axille a little separated. Thorax scaly. Postmarginal vein some- what longer than the stigmal, both well developed. Funicle 1 white, quadrate, 2-4 longest, each a little shorter than the pedicel, distinctly longer than wide; funicle 8 a little longer than wide. From one female caught by sweeping along a jungle path, February 23, 1912. Habitat: Rossville (Cooktown), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2839, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head on a slide. Dedicated to A. W. Greely. 17. EUPELMUS LAMBI new species. Female :—Length, 1.15 mm., the ovipositor barely exserted. Like mawsoni but middles of femora and tibiz laterad darker except cephalic femur; funicle 1 wider than long, 2 quadrate, plainly not twice longer than wide, subequal to 3, 4 longer than any of the others, a little longer than wide; rest of funicle joints wider than long but 5 somewhat longer than the following. Postmarginal and stigmal veins slender, the former a little the longer. Axille distinctly but not very widely separated. Pubescence short, spare, the whole body scaly. Hind tibial spur single. Hind femur all metallic laterad except ends. From one female caught in forest, December 25, 1912. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2840, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and a hind tibia on a slide. Dedicated to Charles Lamb. A second female, same place, September 5, 1914 and a third the following day. 18. EUPELMUS CRAWFORDI new species. Female :—Length, 1.35 mm., excluding the extruded portion of ovipositor which is as long as a third of the abdomen. Brown washed with metallic purple, the abdomen honey yellow, the wings hyaline; extruded portion of ovipositor white, black at base, brown at distal fourth, this part longer than the black basal part, the white portion forming over half. Scape and legs pale, the coxe and femora washed with brownish, rest of antenna brown-black. Ring-joint a little wider than long, the pedicel much longer than any of the funicle joints of which 2 and 3 are longest, subequal, each somewhat longer than wide; funicle 1 one and a half times longer than the ring-joint; distal funicle joint somewhat wider than long. Head and thorax finely scaly reticulate. Axille distinctly, moderately, widely separated, the scutellum declivous. Hind tibial spur single. Front femur simple. Postmarginal and stigmal veins subequal, distinctly much shorter than the marginal. Middle tibiz with black teeth. From one female caught by sweeping jungle along a forest streamlet, December 2, 1912 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2841, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head and middle legs on a slide. Respectfully named for J. C. Crawford for his careful work on Chalcidoid Hymenoptera. 19. EUPELMUS FOLSOMI new species. Female :—Length, 1.75 mm. Like varicolor Girault but the marginal stripe of abdomen reaches only to middle (some- times farther), the cox nearly all black, the yellow absent on side of thorax, the abdomen not colored at base above and the front femur centrally is broadly concolorous with the body. Postmarginal vein somewhat longer than the stigmal. 8 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. From one female caught by sweeping Leptospermum, April 16, 1913 (H. Hacker). Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2842, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. Another female by sweeping Eucalyptus, April 16, 1913, same place. Named for Justus Watson Folsom. 20. EUPELMUS BAILEYI new species. Female :—Length, 1.87 mm. The same as folsomi but the ovipositor a fourth shorter, the marginal stripe of abdomen extending to the anal ‘spiracle or nearly to apex and the proximal half of hind femur is concolorous, the hind knee above is so and a small spot just distad of it on tibia. Also, the spot on middle femur is more elongate than usual; the front tibize also have a dusky ring around them just ventrad of knee. From one female caught by sweeping Eucalyptus, April 16, 1913 (H. Hacker). Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2843, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide with a female of folsomi. Named for F. Manson Bailey. 21. EUPELMUS AUSTRALICUS new species. Female :—Length, 2 mm., excluding exserted portion of ovipositor which is four fifths the length of abdomen and wholly black. Like varicolor Girault but the marginal stripe extends for a little over proximal three fourths, the ovipositor is black, the base of the abdomen lacks metallic coloration to any extent and the sides of the thorax any yellow. The coxe are wholly concolorous. From two females caught sweeping undergrowth, mostly Hucalyptus, April 16, 1913. (H. Hacker). Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Types: No. Hy 2844, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on a slide. Also one female was caught on Magnetic Island, off Townsville, Queensland, January 9,. LOTS (CAVA-G:). ; 22. EUPELMUS WORCESTERI new species. Female :—Length, 4.50 mm. Similar to motschulskini but the wings are hyaline, the scape slenderer, the postmarginal vein shorter, the hind tibia concolorous except at tip, body dark metallic green, the scutellum not declivous, the ridges of the scutum less carinated, the axille very widely separated, the vertex broad between the eyes, the ovipositor not at all exserted, its tip black, funicles 3 and 4 are longest, 2 a little shorter than either of them, 3 somewhat shorter than the pedicel, 1 distinctly longer than wide, over half the length of 2. Hind tibie with one spur (another one seems present but though a little stouter it is no longer than the apical fringes [sete] of tibie and several similar ones occur among those on the opposite side of the spur). Hind margin of segment 2 of abdomen incised but the cut is not deep along the meson like a slit; the next three segments are less and less incised caudad. Scutum and scutellum densely scaly punctate. Rest of body densely scaly. Axille small. From one female caught by sweeping in forest pocket, September 12, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2845, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; antenna and a hind leg on a slide. A second female at Gordonvale, forest, 2,000 feet, June 3 (A. P. Dodd). AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 9 23. EUPELMUS MOTSCHULSKINI new species. Female :—Length, 4.30 mm. Long and slender. Valves of ovipositor extruded a short distance, distal half whitish. Dark metallic purple, the antenne and legs concolorous except the brownish tarsi and tips of all tibi#; but hind tibie at a little over proximal half silvery white. Middle tibiz with black teeth. Hind tibial spurs double. Scape compressed, the pedicel long but a little shorter than funicle 2 which is longest; pedicel subequal to funicles 3 and 4; funicle 1 small, quadrate, somewhat less than a third the length of 2. Funicle 8 a little wider than long, much longer than 1, not quite half the length of 2. Fore wing infuscated slightly at extreme base and from the bend of the submarginal vein out distad of venation but there are two more or less distinct cross-bands formed by accentuations, one (more obscure) at proximal margin of the infuscation and one in the form of a rectangle from the postmarginal vein and not reaching caudad of the middle of the blade. A clear streak across the middle of the infuscation but obscure. Vertex narrow between the eyes. Scutum pilose. Segments 2-5 of abdomen incised at meson of caudal margin, the abdomen longer than the rest of the body, the incision of segment 2 very deep, of 4 shallow, concave. Abdomen densely scaly, segment 7 longest, some- what longer than 2. Head and thorax alutaceous. Scutellum declivous. Ridges of seutum carinated. From one female taken in forest, March 12, 1912. Habitat: Thursday Island, Torres Strait. Type: No. Hy 2846, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and hind leg on a slide. 24. EUPELMUS GRAYI new species. Female :—Length, 1.50 mm., excluding extruded portion of ovipositor which is a third the length of the abdomen. Dark metallic blue, the wings hyaline, the knees, middle tibix, tips of other tibize broadly and the tarsi yellowish white. Teeth on middle tarsi black, middle of valves of ovipositor white, the distal black portion subequal to the white and longer than the proximal black portion. Antenne wholly concolorous; funicle 1 quadrate, 2 twice longer than 1, distinctly longer than wide, 3 and 4 longest, each slightly longer than 2, a little shorter than the pedicel; distal funicle joint quadrate but larger than 1. Hind tibize with but one spur. Front femur not swollen. Postmarginal and stigmal veins short, subequal. Body (wholly) rather coarsely sealy. From one female captured in forest, January 4, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2847, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head on a slide. Dedicated to Asa Gray. 25. EUPELMUS MAWSONTI new species. Female :—lLength, 2.25 mm.; the ovipositor not extruded. Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the legs golden yellow (except cox), obscurely yet distinctly washed with submetallic on the femora and tibiwe (except cephalic tibia). Antenne concolorous; scape compressed; pedicel elongate, longer than any of the funicle joints of which 3 and 4 are longest, 1 a little longer than wide, 2 a little shorter than 3, about twice its own width. Distal two funicle joints plainly wider than long. Middle tibiz with black teeth; hind tibiew with one spur. Very finely scaly, the abdomen coarser. Mesopleurum naked. Segment 2 of abdomen deeply incised at meson caudad. Pubescence sparse, white; most of middle tibia except just below knee lemon yellow. Postmarginal vein 10 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. distinetly longer than the stigmal, the venation pale, the stigmal vein moderately long; blade of fore wing densely, finely ciliate. From one female captured in forest, January 4, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2848, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and hind leg on a slide. Dedicated to Sir Douglas Mawson. 26. EUPELMUS MULTICOLOR new species. Female: Length, 2.70 mm., excluding extruded portion of ovipositor which is three fourths the length of the abdomen. Abdomen intermediate between Hupelmus and Anastatus but more like the former. Metallic purple green, the fore wing deeply embrowned from the bend of the sub- marginal vein distad to apex but distinctly clearer some distance proximad of the apex; pronotum, except lateral margins, scape, legs, ventral face, caudal three fourths of meso- pleurum, a line down latero-dorsal aspect of thorax above the tegula, axille and cephalic two thirds of scutellum rich reddish brown. Fore wings infuscated above immediate base. Proximal two thirds of distal half ‘of ovipositor white, distal third of the half black, proximal half dusky. Proximal third of abdomen silvery white; also tarsi of middle legs (except the distal black joint) and proximal portion of the proximal joint of each of the other tarsi. Front and hind femora and tibiw rather strongly compressed, the middle tibiz with the comblike teeth white. Hind tibize with one spur. Pedicel somewhat longer than funicle 4 which is longest, 1 a little longer than wide, 7 and 8 quadrate, two thirds the length of 4, longer than 1; scape slender, antenne inserted near the clypeus, distinctly below the long eyes which converge, the vertex narrow, the scrobes short, semicircular, not reaching to middle of the face. Axille distinctly separated, together with the scutellum densely finely punctate. Scutum and abdomen finely scaly but distad the former glabrous, the cephalic raised, triangular piece sculptured Tike the scutellum; pronotum finely scaly, also the head. Caudal margins of first two or three abdominal segments slightly incised at meson. From one female caught in forest, January 4, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2489, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; legs and antenna on a slide. 27. EUPELMUS CLAUDUS new species. Female :—Length, 2.60 mm., excluding ovipositor, which is extruded for a length equal to half that of, the abdomen. Varicolored. Very deep orange yellow, the eyes greenish, the second segment of abdomen (or proximal fourth or somewhat more), coxe, distal third of scape, distal three fourths of pedicel, funicle joints 1 to 6, articulations of the legs, tips of tibia and the tarsi silvery white; rest of abdomen honey yellow, the silvery white followed by three cross-stripes of darker yellow, close together; middle of silvery white of abdomen with a rather broad dusky black cross-stripe which is incised at meson of caudal margin. Distal two funicle joints and club jet black. Proximal two thirds of scape yellow, the distal margin of the yellow dusky black and oblique. Distal edge at meson and caudo-lateral portions of propodeum and the scutum (between the ‘‘ parapsidal furrows ’’ and caudad of the raised triangular piece, the marking longer than wide) metallic green. Somewhat over proximal third and the immediate tip of extruded part of valves of ovipositor black, the intermediate portion yellowish white. Legs concolorous; middle femora and tibiw with black streaks along margins; caudal femur with the distal edge black; caudal tibie dusky, except broadly at tip. Abdomen with a rather large silvery white spot in lateral aspect somewhat distad of middle. Fore wings lightly AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 11 embrowned from the origin of the curve of the submarginal vein distad to apex, a darker brown spot under the stigmal vein and a faint, curved, rather narrow, subhyaline cross-stripe from apex of postmarginal vein; also deeper brown transversely from bend of submarginal vein. Postmarginal vein somewhat longer than the stigmal. Club obclavate; pedicel not long, a little longer than funicle 4 which is longest, some- what longer than wide; funicle 1 like a ring-joint, much wider than long, 2 a little longer than wide, over two and a half times longer than 1, 5-8 subquadrate; second club joint shortest, much wider than long. Hind tibial spurs double. Head and thorax densely shagreened, the metallic portion of scutum with silvery pubescence. Segment 2 of abdomen rather deeply incised at meson caudad, the next three segments only slightly so. Axille Separated a very short distance. Fore wings perfect: A silvery streak cephalad on mesothorax ‘dorsad in lateral aspect. Teeth on middle tibiz not black. From two females caught in jungle, April 2, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2850, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one a female on a tag; antenna, ‘hind tibia and part of fore wing on a slide. In the second specimen, the dusky stripe across the silvery base of abdomen was divided along the meson by a narrow silvery space and the yellowish white portion of the -ovipositor was much shorter, less than two thirds the length of the black proximal portion (subequal to it in the type). 28. EUPELMUS BABINDAENSIS new species. Female :—Length, 2 mm., excluding extruded portion of ovipositor which is as long as two thirds of the abdomen’s length. Dark metallic green, the wings lightly stained (yellowish) except near base. Scape, tarsi, tibiz, second coxe and femora and hind femora, yellowish brown; knees white, rest of legs concolorous. Cephalic tibia with a concolorous band just below knees, hind femora and tibiz a little dusky toward base. Abdomen at immediate base dorsad and at base of sides rather broadly, silvery white; somewhat over distal half of ovipositor yellowish white. Hind tibial spurs double, the smaller spur no longer than the apical setz but stouter. Mandibles tridentate, maxillary palpi black. Pedicel longer than any of the funicle joints of which 4 is longest, four fifths the length of the pedicel, one and a third times longer than wide; funicle 1 quadrate, also 8 but the latter over twice the size of 1. Thorax scaly. Axille just separated at meson. Teeth on middle tibiw concolorous with the legs. From one female caught by sweeping jungle, February 11, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Babinda, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2851, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head and a ‘hind tibia on a slide. 29. EUPELMUS HOOKERI new species. Female :—Length, 4.50 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for not quite a third of the length of the long abdomen. Dark metallic green, the abdomen and mesopleurum purple, the fore wings infuscated from the bend of the submarginal vein distad to apex; the infuscation deeper longitudinally a little cephalad of middle from base of marginal vein to apex of stigmal (forming a rather broad longitudinal stripe) and rather broadly across along its proximal margin. Postmarginal vein over twice the length of the stigmal. Legs concolorous except knees, tips of tibiw, tarsi and intermediate tibie which are reddish brown. ‘Tip of ovipositor white, also proximal tarsal joints of middle and hind legs, the proximal joint of the latter twice longer or nearly than the same joint of the middle legs. Ovipositor concolorous except at tip, the long, inter- mediate portion brownish black. Hind tibial spurs double, distinct. Hind tibia with a rather 12 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. broad yellow band somewhat proximad of middle. Funicle 1 a little longer than wide but much smaller than 8 which is quadrate; 2 elongate, longest, five or more times longer than wide, 3 and 4 subequal, each a little shorter than 2, longer than the pedicel; following joints gradually shortening but 7 still longer than wide. Teeth on middle tarsi black, ovipositor horizontal. Abdomen longer than the rest of body, straight, segments 2 and 3 deeply notched at meson of caudal margin, segment 4 slightly so; abdomen scaly reticulate, the head and thorax uniformly more densely so. Axille distinctly but not very widely separated. Scutellum longitudinally, finely, lineolated. From one female taken by sweeping jungle, February 13, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Babinda, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2852, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and hind legs on a slide. 30. EUPELMUS LONGICAUDA new species Female :—Length, 1 mm., excluding ovipositor which is exserted for a length equal to- that of the abdomen. Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the legs pale yellow, the coxz concolorous at base; funicle 1 suffused with white, wider than long, 2 quadrate, 3 longest, slightly longer than wide, 8 wider than long. Postmarginal vein slightly longer than the stigmal. . Proximal fourth and somewhat over distal third of extruded portion of ovipositor concolorous, the remainder white, the distal dark subequal to the white. Scape concolorous. Axille slightly separated. Thorax and abdomen finely scaly. Fore femur slender. From one female caught on mainland, December 24, 1911. Habitat: Double Island (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2853, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, fore and hind legs on a slide. 31. EUPELMUS CHAUCERI new species. Female:—Length, 4.50 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for nearly half the length of the abdomen. Very robust. Dark metallic blue, the wings hyaline, the scape, knees, distal half of cephalic tibiae, middle legs except coxe and the caudal tibie, rich reddish brown, the knees. darker. Tarsi and tip of caudal tibiwe yellowish. A little over the distal three fourths of the extruded portion of the ovipositor valves yellowish white, the short proximal part blue. Differs from babindaensis in being very much more robust, the hyaline wings and in coloration. Pedicel slightly longer than funicle 3 which is longest, somewhat longer than wide, 2 and 4 nearly as long as 3, 1 a little wider than long; last two funicle joints subequal, each a little wider than long and thrice the size of 1; club short, ovate. Abdomen conic-ovate, produced beneath. Hind tibial spur single; middle tarsi beneath with black teeth. Postmarginal vein slightly longer than the stigmal. Segments 2 and 3 of abdomen deeply incised at meson of caudal margin, 4 much less so, 5 only slightly so; abdomen densely scaly. Axille distinctly a little separated mesad. Thorax and head densely scaly. Scrobes deep, triangular, their margins obtuse; a thick ridge between antenne and separating the scrobes at base. Pubescence not conspicuous. From one female taken in forest, May 8, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2854, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag with the type of babindaensis. 32. EUPELMUS NELSONENSIS new species. Female :—Length, 3.50 mm., excluding extruded valves of ovipositor which are a third the length of abdomen, white, a little dusky just before tip, proximal sixth black. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULY. 13 Dark metallic green, the legs and scape yellowish white except cephalic and caudal oxe, cephalic femur and proximal half dorsad and ventrad of cephalic tibia; caudal femur darker along proximal half. Wings hyaline. Runs to chauceri but differs in being not quite so robust, the scutellum is declivous, the legs and scape paler, the venation pale, funicles 2 and 3 are subequal, longest and the caudal femur is not concolorous. Otherwise about the same. Frons broad in both species. From one female caught in forest, November 30, 1913. ‘ Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2855, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag with type of chauceri and babindaensis. 33. EUPELMUS LISTERI new species. Female:—Length, 1.30 mm., excluding extruded valves of ovipositor which are about as long as the abdomen, wholly black. Differs both from australis and australicus in. having the first three funicle joints about subequal and wider than long, 4 longest and from australicus in having only the side of the abdomen golden yellow, the dorsum and venter washed with metallic green, the yellow showing through and on proximal third there are about three dusky cross-stripes. In australis, the abdomen is dark metallic green except the sides rather narrowly. Prepectus golden yellow in all three species. From four females caught by sweeping sand-ridges near coast, May 15, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 2856, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on a slide with the type of burmeisteri. Dedicated to Joseph Lister. 34. EUPELMUS SCUDDERI new species. Female :—Length, 1.40 mm., excluding extruded valves of ovipositor which are a third the length of abdomen and with the middle white portion longer than the two black portions. Runs close to folsomi but differs in that the abdomen is margined along proximal three fourths, crossed on the distal half of dorsum by three dusky stripes, the first short at middle; also the hind tibia bears a spot dorsad below knee, the hind femur distinctly concolorous along proximal two thirds ventro-laterad and the cephalic tibia bears also a spot below knee dorsad. Otherwise the same. Prepectus concolorous in both species. From one female caught in forest, May 15, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 2857, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide with type of folsomi. Dedicated to Samuel Hubbard Scudder. 35. EUPELMUS BRUNNELLA new species. Female :—Length, 1.90 mm., exclusive of ovipositor which is extruded for about a third the length of the abdomen. Runs to crawfordi but differs in that the abdomen is concolorous (i.e. brown), the legs all pale yellow except cephalic coxa and femur, the body more robust, the head, scutum and scutellum (sometimes the entire thorax) dark metallic (the scutellum declivous in both species), the fore wing is stained yellow under all of marginal vein, the funicle joints are all slightly longer, the pedicel also. Postmarginal vein a little shorter than the stigmal. Otherwise the same. Compared with type of crawfordi. Hind tibial spur single. 14 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. From two females caught in jungle, January 15, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2858, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag with the type of crawford. . 86. EUPELMUS ARGENTINOTATUS new species. Female :—Length, 1.80 mm., exclusive of extruded valves of ovipositor which are two. thirds the length of the abdomen, dusky at tip, proximal two thirds purple, rest white. Runs to babindaensis but a little over proximal half of scape is concolorous, its distal third or more, the pedicel and funicle 1 silvery white; the cephalic tibiz are concolorous (in both species) just below knees. From one female caught in jungle, May 2, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 2859, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; hind tibia,. antenne and a fore wing on a slide with type of longicorpus. 37. EUPELMUS DUMASI new species. Similar in all respects to, renani but the wings are hyaline, all the tibize pale, the femora dusky (washed lightly with metallic) and funicle 2 is a little the longest, 3 and 4 subequal, each a little longer than wide, a little shorter than 2. From two females caught in forest, January 6, 1913. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2860, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on a tag with type of renani, two heads on a slide. Dedicated to Alexandre Dumas, pére. 38. EUPELMUS PAGANUS new species. Female :—Length, 2 mm., the ovipositor not extruded, the abdomen conical, distinctly longer than the thorax. Slender. . Runs to worcesteri and resembles that species in all respects yet not half as large, the pale parts of the legs are silvery white, funicles 1 and 2 are wider than long, 4 longest: (3 a little the longest in worcesteri) yet only a little longer than wide, distinctly shorter than the pedicel. Both species are exceptional in having the ridges of the scutum subobsolete and the axille widely separated. Hind tibial spur single. From one female caught by sweeping in forest, November 8, 1913. Habitat: Stewart’s Creek, Queensland. — Type: No. Hy 2851, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag with type of worcesteri; head and a hind leg on a slide with type of dumasi Girault. 39. EUPELMUS CHARITOLOPHOIDES new species. Female :—Length, 2.50 mm., the ovipositor not extruded, slightly (not distinctly) pale: at tip. Runs closest to worcesteri and resembles that species in thoracic structures. Wings: subhyaline. Dark metallic purple, the abdomen green, the mesopleurum and hind coxe dark blue. Scape except slightly at tip above, tarsi, tip of fore tibia and rest of legs except cox, reddish brown. Middle tibial spur white, middle tarsi with black teeth beneath. Caudal margins of segments 2 and 3 of abdomen distinctly incised at meson, 4 slightly so, others straight, entire. Funicle 1 longer than wide, 2 longest, somewhat longer than wide and barely longer than 3 or 4, shorter than the pedicel, 7 and 8 a little wider than long. Venation dusky,. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 15 the postmarginal vein somewhat longer than the stigmal, the latter curved, not especially short. Head and thorax coarsely scaly, nearly scaly-punctate, the abdomen coarsely scaly. Lateral ocelli their own diameter from the eye margins. Segment 2 of abdomen short. Caudal tibial spurs double, one spur no longer than the apical sete yet stouter. Antenne inserted about in the middle of the face. From one female caught in jungle, July 11, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2852, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 40. EUPELMUS ALBIPES new species. Female :—ULength, 2 mm., excluding the extruded valves of ovipositor which are as long as the abdomen. Runs to crawfordi. Brown, the scutum metallic green. Differs from crawfordi in that the valves of the ovipositor are distinctly longer, the legs are silvery white except the caudal coxe and the abdomen is concolorous with rest of the body. Also the scape is brown and the scutellum is not declivous. The single specimen had the abdomen so much compressed as to form a line from dorsal aspect. Otherwise like crawfordi. From one female caught April 1913, in forest. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2863, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type of crawford. 41. EUPELMUS AURIVENTRIS new species. Female :—Length, 1.60 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for nearly two thirds length of abdomen, yellowish white, black only at base, dusky at extreme tip. Runs close to testaceiventris Cameron. neous purplish, the wings stained yellowish, the abdomen and legs bright golden yellow. Coxe, cephalic femur, cephalic tibia at proximal half, a round spot on each side of middle femur some distance before knee, a distinct ring around middle tibiz a short distance out from knee and a marginal dot on abdomen at base, dark metallic green. Tip of scape, pedicel and funicle 1 silvery white; funicle 1 sub- quadrate, 4 nearly twice longer than wide, longest, over twice the length of 1 which is smallest. Pedicel a little longer than funicle 4. Scape compressed. Funicle 2 nearly twice longer than 1, shorter than 3. Body finely reticulated. From two females caught January 23, 1913. Forest. Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. Types: No. Hy 2864, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the two females on a tag, their heads on a slide. 42. EUPELMUS SOROR new species. Female :—Length, 2.05 mm., excluding ovipositor which is a little longer than the slender abdomen. Runs to australiensis differing from that species in being more robust and the abdomen is wholly golden yellow except at base above for a short distance (the dorsum washed with metallic in australiensis) ; also funicle 3 is distinctly longer than wide, 2 slightly longer than wide, 4 longest, longer than 3. Differs from australis in not having the abdomen nearly wholly dark metallic green and australicus in not having the abdomen margined with metallic green, funicle 4 is longest and so on. Differs from listeri in the color of the abdomen and the longer and more unequal proximal funicle joints. Funicle 4 somewhat shorter than the pedicel which is white at apex, together with funicle 1, the latter a little wider than long. Scape compressed a little. A narrow line of yellow down side of thorax from’and including 16 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. the prepectus. Spots of middle femur ventrad. Funicles 2 and 3 subequal, each a little longer than wide, 1 distinctly shorter than either. From one female caught in forest, January 23, 1913. Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2865, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head on a slide with type appendages of L. auriventris. 43. EUPELMUS PACHYSCAPHA new species. Female :—Length, 1.70 mm., excluding ovipositor which is black and extruded for a length equal to three fourths that of the abdomen, the valves minutely densely feathery. Dark metallic blue, the tarsi and tips of tibiz white, the abdomen pale yellowish brown washed with metallic purple along the distal half dorsad and along the lateral aspects, the form slender and like that of australiensis. Fore wings with a midlongitudinal dusky rather narrow stripe from apex to a point about opposite apex of the submarginal vein, otherwise hyaline, the venation very pale. Scape greatly, foliaceously flattened, rectangular, the flagellum subclavate, the funicle joints all cupshaped and wider than long, larger distad, all smaller than the small pedicel which is hardly longer than wide. Postmarginal vein longer than the stigmal. Described from one female captured by sweeping in forest, September 22, 1914. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2866, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen in alcohol with the type of Atoposoma unguttatipes. Of the foregoing species, worcesteri, paganus and charitolophoides probably belong to Charitolophus Foerster but do not agree with the diagnosis as given by Ashmead (1904) as regards the insertion of the antenne. It is not safe to trust solely to the following table for species in this genus since the species referred to Anastatus may become confused. Tables to both genera should be used conjointly. The species are common in forest grasses. DIAGNOSIS OF THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF HUPELMUS. FEMALES. I. Body, excluding appendages, wholly metallic green. Extruded portion of valves of ovipositor wholly concolorous (if not extruded, tips not white). Compare paganus, charitolophoides and pachyscapha. Valves of ovipositor not or barely extruded; wings hyaline. Legs concolorous ; very large. Axille very widely separated; funicles 3 and 4 longest, 1 longer than wide. Tips of tibiz brownish Ss .. worcesteri Girault. Only some of the legs more or less poncolopnas: Of somal size. Legs golden yellow except coxee, washed obscurely with submetallic on last two pairs of femora and tibiew; scape compressed; pedicel elongate, longer than funicle joints separately; funicle 2 about twice longer than wide; most of middle tibia yellow. Funicle 1 a little longer than wide sve .. mawsoni Girault. Legs with middle of ceneowh sail ane daatcer (excep cephalic femora); the same but funicle 2 plainly not twice longer than wide; funicle 1 wider than long, 3 subequal to 2, quadrate ae a lambi Girault. Valves of ovipositor extruded for third the length of abdomen. Wings infuscated from about middle of marginal vein to apex. Legs concolorous except tips of tibize and the tarsi; pedicel much longer than any of the funicle joints of which 4 is longest. Gone dumast renant Gisault. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 17 Extruded portion of valves of ovipositor white at extreme tip only, the valves extruded for some length. Fore wing infuscated from bend of submarginal vein to apex. .Valves of ovipositor a third the length of abdomen. Very robust. Legs concolorous except knees, tips of tibiew, tarsi and middle tibiz which are reddish brown; hind tibia with a rather broad yellow band somewhat proximad of middle; funicle 2 elongate. Secutellum longitudinally, finely lineolated .. ne : he hookeri Girault. Fore wing hyaline. Valves of ovipositor extruded for fa thirds or more the length of the abdomen. Not very large. Long and slender, the valves of the ovipositor compressed, as long as the long abdomen; knees, distal third of tibize and the tarsi pale yellow; funicle 2 longest, over twice longer than wide, 1 longer than wide .. compressicauda Genult. Not long and slender, the valves of ovipositor normal, two thirds the length of the abdomen; middle tibiz wholly pale yellow; funicle 1 wider than long fieldingi Girault. Extruded valves of ovipositor white distad along much more than extreme tip. (Compare groti, description. ) Fore wings distinctly infuscated. Jnfuscation of fore wing along distal two thirds; valves of ovipositor much extruded, two thirds white; tips of tibie and the tarsi yellowish. Species not very large Be .. antipoda Ashmead infuscation of fore wing from end o lpteneeall vein distad to beyond vena- tion, the infuscation accented in two places; valves of ovipositor only shortly extruded, white at distal half; legs the same but hind tibie silvery white along little over proximal half; very large. Funicle 2 long. Frons narrow. Scutellum declivous ae ae motschulskint Girault. Fore wings hyaline; distal two thirds or more of valk es of ovipositor whitish. Very robust. Seape reddish brown; ovipositor valves extruded for half the length of abdomen; legs concolorous except middle legs, tips of cephalic tibie, hind tibie and knees which are reddish brown; tips of hind tibie and all tarsi yellow. Funicle 2 not 1s ss .. chaucert Girault. See description a as a .. nelsonensis Girault- Small. Funicle 1 white; as ase valves ‘eceended for a third the length of abdomen; legs golden yellow; a dusky band on middle legs each side of knees; cox concolorous .. an burmeistert Girault. Extruded valves of ovipositor with an intermediate white portion. Wings hyaline. Valves of ovipositor extruded for a length equal to that of the abdomen. Legs pale yellow except coxe at base; proximal fourth and distal two thirds of ovipositor concolorous, the rest white. Funicle 1 wider than long, 3 longest. Small .. : me .. longicauda Girault. Valves of ovipositor extruded for toe more than a thacd the length of the abdomen. Legs pale lemon yellow except cox and the cephalic femur lightly; distal fourth of ovipositor black ne .. montaigner Girault. Legs concolorous except knees, raaal URES Gas of tibie broadly and the tarsi which are whitish. Distal black portion of ovipositor subequal to the white portion and longer than the proximal black portion .. re a grayt Girault. The same but the middle white portion of ovipositor distinctly shorter than the black proximal portion which is but slightly shorter than the distal black portion oe Se ot se 3 .. lavoirsiert Girault- 18 MEMOIRS OF THE QULENSLAND MUSEUM. Extruded portion of valves of ovipositor white at base only. Wings hyaline. Valves of ovipositor extruded for nearly a third the length of the abdomen, the proximal fourth white. Body small. Legs lemon yellow except cox; proximal half of scape and funicle 1 white. Pedicel a little longer than funicle 4 pudicus Girault. Valves of ovipositor extruded for only about a sixth of abdomen, the proximal half white. Body large. Legs brownish yellow except cox and sides of cephalic femur. Pedicel shorter than funiele 4 rr a be ie fs longicorpus Girault. If. Body, excluding appendages, brown washed with metallic, the abdomen honey yellow. Wings hyaline; valves of ovipositor extruded for a third the length of abdomen, white, black at base, brown at distal fourth; scape and legs pale except coxe and ~ femora. Pedicel much longer than any of the funicle joints. Middle legs all pale .. 3 oe ais oc ae 40 .. crawfordi Girault. See descriptions at ae ie ns ae Pa albapes and brunella Girault. Jl. Body, excluding appendages, dark metallic green or blue, the abdomen mostly, or with much, yellow. Wings hyaline. Slender, graceful species. Valves of ovipositor wholly black, plainly not as long as the body. Compare soror. Legs except cox lemon yellow; middle femora with a spot above on each side, just before knee; sides and venter of abdomen yellow; funicle 3 quadrate, 1 white (more or less). Middle tibize with a spot just below knee oistraeaes Gara The same but the body stouter, ovipositor valves longer, funicle 3 a little longer than wide; also only the sides of abdomen are yellow .. .. australis Girault. The same but abdomen margined down each side for proximal three fourths; middle knees with a spot above and below them. Funicle 3 longest, somewhat longer than wide Bic vs we Be 5% se .. australicus Girault. Compare description a st #6 hes ae Ee 6 listert Girault. Valves of ovipositor partly white. Wings hyaline. Valves of ovipositor extruded for a length equal to that of the body. Abdomen yellow, margined with metallic along proximal three fourths. A spot above and below middle knees; rest of legs (except coxe) yellow; valves of ovipositor rather obscurely whitish on second proximal fourth. Prepectus yellowish. Funicle 1 white, quadrate, 2-4 longest. Apex of pedicel white Ss 2h greelyt Girault. Valves of ovipositor extruded for a length ‘uct ess fram that of the body. The valves white centrally. Compare auriventris. Legs golden yellow, the middle knees with a spot above and below them. Coxe concolorous. Abdomen yellow, margined along proximal two thirds; a yellow stripe down each side of thorax; ovipositor valves brownish distad, the brown about half the length of the black proximal portion. Valves of ovipositor extruded for two thirds the length of abdomen. Funicle 4 longest Ae .. varicolor Girault. The same, the abdomen aateeneal arene! ‘onmel half, the thorax wholly metallic, the cephalic femur broadly concolorous centrally, funicle 2 quadrate, 1 white .. ae ve folsomi Girault. See description .. .. seudderi Girault. Legs golden yellow, the candal fd pairs “of ie with a spot above and below them. Coxe concolorous. Ovipositor as long as the abdomen, the latter yellow along sides and venter. Prepectus yellow; a dusky spot on caudal tibia ventrad of the spot below knee “6 is .. vulgarellus Girault. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 19 Legs the same but the spot on middle femur is long and there is a spot below cephalic and caudal knees. Abdomen yellow, margined from base nearly to apex; proximal half of caudal femur concolorous ahs 44 wif baileyi Girault. The valves white along distal two thirds. Abdomen yellow, blue along sides of segment 3 dorsad and dorsum of segment 2 except at base; legs yellow except coxw; a spot above and one below middle knees; hind tibia dusky at base and a broad black line on either side of proximal half of caudal femur testaceiventris Cameron. TV. Body dark metallic green, the abdomen marked with white. Scape yellowish white. Abdomen silvery white at immediate base dorsad and rather broadly so laterad; ovipositor two thirds the length of abdomen, somewhat over its distal half yellowish white; tibiw, tarsi, middle femur and coxa and caudal femur yellowish brown. Pedicel longer than any of the funicle joints as ee a babindaensis Girault. See argentinotatus Girault. V. Body, excluding appendages, varicolored. Fore wings infuscated to apex or nearly from bend of submarginal vein. Metallic purple-green; valves of ovipositor with an intermediate white portion; most of pronotum, scape, legs, ventral face, caudal three fourths of mesopleurum, axille and cephalic two thirds of scutellum rich reddish brown. Proximal third of abdomen white. Funicle 4 longest. Immediate apex of fore wing hyaline. See description .. multicolor Girault. Orange yellow; segment 2 of abdomen, coxe, distal third of scape, distal three fourths of pedicel, funicles 1-6, leg articulations, tips of tibia and the tarsi silvery white; rest of abdomen honey yellow; distal two funicle joints and club jet; caudal scutum metallic green. Dorsal edge of caudal femur black. See description .. sé BE claudus Girault. GeNuS ANASTATUS Motschulsky. Synonyms: Paraguaya Girault; Ooderelloides Girault. T thought this genus would prove the same as Hupelmus but the shape of the abdomen, though not greatly different, may be constant. The genus may be distinguished from Hupelmis by reason of the fact that the abdomen gradually widens nearly to apex and then rapidly narrows to form an obtuse apex. In Eupelmus, the abdomen gradually widens from base to about middle or a little distad of middle, then gradually narrows to apex. Also in Anastatus the dorsum is usually more depressed, sometimes markedly so. The species often bear bifasciate wings and a silvery band about the base of the abdomen. The ring-joint is really funicle 1; it may be distinctly longer than wide. 1. ANASTATUS PIPUNCULI Perkins. Female. Length, 2 mm. Head and face reddish purple, the vertex with short black hairs; the face with white, short but conspicuous pubescence; the surface dull, rough with indefinite sculpture. Antenne subclavate, dark, metallic in some aspects; 13-jointed with one ring-joint. Eyes divergent cephalad, the ocelli in a triangle which is much widest at base, the caudal one near the eye margins. Thorax blackish purple, the mesonotal ridges sharp, parallel, the clothing white and conspicuous and, like the sculpture, very similar to that of the face. Wings fuscous, hairy, a hyaline, hairless, rather narrow, slightly curved transverse band beneath the marginal vein (at about its middle) and a clear space at the base of the wing. Stigmal vein long but shorter than the postmarginal. Hind tibial spurs double, much unequal. Tarsi more or less yellowish brown, the caudal tarsi darker; nearly all of caudal legs blackish, also the middle and cephalic tibia, their femora largely dark brown or blackish also. Abdomen purplish black, 20 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. depressed at proximal two thirds and with a transverse subbasal white band, the three segments: following this subequal. Ovipositor barely exserted. Eyes probably bare. Funicle 1 longest, over twice its own width and longer than the pedicel. Habitat: Bundaberg, Queensland. Parasitic upon Pipunculus cinerascens. Type: Query. 2. ANASTATUS NIGRIPURPUREUS (Girault). Female. Genotype of Ooderelloides Girault. Length, 3.60 mm. Bluish black, the head and thorax deep blue; tip of ovipositor valves,. scape and tarsi whitish; trochanters and tips of tibiz white. Fore wings lightly stained from the base of the marginal vein to apex. Distal two funicle joints wider than long. Stigma. and postmarginal veins subequal, moderate in length. Funicle 2 long, subequal to the pedicel, 1 subquadrate, narrow. Valves of ovipositor slightly extruded. Hind tibial spur single. Cephalic femur somewhat swollen, emarginate ventrad near apex. Secutellum declivous. Habitat: Cairns District, Queensland. ° Type: No. I.1272, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 3. ANASTATUS PAX (Girault). Female. Ooderelloides pax Girault. ; Length, 4.10 mm. Differs from nigripurpureus in that the abdomen is more depressed and somewhat longer, the valves of the ovipositor exserted somewhat farther and wholly black,,. the scutellum is not declivous and the stigmal vein is slightly shorter, straighter and stouter.. Seutellum wedge-shaped, the narrow end cephalad. Habitat: Mount Tambourine, Queensland. Type: No. I. 1273, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 4. ANASTATUS SPLENDIDUS (Girault). Female. Ooderelloides splendidus Girault. Length, 3 mm. Brilliant metallic blue-green with purplish reflections, the abdomen and mesopleurum coppery, the scape metallic blue, the antennz black, the legs concolorous, the tips: of tibiw and tarsi whitish; extruded portion of ovipositor as long as in pax, whitish, its distal third black. Fore wings with a distinct dusky blotch from the marginal and postmarginal veins- and slightly beyond (distad), the apex and rest hyaline; the blotch disappears (or nearly) two thirds the way across to the caudal margin, so it is rectangular but irregularly so. Abdomen. shaped as in paw. Otherwise as in nigripurpureus except that the venation and scutellum differ a little. Habitat: Lawson, New South Wales. Type: No. I. 1274, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 5. ANASTATUS COLEOPTERORUM (Girault). Female. Calosoter coleopterorwm Girault. Length, 4 mm. Metallic blue-black, the wings hyaline, the face with slight metallic green; antenna’ and legs black, the tarsi brownish. Densely, finely punctate. Funicle 1 longer than wide, all the funicle joints shorter than the pedicel, 3 and 4 longest, 2 subquadrate, slightly shorter than 3; the distal joint wider than long. Postmarginal and stigmal veins rather long, subequal, the stigmal curved, not half the length of the marginal. Caudal tibie with two short spurs; cephalic femora somewhat bent, all the legs normal. Abdomen depressed, the ovipositor not exserted. Habitat: Hobart, Tasmania. Reared from wood. Type: No. I. 1276, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 21 a 6. ANASTATUS FREDERICI new species. Female :—Length, 3 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a little over a fourth the length of the abdomen. Somewhat like Hupelmus hookeri but somewhat smaller, the valves of the ovipositor shorter, dusky at tip, black at proximal third, the rest white; the scape is reddish brown; the abdomen is shorter; the postmarginal vein is much shorter, subequal to the stigmal; the middle tibia is a little purplish just below knee; the distal third of caudal tibia is yellowish white; the funicle joints are shorter and the infuscation of the fore wing differs in that the longitudinal deeper infuscation is less distinct. Hind tibial spur single. Funicle 1 quadrate, 2 longest, a little over thrice longer than wide at base, 3 a little shorter than 2, 4 still shorter, somewhat longer than wide, 6 quadrate, 7 and 8 subequal, each a little wider than long. Pedicel somewhat shorter than funicle 2. Segments 2-5 of abdomen incised at meson of caudal margin but obtusely so and not very deeply. Head and body finely scaly, the seutum rather coarsely so (coarser than in hookeri); scutellum scaly, not striate as in hookeri. Compared with type of hookeri. Axille separated but not widely so. Frons broad. _ From one female taken in forest, May 8, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2867, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag Also one female same place, April 27, 1914. 7. ANASTATUS PENTATOMIDIVORA new species. Female :—Length, 2.95 mm. Dark metallic purple, the scape rufous, the antennz otherwise and the legs concolorous. Fore wings sooty from the curve of the submarginal vein distad to end of postmarginal vein, the sooty part bearing two oblique eye-spots, the cephalic one against marginal vein a little beyond its middle, the caudal and opposite one from the caudal margin, both elliptical in shape. Abdomen depressed, narrowed toward base, the caudal margins of segments 2-5 incised at meson, the incision deepest on 2 but not very large. Front femur distinctly swollen; middle tibizw with strong black teeth. Antenne 13-jointed, the ring-joint large, funicle 1 longest, over two and a half times longer than wide, 2 a fourth or more shorter, 3 subequal to 2 but a little wider, next joints wider and shorter, the last two funicle joints wider than long; funicle 4 subequal to the pedicel. Club short. Hind tibial spurs double, very unequal, one long, the other very short. Antenne inserted about on a level with the eyes. Head shagreened, the eyes naked, the lateral ocelli not touching the eyes. A large triangular portion of scutum from meson of cephalic margin (apex caudad) and the scutellum, densely, rather finely punctate; rest of scutum shining but really extraordinarily finely lined. Abdomen very finely scaly. Tip of ovipositor whitish, not exserted. From three females reared from pentatomid eggs, forest, December, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Types: No. Hy 2868, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, three females on a tag; legs and antenna on a Slide. A female was taken in April, type habitat. A. ANASTATUS NONEXCISUS new variety (of pentatomidivora). Female :—Like the typical form, the fore wings hyaline rather broadly around the apex but only the caudal margin of segment 2 of abdomen is incised at meson, This margin is white in both. From one female taken in forest in December. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. : 22 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 8. ANASTATUS BLATTIDIFURAX new species Female :—Length, 3 mm. Dark metallic blue, the abdomen with a white band at apex of proximal fourth; tip of valves of ovipositor white, the valves not exserted. Legs and antennew concolorous; antenne 13-jointed with one ring-joint which is a little wider than long; funicle 1 subequal to 2 and 3 and longest, 7 a little wider than long, less than half the length of 1 which is much longer than the pedicel. Hind tibiz with but one spur, the middle tibiw with black teeth, the front femur somewhat swollen. Fore wings embrowned slightly at immediate base and distinctly from the bend of submarginal vein to apex, the infuscation interrupted by a rather narrow white curved transyerse stripe from about a little distad of the middle of the marginal vein and faded around apex. Thorax very finely scaly. Postmarginal vein much longer than the stigmal. Cephalic half of mesopleurum hairy. Male:—A third smaller and the tibiw of cephalic legs are pale. The mesopleura bear a femoral furrow, the wings are hyaline, the scutum convex and with complete parapsidal furrows. Antenne thick, cylindrical, 11-jointed, one transverse-linear ring-joint, the club solid, the first funicle joint a little longer than wide, as long as the scape without its bulla, the scape short. : Described from four males, twelve females labelled ‘‘13. Bred from ootheca of cock- roach from Queensland (on banana). F. P. Spry. 27-1-05.’’ Habitat: Queensland. Types: No. Hy 2869, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one male, three females on a tag. Also four females reared from cockroach eggs in the jungle, Gordonvale, October, 1913 (A. P. Dodd) and one female, Stradbroke Island, 5-12-1913 (H. Hacker). This species is closely allied with pipunculi Perkins but the very shortly projecting part of the ovipositor is pure white, the cross-band of the fore wing appears to be distinctly narrower, the face and scutum do not bear conspicuous white pubescence, there is only one hind tibial spur, the fore wing is embrowned under the proximal half of submarginal vein, clear from margin to margin under distal half and the antenne appear different, since funicle 1 is subequal to 2 and 3 (in pipunculi as figured 1 is plainly longer than 2, the latter a little longer than 3). The host is also different. 9. ANASTATUS INSULARIS new species. Female :—Length, 1.80 mm., excluding extruded portion of ovipositor which is about a third the length of the abdomen. , Dark metallic purple, the wings a little yellowish, the legs concolorous except tarsi, middle tibie except a dusky band below knee and distal half of other tibia which together with a band round abdomen just out from base, the pedicel and first two funicle joints, are white. Extruded valves of ovipositor black. Funicle 1 quadrate, small, 2 longest, a little longer than the pedicel, 3 subequal to pedicel, 8 subquadrate, large. Scape obclavate. Hind tibie with two spurs, one very short. Thorax with obscure, fine scaliness; caudal half or more of scutum glabreus. Teeth on middle tibize white. Fore wings rather slender, the discal cilia very fine and dense; stigmal vein much shorter than the postmarginal, the marginal vein very long, longer than submarginal. Abdomen scaly. Funicle 2 nearly twice longer than wide. From one female caught in forest, March 12, 1912. Habitat: Thursday Island, Torres Strait. Type: No. Hy 2870, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head on a slide. Also, a female from Cooktown, Queensland, in March. 10. ANASTATUS TRICOLOR new species. Female :—Length, 3 mm., exclusive of ovipositor which is extruded for a length nearly equal to two thirds that of the abdomen. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 23 With the same striking coloration as Parooderella flavithoraz Girault and Dodd and the same as that species except that the wings are perfect, the ovipositor distinctly extruded, the scape swollen at base and dark metallic green along the proximal half, the rest of it, the pedicel and funicle 1 reddish yellow, funicles 2-5 silvery white; rest of antenna black; scape plainly obclavate. Also, the silvery white band around the base of abdomen occupies a third of the surface (a fourth in flavithorax; in both species within this band are two rather small eye-spots of metallic purple, one on each side of meson near base). A little over proximal third and the tip of ovipositor valves metallic purple, the long intervening part honey yellow. Pronotum cephalad with some purple. Funicle 1 a little longer than wide; 2 longest, somewhat over thrice longer than wide, 3 and 4 subequal, each slightly shorter than 2, each distinetly longer than the pedicel, 5 subequal to the pedicel, 8 a little longer than wide. Club distinctly much shorter than the scape. Hind coxe suffused with purple. Postmarginal vein slightly longer than the stigmal. Immediate base of fore wing and a rather broad cross-stripe from a little over proximal third of marginal vein brownish; a broader cross-stripe from distal fourth of marginal and all of submarginal, sooty black; the rather narrow hyaline band between the two cross-stripes crescentic; the second, black cross-stripe bulges convexly proximad and laterad. Marginal vein much longer than the submarginal. Hind coxa suffused with purplish. Caudal margins of segments 2-5 of abdomen incised at meson. Abdomen transversely scaly; scutellum and axille very finely longitudinally lined but at distal third the former transversely scaly ; seutum glabrous except the cephalic triangular portion which is densely scaly reticulate (this triangular portion is minute in flavithorax). Vertex with a broad purple stripe along the meson. Sides of occiput finely lined; face and vertex polished, lower face mesad of genal suture with scattered thimble punctures. Otherwise as in flavithorax. From one female taken by sweeping in jungle, March 1, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2871, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 11. ANASTATUS BENTHAMI new species. Female :—Length, 2 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for somewhat less than a third the length of the abdomen. Like splendidus except that the middle of the ovipositor (extruded portion) is yellowish white, black at base and tip, the apical black the longer of the two. Avxille moderately widely separated. Abdomen with a scaly sculpture, the lateral ocelli far from the eyes. Second abdominal segment incised at caudal meson. Distal two funicle joints quadrate. Scutum with the same pubescence. Not compared. From two females labelled ‘‘ Brisbane, 10-8-13. H. Hacker’’ and one female labelled ‘¢Brisbane, October, 1911. H. Hacker.’’ Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2872, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the three females on tags (thre¢ pins). Also one female on a slide caught on flowers of Beckea, April 22, 1913, H. Hacker. 12. ANASTATUS RACINEI new species. Female :—Length, 2.75 mm. Dark metallic green and agreeing with the description of blattidifurar but the scape rufous, the white apex of valves of ovipositor just extruded beyond tip of abdomen and the fore wing pattern differs in that the somewhat curved hyaline band from the marginal vein is distinctly (twice) broader, the apex much clearer, the apical subhyaline portion nearly as broad as the band from the marginal vein. The cephalic third of mesopleura is pubescent. Thorax densely finely scaly-punctate, the pronotum finely transversely lined, the propodeum and 24 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. abdomen scaly-reticulate, the caudal margin of the segments of abdomen practically entire, no distinct incision. Pubescencg not conspicuous, sparse. ' From one female caught by sweeping along a dry forest streamlet, April 15, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). : Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2873, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. A. ANASTATUS RACINEI PRZACIPUUS new variety. Female :—Exactly like the typical form but the scutellum abruptly declivous (gentiy sloped in the typical form) and funicle 2 is somewhat longer than 3. Same locality, April 2, 1913 by sweeping in forest. Type: No. Hy 2874, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on tag with type of . typical form. 13. ANASTATUS PASTEURI new species. Female :—Length, 1.65 mm., exclusive of ovipositor which is extruded for a third the length of the abdomen. Allied colorationally with Hupelmus claudus. Orange yellow marked with dark metallic green as follows: Center of vertex, embracing the ocelli; all of scutum except a rather large area latero-caudad (cephalad and a little laterad of the axilla) and a small one cephalo-laterad; all of middle portion of pronotum and mesoventer and all of propodeum. Abdomen metallic purplish, with the silvery white band out from base, the extruded valves of the ovipositor brown along somewhat over proximal third, black rather broadly at tip, the intervening portion soiled whitish. Antennz black, the scape pale; joints 3-6 of funicle silvery white. Legs dusky, the tibie and tarsi white; middle tibiz# with a black ring just below the knees. Fore wings lightly stained and with a distinct subfuscous cross-stripe at the bend of the submarginal vein and a large triangular spot whose apex is hung from the stigmal vein and whose base is a little beyond the midlongitudinal line of the wing; from base to the cross-stripe, the fore wing is hyaline except at immediate base. Hind tibial spur single. Axille distinctly separated a short distance. Mandibles tridentate. Scape long, compressed; pedicel a little longer than funicle 4 which is longest, a little longer than wide, 1 somewhat wider than long, 2 barely shorter than 4, subequal to 3, twice the length of 1; funicle 8 slightly wider than long. Post- marginal vein somewhat longer than the stigmal. Thorax scaly. From one female taken in forest, April 15, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2876, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; antenna and a leg and a fore wing on a slide with type of Eupelmus lambi Girault. 14. ANASTATUS BOUSSINGAULTI new species. Female :—Length, 2 mm., excluding extruded part of ovipositor which is as long as a fourth of the abdomen or less. Similar to Eupelmus longicorpus Girault but much smaller, the middle of the valves of ovipositor white, the small white portion equal to the distal and proximal concolorous portions. From one female taken in forest, August 1, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2876, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; antenna and a hind tibia on a slide. 15. ANASTATUS DARWINI new species. Female :—Length, 0.50 mm., excluding extruded valves of ovipositor which are a third the length of abdomen, white centrally. Similar to the preceding but the femora are all concolorous (except middle ones which are only so along upper and lower edges) and the cephalic and caudal tibie# are concolorous at AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 25 proximal half. Legs otherwise reddish brown. Scutum with distinct but not dense silvery pubescence. Distal black of ovipositor shorter than the white but longer than proximal black. Also the antenne differ from those of boussingaulti in that the pedicel is subelongate, longer than any of the funicle joints (pedicel much shorter than funicle 2 in the other) while the longest funicle joint (3 or 4) is not as long as with that species. The ovipositor is extruded more, the middle white much longer. Resembles Hupelmus grayi Girault but somewhat more robust, grayi lacks most of the conspicuous pubescence on the thorax and has the middle femur concolorous, the hind tibia more broadly black and the fourth joint of maxillary palpus is longer. From two females, October, 1911 (H. Hacker). Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2877, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on separate tags; antenne and hind legs on a slide with type of boussingaulti. 16. ANASTATUS ARISTOTELEA new species. Female :—Length, 2.30 mm. : Very similar to racinei but the scape is dark metallic like the rest of the antennew, the proximal margin of the second (distal) fuscous stripe is straight not forming a triangle as with the other species. Funicle 1 somewhat longer than 2 or 3 which are subequal and somewhat longer than the pedicel. Hind tibial spurs apparently as in pipunculi Perkins, from which this species differs in having the cross-band of hyaline very nearly as broad as the first fuscous eross-stripe (plainly not so as figured for that species; less so for racinei), the stigmal vein is shorter, the pedicel is longer and the base of the wing infuscated; moreover, the apex of the fore wing is clear. Postmarginal vein somewhat over twice the length of the stigmal. Segments of abdomen not excised at meson of caudal margin. Hyaline band of fore wing with its distal margin just missing base of the stigmal vein. Sculpture about as in racinei. Ring- joint wider than long. From one female caught by sweeping in forest, January 4, 1913. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2878, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; antenna, fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. Several more females same place, September 22, 1914. A common species. “17, ANASTATUS BOMBAX new species. Female :—Length, 3.75 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a little less than a third of the length of abdomen and is brown-black at tip. Metallic purple, the propodeum green, the head brassy; fore wings hyaline but with oue moderately broad complete cross-stripe and an incomplete one, the latter broader, two thirds complete from most of postmarginal vein; hyaline stripe between them as broad as the second half-stripe, broader than the first stripe. Coxe and hind legs concolorous, rest reddish brown, the tarsi whitish. Scape reddish brown, rest of antenna black. Segments 2-5 of abdomen incised at meson of caudal margin, 5 only slightly, others not deeply. Cephalic ocellus just tipping apex of the triangular scrobicular cavity whose lateral margins are carinated. Body scaly, scutellum densely shagreened, center of scutum subglabrous. Cephalic femur wide. Venation narrow, the postmarginal vein twice the length of the normal stigmal. Middle tarsi with distinct black teeth ventrad. Hind tibial spur single. Funicle 1 wider than long, club obliquely truneate, funicle 2 nearly thrice longer than wide, somewhat longer than 3 which is subequal to the pedicel and next longest; funicles 7-8 subequal, somewhat wider than long. Scutellum declivous. Runs to racinei Girault but differs in lacking the silvery band of abdomen near base, in bearing the distinctly extruded ovipositor, the reddish cephalic legs, in having funicle 26 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 2 longer than 3, the second stripe of fore wing somewhat narrower and more faded caudad, the nonpilose, subglabrous caudo-mesal part of scutum, the declivous scutellum, the much shorter cephalo-mesal triangular raised part of scutum, here scaly, in racinei densely shagreened like the scutellum. The head is shagreened, nearly as much as the scutellum. Axille shagreened, distinctly separated. Eyes nearly naked. In some specimens, the silvery band of abdomen is present, distinct. The male has the first two pairs of legs (except coxe) bright reddish yellow, the wings hyaline (a very obseure ovate spot from apex of stigmal vein), the postmarginal vein shorter, the scutum normal with faint complete parapsidal furrows, the head and thorax grass green, the pedicel and first four funicle joints reddish brown. Antenne 11-jointed with one transverse, true ring-joint, the first funicle joint twice longer than wide, wider distad, longest, funicles 7-8 subquadrate, larger than the very short pedicel; club solid. Compared with type of racinet. Described from fourteen males, twenty-eight females from an egg-case of a mantid, April 22, 1914 (G. F. Hill). Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. Types: No. Hy 2879, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, three females on a tag and male and female antenne and a female hind leg on a slide with type aristotelea. 18. ANASTATUS MAXIMUS new species. Female :—Length, 4.40 mm. Similar to blattidifuraz but more robust and the ovipositor is distinctly but shortly extruded and reddish brown. Funicle 1 a little longer than 2 or 3. Tarsi reddish brown. Infuscation of fore wing deep, that at base distinct. Segments 2-4 of abdomen slightly incised at meson of caudal margin. Much more robust than aristotelea. Scutellum more densely sculptured than rest of thorax. Deseribed from one female captured in the forest, September 22, 1914. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2880, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female in alcohol with type of Atoposoma unguttatipes Girault. DIAGNOSTIC TABLE OF THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF ANASTATUS MOTSCHULSKY. ; FEMALES. The wings are perfect and of full length. Compare Hupelmus multicolor. 1. Wings with two distinct fuscous cross-stripes; abdomen with a distinct silvery band near base (rarely the second wing stripe is incomplete caudad). Body varicolored. Fore wings with two complete cross-stripes. Scape obclavate. Honey yellow, the head and abdomen metallic; scape dark metallic green at proximal half, the rest together with the pedicel and funicle 1 reddish yellow; funicles 2-5 silvery white; rest of antenna black; an intervening part of ovipositor valves honey yellow; funicle 2 thrice or more longer than wide. See description ins Me =e be .. tricolor Girault. Fore wings with the second stripe incomplete caudad, the first narrower, one third length of hyaline between the two; scape normal. Orange yellow; center of vertex, most of scutum, middle of pronotum and the mesoventer and propodeum metallic green; abdomen purple, with a silvery band near base; scape pale; antenne otherwise black except joints 3-6 of funicle which are silvery white. Fore wing with one cross-stripe and a triangular fuscous area from stigmal vein. See description .. bs fa ta at ae .. pasteuwri Girault. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 27 Body dark metallic green or purple. Scape normal. Seape nonmetallic, rufous. Valves of ovipositor barely extruded, their tips white .. -. vracinei Girault. Valves of ovipositor shortly extruded, their tips brownish black .. ie bombaz Girault. Scape metallic, concolorous. Valves of ovipositor barely exserted. Funicle 2 plainly longer than 3; tip of ovipositor not white. Hind tibia with two spurs; hyaline cross-band of fore wing plainly narrower than the first cross-stripe .. A ae ae a .. pipuncult Perkins. Funicle 2 nearly the same, the tip of ovipositor white; hind tibial spurs double; hyaline cross-band of fore wing subequal in breadth to the first cross- stripe xe ze Be She ate se .. aristotelea Girault. Funicle 2 subequal to 3. Tip of ovipositor white. Hind tibia with one spur; hyaline stripe of fore wing very narrow, plainly much shorter (over twice) than first fuscous stripe. Fore wings infuscated practically to tip .. blattidifurax Girault; compare maximus Girault. II. Wings infuscated from bend of submarginal vein to apex of postmarginal, the infusca- tion with two oblique, opposite eye-spots. Dark metallic purple, the scape rufous, the flagellum and legs concolorous; caudal margins of segments 2-5 of abdomen incised at meson; funicle 2 about two and a half times longer than wide. Tip of ovipositor whitish. Hind tibial spurs double. Caudal margin of segment 2 of abdomen silvery white. Front femur much swollen .. a se Pe 2h -. ie .. pentatomidivora Girault. The same but only segment 2 of abdomen is incised at meson of caudal margin .. at variety nonexcisus Girault. Ill. Wings generally infuscated, without eye-spots or two distinct cross-bands. Body dark metallic. Fore wings stained from about base of marginal vein to apex. Scape whitish. Seape, tip of ovipositor, tips of tibiz and the tarsi whitish. Stigmal and postmarginal veins subequal; funicle 2 subequal to pedicel. Valves of ovipositor slightly exserted a .. nigripurpureus Girault. The same but valves of ovipositor extruded somewhat farther and all concolorous .. ae a ve - ice .. pax Girault. Seape reddish brown. Robust. Distal third of caudal tibia yellowish white; funicle 2 thrice or more longer than wide, 6 quadrate; valves of ovipositor extruded for a fourth the length of the abdomen, dusky at tip, black at proximal third, rest white. Most of middle tibia brownish. Wings sooty a cin frederici Girault. Fore wings with a dusky subrectangular blotch appended from whole of marginal and postmarginal veins. Scape concolorous. Tips of tibie and tarsi whitish; valves of ovipositor extruded for about a third the length of the abdomen, whitish, black at distal third .. ae 5c splendidus Girault. The same but extruded part of valves of ovipositor black at base and tip, the rest whitish, the distal black longer than the proximal .. i3 he benthami Girault. 28 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 1V. Wings hyaline. Legs, except coxe, yellow. A middle third of the valves of the ovipositor white; funicle 2 thrice longer than wide, 3 and 4 each somewhat shorter than it, distinctly longer“@han the pedicel Be ~ we a as 5 .. boussingaulté: -Givaule. Femora concolorous. Abdomen with a silvery band near base. Valves of ovipositor extruded for a third the length of abdomen, black; pedicel and funicles 1 and 2 white; funicle 2 longest, a little longer than the pedicel ; middle tibiz (except a dusky band below knees) and distal half of other tibia, white .. r - re Be .. insularis Girault. Abdomen wholly concolorous. Pedicel distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints. Ovipositor not extruded. Tarsi brownish; funicle 1 longer than wide, 3 and 4 longest; caudal tibiz with two spurs. Abdomen depressed .. 30 oe coleopterorum Girault. Ovipositor extruded for a third the length of the abdomen. Distal half of cephalic and caudal tibie, middle femur except upper and lower edges, middle tibiz and the tarsi reddish brown; valves of oyipositor white centrally .. ss .. darwim Girault. GENUS METAPELMA Westwood. 1. METAPELMA WESTWOODI new species. Female :—Length, 4.25 mm., excluding ovipositor which is black and extruded for a length equal to seven eighths that of abdomen. Dark eneous green, the fore wings infuscated from near base of stigmal vein nearly to apex, with a brownish stripe across from distal third of submarginal vein, narrower centrally and a longitudinal brownish stripe connecting the two infuscations. Cephalic and middle femora and tibie rich yellowish brown, also the cephalic tarsi; all coxa and the hind legs dark metallic but the proximal fourth of hind tibia silvery white; middle tarsi black except proximal three fourths of first joint which is silvery white; middle tibial spur white; hind femur near base yellowish brown. Eyes only sparsely hairy. Hind tibial spurs double, distinct, the hind tibia and first tarsal joint compressed, very flat but only moderately broad. Seape metallic, dilated ventrad along distal half; pedicel subequal to funicle 1 which is distinetly longer than wide; funicles 2 and 3 elongate, twice the length of 1, subequal, each about five times longer than wide; 4 somewhat longer than 1, 5-8 shortening and widening, 7 quadrate, 8 wider than long; club oval, shorter than funicle 2. Middle tibia and femora distinctly longer than those regions of the other legs. The three ridges of scutum acute; axille rather narrowly meeting, with an oblique, bisecting ridge; whole body scaly. Postmarginal vein elongate, over thrice the length of the stigmal, a little longer than the marginal. Caudal wings with about twenty lines of diseal cilia where widest. Proximal margin of distal infuscation of fore wing triangularly projected proximad at cephalic third. The triangular elevation of cephalic seutum narrow, much longer than wide. Pronotum and face hispid. Antenne 13-jointed. From one female taken in jungle, May 2, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 2881, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, a hind leg and pair of wings on a slide. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 29 GENUS NEANASTATUS Girault. Marginal and submarginal veins not differentiated, very long, the stigmal well developed, the postmarginal very long, thrice or more the length of the stigmal. A long oblique hairless. line running cephalo-distad toward base of stigmal vein but not reaching it for some distance. Intermediate tibial spurs as long as the tarsi of these legs, stout, spiny, at apex ending in several stout spines. Scutellum with a broad base and a median groove. Antenne 10-jointed, with one ring-joint, the club 2-jointed. Head subtriangular, only as wide as the greatest width of the thorax, the frons broad, eyes not large, not convergent, the genal sulcus distinct; mandibles tridentate. Antenne inserted below the eyes. Ovipositor not exserted. Abdomen conic-ovate. Face convex. 1. NEANASTATUS CINCTIVENTRIS Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 2.75 to 3.50 mm. : Dark metallic green marked with bright lemon yellow as follows: Base of abdomen encircled with a band just out from base; scutum with a long rectangular area down its center; cephalic legs, intermediate legs except most of cox and coxw of posterior legs; posterior femora and tibie and the distal four tarsal joints bluish to black, the distal joints of other tarsi black. Fore wings with a deep smoky subrectangular area under the venation, its middle at the stigmal vein. Hyes with very sparse pubescence. First funicle joint longest, the others shortening, the distal two subequal to each other and to the pedicel. Distal club joint subequal to first funicle joint. Head with dense, rather small thimble punctures. Thorax and abdomen polygonally sculptured. Antenna brownish yellow. The types were captured by sweeping foliage of jungle growth along the banks of the Mulgrave River, near Gordonvale, March 30, 1913. Types: No. Hy 2882, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on tags (two pins). The male is about similar to the female; its funicle joints are all somewhat longer than wide, distinctly longer than the pedicel. A male from forest, type locality, March 21, 1913. A rather common species. Also a pair, same place, April. 2. NEANASTATUS DESERTENSIS new species Female :—Length, 2.50 mm. Very similar to aurivertex Girault but differing in the following particulars: ‘The prepectus is contrasting deep orange yellow; the lateral margins of pronotum are not metallic green but the caudal margin is so yet very lightly, not distinctly; the distal third of caudal femur is not yellow except ventrad but wholly metallic purple; the tip of middle tibiz, distal part of middle tibial spur and the distal four tarsal joints of middle legs, are metallic purple; caudal knees and tibize wholly metallic purple, also caudal coxa at base; distal joint of caudal tarsus purple. Antenne very hispid. From one female taken in forest, April 15, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2883, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 3. NEANASTATUS AURIFASCIATUS new species, Female :—Length, 2 mm. Dark metallic green, the abdomen, propodeum, mesopleurum and most of scutellum metallic purple, the abdomen with a rather broad golden orange band just out from base its caudal margin narrowly silvery white. Wings hyaline. Antenne and first two pairs of legs honey yellow, the middle coxa mostly concolorous, the cephalic one so at base. Caudal legs wholly purple except trochanters, a minute spot just ventrad of knees and the tarsi which are white. Funicle 1 quadrate, slightly smaller than the pedicel; distal two or three funicle joints wider 30 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. than long. The same as the other species otherwise. Tarsi white. Differs from reymondi in having clear wings, the orange abdominal band and wholly yellow middle femur. Differs from punctaticeps in lacking the cross-groove at base of scutellum and the color of the abdominal band. From one female taken in forest, April 8, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2884, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. 4. NEANASTATUS FLAVIPRONOTUM new species. Female :—Length, 2 mm. Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the pronotum, tegule, mouth and a little less than proximal fourth of abdomen dorsad, golden yellow; also the antenna and first two pairs of legs except intermediate cox and intermediate femora slightly at base. Hind legs concolorous, their tarsi and the tibizw just below knees silvery white. Caudal margin of pronotum concolorous. Seutum and pronotum pilose, scutellum much less so. Occiput finely, circularly striate. Head densely punctate. From one female caught by sweeping in forest, March 3, 1912. Habitat: Thursday Island, Torres Strait. Type: No. Hy 2885, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. 5. NEANASTATUS PUNCTATICEPS new species. Female :—Length, 1.85 mm. Metallic grass green, the scutellum, propodeum and abdomen dark purplish, the abdomen with a silvery white band around base. Wings hyaline. Cephalic and middle legs silvery white, the hind legs metallic purple, their tarsi white. Antenne yellow-brown, the distal three funicle joints wider than long, joints 1 and 2 subquadrate, shorter than the pedicel, the latter short; scape clavate; club conic-ovate. Head rather coarsely punctuate, the scrobes absent but the scapes fit into an -shaped facial impression which is obtuse. Thorax very finely scaly, subpilose. Middle tibial spur armed with biack teeth toward apex. Generic characters present.* From one female taken August 9, 1913 by sweeping in forest. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensiand. Type: No. Hy 2886, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; legs and antenna on a slide. This is the only species of the genus with a distinct cross-groove at base of scutellum. 6. NEANASTATUS AURIVERTEX new species. Female :—Length, 2 mm. Dark metallic purple, the vertex orange yellow, rest of head, pronotum except the lateral margins (lateral aspect), prepectus, propleura, proventer, middle legs, coxw, fore legs, hind trochanters, hind femora distad, hind tibiz proximad and the tarsi, bright lemon yellow. Head uniformly, rather coarsely punctate. A narrow yellowish band just out from base of abdomen. Occiput purplish across the middle; antenna orange yellow; pedicel shorter than funicle 1 which is longest, somewhat longer than wide; funicle 5 subquadrate, 3 and 4 a little longer than wide. First club joint the shorter. Ring-joint distinct. Hind coxa purplish above at base. Thorax scaly, with sparse pubescence on the long scutum, the seutellum with the median groove. Structurally like the genotype. Middle tibiw# not armed with black teeth beneath. One mandible bidentate, the other with an inner angulation which does not form a distinct third tooth. * As always unless particularly mentioned. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 31 From one female taken by sweeping jungle growth along a forest streamlet, June 29, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2887, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head on a slide. 7. NEANASTATUS PURPUREISCUTELLUM new species. Female :—Length, 1.65 mm. Golden yellow, the abdomen except a broad white band around base which occupies over proximal third, the scutellum, the propodeum, the mesopleurum (except cephalic margin), mesoventer and the hind legs except coxe and tibiw, dark metallic purple. The proximal silvery white base of abdomen with a narrow band of metallic purple at about middle. (Meson of scutum broadly from about cephalic fifth to caudal margin obscurely purplish, the broad mesal band dilating considerably caudad on each side to the lateral margins; this marking may be due to fading.) Thorax rather well-clothed with blackish pubescence; abdomen finely scaly. Head punctate as in the other species. Abdomen at tip above silvery white, the caudal margins of the segments straight. Hind tibial spurs double, one very small, the other large, both purple. Mandibles tridentate. Funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, longer than the pedicel, 5 subquadrate, subequal to the pedicel. From one female taken by sweeping jungle along a road, February 23, 1912. Habitat: Rossville (Cooktown), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2888, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head and hind tibiz on a slide. 8. NEANASTATUS FLAVIMESOPLEURUM new species. Female :—Length, 2.75 mm. Deep orange yellow, the fore wing a little stained under the marginal vein; scutellum except lateral and distal margins, abdomen except a broad yellowish white band around base, dorsal edge of caudal femora and all of caudal tibize except tip, dark metallic purple. Funicle 1 one and a half times longer than wide, nearly twice the length of the pedicel, longest of the flagellum, Otherwise as in purpureiscutellum. From one female caught by sweeping in jungle, July 28, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2889, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. A second female from the same place, April 2, 1914. 9. NEANASTATUS INCONSPICUUS new species. Female :—Length, 1.90 mm. Differs from punctaticeps in lacking the cross-suture on scutellum and the first two pairs of cox are concolorous, the cephalic femora concolorous at base, the silvery band of abdomen very narrow. The middle legs are pale brown. From reymondi in the color of the legs and in having the hind tibie white at extreme base dorsad and the distal four tarsal joints of middle legs purple as in punctaticeps. From aurifasciatus in the coloration of the first two pairs of legs. Funicle 1 a little longer than wide; scape and pedicel dark purple, rest of antenne dull yellow. From one female caught in forest, May 15, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 2890, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type punctaticeps. oo bo MEMOIRS GF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 10. NEANASTATUS TRINOTATUS new species. Female :—Length, 2.70 mm. Deep orange yellow, the lower face lighter, the wings hyaline; a conspicuous beehive- shaped marking on over caudal third of the mesopleurum and a moderate sized cross-stripe on dorsal abdomen a short distance before tip, jet black; these markings conspicuously contrasting. Two minute black dots on hind coxa above at base and on base of abdomen a narrow black cross-stripe and at about middle two minute black dots at each margin (dorsal aspect) in an oblique line. Sculpture as in maximicorpus. Thorax with black pubescence which is moderate. Funicle 1 longest, a little longer than wide. This species resembles in its gross marking Leptomastix auraticorpus Girault. From one female taken March 5, 1914, sweeping jungle (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cooktown, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2891, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. 11. NEANASTATUS REYMONDI new species. Female :—Length, 2.20 mm. Nearly similar to punectaticeps but very dark eneous green, the head eneous coppery; the middle femur is dark greenish proximad. Differing specifically as follows: Funicle 1 and the pedicel are a little longer than wide; the fore wing is uniformly stained and the discal cilia proximad of the oblique hairless line is somewhat coarser (about 11 lines in each), the venation is darker; there is a distinct carina between bases of antenne and no impressions for the scape while at base of scutellum there is no distinct cross-groove reaching from axilla to axilla as in punctaticeps. Described from one female caught in forest, December 25, 1912. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2892, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; wings and an antenna on a slide with slide type of punctaticeps Girault. Dedicated to Paul Dubois Reymond. A common species on certain trees in the bed of Cape River (September). 12. NEANASTATUS MAXIMICORPUS new species. Female: Length, 3 mm. Very dark greenish blue, the wings hyaline; head except a metallic stripe across upper occiput, antenne, pronotum mesad broadly at cephalic half, propodeum, distal margin of scutellum, hind femur and hind tibia, orange yellow; propleurum just above cephalic coxa (the ventral border of propleurum rather broadly), first two pairs of legs and distal two thirds of hind coxa, bright lemon yellow; front femora and tibie more or less orange; caudal margin of segment 2 of abdomen very narrowly silvery white, the broad whitish band around base of the abdomen thus absent. Thorax and abdomen finely polygonally scaly, the thorax dorsad pilose. Second segment of abdomen at meson of caudal margin very slightly excised, the other segments practically straight there. Head densely, finely punctate. Funicle 1 longest, somewhat longer than wide. From one female, taken March 6, 1914 in jungle (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cooktown, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2893, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 33 TABLE TO THE SPECIES OF NEANASTATUS GIRAULT. Body, excluding appendages, wholly metallic green (but the abdomen with a silvery or yellowish band near base). Seutellum with a transverse groove at base. Band of abdomen silvery. Wings hyaline; cephalic and middle legs silvery white; joints 1-2 of funicle subquad- rate, shorter than the pedicel. Grass green ai .. punctaticeps Girault. Scutellum without such a groove. Dark metallic green. Wings uniformly, very lightly stained; band of abdomen silvery; middle femur concolorous at base .. : te reymondi Girault. Wings hyaline; band of abdomen aiqant orange. Middle femur all yellow aurifasciatus Gurautit. Compare inconspicuus Girault. Body excluding appendages, dark metallic green but marked with yellow. Abdomen with a silvery band more or less distinct. Head concolorous. Secutum with a long, rectangular yellow area down its center; cephalic and middle legs yellow except middle coxa; hind legs concolorous except tarsi. Fore wings with a rectangular smoky area against venation and with its middle at stigmal vein. Band of abdomen lemon yellow .. -. cinetwentris Girault. Head more or less marked with yellow. Wings hyaline. Head nearly entirely yellow (excepting a stripe across upper or middle occiput). Pronotum mesad broadly at cephalic half, propodeum, distal margin of scutellum and hind femora and tibiw orange yellow; part of propleurum and first two pairs of legs, lemon yellow. Caudal margin of segment 2 of abdomen very narrowly silvery white. Funicle 1 longer than wide oe maximicor pus Giwault. Vertex orange yellow; rest of head, prepectus, pronotum except lateral margins, propleura, proventer, coxe, middle legs, Sat fore legs, hind femur distad, hind tibiz proximad, lemon yellow .. : aes aurwertex Girault. The same but the pronotum with only the etude? margin narrowly metallic, the caudal femur all metallic and distal four joints of middle tarsi purple .. k desertensis Girault. Head nearly all green, the mouth alone yellow. Pronotum, tegule and a little less than proximal fourth of abdomen dorsad, golden yellow; first two pairs of legs yellow except middle coxa and middle femur a little at base. Hind tibia just below knee white - flavipronotum Garant, Body, excluding appendages, yellow marked with black or metallic. Abdomen metallic except the silvery band near base. Golden yellow; scutellum, propodeum, mesopleurum except cephalic margin, mesoventer and hind legs except cox and distal third of femur ventrad, dark metallic purple. Wings hyaline =: -. purpureiscutellum Girault. Orange yellow; scutellum except lateral ang ieee margins, dorsal edge of caudal femur and all of caudal tibiz except tip, purple. Funicle 1 nearly twice the length of the pedicel. Wings a little stained under the marginal vein . flavimesopleurum Girault. Abdomen mostly yellow. Deep orange yellow, the wings hyaline; caudal third of mesopleurum and a stripe across dorsal abdomen a short distance before tip, jet black. Two dots on hind coxa dorsad at base and a pair of marginal dots on abdomen at about middle .. se ic ss =e 3 2.0 .- trinotatus Girault. 34 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. MESEUSANDALUM new genus. Female :—Form elongate, the abdomen long and conical, distinctly longer than the rest of the body, the ovipositor exserted distinctly but shortly. In Ashmead’s (1904) table of genera running to Eusandalum Ratzburg (the middle tarsi are armed) but the antenne are 11-jointed with a ring-joint and a 2-jointed club, the flagellum filiform, the club not distinctly differentiated. Legs slender, the hind tibia with a single spur. Second abdominal segment very slightly incised at meson of caudal margin, others entire, segment 2 a little the longest,. 3 distinctly the shortest, 7 nearly as long as 2. Seutum with two longitudinal impressions,. incomplete from caudad. Axille widely separated, their inner margins regularly curved. Stigmal vein subsessile, the postmarginal short but over twice the length of the stigmal, the marginal vein moderately short, distinctly shorter than the submarginal, much longer than the postmarginal. Face almost carinated as in the Dirrhinini. Genal suture distinet. Strigil present. Lateral ocelli at extreme cephalo-lateral angles of vertex, barely separated from the eyes, the latter naked. See the third species. 1. MESEUSANDALUM CYANEIVENTRIS new species. Genotype. Female :—ULength, 4.20 mm., including the ovipositor. Dark metallic green, the scutellum, axille and abdomen coppery or bronze, the venter of abdomen blue. Wings hyaline. Legs and antennz concolorous except knees and proximal four tarsal joints which are white. Pedicel short, a little shorter than distal club joint, which is next shortest of the flagellum; ring-joint large; funicle 1 long and slender, 2 and 3 subequal, a little shorter than 1, somewhat over thrice longer than wide; others gradually shortening, the distal club joint ovate, not much longer than wide. First tarsal joint of middle legs not half the length of the same joint of hind legs, which is slender. Scrobes glabrous. Head and thorax densely, finely scaly, the scutellum more finely so, nearly longitudinally lineolated. Propodeum without carine, delicately scaly. Pronotum with transverse lineolations. From one female taken January 7, 1914 in forest. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2594, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 2. MESEUSANDALUM STYLATUS new species. Female :—Length, 6.75 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal to that of the abdomen or a little more. Differs from the preceding in having the abdominal stylus nearly as long as the extruded portion of ovipositor, the hind tibia bears two spurs, segment 2 of abdomen has a slight incision at caudal meson and is as long as or a little longer than 3, the stigmal and postmarginal veins are a little longer, the color is purplish, the fore wings stained more: especially longitudinally along the middle out to apex of venation, the tibie are reddish brown except cephalic ones just below knees, the postmarginal vein is over twice the length of the- stigmal, the tarsi brown; head and thorax densely finely punctate including a contrasting semicircular area at caudal meson of propodeum and which is more than half the length of that region at the meson; this area is deeply sutured from the transverse, subglabrous mesal portion of the propodeum and appears to belong to the abdomen. Spiracle large, round, with a curved’ sulcus just mesad of it; no carinw on propodeum. Segments 2 and 3 of abdomen glabrous, the: following transversely, finely wrinkled, the last (7) and the stylus punctate like the thorax,. the stylus with a sharp median carina. Caudal margin of pronotum conically produced distad, subacute at apex. Funicle 1 as long as the scape, four times the length of the distal antennal! joint which is much shorter than the joint preceding it. From one female caught on a tree trunk, 2-9-13 (H. Hacker). Habitat: Enoggera (Brisbane), Queensland. ' Type: No: Hy 2895, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female “minutien-mounted ;: middle and hind legs and an antenna on a slide. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 35 3. MESEUSANDALUM COMPRESSISCAPUS new species. Female :—Length, 3.10 mm. including ovipositor. Differs from cyaneiventris in being somewhat smaller, the ovipositor extruded somewhat less (the stylus as long as it in both species), the scape is distinctly compressed (uniformly expanded ventrad its entire length, the expansion straight, not convex); the ring-joint is wider, the flagellum more slender, the club less differentiated, the pedicel somewhat shorter; the post- marginal vein is somewhat longer, the venation very pale, the scutellum a little more finely lined longitudinally. Hind tibial spur single. Described from one female. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2896, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type cyaneiventris and an antenna and hind tibia on a slide with an antenna of a female cyaneiventris. This genus is perhaps Lusandalum but the exceptional antenne are not mentioned in the various descriptions of that genus and it is not the business of systematic biology to guess. Genus SOLINDINELLEUS Girault. Head normal, from cephalic aspect rounded, the genal sulcus distinct, the eyes rounded and bearing short, scattered, inconspicuous hairs; the antenne inserted slightly below ventral ends of eyes, their scrobes short but distinct. Antenne 10-jointed, subclavate, one ring-joint, the scape short, the pedicel small, not half the size of the first funicle joint which is longest of the funicle; club 2-jointed, ovate. Lateral ocelli not touching the eye margins. Scutellum very short, triangular, simple but with a median suleus, the axille very small, very widely separated, obscure. Abdomen sessile, so much compressed as to be merely a line from dorsal aspect, as long as the thorax, the ovipositor not exserted. Scutum impressed, the furrows complete. Middle tibial spur long and stout, two thirds the length of the middle tarsus, the proximal joint of the latter ventrad with dense black teeth; these teeth are also on succeeding joints and.around the base of the tibial spur but less dense. Cephalic femur lightly swollen, unarmed but with a line of solitary, stiff hairs. Hind legs normal, the spur single. Wings hyaline, the postmarginal vein long, subequal to the marginal and four or more times longer than the stigmal which is well developed. Marginal fringes short. Body metallic, sculptured, varicolored. Corrected description. Like Neanastatus excluding the shape of the abdomen. 1. SOLINDINELLEUS PULCHRICORPUS Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 2.79 mm. Dark metallic greenish, the long scutal impression and the seutellum distad coppery. Marked with bright lemon yellow as follows: The head except center of vertex between the lateral ocelli and a broad stripe from side to side (eye to eye) of the occiput; the legs except proximal half of caudal cox, proximal two thirds of caudal femora, all of caudal tibiz (except at each end), the dusky distal tarsal joint and the tip of the middle tibial spur; proximal third of tegule; and a whitish band around most of the caudal margin of pronotum (dorsal aspect). An orange yellow, transverse-elliptical spot on propodeum, each side of meson, as seen from dorsal aspect just on each side of the apex of scutellum. The latter bears a thin clump of long white hairs on each side before apex. Antenne brownish, the scape yellow ventrad, the pedicel the same at tip. Head and seutum with irregular, more or less obscure punctures, the mesonotum densely shagreened or reticulated. Venation dusky. A more or less obscure yellowish stripe near base of abdomen, lateral aspect. The species resembles Neanastatus maxzimicorpus. There is also a rather large, triangular lemon yellow spot just cephalad of mesopleurum. Type re-examined. Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Associated with galls. July. Type: No. Hy 2897, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag. 36 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. NEOCALOSOTER new genus of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Female :—Head not much excavated, the frons somewhat concave, the antennal scrobes distinct, the vertex rather thin. Eyes moderately large, bare; ocelli in an equilateral triangle, the lateral ones rather farther from the eye margins than from the median ocellus. Antenne inserted at the mouth border; 11-jointed, no ring-joint, the club 3-jointed; similar to the male antenne of the genus Scelio Latreille; scape not distinctly swollen nor very long; pedicel a little longer than first funicle joint, which is distinctly longer than wide; funicles 2-6 shortening all somewhat wider than long, the sixth distinctly so. Mandibles 4-dentate, the teeth small. Legs all normal; middle tarsi without strong teeth ventrad; posterior tibie with two apical spurs. Pronotum longer than the scutum; parapsidal furrows deep and distinct. Axille rather widely separated. Propodeum with many irregular faint cross-carine, also rather faint median and lateral carine. Seutellum with a delicate cross-suture before apex. Abdomen barely as long as the thorax; conic-ovate, the ovipositor exserted for a length equal to two thirds that of the abdomen, second segment deeply incised at meson of caudal margin, occupying over one third of the surface; caudal margins of remaining segments straight; third scarcely one fourth as long as second; fourth and fifth subequal, together as long as second. Wings perfect; marginal vein not much shorter than submarginal; stigmal vein short and curved; post- marginal barely as long as the stigmal. 1. NEOCALOSOTER PULCHRIPENNIS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 3.25 mm., excluding the ovipositor. Black; most of lower face, propleura and cephalic margin of pronotum, venter of thorax more or less, basal two thirds of ovipositor and the antenne (except the scape), reddish brown; femora and tibiz somewhat suffused with brown; tarsi and antennal scape bright golden yellow; abdomen steel blue. Head (except lower portion of face), pronotum, scutum, scutellum (except apex) and second abdominal segment smooth and shining. Rest of abdomen, lower portion of face and apex of scutellum, very finely scaly. Fore wings hyaline, with an irregular smoky transverse band across wing at joining of marginal and submarginal veins and another at apex of marginal vein and involving the stigmal vein, the second band much the wider. Described from one female caught by Mr. F. P. Dodd in December, 1913. Habitat: Northern Queensland (Kuranda, near Cairns). Type: No. Hy 2898, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the head and a hind leg on a slide. Genus PAROODERELLA Girault. Synonym: Parasolindenia Girault. The same as Anastatus but the wings mere scales, absent or greatly reduced. 1. PAROODERELLA APTERA Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 3.25 mm. Very dark metallic green, nearly black; base of abdomen with a silvery white stripe across it above, narrower mesad, broader beneath; distal four antennal joints white; tarsi and knees yellowish; scape brownish. First funicle joint longest, longer than pedicel, funicles 2 and 3 nearly as long as 1, subequal. Mesoscutum punctate. Hind tibize with one spur. Front femur beneath emarginate near apex. Wingless. Habitat: Cairns, Queensland. Type: No. I. 1271, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 37 2, PAROODERELLA HEMIPTERA (Girault). Female. Genotype of Parasolindenia Girault. Length, 3.50 mm. Head and abdomen dark metallic green, the thorax reddish, the legs concolorous with it; a white band across base of abdomen; proximal half of antenna yellowish white (scape, pedicel, ring-joint and first three funicle joints, 3 suffused with dusky), the rest black. Fore wings fuscous and hispid from base of marginal vein to apex but interrupted more than half way to the apex by a central, triangular naked and hyaline spot, which extends nearly to margins from opposite sides. Funicle 1 longest but yet subequal to 3, the following shortening, the club shorter than scape. Head with a scaly sculpture and also the thorax and abdomen but less rough. Posterior wings hyaline. Marginal vein long, rather broad, the stigmal very short, the postmarginal nearly absent. Fore wing densely hispid except in places. Habitat: Cairns, Queensland. Type: No. I. 1275, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 3. PAROODERELLA MANCA new species. Female :—Length, 2.50 mm., exclusive of ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal to a fourth that of the abdomen. Mahogany brown, wingless, the head and ecphalic cox dark metallic purple, the abdomen lustrous black, also the hind legs; legs otherwise brown (including caudal tarsi) washed with a little metallic purple. Scape brown; rest of antenna black. Valves of ovipositor brownish, darker at base. Thorax washed here and there with metallic purplish. A broad silvery band around abdomen just out from base. Wings scale-like, not twice longer than wide, brownish, distad truncate, without marginal cilia and only with a submarginal vein which runs to apex; wings not reaching abdomen, their discal ciliation confined to apex. Funicle 1 like a ring-joint, 2 longest, nearly twice longer than wide, 3 somewhat shorter, a little longer than the pedicel; others shortening and broadening, 5 and 6 subquadrate, 8 distinctly wider than long. Hind tibial spur single. Mesonotal ridges acute. Eyes nearly bare. Seutum with a median carina. Head and thorax subglabrous, the seutellum longitudinally lineolated. Segments 2 and 3 of abdomen obtusely incised at meson caudad, the caudal margins of the other segments straight, caudad of segment 3, the surface scaly. Avxille distinctly separated a short distance, longest cephalo-caudad. From one female taken May 19, 1914 by sweeping forest. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2899, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; caudal leg, antenna and a wing on a slide. 4. PAROODERELLA SEMIPUTATA new species. Similar in all respects to manca but the valves of the ovipositor are white, dark at extreme tip and base, the thorax and legs are wholly metallic purple, the band over base of abdomen is obscure or absent, the frons is broader (in manca moderately narrow), the pedicel is somewhat longer, subequal to funicle 2 which is subequal to 3 and 4, the seutum lacks the median carina (in both species the lateral ridges of scutum are sharp carine), the head is plainly scaly, the mesopleurum more coarsely longitudinally lined. Wings apparently the same but hyaline. Caudal margins of abdominal segments not seen. Tarsi white. Abdomen scaly. Scape dusky at tip dorsad. From one female taken by sweeping jungle along a forest streamlet, June 29, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2900, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag with type manca; portion of antenna on slide with type manca. 38 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 5. PAROODERELLA SEMITECTA new species. Female:—Of the same stature and so forth as semiputata but differing in having the scape concolorous, valves of ovipositor not extruded, brownish at tip, the silvery white band of the abdomen distinct, the very small wings longer, fuscous with a rather broad central hyaline cross-stripe as long as the proximal fuscous part, longer than the distal fuscous portion (in semiputata the minute wings are mostly uncolored, fuscous at base). Otherwise about the same; antennal segmentation the same. From one female taken November 8, 1913 by sweeping forest. Habitat: Stewart’s Creek (Townsville), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2901, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag with type flavithoraz. A second female at Pentland, Queensland, forest in early September. The caudal margins of abdominal segments are not incised. 6. PAROODERELLA FLAVITHORAX new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Female :—Length, 3 mm. Head dark metallic green, the thorax, legs, scape, pedicel, ring-joint and first three funicle joints, honey yellow; rest of antenna black; abdomen dark purple, with a broad, silvery white band around base. Wings vestigial but perfect, reaching to end of proximal third of the abdomen, with a rather broad band of fuscous across apical edge and another much broader one a short distance proximad from distal part of submarginal and proximal two thirds of marginal veins. Scutellum densely scaly, the seutum polished, the axille scaly, the head less so. Caudal margin of abdominal segments slightly incised at meson, the abdomen reticulated, the third segment smoother. Eyes practically naked. Antenne 13-jointed, with one large ring-joint, the club long, 3-jointed; pedicel subequal to funicle 3 which is longest of the funicle, 1 slightly shorter, 2 a little shorter than 1 which is subequal to 4, the distal joint slightly longer than wide. Hind tibial spurs double, much unequal, the first tarsal joint long and slender. Male :—Not known. Described from one female captured by sweeping in jungle, November 15, 1913 (A.P.D.). Habitat: Harvey’s Creek (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2902, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag. GENUS CERAMBYCOBIUS Ashmead. 1. CERAMBYCOBIUS PAX Girault. Female. Length, 4 mm., exclusive of the long ovipositor which is curved downward and is a little longer than the abdomen. Metallic green, abdomen and scutellum purple, ovipositor brown, its sheaths black; antenne dark purple; tibie# brown except above, tarsi brown. Fore wings deeply infuscated, the fumation divided through the middle by a clear line. Postmarginal vein nearly twice the length of the stigmal. Posterior tibie with one spur. Face deeply excavated above antenne, the excavation smooth and shining, the cephalic ocellus distant from it, the lateral ocelli closer to cephalic one than to eye margins; before the cephalic ocellus a subquadrate, smooth depression and a fovea behind each lateral ocellus; vertex rather coarsely punctate; eyes with barely perceptible hairs, practically naked. Body with sculpture like that of Tetrastichus. Axille just touching inwardly. Seape extending far beyond the vertex, foliaceously dilated or compressed but not convexly, the foliation uniform and distinct; first funicle joint shorter than the pedicel, not much longer than wide, second and third joints longest, subequal, longer AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 39 than the pedicel, the other joints shortening but all longer than wide. Antenne 13-jointed, club 3-jointed, no ring-joint. Antennz inserted near the middle of the face. Head wider than long. Valves of ovipositor densely, shortly feathery, straight. Incisions of abdominal segments small, inconspicuous, the abdomen cylindrical, a little longer than the thorax. Corrected description. Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Jungle, November 4, 1911. Type: No. Hy 2903, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above female on a tag, the legs and antenne on a slide. SuspramMity TANEOSTIGMIN Ai. This subfamily is distinguished from the Aphelinine by usually bearing a postmarginal vein and usually the marginal vein is much reduced, the middle tibial spur stout, the parapsidal furrows variable, curved off laterad and sometimes meeting before apex. The mesopleurum is always entire and convex and this is the characteristic of the group. TANEOSTIGMOMYTA new genus. Characterized by the 11-jointed antenne, the club solid and well defined, the scape short, ‘slightly convexed beneath or slightly compressed, the funicle joints all transverse-linear, the first two lke ring-joints, the third a little less like 1 being wider, the others wider and of equal width. Pedicel somewhat longer than wide at apex. Parapsidal furrows rather widely separated caudad, meeting scutellum just mesad of the mesal ends of the axille. Mandibles tridentate. Hind tibial spur single. Axille rather widely separated. Thorax clothed with scattered, short, stiff, black sete. Marginal vein of moderate length, not long, a little longer than or subequal to the slender stigmal and postmarginal veins. 1. TANEOSTIGMOMYIA SPENCERI new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 0.82 mm. Lemon yellow, the scutum and parapsides orange yellow, the appendages concolorous, the wings hyaline; three distinct (and a fourth and fifth less distinct, proximad and distad of them respectively) black stripes across the abdomen proximad of middle. Cephalic and caudal (centrally) margins of propodeum and dorsal thoracic sutures black. A fuscous, oblique spot across the cephalic margin of each axilla. Fore wings densely ciliate, the marginal fringes short. Valves of ovipositor slightly exserted, black. Club as long as the scape. Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Forest, September 12, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 2904, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; hind leg and the head on a slide. TANEOSTIGMOIDELLA new genus. Somewhat like Taneostigmodes Ashmead but the antenne 9-jointed with one very short ring-joint, the club 3-jointed, the three funicle joints much longer than wide, the first distinctly more than twice longer than wide. Scape greatly, foliaceously dilated ventrad.* Mandibles bidentate, the second tooth broadly truncate at apex. Parapsidal furrows widely separated caudad. A'xille also well separated, well advanced into the parapsides, the latter very short, curved. Scutellum with a thin, transverse suture near its distal margin. Marginal vein as long as the submarginal, the stigmal very short but longer than the extremely short post- marginal. Abdomen flat above, conic-ovate, the ovipositor barely exserted. 1. TANEOSTIGMOIDELLA NYMPHA new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 1.35 mm. Pale honey yellow, the abdomen black but concolorous along the lateral aspect and with a narrow honey yellow stripe across out from base, this stripe interrupted at meson by the * Convexly so. 40 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. black. Axille deeper in color; legs pale straw yellow; transverse suture of scutellum, scape, pronotum and flagellum black. Wings hyaline. Scutum with dense, stiff black pubescence, the seutellum with six long black hairs. Thorax scaly, non-metallic. Funicles 2 and 3 subequal, distinctly longer than the pedicel; joints 1 and 2 of the club subequal, longer than wide. Scape silvery white at extreme tip. Habitat: Seymour (Ingham), Queensland. Jungle, February, 1913. Type: No. Hy 2905, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a slide. A second female was taken in jungle at Gordonvale, Queensland, June 4, 1913. 2. TANEOSTIGMOIDELLA MIXTA new species. Female. Length, 0.80 mm. Like the genotype structurally. Orange yellow; abdomen black; propodeum, scape, except the black ventral margin of the foliation, pedicel, funicle 1 and the whole of one side of the other two funicle joints, the distal two thirds of the distal club joint and the legs, silvery white. Tip of abdomen rather broadly, two triangular or cuneate spots on the lateral margins (dorsad) of proximal half, a large round area with a black dot in its middle at distal third laterad, of abdomen, also silvery white. Antenne otherwise black. Fore wings obscurely infuscated centrally. Scape with an oblique black stripe across it from the black ventral margin. Joint 1 of funicle not much longer than its width, the other two each a little wider than long; antennz 9-jointed, one ring-joint. Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. Associated with ornamental plants (rubber), July 11, 1912. Type: No. Hy 2906, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. 3. TANEOSTIGMOIDELLA ARGENTISCUTELLUM new species. Female :—Length, 1.25 mm., excluding ovipositor. Silvery white; face and meson of pronotum, thoracic sutures very narrowly, the sclerite between scutellum and postscutellum, propodeal spiracle, thorax laterad of postscutellum dorsad, abdomen except lateral aspect and antenne except scape at base and at apex dorsad, jet black. Caudal tibie dusky just below knee. A broad stripe across middle occiput (broken centrally) and a blotch on each side above it around edge of cheeks, also black. Vertex, seutum, parapsides and axilla deep orange yellow. Wings hyaline. Scutum with dense black, stiff but inclinate pubescence. Thorax densely shagreened, the propodeum with a median ridge, delicately scaly, its caudal edge black. Scutellum with only about six black sete in pairs, the caudal pair largest, the sclerite suffused with yellow. Parapsides narrow, boomerang-shaped. Valves of ovipositor slightly extruded, black. Mandibles bidentate, the second tooth broadly truncate. Funicles 2-3 subequal, somewhat longer than wide, each somewhat shorter than 1, slightly longer than the pedicel which is subequal to club 1. Scape greatly dilated. Ring-joint distiner. Caudal wings with about nine lines of discal cilia. Hind tibial spurs double. Abdomen purplish, From one female caught in jungle, July 30, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2909, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and a hind leg with slide type of Zarhopaloides axillaris. EUTRICHOSOMELLA new genus. Like Taneostigmoidella Girault but the club solid, the face inflexed, the eyes strongly convergent at dorsal edge of the face, the antenne inserted farther ventrad being at the mouth border, the scape slender. Antenne 7-jointed with one short ring-joint. Mandibles with two minute teeth, the second tooth followed by a broad truncated piece. Parapsidal furrows AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 41 delicate. Scutellum finely longitudinally striated, without an apparent cross-suture near apex. Fore wings quite as in Aphelinus; infusecated. Scutellum long. Like Aphelinus but the eyes convergent, the face inflexed, the antennz with a ring-joint, the middle tibial spur stout. 1. EUTRICHOSOMELLA ALBICLAVA new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 0.80 mm. Honey yellow, the scutellum and abdomen orange yellow; face of pronotum, mesopleura, a stripe across base of abdomen and another across at distal three fourths, dusky. Fore wings stained under the marginal vein, the stain accented at apex of submarginal and stigmal veins. Thorax finely scaly. Discal cilia proximad of the oblique hairless line twice coarser than the main ciliation, about from 7 to 8 lines. Scape, pedicel, funicle 1 and the legs orange yellow; club white, rest of antenne yellowish white. Funicle 1 shortest, a little wider than long, 2 and 3 subequal, each a little longer than wide. Pedicel long, two thirds the length of the funicle. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns) and Cooktown, Queensland. Jungle, May 8, 1913 (A. P. Dodd) at Gordonvale (type). Type: No. Hy 2907, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on a slide. 2. EUTRICHOSOMELLA MULTIFASCIATA new species. Female :—Length, 1.10 mm. Very similar to albiclava Girault but differing in the following particulars: The pedicel is distinctly longer, subelongate; the funicle joints are longer, 3 a little longer than 2; the caudal pair of the four bristles on margin of scutum are minute, not large, coarse and equal to the cephalic pair as in the genotype; the cephalic pair of bristles on scutum are smaller; the disc of scutum is naked, not with a half dozen or so scattered sete; the bristle on each axilla and the four on scutellum are all smaller; the scutellum is densely polygonally reticulated ; the axille meet inwardly, not rather widely separated; the abdomen bears about five cross- stripes of black; the fore wings are more uniformly infuscated, the infuscation only accented proximad of the hairless line at base of marginal vein and there rather indefinitely; the cilia proximad of the hairless line are finer and there are about eleven lines (only about six in the genotype); and the middle tibiwe are fuscous except at tips. The funicle is wholly white in both species, the hind tibiz fuscous below knees. The same otherwise. General color pale yellow. Cross-stripes on abdomen commencing some distance out from base. From one female captured from a window, December 14, 1912. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2908, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a slide. 3. EUTRICHOSOMELLA BLATTOPHAGA new species. Female :—Length, 1.15 mm. Very similar to albiclava Girault but not marked at all with black and the infuscation under the marginal vein of fore wing is very faint and uniform. Sides and venter of thorax lemon yellow. Only the abdomen and vertex is orange yellow. Cephalic femur swollen. Abdomen squarely truncate at apex. From many specimens reared with Blatticida ashmeadi from native blattid eggs, February (A. P. Dodd). Jungle. , Habitat: Babinda, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2910, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, five females on a slide with type Blatticida ashmeadi Girault. 42 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. MISCOGASTEROMORPHA new genus. Head normal, the face inflexed, the scrobes well developed, the mandibles strong, triden- tate, the antenne inserted ventrad of the middle of the face, 13-jointed and as in Pteromalus except that the two ring-joints are not quite so large; funicle joints all somewhat longer than wide and all somewhat longer than the pedicel; club 3-jointed. Scape slender, long. Axille barely separated, the delicate curved parapsidal furrows joining distinctly some distance before reaching the caudal margin of the scutum, the latter simple. Propodeum very short, laterad of the spiracle with two parallel carinze (nearly in the lateral aspect yet dorsad). Abdomen short and stout, ovate, produced beneath, the ovipositor not exserted, none of the segments greatly lengthened. Fore wings as in Pteromalus, the well-developed postmarginal yein two thirds the length of the marginal, longer than the stigmal. Pubescence not conspicu- ous. Hind tibiw with but one spur. 1. MISCOGASTEROMORPHA AJAX new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 1.65 mm. Shining black, the abdomen (except the flat dorsal surface nearly to extreme tip) and legs honey yellow, the legs rather lemon yellow; first and third coxe and base of second coxe black. Wings hyaline, scape lemon yellow, the flagellum black. Imme- diate base of abdomen dorsad yellow. Mesopleurum glabrous, the pronotum and mesonotum densely scaly. Funicle joints more or less subequal. Fore wings moderately, densely ciliated, the marginal cilia short. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, June 16, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 2911, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag, the head and a hind tibia on a slide. Mr. A. P. Dodd has identified a second specimen of this species from the same place. 2. MISCOGASTEROMORPHA EUPELMIFORMIS new species. Female :—Length, 1.60 mm. Resembles in general Hupelmomorpha quadricolor Girault but the marginal stripe of abdomen extends only a little distad of middle; the conical seutum, head, axilla and scutellum are the metallic purple parts while the rest of the coloration is as in that species, except that the abdomen is orange yellow. The fore wings have a yellowish tinge. Scape except at tip above, pedicel and club white; funicle 6 suffused with whitish, quadrate; funicle 1 longest, a little longer than 6 which is shortest and subequal to pedicel; funicle joints thus all subquad- rate but 1 a little longer than wide. Mandibles tridentate. Thorax sculptured about as in the Hupelmomorpha but minute setigerous punctures are visible on the seutum. Disk of abdomen at proximal third washed with purple. Segment 2 of abdomen longest, occupying about a little less than a fourth of the surface, the abdomen delicately scaly. Irom one female captured August 13, 1913 by sweeping in forest. Habitat: Gordonyale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2912, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag; head on a slide between slide types of HLupelmomorpha quadricolor and Hupelmomorpha tricolor. Genus ATANEOSTIGMA Girault. Head thin cephalo-caudad, the vertex very short, the antennz inserted below the middle of the face and the ventral énds of the eyes, the scape cylindrical, the flagellum filiform, 6-jointed including the pedicel, no ring-joint. Antenne 7-jointed, the club not differentiated. Postmarginal vein hardly developed, the stigmal very small, short, sessile, the marginal long and slender, as long as the submarginal, the venation as in Coccophagus. Intermediate tibial spur three fourths the length of the proximal joint of the middle tarsus, slender, legs normal. Axilles conspicuously advanced into the parapsides, widely separated, the scutum convex, the AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 43 furrows delicate and narrow but distinct, curved but not short. Scutellum short, simple. Abdomen depressed, oval, not quite as long as the thorax. Propodeal spiracle minute, round. Mesopleurum convex, entire. Fore wing without an oblique hairless line. Parapsidal furrows widely separated at scutellum. 1. ATANEOSTIGMA PULCHRA Girault. Genotype. Male :—Length, 3 mm. Black, marked with bright lemon yellow as follows: All of scutellum except cephalic margin and a broad, sagittate area along the median line; a conspicuous wedge-shaped area on each side of the abdomen at proximal third, its apex mesad; the lateral margins of the seutum conspicuously and all of each parapside; the antennwe (honey yellow); all of head except most of the disc of vertex; and the legs, the distal tarsal joint dusky. Head and thorax polygonally reticulated. Wings hyaline. Types re-examined. Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Types: No. Hy 2913, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two males on separate slides (remounted). EUPELMOMORPHA new genus. Female :—Antennz inserted below the middle of the face, 12-jointed with one very short but distinct transverse-linear ring-joint, the club 3-jointed; scrobes forming a triangle. Face not inflexed. Parapsidal furrows delicate, curved off laterally, converging distad and barely separated at the scutellum (at their extreme apex). Axille barely separated. Marginal vein short,-about a fourth the length of the submarginal, about four times longer than wide and somewhat longer than the stigmal which is rather short and curved; oblique hairless line present. Mandibles tridentate, the middle tooth longest. Hind tibial spur single. Post- marginal vein absent. The male antenne bear four long branches. Differs from Miscogasteromorpha in lacking the postmarginal vein, the short marginal vein and the single ring-joint which is very short. 1, EUPELMOMORPHA QUADRICOLOR new species. Female :—Length, 1.60 mm. Reddish yellow, the propodeum, head, a rather large subtriangular spot in center of seutum at cephalic margin or leading from cephalic margin conically to scutellum, its apex subacute and a marginal stripe down the abdomen from base nearly to apex (lateral aspect) dark metallic purple. Abdomen sulphur yellow. Legs reddish yellow. Wings hyaline. Distal half of scape (excluding bulla) and of pedicel silvery white. Scape long, slender and curved; pedicel a little shorter than funicle 6, which is distinctly longer than wide and longer than any of the club joints. Funicles 2-3 subequal, nearly thrice longer than wide, 1 and 4 subequal, each slightly shorter than 2 and 3, 5 shorter and thicker, a little shorter than 6. Club shorter than the scape, somewhat wider than the funicle. Head finely scaly reticulate, the thorax similarly sculptured, the green area of scutum with fine whitish hairs; this long cuneate area is green instead of purple. Normal for the family and resembling a species of Hupelmus except that the ovipositor is not exserted and the abdomen is more depressed. Described from two females taken by sweeping in the forest, August 13, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Types: No. Hy 2914, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the females on a tag, the heads on a slide. 2. EUPELMOMORPHA TRICOLOR new species. Female :—Length, 1.60 mm. The same as the preceding but the whole thorax and cephalic femora are dark metallic purple. Scutellum very finely longitudinally striate in both species. Only the distal third of scape white. Scutum green. From one female captured January 1, 1913 by sweeping in forest (A. P. Dodd). 44 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2915, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen with types of quadricolor. A very similar and common species occurs in the grass of forests at Capeville (Pent- land), Queensland. It differs in having the marginal stripe of abdomen complete, thinner distad than proximad and the distal half of scape white. A minute dot against marginal stripe of abdomen at apex of proximal two thirds.* 3. EUPELMOMORPHA BICOLOR new species. Female :—Length, 1.45 mm. Similar to tricolor but smaller, the legs are all concolorous with each other and the marginal stripe of abdomen ends at distal fourth, that is, is somewhat shorter. Also the funicle joints are shorter, 2 longest, the others subequal or nearly and a little shorter than 2. From one female captured by sweeping in forest, January 2, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2916, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen with types of quadri- color. GEeNuS TANEOSTIGMODES Ashmead. 1. TANEOSTIGMODES GLOBOSUS new species. Female :—Length, 1.80 mm. Robust. Black, the abdomen and legs (except cox) intense lemon yellow, the dorsum of abdo- men with four broad, regular dusky cross-stripes evenly distributed from base to apex. Antenne: black, the pedicel and first ring-joint whitish, the former dusky above at proximal half, the scape greatly foliaceously dilated; funicle 1 a little longer than wide, a little longer than the pedicel, 6 a little wider than long; antenne 13-jointed with one ring-joint. Axilla just meet- ing, the scutellum acute caudad, longitudinally lineolated; scutum, axillae and parapsides trans- versely lineolated. Parapsidal furrows meeting just a little before tip, complete. Stigmal and postmarginal veins long, subequal, as in Hucomys, the marginal distinctly longer than either; wings hyaline, densely ciliate discally (fore wings). Mandibles tridentate, the third tooth broadly truncate. Hind tibial spurs single. Face normal. Abdomen stout, as long as the rest of the body, the ovipositor not exserted. From one female caught in forest, April 9, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2917, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, middle and hind tibiz on a slide. A, TANEOSTIGMODES GLOBOSUS NOVUS new variety. The same but the pedicel wholly white, the abdomen with faint cross-stripes, the cephalic femur dusky dorsad and the sclerite just cephalad of the mesopleurum margined with golden yellow. Also the funicle joints are all a little longer. From one female caught May 13, 1914 by sweeping forest on sand-ridges near coast. (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales.+ Type: No. Hy 2918, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type globosus. 2. TANEOSTIGMODES BIFASCIATIFRONS new species. Female:—Similar to globosus but the following parts golden or pale yellow: Pro- pleurum, tegule, cox (except middle cox), mesopleurum (deep orange) and ventral half of face (but not the cheeks). Ventral half of face with a rather broad, longitudinal stripe down * Eupelmomorpha hawthornei new species. A female type in alcohol. September. Queensland Museum. 7 Also a female by sweeping in forest along the banks of the Hawkesbury River at Brooklyn, N.S.W., November 14, 1914. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 45 each side about half its own width from the eyes. Tip of club and a iongitudinal stripe up the expansion of the scape, pale. Pedicel wholly whitish, somewhat shorter than funicle 1 which is longest, distinctly longer than wide, the distal funicle joints wider than long. Wings hyaline. From one female caught in forest, September 12, 1914. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2919, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female in alcohol with type of Atoposoma unguttatipes Girault and other eulophids. SupraMity APHELININ A. This group is related to the Taneostigmine. The postmarginal vein is always absent, the middle tibial spur is rarely stout though often elongate, the femoral furrow is frequently present, the thoracic phragma never absent, the marginal vein most frequently as long as the submarginal, never punctiform and the parapsidal furrows are always distinct and straight. Also, the species are rarely metallic and the antennal funicle is never 6-jointed. Trine APHELININI. GENusS APHELINUS Dalman. Synonym: Perissopterus Howard. I have been unable to distinguish differences in the thorax of forms of either genus and one of the species described below connects the two as far as wing pattern is concerned. In Aphelinus the club appears solid or 2-jointed according to the species. In the species with the first two funicle joints transverse (e.g. fuscipennis Howard), the next joint seems to belong to the club but in those species with the funicle joints quadrate (more or less) the third joint from the pedicel seems a part of the funicle. The difference seems graduate. 1. APHELINUS HAECKELI Girault. A female, forest, Gordonvale, Queensland, April 15, 1914. The thorax is without a median sulcus, scaly. The general color may be greenish yellow and the abdomen on distal half bears obscure dusky cuneate marginal spots. The ovipositor is not shortly extruded as in australiensis. Caudal wings with about six lines of discal cilia, about four lines in australiensis. Type re-examined. 2. APHELINUS DIES Girault. Length, 1.30 mm. The type is on a slide and was captured by sweeping in March. 3. APHELINUS AUSTRALIENSIS Girault. Length, 0.80 mm. Thorax with a narrow median grooved line. Mandibles tridentate. Marginal cilia at apex of fore wing very short. Pedicel much longer than proximal club joint, the latter about a third the length of distal one. Hind wings near tip with five lines of discal cilia. The type is on a slide and was captured June 14, 1912. 4, APHELINUS FUSCIPENNIS Howard. One female, October 30, 1911 at Mossman, Queensland from foliage of a roadside plant. Is this really fuscipennis or a parallel or chance Australian species similar to that species? 46 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 5. APHELINUS PERISSOPTROIDES new species. Female :—Length, 0.80 mm. Compared with types of ruskini, miltoni and grotwst. In my table of Australian species, disregarding the wings, runs to grotiusi from which it differs in being flattened and robust, the first club joint widens distad and is somewhat wider than long while the discal ciliation of the fore wings is broken into naked areas forming a colorless pattern somewhat as in Perissopterus except that the ciliated spaces are not infuscated deeply and the hairless ones less numerous than usual. From ruskini in the distal ciliation of the fore wing and general coloration. From miltoni much as from grotiusi. From fuscipennis in bearing but seven lines of cilia proximad of the hairless line, in having the pattern on the fore wing and somewhat different antennw. The ciliated areas on the fore wing are faintly dusky; the bare or half-bare spots are as follows: Apical margin narrowly; a rounded area just distad of venation; one in centre of blade opposite stigmal vein and one at caudal margin opposite the one distad of venation. When viewed with a lens, there appear to be four rounded faintly dusky spots arranged in a square in the centre of the wing. Mandibles bidentate. Legs white, immaculate. Postscutellum transverse. Seutum with a median groove. From one female captured in forest, April 17, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2920, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. This species has all the characters of Perissopterus except the small triangular post- scutellum; the mesonotal sclerites seem quite normal as do also those of my Perissopterus inexplicabilis. The genus Perissopterus should be carefully scutinized because its general resemblance to Aphelinus is most striking and we have just seen a species of the latter which has the fore wings which approach the peculiar type of wing pattern common to species of Perissopterus. 6. APHELINUS MILTONI new species. Female :—Length, 0.67 mm. In my table to the Australian species running to grotiusi Girault from which it differs: as follows: The general coloration is deeper, being golden or orange yellow; the abdomen is somewhat more slender, the ovipositor somewhat extruded as in australiensis; the fore wings somewhat broader and bear shorter marginal fringes; club 1 is longer than wide (subquadrate in grotiusi); and in the fore wing, the oblique hairless line is barely differentiated and proximad of it there are about six lines of discal cilia (only three in grotiust). Mandibles. 3-dentate in both species. From one female taken in forest, January 4, 1912. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2921, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. Dedicated to John Milton. 7. APHELINUS RUSKINI new species. Female :—Length, 1.15 mm. Robust. In my table of species runs to grotiusi from which it may be distinguished by having both funicle joints subannular as in fuscipennis, in having the first club joimt cup-shaped, somewhat wider than long, in bearing about seven lines of discal cilia proximad of the hairless. line, in being more robust and in bearing a distinct median groove on the thorax. General color dull honey yellow tinged with reddish. Fore wings with about thirty lines of very fine discal cilia where widest. Form as in fuscipennis. Differs from miltoni in being much more robust, duller and darker in color, in having the oblique hairless line very distinet, the cilia proximad of it distinctly much coarser than those of the main ciliation. Also the first club- AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 47 and the funicle joints are shorter. Wings hyaline. Hind wings short and broad but acute at apex, where broadest with about 8 lines of discal cilia. Third tooth of mandible subobsolete. From one female taken by sweeping in forest, January 4, 1912. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 7922, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. 8. APHELINUS LITERATUS new species. A living female of this species reared from a Chionaspis on cockatoo apple, November 10, 1913 and immersed in balsam showed to perfection its indescribable beauty and odd markings. Along each side of the abdomen are eight large globular to quadrate silvery spots and what appear to be the spiracles showing: centrally within these as black dots; an ovate spot of same on base of abdomen on each side of meson; on propodeum a triangle filling the meson with a transverse cuneate dash on each side; on postscutellum a square centrally distad and a larger triangle on each side; on scutellum an inverted tau of the lower case filling meson and on each side of it a lower case gamma followed laterad by a round dot (on axilla). The scutum bears an Upsilon capital with its arms extended and reaching to base, the arms extend- ing around caudal and lateral margins. The vertex has a pattern. The gammas on the scutellum are unsymmetrical being unlike. A row of black dots beneath the row of spots, lateral aspect of abdomen. Figure 8 on fore wing not complete. Differs from inexplicabilis Girault in having the thoracic and vertex markings (the vertex bears a peculiar pattern) and in the fore wings, the figure 8 being incomplete, the caudal circle not completed by the caudal line whose apex is drawn out thinly around the caudo-distal wing margin. Otherwise, the same. The pattern of silvery on vertex includes three straight lines running caudad which separate the lateral ocelli from each other and from the respective eye margins. From three females reared as indicated above. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2923, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one of the females on a slide. 9. APHELINUS NOX Girault. ““ Two females, sweeping miscellaneous vegetation in an open field near town, Mackay, Queensland, October 19, 1911 (A.A.G.). The two funicle joints are short, transverse, each much shorter than the first club joint ’’? (A. P. Dodd). : In the table of species, antea, p. 183, all the types were seen except that of fuscipennis ; line 25 (one line before haeckeli), larger read longer. GENUS COCCOPHAGUS Westwood. Synonym: Prospaltella Ashmead. The species of Prospaltella intergrade and it is impossible to distinguish the genera in | the case of many species; even the stigmal vein is not constant. For extreme Prospaltella forms compare abnormicornis and allies. These form a distinct genus but there may be inter- variations. The species may or may not have a ring-joint. 1. COCCOPHAGUS ANTIOPA (Girault). Prospaltella antiopa Girault. General color golden yellow, the abdomen, propodeum, pronotum and cephalic two thirds of seutum dusky. Funicle joints elongate, 1 over twice the length of the pedicel, shortest, 3 two and a half times longer than wide, longest, subequal to club 1. Type re-examined. 48 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 2. COCCOPHAGUS AURANTIU Howard. ‘¢ Female.—Length, 0.7 mm.; expanse, 1.16 mm.; greatest width of fore wing, 0.18 mm. Joint 1 of funicle shorter and narrower than pedicel and than joint 2, which is subequal to pedicel in length and width, joint 3 shorter than joint 2. Surface of thorax smooth. General color light brownish yellow; occipital line, margin of pronotum and a median stripe on mesoscutum, scapule, outer edge of metanotum, abdomen, especially lateral margin, darker; antenne and legs light fuscous; eyes black, ocelli red; wings hyaline, veins slightly dusky. Fore wings with disk densely, finely and uniformly ciliate, costal margin with very short marginal cilia beginning at stigma, growing gradually longer at tip of wing and on lower outer margin becoming half the width of wae broadest portion of wing beyond stigma; hind-wings as with preceding species. Described from two female specimens reared May 9, 1887, by D. W. Coquillett from Aspidiotus aurantii, var. citrinus, from San Gabriel, Cal.’’ 3. COCCOPHAGUS ALBISCUTELLUM Girault. A. COCCOPHAGUS ALBISCUTELLUM SCHILLERI new variety. Female :—Length, 0.65 mm. Extremely like the typical form but the caudal femora are not dusky as in that form, the fore wings are only obscurely dusky under the marginal vein and are somewhat narrower, the incisions of the abdomen appear as so many white cross-stripes and the proximal tarsal joints are shorter. No type. From one female taken in forest, December 9, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. A second one same place, June 17, 1914. In this specimen, the head was orange yellow. A female of the typical form, Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland, jungle, May 24. The scutellum is more yellowish. The antennz a little slenderer, the fore wings less distinctly infuscated. Compared with type. The North Queensland specimen bore a distinct, narrow median groove on the scutellum and this is distinctly indicated on the type specimen now in balsam. The fore wing is infuscated under the marginal vein only, The ovipositor is as in Ablerus. Stigmal vein directed cephalad. Hind wing acute, with about five lines of discal cilia. 4. COCCOPHAGUS FILIUS new species. Female :—Length, 0.75 mm. Very similar to boswelli Girault but the club is wholly black, the scutellum contrasts being brilliant lemon yellow, the axilla and mesopleurum are black, also upper occiput and the funicle joints are all somewhat shorter. The ovipositor valves just tip the abdomen. Otherwise alike in every detail. The ovipositor is inserted farther distad, a little distad of the middle. From one female taken by sweeping in forest, April 28, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2924, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type of Aphelinus ruskini. 5. COCCOPHAGUS TRIGUTTATUS new species. Female :—Length, 1 mm. Differs from the generic diagnosis in bearing a very short ring-joint and the hind tibial spurs are double. Intense golden yellow (greenish yellow), the wings hyaline, the antenne and legs concolorous. On the distal half of abdomen, three conspicuous round black spots from dorsal AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 49 aspect arranged in a triangle, the apical one at tip, the basal two at lateral margin, one on each side just beyond proximal half (sometimes, if the segments are stretched, split transversely into two more or less rectangular spots) ; a small triangular spot at apex (cephalad) of each axilla, also jet black, as well as the cephalic margin of scutellum between the parapsidal furrow ends. Base of fore wing very slightly dusky and a curved, narrow black line down propodeum on each side near margin. Head and thorax finely reticulate. Mandibles tridentate. First funicle joint twice longer than wide; 2 and 3 distinctly shorter, not much longer than wide, 2 a little the longer; 3 subequal to pedicel; club distinct, ovate, without a terminal nipple, its joints wider than long. Funicle and club with closely applied, rather coarse hairs which arise at the base of each joint and extend its length (except first funicle joint where they arise farther distad). Described from five females reared in connection with a cecidomyiid gall on the stem of a young Eucalyptus corymbosa (bloodwood) but which was infested with unarmored coccids, November 13, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Northern Queensland (Gordonvale near Cairns). Types: No. Hy 2925, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on a tag, one female and a head on a slide. 6. COCCOPHAGUS SOPHIA new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Female:—Length, 0.50 mm. Golden yellow, the wings hyaline and closely allied with aureola Girault but the first funicle joint is not globular and distinctly shorter than the second but all three joints of the funicle are distinctly longer than wide and subequal, the pedicel slightly shorter than each. Also, the club is more slender and the abdomen is not dusky. The hind wings are very narrow, distinctly not as wide as the caudal marginal fringes of those wings (in aureola, nearly as wide at widest part as these fringes). Described from two females reared from an aleyrodid, November 9, 1911 (A. A. Girault). Habitat: Northern Queensland (Cairns). Types: No. Hy 2926, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimens on a slide. 7. COCCOPHAGUS AURICAPUT new species. Female :—Length, 0.68 mm. Orange yellow, the abdomen black, the legs lemon yellow except the dusky hind coxa- Antenne lemon yellow, the funicle joints increasing in length distad, 3 longest, nearly twice as long as wide, 1 subequal to the pedicel, distinctly longer than wide; club joints longer than wide, about subequal to funicle 2. Fore wings densely, finely ciliate, the stigmal vein short, sessile. Hind wings acutely pointed, with about eight lines of fine discal cilia where widest- Middle tibial spur long and slender. Mandibles bidentate, the second tooth broadly truncate. Wings hyaline. ~ From.one female taken in forest, January 4, 1912. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2927, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide with that of Paruscanoidea dickensi. 8. COCCOPHAGUS BOSWELLI new species. Female :—Length, 0.80 mm. Deep orange yellow, the scutellum lemon yellow, the abdomen and club jet black, the tore wing with a black cross-stripe from a little over the proximal half of the marginal vein, its distal margin oblique. Club whitish at extreme base and extreme tip; funicle 3 white. Valves of ovipositor shortly extruded. Funicle 3 a little the shortest, all nearly equal and D 50 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. about twice longer than wide, a little longer than the pedicel. Club enlarged, somewhat over twice wider than the funicle in one aspect. Legs silvery white. One short ring-joint present. Hind coxwe black, the middle dusky. Hind wings short, narrow, with four rows of discal cilia. Proximal tarsal joint much longer than the others. Middle tibial spur small, truneate. The stigmal vein nearly parallel with cephalic margin. From one female taken in jungle, March 6, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cooktown, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2928, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide with type Scelioencyrtus tricolor Girault. 9. COCCOPHAGUS SWIFTI new species. Female :—Length, 0.75 mm. Sooty black, the scutellum and propodeum contrasting bright golden yellow, also ventral third of head, the antennw and legs pale yellow but the distal two joints of the club a little dusky. Parapsidal furrows yellowish brown; fore wings dusky margin to margin under all of marginal vein. Differs from ZEncarsia aurithoraz in general coloration; funicle 1 is distinctly longer and the stigmal vein somewhat shorter and parallel with cephalic wing margin; also in aurithorax the hind coxa and femur is distinctly infuscated. Differs from albiscutel- lum schilleri in having the propodeum golden yellow, the i:unicle joints much longer and so on. From antiopa in its much darker color, having the entire scutum black except lateral margins very narrowly, the propodeum light yellow aod the hind wings decidedly broader and the greater size. Parapside yellowish cephalad. Funicle J thrice longer than wide, 2 and 3 subequal, two and a half times longer than wide; club joints 1-2 subequal, each somewhat shorter than funicle 3; club 3 still shorter but longer than the pedicel. Antenne subfiliform. Thorax finely, densely, longitudinally lined. Hind wings with six lines of faint discal cilia. Ovipositor inserted distad of middle. Compared with types of named species except the variety of albiscutellum. From one female taken in forest, June 10, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2929, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. Dedicated to Jonathan Swift. 10. COCCOPHAGUS ASHMEADI new species. Female :—Length, 0.75 mm. Exactly similar to nigriventris except that funicle 1 is barely shorter than 2 and the seutum cephalad is dusky. Also, the club is more definite and the sides of the thorax are black. Compared with types of nigriventris, antiopa and perpulchellus. The funicle joints are distinctly shorter than in the latter and the antennal coloration different. In antiopa the flagellar joints are all longer and the general coloration different. From one female taken in forest on sand-ridges near coast, May 13, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 2930, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. Dedicated to William H. Ashmead for his important studies on the major groupings of the Hymenoptera. 11. COCCOPHAGUS THOREAUINI new species. Female :—Length, 0.70 mm. Orange yellow, the wings hyaline, the abdomen, legs and antenne lemon yellow; a short, wedge-shaped spot on cephalic scutum each side of meson, a faint round dot cephalic aspect AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 51 of each axilla, a transverse spot on abdomen at base and a rather large round spot in center of abdomen, black or dusky black. Differs from Encarsia justitia in having the black mark- ings and shorter marginal fringes on the fore wings which here are not more than a sixth of the greatest wing width. From aureola in having funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, the concolorous abdomen and the black markings. From biguttatus in the somewhat narrower, more coarsely ciliated fore wings, the longer stigmal vein and the markings. Closely allied with aureola. Caudal marginal fringes of hind wings a little longer than the greatest width of those wings, funicle 1 a little shorter than the others; a minute ring-joint. Club joints jonger than wide. Discal cilia of fore wing uniform, five lines of it on caudal wings where widest. From one female taken along the Tweed River, May 3, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Tweed Heads, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 2931, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. This species is dedicated to Henry David Thoreau. 12. COCCOPHAGUS CLARISCUTELLUM new species. Female :—Length, 0.75 mm. Reminds one of albiscutellum, the scutellum brilliant, contrasting silvery white but the ovipositor is not as in Ablerus, the scutum is honey yellow, blackish at cephalic third, the hind coxa and femur black, rest of legs white; face silvery and with a black cross-stripe at the clypeus, the vertex and rest of head orange yellow; fore wings with a dusky cross-stripe across from whole of marginal vein. Antenne and the small parapside orange; club joint 3 black. Funicle 1 subglobular, smaller than the small pedicel, not quite half the length of funicle 2 which is distinctly longer than wide, longer than the pedicel, subequal to 3; club joints subequal to distal funicle joint or a little shorter, the club not well defined; a minute ring-joint. Distal part of club 2 dusky. Fore wings uniformly but not densely ciliate, their marginal cilia short, not a fourth the greatest wing width, shorter than the longest marginal cilia of hind wings, the latter with about four rows of distal cilia proximad, their caudal marginal cilia a little longer than their greatest width. Thorax without a median suleus. From one female taken by sweeping jungle along the Mulgrave River, April 12, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2932, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 18. COCCOPHAGUS BIGUTTATUS new species. Female :—Length, 0.72 mm. Pale honey yellow, the wings hyaline; pronotum at middle rather widely and a diamond- shaped spot on each side of thorax in the vicinity of the axilla black. Stigmal vein very short, nearly sessile, the fore wing very densely, finely ciliate discally. Funicle joints not long, 3 quadrate, the other two a little longer than wide, subequal to pedicel, the club well-defined. Ovipositor and valves distinctly extruded for a length equal to nearly a fourth that of the abdomen, the valves dusky blackish. Scutum simple, scaly. Middle tibial spur long and slender. Abdomen distad with faintly indicated, narrow eross-stripes (just before apex). Marginal fringes of fore wing short. The two spots seem to be on cephalic two thirds of each axilla. From two specimens taken by sweeping lantana, October 20, 1911. Habitat: Mackay, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2933, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a slide. 52 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 14. COCCOPHAGUS PICITHORAX new species. Female :—Length, 0.60 mm. Exactly similar to the following (lautus) but differing in having each lateral margin of abdomen black from base to apex of proximal three fourths. Differs from Enecarsia cybele in having much narrower fore wings, the marginal stripe of abdomen Jess conspicuous and the antennal joints all shorter. . From one female taken on grass in forest, April 4, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2934, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide with type lautus. 15. COCCOPHAGUS LAUTUS new species. Female :—Length, 0.65 mm. Jet black, the abdomen brilliant golden yellow, the antenna and legs a little paler than the abdomen; propodeum suffused with yellowish; lateral margin of parapsides and mesal margins of eyes yellowish. Wings hyaline, the stigmal vein sessile, directed cephalad. Posterior wings not long nor broad, with a line of discal cilia along each margin and a scattered central line. Fore wings with about twenty lines of fine discal cilia where broadest. Funicle joints. cylindrical, subequal, each about one and two third times longer than wide, 1 a little shorter than the others which are subequal to the distal two club joints, the proximal club joint a. little shorter than the others. Club barely wider than the funicle, the flagellum filiform or nearly. Middle tibial spur slender, not especially long. Marginal fringes of hind wing: (caudal margin) somewhat longer than the greatest width of the blade, longer than any of the fringes of the fore wing. Pedicel subequal to funicle 1. From one female taken by sweeping grass in forest, April 1, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2935, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide with type of Lathromerella longiciliata Girault. 16. COCCOPHAGUS ARGENTEUS new species. Female :—Length, 0.65 mm. Silvery white, the wings with a more or less obscure dusky long-oval spot in center of blade projecting a little distad of venation, the following parts honey yellow—center of vertex,. seutum, parapsides and seutellum. The following parts jet black—dorsum of abdomen except- ing for three round spots in a triangie, one at apex, the other two opposite, at the lateral margin at distal two thirds; center of occiput; and the club except distal half or more of distal. joint. Lateral halves of each funicle joint and the axilla dusky. Funicle joints subquadrate, smaller than the club joints, subequal to the pedicel. Ocelli in a triangle, the lateral ones: away from the eyes. Scutum and scutellum with scattered seta. Hind wings with about six lines of fine but not dense discal cilia, all disappearing at apex, the caudal marginal fringes. short. Fore wings with a more or less obscure sooty longitudinal area centrally but caudad. of middle, extending from proximal third of marginal vein some distance distad of venation and coterminous with the discal cilia, the wing naked broadly from apex to venation (excepting. from the central extension in the sooty area). There is also a more or less naked area just beneath the end of the marginal vein. Stigmal vein sessile. Antenne 9-jointed, with one very, short ring-joint. From one female taken on a window, January 16, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2936, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 53 17. COCCOPHAGUS PERPULCHELLUS new species. Female :—Length, 0.80 mm. Brilliant lemon or greenish yellow, the fore wings with a jet black stripe across them under all of marginal vein and smoky under proximal two thirds of submarginal vein; legs silvery white, the antennz silvery tinged with yellow, the first two club joints jet black. Abdo- men, metapleura, propodeum except broadly at meson and pronotum, jet black, the incisions of abdomen showing a little as white. Immediate tip of abdomen and the tip of the valves of the ovipositor, white. Antenne filiform but the club distinct, shorter than the funicle whose three joints are thrice or more longer than wide, 1 a little the shortest. Pedicel subglobular, much shorter than funicle 1. Club joints a little wider, distinctly longer than wide. Scutellum apparently with a thin median grooved line. Hind wings acute. Ovipositor inserted at distal third. One ring-joint. From one female caught in forest, April 28, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2937, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. 18. COCCOPHAGUS ABNORMICORNIS new species. Female :—Length, 0.70 mm. Purplish black; head (except much of occiput), seutum (except cephalad rather broadly along meson at cephalic half), parapsides and scutellum (except a large round spot on each side at caudal margin) honey yellow; centrally, scutum orange yellow. Knees, tibize except just below knees, tarsi and propodeum laterally, also honey yellow. Antenne brownish, the flagellum tapering; pedicel subequal to funicle 2; funicle 1 abruptly short, wider than long, 2 over twice its length, 3 longest, subequal to 1 and 2 of the club, each of these three joints twice (or more) longer than wide, club 2 narrower; distal club joint narrow, subequal to funicle 2; club not differentiated. Marginal vein distinctly shorter than the submarginal, the stigmal short but with a distinct neck; marginal fringes of fore wing a little longer than usual; a more or less obscure brownish cross-stripe from the whole of the marginal vein. Hind femur compressed. Mandibles bidentate, the second tooth followed by a truncation (or broadly truneate, its lateral apical angle acute). | Mesopleurum entire, small. Thorax finely scaly. Abdomen truncate behind. From one female caught in forest, August 22, 1912. Habitat: Gordonyale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2938, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, fore wing and hind leg on a slide. 19. COCCOPHAGUS SINGULARIS new species. Female :—Exactly similar to the preceding but the legs are all silvery white, the occiput bears only a faint, narrow eross-stripe centrally, the two caudal spots on scutellum are longer and closer together (the yellow space between them is narrow, this median line distinctly much less than half the width of one of the spots; in abnormicornis, the two spots more round and the mesal space between them is distinctly more than half the width of one of the spots). Marginal vein black, rest of venation pale. From one female caught in forest, March 31, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2939, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 20. COCCOPHAGUS AUREOLA (Girault). Funicle 1 in the male is longer than in the female. Antea, p. 189, line 5 of the description, funicle read club. 54 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 21. COCCOPHAGUS REGULUS new species. Female :—Length, 0.95 mm., excluding ovipositor. Similar to abnormicornis and singularis but at once distinguished from either in having funicle 1 longer than wide, the pedicel elongate (somewhat over twice longer than wide at apex: only slightly longer than wide at apex in abnormicornis and singularis), the black on the seutum acutely prolonged conically to scutellum (more or less obscurely so in the other species), the marginal vein longer, somewhat over half the length of the submarginal, the fore wing dusky from base to apex of venation, the head black except vertex. Valves of ovipositor extruded distinctly a short distance. Legs black, the knees whitish, also the tibie, the caudal femur compressed, large. Antenne about as in singularis but slenderer, the pedicel elongate as noted. From one female caught by sweeping forest, May 4, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Murwillumbah (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 2940, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 22. COCCOPHAGUS UNFASCIATA new species. Female :—Length, 0.75 mm. { Deep golden yellow, the abdomen with a black stripe across its middle dorsad and another across base, the axillex, propodeum and pronotum also black. Fore wings dusky from margin to margin under all of marginal vein, the marginal fringes long, the longest about two thirds the greatest wing width and about as long as the caudal fringes of the hind wing. Fore wing with about eleven, the hind wing with about three, lines of discal cilia where widest. Club acuminate, the conical distal joint longer than either of the other two which are subequal, each somewhat longer than wide, longer than any of the funicle joints. Funicle 1 somewhat wider than long, 2 and 38 subequal, each a little longer than wide, a little longer than the pedicel, distinctly longer than 1. Thorax shagreened, without a median groove. Legs white; antenne yellowish white. Differs notably from antiopa in the somewhat longer marginal fringes of the fore wing, the different color, the short first funicle joint and the differentiated club which narrows distad. From one female caught by sweeping forest, May 18, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2941, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 23. COCCOPHAGUS ARGENTIFASCIA new species. Female:—Length, 0.70 mm. Ovipositor inserted distad of proximal half as in argenteus. Orange yellow; lower face, pronotum, propodeum and immediate base of abdomen dusky. Abdomen black with a broad silvery white band across just out from base (occupying a little over a third of the surface). Legs except proximal half of cox, silvery white. Antenne lemon yellow, distal club joint dusky. Fore wings with a light brownish stripe across them beginning a little distad of proximal third of marginal vein and ending a little distance distad of venation. Flagellum cylindrical, the club a little wider than the funicle; pedicel shorter than funicle 1 which is a little shorter than 3, 2 longest, a little over twice longer than wide, a third longer than 1. Club joints longer than wide. Stigmal vein with a short but distines neck. Fore wings rather slender. Scutum with scattered sete. From one female taken from a window, February 24, 1914. \ Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2942, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 55 DIAGNOSIS OF THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF COCCOPHAGUS WESTWOOD. (Compiled from types except aurantii.) Submarginal vein of fore wing distinctly longer than the marginal (more or less a half longer) ; flagellum tapering from base, funicle 1 abruptly shortened. Species purplish black marked with yellow. Head, scutum except cephalic margin and rather broadly along meson at cephalic half, parapsides and scutellum (except a large round spot on each side at caudal margin), honey yellow; knees, tibize except just below knee, tarsi and propodeum laterad, also honey yellow. Funicle 1 wider than long, 2 subequal to the pedicel. An obscure brownish cross-stripe from marginal vein .. abnormicornis Girault. The same but the legs all white (see description) .. Ric singularis Girault. The same as abnormicornis but funicle 1 plainly longer ae wide, the pedicel elongate, subequal to funicle 3, the fore wings distinctly infuscated from base to apex of venation, the marginal vein over a half the length of the submarginal. Black on meson of scutum extending farther distad .. é ore regulus Girault. Submarginal vein of fore wing obviously more or less Mrcaual: to the marginal; flagellum subfiliform or regularly clubbed. Stigmal vein round, sessile or subsessile, nearly at right angles to apex of marginal (appearing casually like a drop of water on the under surface of a plane surface) ; neck of stigmal vein if present, a constriction, the knob globular and forming the principal part of the vein. Golden or orange yellow species. Bright golden yellow, the abdomen with a triangle of three large round black spots on distal half, the apical spot at apex of abdomen; wings hyaline, broad; distal two funicle joints quadrate, each shorter than 1, the club distinct, short; stigmal vein sessile .. sa .. triguttatus Girault. Pale honey yellow, the valves of ovipositor distinctly extruded. Thorax with two black spots, one on each axilla. Wings hyaline, moderately broad, the stigmal vein with a short neck, oblique. Club well defined. Funicle joints short; meson of pronotum broadly dusky .. biguttatus Girault. Yellow and black species. often marked with silvery white. Orange yellow, the abdomen and caudal coxa black; funicle joints increasing in length distad, 3 nearly twice longer than wide, 1 subequal to pedicel, longer than wide. Fore wings hyaline, densely ciliate, the stigmal vein sessile. Mandibles bidentate, the second tooth broadly truncate. Club defined .. we as a Se auricaput Girault. Orange yellow; lower face, pronotum, peopdenn aiid immediate base of abdomen, dusky; abdomen black with a broad band of silvery white across it near base. Legs white. Fore wings with a light brownish cross-stripe; stigmal vein with a short neck. Funicle 2 longest, club defined. Ovipositor inserted distad of middle a a . argentifascia Girault. Silvery white; center of vertex, ae, jirapaidee and geuteiiain: honey yellow; dorsum of abdomen (except three large, round spots in a triangle, one at apex, others at distal two thirds at margin), center of occiput and club (except distal half of joint 3) black. Lateral half of each funicle joint and the axille dusky. Funicle joints subquadrate. Fore wings with an isolated infuscated area, naked distad. Stigmal vein subsessile. Club distinct. Ovipositor inserted distad of middle .. argenteus Girault. Golden yellow, the cephalic two thirds of axille, propodeum, a broad stripe across abdomen near middle and pronotum black, the wings hyaline. See description. Male .. rss * nie site .. poet Girault.* * A nomen nudum, the description lost. The specimen is in the Queensland Museum on a slid¢ and is from Northern Queensland (Gordonvale). 56 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Black species. Legs and antenne lemon yellow except caudal coxa and femora; wings hyaline, the stigmal vein sessile, the postmarginal vein as long as it; funicle joints distinetly longer than the pedicel, 1 nearly twice longer than wide, all with an apparent cross-division into halves; club distinct. Caudal coxa and femur with a distinct longitudinal lineolation. Marginal vein somewhat longer than the submarginal. Caudal wings very broad, with about sixteen lines of discal ciliation aia a a funeralis Girault. Stigmal vein longer than wide, without a constricted neck, not subsessile, subuniform in width (tapering distad) and more parallel with the cephalic wing margin. Club very distinct, twice wider than the narrow funiale. Deep orange yellow, the scutellum lemon yellow, the abdomen and club jet; fore wing with a black cross-stripe from a little over proximal half of marginal vein; club white at base and tip; funicle 3 white, a little the shortest, nearly twice longer than wide, a little longer than the pedicel. Legs silvery white. Fore wings with about sixteen lines of discal cilia, rather slender © >. ae os oe Ne 5é Bt boswellt Girault. The same but club all black, the secutellum contrasting brilliant lemon yellow, the axilla, mesopleura and upper occiput are black and the funicle joints are all somewhat shorter. The ovipositor is inserted farther distad, a little distad of middle ang 3 a fe =e .. filius Girault. Club not very distinct though mostly well defined, not twice the width of the funicle. Marginal fringes of fore wing a fourth or more the greatest wing width. Light brownish yellow; margin of pronotum, a median stripe on scutum, scapule, lateral edge of propodeum and abdomen especially margin- ally, darker. Wings hyaline, the fore wings uniformly, finely ciliate. Funicle 1 shorter and narrower than pedicel, 2 subequal to pedicel, 3 shorter than 2, longer than 1. Club well defined .. auranti Howard. Lemon yellow, the pronotum and abdomen black; fore wing with a sooty stripe from whole of marginal vein; funicle 1 about half the length of 2, 3 longer than 2, about twice longer than wide; flagellum filiform, the pedicel short. Legs very pale. Marginal cilia a third the greatest wing width wa ae Hes Be .. nigriventris Girault. > The same but funicle 2 is barely shorter than 3 and the sides of the thorax black) if rs ik Bi: ze .. ashmeadi Girault. Golden yellow, the wings hyaline, the three funicle joints subequal, distinctly longer than wide, the pedicel a little shorter than either. Caudal wings not as wide as their caudal marginal cilia; club slender, defined. Marginal cilia nearly half the greatest wing width .. ae 35 soplia Girault and Dodd. Similar to aurantii but the abdomen wholly dusky, the rest of the body deep orange yellow; also funicle 3 is subequal to 2 and the marginal cilia of fore wing where longest are only a fourth (or a little more) of the greatest wing width = by. ae aureola Girault. Golden yellow; pronotum, propodeum, axille, a stripe across base and at middle of abdomen black; fore wing with a dusky stripe across from marginal vein; longest marginal cilia two thirds the greatest wing width; funicle about as in awreola, the club defined; caudal wings much. narrower than their longest marginal cilia .. wunfasciata Girault. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 57 Similar to aurantii but the fore wings infuscated across from whole of mar- ginal vein, the propodeum, cephalic two thirds of scutum and most of each parapside, are also dusky while the funicle joints are elongate, 3 two and a half times longer than wide; longest marginal cilia of fore wings somewhat over a third the greatest width; pedicel sub- globular. Club not differentiated Ay a antiopa Girault. Marginal cilia of fore wing shorter. Funicle 1 abruptly shortened, quadrate, shorter than the pedicel. Black; scutellum silvery white; legs white except hind coxe and femora; face silvery and with a black cross-stripe at the clypeus; vertex, parapside and caudal two thirds of scutum yellow; antenne yellow, club 3 black. Fore wing with a dusky stripe from whole of marginal vein; funicle joints 2 and 3 somewhat longer than wide, subequal .. as 34 clariscutellum Girault. Funicle 1 not abruptly shortened and longer than wide. Ovipositor distinctly extruded. Black, the secutellum silvery white; antenna pale yellow, the funicle joints subequal, a little longer than wide; legs whitish except caudal femur which is dusky; fore wings dusky under all of marginal vein ke a Ae .. albiscutellum Girault. Ovipositor not extruded. Abdomen all black. Fore wings with a distinct cross-stripe under all of marginal vein. Scutum all black except lateral margins very narrowly. Black; seutellum, propodeum and ventral third of head, lemon yellow; wing with a cross-stripe; funicle 1 thrice longer than wide; antenne and legs pale yellow; club 2 and 3 dusky 46 aye we Ne .. swifti Girault. Scutum yellow except rather narrowly cephalad; legs white, the pronotum dusky. Distal club joint black; hind femur black. Lemon yellow, the sides of thorax black. Funicle 3 twice longer than wide seminigriclavus Girault. Proximal two club joints black. Legs all white. Lemon yellow, the metapleura and propodeum mostly black. Funicle 3 thrice longer than wide .. perpulchellus Girault. Abdomen entirely yellow except lateral margins in one case. Black; abdomen brilliant golden, the legs and antenne paler than it; propodeum suffused with yellow; lateral margin of parap- sides yellow; wings hyaline; funicle joints all nearly twice longer than wide, 1 shorter .. irs .. lautus Girault. The same but margin of abdomen narrowly black from base to apex of proximal three fourths A: ss picithorax Girault. Intense orange yellow, the wings hyaline; a short wedge-shaped spot on cephalic seutum, each side of meson, a faint round “dot cephalic aspect of axilla, a transverse spot at base of abdomen and a round spot centrally on abdomen, black. Funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, shorter than the others by a little Y nib a .. thoreawini Girault. 58 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. COCCOPHAGOIDES new genus. Type: Coccophagus abnormicornis Girault. Coccophagus singularis and C. regulus belong here. The genus differs from Coccophagus in having a markedly tapering flagellum, the first funicle joint abruptly shortened and the marginal vein distinctly shorter than the submarginal. GENUS PHYSCUS Howard. 1. PHYSCUS NIGRICLAVUS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Female :—Length, 1.15 mm. Like nigriceps Girault but only the hind coxa black and the club and funicle 1;. the fore wings are slenderer and longer; the abdomen also appears slenderer and the hind femora are much slenderer. Funicle joints subequal, longer than the short pedicel, each about twice longer than wide. Distal club joint longer. There is a black dot on pronotum caudo- laterad. From one female taken by sweeping in forest, January 2, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2943, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. A second female, same place, June 10, 1914 (A.A.G.). The base of the abdomen on each margin was fuscous in this specimen. 2. PHYSCUS FLAVICEPS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Female :—Length, 1.10 mm. Like nigriclavus but only the distal funicle joint is white and the body is unmarked ; funicle joints subequal, pedicel blackish above. Otherwise identical or nearly. From one female caught by sweeping foliage, edge of jungle, November 1, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2944, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 3. PHYSCUS DECEMGUTTATUS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Female :—Length, 1.25 mm. Exactly similar to nigriceps but the distal cross-band of abdomen is absent, that across base fainter and from the base along each side there is a longitudinal row of five quadrate, black spots, the line not reaching the anal spiracles. Pedicel white. From one female taken in jungle, November 15, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Harvey’s Creek (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2945, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 4. PHYSCUS SUPERBUS new species of A. P. Dodd and A. A. Girault. Female :—Length, 1.60 mm. Reddish brown, the scutum somewhat darker; the face lighter, the dorsum of abdomen intense lemon yellow, margined with dusky and with an obscure dusky cross-stripe beyond the middle; sides of thorax more or less yellow; trochanters, apices of tibiz and the tarsi white, also the apicai nalt of antennal scape, apical half of pedicel and the second funicle joint, the rest of antenne dusky black. Eyes greenish; fore wings hyaline, broad, very densely ciliate. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 59 Middle tibial spur long and stout, the middle tarsi short and thickened. Pedicel somewhat shorter than funicle 1, which is distinctly shorter than 2, 3 a little shorter than 2; the first club joint as long as preceding joint, the second longer. From one female caught by sweeping in forest, August 5, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2946, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head on a slide. 5. PHYSCUS MULTICOLOR new species. Female :—Length, 1 mm. Black, the wings hyaline, the abdomen and legs golden yellow (coxe not distinctly seen) ; antenna snow white except funicle 1, club 1 and proximal third of second club joint, which are black. Thorax densely longitudinally shagreened. Funicle joints lengthening a little distad in succession, each somewhat less than twice longer than wide, each somewhat longer than the pedicel, distinctly shorter than club 2. Seape dusky. Proximal club joint a little shorter than any of the funicle joints. Ring-joint present. From one female taken in jungle, March 6, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cooktown, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2947, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a slide. 6. PHYSCUS ADDISONI new species. Female :—Length, 0.75 mm. Dark metallic purple and very finely, densely scaly, the fore wings slightly infuscated throughout. Legs and abdomen intense golden yellow, the abdomen dorsad at meson a short distance before tip with a short, thick, slightly curved conspicuous black cross-marking. Distal fifth of the slender scape, pedicel, ring-joint and funicles 2 and 3 pure white; club suffused with whitish distad; funicle 1 a little longer than 2 which is subequal to 3, the first funicle joint distinctly longer than wide, distinctly longer than the pedicel; club 1 distinctly longer than 2. Caudal wings short, broad, with about six lines of scattered discal cilia, their caudal marginal cilia not long but distinctly longer than that of the fore wing. The latter densely, uniformly, finely ciliate discally. Staining obscurely deeper under whole of the marginal vein. Caudal legs dusky. Middle tibial spur short, rather stout. Axille very widely separated. Antenne with a short ring-joint. From one female caught in forest, May 2, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Tweed Heads, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 2948, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. Dedicated to Joseph Addison. 7. PHYSCUS POPEI new species. Female :—Length, 0.90 mm. Deep orange yellow, the wings hyaline; funicle 1 and the club jet. Funicle joints sub- equal, each somewhat longer than wide, barely longer than the pedicel, somewhat shorter than either club joint. Valves of ovipositor extruded a little. Mandibles bidentate. One ring- joint. Legs pallid white, all tibia dusky at base and most of hind femur, all lightly so. Fore wings densely, finely ciliate, the marginal cilia short. Venation pallid. Hind coxa dusky at base. Propodeum dusky laterad. From one female caught in forest on sand-ridges near coast, May 9, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 2949, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. The fore wings are somewhat wider and more densely ciliate than those of mgriclavus and the funicle joints are distinctly shorter. The types compared. The species nigriclavus also bears the ring-joint. The species is dedicated to Alexander Pope. 60 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. GENUS ENCARSIA Foerster. 1. ENCARSIA CYBELE Girault. Antea, p. 186, line 7 of description, plainly read obscurely. 2. ENCARSIA WHITTIERI new ese Female :—Length, 0.70 mm. Golden yellow, the head, pronotum and cephalic scutum obscurely, dusky; meso- and metapleura, propodeum except at meson and somewhat less than proximal half of abdomen, black, the distal margin of the black abdomen prolonged at meson in the shape of a round spot. Legs white, antenne pale yellow, filiform. Fore wings broad, uniformly, densely ciliate discally (about 25 lines), the marginal cilia short; dusky across triangularly from the base of the marginal vein. Proximal tarsal joint elongate. Funicle 3 longest of the flagellum, thrice longer than wide, 1, 2 and 3 subequal, each a little longer than the pedicel; both club joints longer than wide, a little shorter than funicle 3. Mandibles weakly tridentate. From one female taken May 2, 1914, by sweeping in jungle (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 2950, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide with the type of Coccophagus thoreauini Girault. GeNus ASPIDIOTIPHAGUS Howard. 1. ASPIDIOTIPHAGUS CITRINUS (Craw. ). One female from a window, Ingham, Queensland, February 17. ‘* Female.—Length, 0.58 mm.; expanse, 1.16 mm.; greatest width of fore wing, 0.09 mm. Antenne light yellow brown; eyes black, ocelli bright red; head yellow; occiput dark brown; pronotum dark brown; mesonotum yellow; metanotum yellow brown; abdomen brown; legs uniformly dusky yellow; wings with marginal vein dark fuscous, and a broad fuscous band extending directly across wing from marginal vein as a base. Spiracular hairs on preanal abdominal joint very long. Thorax somewhat wider than head or abdomen, these being sub- equal in width.’’ 2. ASPIDIOTIPHAGUS AUSTRALIENSIS Girault. Length, 0.60 mm. The type is on a slide and was captured at 1,500 feet, May 29, 1913. GeNus ABLERUS Howard. 1. ABLERUS SPECIOSUS Girault.* Length, 0.60 mm., excluding ovipositor. The type locality is Gordonvale. The parap- sides are probably white, rapidly fading after death. Funicle 1 subequal to pedicel which is dusky at base. Ovipositor extruded for about a fifth the length of the abdomen. A patch of about four short lines of coarser cilia under end of marginal vein. Funicles 2 and 4 each a little longer than 1. The type was reared from lecanium scales on a forest hush, December 4, 1912. A second female was obtained on the 17th following from cockatoo apple infested with a Chionaspis, Gordonvale. Also, a female from Port Darwin, Northern Territory, November 10, 1913, forest (G. F. Hill). A male reared with two females from the coccid on cockatoo apple in November, 1913 at Gordonvale, bore slenderer antennw than in the female, the club longer, apparently 2-jointed btit no articulation is present. The antennal segments are as in the female but there are two minute ring-joints; funicle 3 is smaller and black while the others are longer. * The head is white with a silvery band across just under the eyes followed by a narrow metallic greenish stripe. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 61 2. ABLERUS PAN Girault. A female, forest, Capeville (Pentland), Queensland, January, 1913. The mandibles are tridentate. The third tooth obtuse and shorter. Type re-examined. 3. ABLERUS SEMIFUSCIPENNIS (Girault). Length, 0.75 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a third the length of the abdomen. Pedicel black at base above, the scape dorsad; mandibles tridentate; longest marginal cilia of fore wing a little shorter than those of hind wing. Distal margin of wing fumation straight. The type is on a slide and was taken February 17, 1913. 4. ABLERUS SPECIOSISSIMUS (Girault). Length, 1 mm., exclusive of ovipositor which is extruded for one fourth the length of abdomen. Mandibles and antenna as in semifuscipennis. The type was taken in forest,. January 27, 1913 and is on a slide. 5. ABLERUS VENUSTULUS new species. Female :—Length, 0.85 mm. Running to speciosus but differing in having a distinct black stripe across fore wing from all (or nearly) of the marginal vein and the femora are black except at each end (cephalic femora all white in speciosus, the cephalic tibia and other femora and tibie with a distinet black band around them, rather broad, near knee); the tibiw# in this new species are white excepting just below knees. Also close to piceipes but the broad wing stripe in that species is faint, its first funicle joint is short yet longer than the second and the tibiw are black except at each end. Here, the first joint of funicle is longer yet somewhat shorter than the second which is longest; longest marginal fringes of fore wing somewhat over a fourth the greatest wing width. Mandibles 4-dentate, the inner tooth formed by an emargination of the apical margin of the third tooth. Valves of ovipositor conéolorous. Described from one specimen captured by sweeping in the forest, November 1, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2951, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a slide with a female of the following species. 6. ABLERUS UNNOTIPENNIS new species. Female :—Length, 1.20 mm. Like speciosissimus but on the fore wing there is only a rather long wedge-shaped. spot somewhat caudad of apex of marginal vein and extending a little beyond the midlongi- tudinal line. Head white, metallic green below antenne (face). From one specimen captured with venustulus. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2952, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a slide with venustulus. 7. ABLERUS PICEIPES Girault. Female :—Length, 0.50 mm. Very similar to poincarei Girault but differing in the following particulars: The mar- ginal fringes of the fore wing are longer (nearly two thirds the greatest width of the wing, \n poincaret plainly not much over a third), the fore wing is lightly dusky under all of the marginal vein, margin to margin, no oblique cross-stripe indicated; the first funicle joint is not much longer than wide though plainly longer than wide; the pedicel is shorter and also- the ovipositor. 62 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Described from one female captured from the foliage of gum in October, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2953, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a slide (with two females of Brachychrysocharella dubia Girault). 8. ABLERUS BHZUSOIDES new species. Female :—Length, 0.50 mm. Very short and compact. Wholly dark blue-black except first four tarsal joints and joints 2 and 4 of the funicle. Fore wings deeply embrowned as in nympha but the fumation is very convex distad extending nearly to apex, leaving apical margin and the portion of cephalic margin around to stigmal vein, subhyaline. Hind wings more lightly stained and not as far distad. Discal cilia of fore wings very fine, barely visible, the marginal cilia short, longest around apex, very much as in clisiocampe Ashmead (both wings). Body finely lined, the mesopleurum coarser. Mandi- bles tridentate. Extruded portion of ovipositor valves short, white, black at tips. Antenne much as 1 figured for clisiocampe but funicle 4 is a little shorter than 2. Evidently closely allied with the North American clisiocampe but the tips of tibiw# are not silvery white, the club is uniformly dark, the extruded valves of the ovipositor are white except at tips and the wings are infuscated somewhat farther distad. The very short form (from dorsal aspect almost round without the head) is also characteristic. Of the Australian species closest to nympha from which it may be easily distinguished. From one female taken by sweeping in forest, September 2, 1913. Habitat: Gordonyale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2954, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 9. ABLERUS SOCRUS new species. Female :—Length, 0.58 mm. In my table of species runs to hyalinus but much smaller, the funicle is wholly white (joints 1 and 3 in hyalinus dusky), funicle 4 is somewhat shorter, only slightly longer than wide; funicle 1 a little longer than 2 (a little shorter in hyalinus); the mandibles are smaller and the marginal fringes somewhat longer (in hyalinus somewhat less than-a third the greatest wing width). Otherwise the same except that the head is wholly white except lower margin of face and margins of occiput and the stripe across at antennw. There is a distinct narrow silvery cross-stripe just caudad of scutellum. Fringes of fore wing moderate, somewhat over a third the greatest wing width. Wings hyaline and apparently different from those of hyalinus in that there are not several lines of coarse cilia just proximad of stigmal vein. From two females taken in forest, April 16, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2955, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a specimen on a slide with type Archenonus albifemur Girault. 10. ABLERUS HOWARDII new species. Female :—Length, 0.60 mm. In my table of species runs to pcincarei from which it differs in having the fore wings hyaline. Differs from piceipes in the clear wings and the shorter marginal fringes of the fore wing. Valves of ovipositor black at tip. Club somewhat stouter than usual. Vertex white. Funicle 1 a little longer than wide, shorter and narrower than the pedicel, 2 sub- quadrate, also 4 but the latter distinctly wider than the others. Longest marginal fringe of tore wing about a fourth the greatest wing width. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 63 From one female caught by sweeping in forest, April 16, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2956, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on slide with type Coccophagus perpulchellus Girault. Dedicated to Leland Ossian Howard. Genus PLASTOCHARELLA Girault. Antea, p. 195, line 3 of the description, the second with read without. 1. PLASTOCHARELLA FUSCIPENNIS Girault. Length, 1.05 mm. Infuscation of fore wing deeper under the marginal vein. The type was taken, February 16, 1913 from a window and is on a slide. 2. PLASTOCHARELLA INCONSPICUA new species. Female :—Length, 0.50 mm. Brownish black, the wings lightly stained from base of marginal vein to apex, naked proximad from the same point. Pedicel elongate, longer than the funicle, the three joints of the latter subquadrate but 1 a little longer than the other two which are slightly wider than long. Club longer than the rather short scape which is only somewhat longer than the pedicel. Median groove on thorax not seen. Submarginal vein distinctly longer than the marginal. Legs dusky black. Much smaller than fuscipennis and uniform in color, the marginal vein shorter (some- what longer than the submarginal in the genotype), nearly the proximal half of fore wing is naked and clear, the club is distinctly longer than the funicle and the pedicel is long. The marginal fringes of fore wing are twice longer than is the case with the genotype where they are very short. In fuscipeniis the pedicel is plainly shorter than the funicle. From one female caught by sweeping in forest, January 16, 1913. Habitat: Magnetic Island (Townsville), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2957, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide with type appendages of Anastatus insularis Girault. 3. PLASTOCHARELLA MAXIMA new species, Female :—Length, 1.85 mm., excluding the shortly exserted ovipositor. Jet black, tip of abdomen, the legs except hind cox and a broad band around the base of the abdomen, silvery white; lower part of face (suffused), caudal half of scutum, much of parapsides and the narrow median groove of thorax, dull yellow. Wings infuscated as in fuscipennis. Mandibles tridentate. Funicle 3 distinctly the longest, 2 shortest, a little longer than wide, 1 distinctly longer than wide but not much longer than 2 yet wider; club longer than the funicle. Thorax very finely lined. Strigils distinct, tarsi as in the Elasmide; middle tibial spur not especiallly stout; hind tibial spurs double. Abdomen slender, conic-ovate, longer than rest of the body. Antenne inserted down near the mouth, the scape long and slender. Venation much as in Coccophagus, the stigmal vein minute. Fore wings distinctly broader than with fuscipennis; in both species, they are subhyaline proximad of the marginal vein. Mesopleurum rather flat, divided by a suture transversely as usual in Chaleids. This is an enormous member of the subfamily. From one female caught in jungle, December 27, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Warvey’s Creek (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2958, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head on a slide. In fuscipennis, the club is subequal in length to the finicle. 64 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. MYOCNEMELLA new genus. For description, see antea, p. 195. Genus MYIOCNEMA Ashmead. 1. MYIOCNEMA MARMORATIVENTRIS new species. Female:—Length, 0.80 mm. With the habitus of Aphelinus. Pale golden yellow, the abdomen dark brown except along the sides and marked witls pale golden yellow as follows: A narrow stripe across base with a nipple-like prolongation at meson distad, three round marginal spots, the distal one smallest (a dot) and at apex of proximal two thirds, a very narrow cross-stripe at apex of proximal three fourths and two more distinct cross-stripes following the one at base, both broadly interrupted at the meson or subinterrupted; these two stripes join the first and second marginal spots. Propodeum dark brown from lateral margin half way to meson, the spiracle appearing like a minute yellow dot. Thorax scaly reticulate; without a median sulcus. Club somewhat longer than the funicle, subequal to the scape, the pedicel over half the length of the funicle; funicle 1 ring-like, 2 twice the length of 1, 3 a little wider than 2, 4 largest, somewhat wider than long and about a fourth the length of the club. Fore wings as in Aphelinus but without a hairless line, the discal ciliation fine, dense, disappearing proximad of the origin of the mar- ginal vein; a line of long stout bristles along submarginal vein and two shorter lines of similar bristles just caudad of the submarginal vein. Marginal cilia of fore wings short. Caudal wing short and broad. Club 1 subquadrate, 2 conical and somewhat longer. Seape a little compressed. Mandibles bidentate, the second tooth truncate. Hind tibia dorsad, armed with long stiff bristles. Legs normal; middle femur with a long bristle ventro-laterad just before knee. Fore wings hyaline, the venation transparent, the marginal vein only a little over half the length of the submarginal. Hind femora compressed, the tibial spur single; middle tibial spur long and slender Antenne shaped like those of Aphelinus. In one antenna the club is solid! Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland, forest, December 9, 1913. Type: No. Hy 2959, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. GeNuS ANERISTUS Howard. This genus differs from Coccophagus Westwood in having the scape short, the flagellum strongly flattened, the hind tibiew flattened and with a row of short bristles dorsad. 1. ANERISTUS FUMOSIPENNIS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Female :—Length, 0.80 mm. Differs from the generic diagnosis in bearing a short ring-joint; the club is not very well differentiated from the funicle. Like Coccophagus Westwood, except the antennal differences (the flagellum compressed somewhat, presence of ring-joint) and the flattened apex of hind tibie. Wholly dark metallic purple, the legs and antenne concolorous, excepting most of cephalic tibiew, distal half of intermediate tibia and the tarsi, which are yellowish white. Fore wings with a conspicuous smoky-black blotch under the marginal vein, the area large, pro- jecting convexly beyond the venation, its proximal margin obliquely truncate from about proximal third or more of the marginal vein. Intermediate tibial spur stout, as long as proximal joint of intermediate tarsi. Mandibles bidentate, the broad inner tooth emarginate, so that a total of three teeth are nearly formed. First funicle joint longest, distinctly longer than AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 65 wide; 3 subquadrate, subequal to the pedicel; distal club joint with a nipple-like end due to termination of the vestiture before tip. Body finely reticulated. Hind wings broad, with about a dozen lines of fine, uniform discal cilia. Male :—The same but the wings hyaline, the pedicel globular, the joints of the flagellum longer. Described from two males, seven females, received from Mr. G. F. Hill, Government Entomologist, Northern Territory, and labelled ‘‘ No. 15. Bred from unidentified coccid. 18-viii-13.’’ Habitat: Northern Territory (Port Darwin). Types: No. Hy 2960, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two males, one female on a slide with miscellaneous fragments and five females together on a tag. Several females, type locality, October 10, 1913 and two males, three females reared from coccids on custard apple, Stapleton, N.T., February 4, 1913 (G. F. Hill). A common species. 2. ANERISTUS DIABOLICUS new species. Of the same appearance and stature as fumosipennis but differing in the spot on the fore wing which is shorter, its proximal margin straight (not oblique as in the other species), its conical projection distad shorter, a flat convexity rather than a truncated cone and the spot is therefore a little wider than long rather than somewhat wider than long. Also the scape and cephalic knees and tibia are white and all of middle tibiw except slightly just distad of knee (in fumosipennis, the proximal half of middle tibia is black). Finally, funicle 1 is barely longer than wide, 2 and 3 somewhat wider than long. Compared with types of fwmosi- pennis. From one female caught by sweeping at Halifax, April, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Halifax (Ingham), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2961, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. TRIBE PTEROPTRICINI. APTEROPTRIX new genus. Differs from Archenomus Howard in that the club is 3-jointed, the first and second funicle joints are not ring-like and the marginal cilia of the fore wing are long. 1. APTEROPTRIX ALBIFEMUR new species. Female. Genotype. Differs from the second species in that the legs are white except the coxw and the hind femur above at middle, there is no hairless line back from the venation, the wing is less distinctly infuscated caudad of the venation and the mandibles are bidentate. Funicle 1 and 2 sub- equal, somewhat longer than wide, 3 slightly longer and subequal to the pedicel. Club well defined. Club joints each longer than the pedicel. A naked space distad of venation in both species. Described from one female captured by sweeping in forest. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2962, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. 2, APTEROPTRIX NIGRA (Girault). Casca nigra Girault. Antea, p. 198, line 2 following the description the words the male of Casca agrees with the female of Archenomus should be omitted. The female antennz were erroneously described, there being three funicle joints of which 2 is intermediate between 1 and 3, the latter longest, a little longer than wide. The club is distinetly 3-jointed. Type re-examined. E 66 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Genus ARCHENOMUS Howard. Antennz 8-jointed, the club apparently 2-jointed; funicle joints 1 and 2 very short, 3 and 4 each longer than 1 and 2 together. The following species is, more or less, doubtfully included. 1, ARCHENOMUS BIGUTTATUS new species. Female :—Length, 0.77 mm. Black, the seutum and seutellum silvery white, the former with a large, wider than long black area from cephalic margin across meson of more than cephalic third; axille black, forming a lateral pair of roundish spots on middle of thorax. Scutellum (apparently) with a narrow lateral groove. Cephalic femora, cephalic and intermediate tibie and the tarsi whitish; tips of caudal tibiae whitish; antenne pale yellow, the scape and pedicel black. Fore wings with a distinct dusky stripe across from the marginal vein, the stripe accented just caudad of apex of that vein, the latter rather thick, distinctly shorter than the submarginal and prac- tically truncate at apex, the stigmal vein obsolete. A naked area on fore wing just disto- caudad of apex of venation. Marginal fringes of fore wing tolerably short, not more than a fifth the greatest wing width, shorter than the caudal fringes of the hind wing; the latter | with a pair of lines of discal cilia which fade distad, the base of the blade infuseated. Vertex yellowish. Eyes bulging, coarse, round. Flagellum filiform, no distinct club, the second funicle joint like a thick ring-joint, not half the length of the small pedicél, the other flagellar joints long, subequal, each somewhat over twice longer than wide and longitudinally striate. Mandibles broadly truncate but with a median sinus. Scape only slightly longer than funicle 1. Antenne 9-jointed, with the ring-joint. From one female caught in forest, May 15, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 2963, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. NEOCASCA new genus. Female :—Differs from Bardylis Howard in bearing a ring-joint in the antenna and in having the fore wings normal, that is, not long and curved and without long marginal cilia. Marginal vein distinctly much shorter than the submarginal. No hairless line. Middle tibial spur small. Ovipositor inserted a little proximad of middle of abdomen. Sceutellum distinctly wider than long. Marginal vein nearly thrice the length of the short stigmal. A short phragma present. 1. NEOCASCA MULTIGUTTATA new species. Female :—Length, 0.68 mm. Golden yellow, the abdomen pale yellow, the wings hyaline, the legs concolorous, the antenne a little dusky. Hind femur at proximal half and the cox washed with dusky. A flat triangle on pronotum at meson, the axilla (or at least a large elliptical spot apparently upon them or covering them) and most of mesopleurum, jet black. Abdomen broadly dusky down the meson and with five marginal spots from base to apex, dusky black. Legs pallid, also the venation. Fore wings with about 22 lines of minute, rather dense discal cilia. Proximal joint of middle tarsi distinctly longer than the others. Antenna inserted not far from the mouth, 8-jointed, the funicle *2-jointed, the club distinct, longer than the funicle whose joints are a little longer than wide (joint 1) and somewhat wider than long (2); pedicel a little longer than funicle joint 1. Scape moderate. Mandibles bidentate, the second _tooth obliquely truncate, broad. From one female caught in forest, April 16, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2964, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 67 I have frequently mistaken members of this group for true encyrtids. Several genera in the Taneostigmine resemble genera in this group very much and there are seemingly inter- grading forms. In the cases of species of Aphelinus, Coccophagus and Physcus I have been puzzled in regard to which group they should be classed. The Aphelinine frequently have the mesopleurum entire, the antenne are inserted below the middle of the face, the middle tibial ‘spur is frequently elongate (but usually slender), the mandibles are 2- or 3-dentate, the form short and compact and the tarsi usually 5-jointed. Four-jointed tarsi are not exceptional in the Encyrtide. The wings here are frequently with an oblique hairless line, ring-joints are usually absent, jumping is usual and the hosts are coccids. Moreover, the variety of form and markings is great. These characters certainly approach very closely those of the Encyrtide. A minute, wingless male of the Aphelinini, with antennze about as in Hretmocerus, is native to the jungle of North Queensland. SUBFAMILY SIGNIPHORIN Ai. GENUS SIGNIPHORA Ashmead. 1. SIGNIPHORA AUSTRALIENSIS Ashmead. Female; male. I give the recent review of this species in my A Systematic Monograph of the Chaleidoid Hymenoptera of the Subfamily Signiphorine (Girault, 1913). ‘* Signiphora australiensis Ashmead, 1900, pp. 409, 410. The original description of this species is exactly as follows: Female.—Length, 0.60 mm. A®neous black, the mesonotum with a bronzy tinge, the ‘scutellum with a slight bluish tinge; legs black, a spot on knees and tarsi white or yellowish white, the anterior tibie yellowish beneath; wings fuscous with a hyaline band across the disk from apex of the marginal vein. Type.—Cat. No. 4771, U.S.N.M. Habitat.—Australia (Albert Koebele, collector). Host.—Rhynch.: Sp. not identified. By studying the types I am enabled to offer the following additional descriptive details: Like nigra but differing colorationally in that the head and thorax are metallic to some extent, the vertex and mesonotum distinctly metallic green (but not in balsam mounts), the latter finely transversely lined; body finely polygonally sculptured, including the abdomen (the sceulpturing not distinct in balsam mounts); the fore wings differ as described—they are embrowned throughout, but somewhat distad of the middle there is a broad clear band, suberescentic in shape and touching the costal margin at the apex of the stigmal vein. This area is broader at the caudal margin than at the cephalic one, barely reaching the latter; the stigmal vein differs in that it is like a short conical prolongation bending off slightly from the marginal; thus it is short and much broader at its point of origin than is the case with that of nigra. Like nigra, there is also a clear area proximad, but this is somewhat more ‘prominent with this species. (See beyond.) The male is like the female. The species has not been mentioned again in the literature; it is variable as will be ‘shown later. I have studied the following specimens: The tag-mounted types now remounted in xylol-balsam; these were and are labeled ‘ Signiphora australiensis Ashmead, female. Type No. 4771, U.S.N.M. Australia. Koebele, 12.’ The type consists of three females. Also a ‘slide from the collections of the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, District of Columbia, bearing 2 males and 12 females and labeled ‘ 1849. Acanthococcid on Eucalyptus. Gosford, N.S.W., Noy. 1899. A. Koebele.’ These specimens varied considerably in the fumation of the fore wing and in the length of the marginal fringes. In all of them the latter were distinctly shorter than in the type specimens, while the majority of the specimens 68 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. showed the clear, subhyaline band at the middle very indistinctly, not clear cut as in the type specimens excepting with several of them. Casually, in most of these specimens, the fore wings appeared to be fumated throughout, the cloudiness gradually fading out distad. I have since captured a female specimen of this species on a window of a barn at Roma, Queensland, October 6, 1911. Habitat—Australia—New South Wales (Gosford); Queensland (Roma). Host.—Acanthocoecid on Hucalyptus. Types.—The three females as indicated in foregoing.’’ A female was taken from a window, November 2, 1912 at Proserpine, Queensland. The: propodeum is delicately polygonally reticulated. A. SIGNIPHORA AUSTRALIENSIS ORBICULATA new variety. Male. Differs from the typical form in that the distal fumation of fore wing consists of @ large cireular spot centrally, the surrounding portions hyaline. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2965, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 2. SIGNIPHORA ASPIDIOTI Ashmead. The recent treatment of this species is also quoted from Girault (1913). ‘« Signiphora aspidioti Ashmead, 1900, pp. 409, 412. On the same page that coquilletti was described, Ashmead described a new species under the name of aspidioti in the manner quoted below. This species is identical with coquwilletti structurally, but differs in that the distal half of the antennal club is dusky, a phenomenon not observed in the series of specimens of coquilletti examined by me but which would be expected to occur in a number of specimens if it was merely an incidental variation. I cannot do. otherwise than consider aspidioti valid. Its original description was in this manner: Female.—Length, about 0.50 mm. Lemon or golden-yellow, head faintly dusky above;. apical half of antennal club, anterior half of mesonotum, and a broad transverse band at base of abdomen, including nearly half its length, dark brown; wings with a broad fuscous: band, as in previous species. Type.—Cat. No. 4859, U.S.N.M. Habitat.—Mexico: San Louis. Host.—Rhynech: Aspidiotus nerii Bouché (= hedere Vall.). Bred November, 1894 by Tyler Townsend. Besides the type specimen, I found another female specimen of it in the collections of the United States National Museum labeled ‘ 47022. Bred from Aspidiotus nerti (= hedere Vall.), San Luis, Mex., November, ’94.’ This specimen is evidently an original one. I have labeled it as a homotype. The antennal club in aspidioti is more clavate and longer than that of coquilletti apparently. The single type female is labeled as the specimen just noted,. and, additionally, ‘ 4859,’ the type number. ’’ Two females were taken from windows, Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland, August 3 and October 9, 1912. This is the first Australian record. Later, a female was captured from a window of an empty dwelling at Ingham, Queensland, in February, 1913. 8. SIGNIPHORA RETICULATA Girault. Female. The original description of this species is quoted. ‘* Length 0.80 mm. Moderate in size for the genus. Black, the head and thorax dark metallic green, the wings perfectly hyaline, with no. proximal fumation. Venation, legs and antenne brownish black. Proximal three tarsal joints. and much of the cephalic tibia, yellow. Mesonotum and vertex, finely, transversely lined. Abdomen, the rectangular (wider than long) scutellum, the transverse mesopostscutellum and AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 69 the triangular propodeum all similarly distinctly polygonally reticulated. Discal bristle absent. Stigmal vein conical. Marginal fringes of the fore wing very short, those of the posterior wings slightly longer, the latter wings very broad, where widest full three-fourths the width of the fore wings. Antennal club conic-ovate and moderate in length.’’ Described from a single female specimen captured in forest, November 6, 1912. Habitat: Ayr, Queensland. Also, Gordonvale, forest, January. Type: No. Hy 1281, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. ‘* Belongs to the nigra group and to that section of it where the marginal fringes are very short. Closely allied with the Australian species corvina Girault from which it differs in bearing hyaline wings, narrower fore wings and in being much less robust. The species funeralis has decidedly longer marginal fringes and its wings are deeply fumated throughout. ’’ A second female was captured in the forest at Gordonvale in January. 4. SIGNIPHORA FUNERALIS Girault. Female. This species was recently described in the following words (Girault, 1913). ‘¢ Length, 0.55 mm.; moderately small for the genus. General color uniformly black, slightly suffused with brownish and distinctly metallic on head and mesoscutum, the metallic coloration being bluish green; antenne and legs nearly concolorous, sooty black, the tarsi pallid yellow. . Eyes dark red. Fore wings distinctly fumated throughout, but the sootiness gradually deepens proximad; there at the caudal wing margin caudad of the distal portions of the submarginal vein is a longitudinal clear area, subrectangular in shape. Belongs to the nigra group and to that section of it including those species bearing short marginal fringes at the apex of the fore wing, namely, nigra Ashmead, australiensis Ashmead and dactylopii Ashmead, and more closely allied with the first. However, it differs from it as follows: The fore wings are fumated continuously throughout, the body bears metallic coloration, the marginal fringes of the fore wing at apex are somewhat shorter. With the two other species it need not be confused. As concerns the other species of the nigra group, namely noacki Ashmead, maxima Girault, pulchra Girault and nigrella Girault, funeralis should not be confusable, since all of these species bear much longer marginal ciliation on the fore wings; specifically, in general coloration it differs from all of these ‘species excepting pulchra because the fore wings are nearly uniformly fumated throughout; from pulchra it may be distinguished also by means of the pallid tarsi, the broader wings, the absence of the discal bristle and so on. Antennal club not unusually long, conic-ovate and about four times longer than its greatest width; fore wings moderately broad, their longest marginal cilia somewhat less than half their greatest width; discal bristle absent. Posterior wings moderate in width, not as wide as their longest marginal cilia. Oblique hair-line crease of fore wing slightly indicated, present but faint.’’ Habitat: Herberton, Queensland. December 28, 1911. Type: No. Hy 771, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the single female on a slide (with several trichogrammatids and an Anagrus). 5. SIGNIPHORA CORVINA Girault. Female. I quote from Girault (1913). ‘¢ Length, 1.10 mm.; large, robust. General color deep black, tinged on the head and thorax with metallic bluish green, the whole of the mesonotum thus colored; legs, antennz and venation brownish black, but the tarsi and cephalie tibiew interiorly yellow brown. Fore wings hyaline excepting along about the proximal half, or out not quite to the end of the venation. The stained proximal area of the wing is peculiar; thus its distal margin is obliquely (caudo-proximad) truncate, the caudal 70 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. midlongitudinal (nearly) half being more clear. Hence, somewhat as in melancholica, the fum:tion is under the venation extending caudad somewhat beyond the midlongitudinal line of the blade. Jt is longer, however, than the clouded area of the species named. Distal tarsal joints only siightly darker. Belongs to the nigra group and to that portion of it including funeralis, australiensis, nigra, and dactylopii but is more closely related to the last named two. It differs from nigra in that the fore wings are fumated somewhat farther distad (nearly to the apex of the stigmal vein), the body is metallic on the head and thorax, finely, transversely lined at the mesonotun: and more robust. From dactylopii it differs as much as it does from nigra; however, the fumation of the fore wing does not form a band across the wing from the marginal vein but is quite different and distinct. The fore wings are broad, their marginal cilia very short, subequal in length to the stigmal vein, somewhat shorter at the apex; oblique crease slightly indicated; discal bristle absent; stigmal vein straight, a conical prolongation of the marginal vein. ‘Posterior wings. very broad, two-thirds the width of the broad fore wing, which is only twice longer than broad. Marginal fringes of posterior wings subequal in length to those of the fore wing. Mandibles bidentate. Proximal joint of cephalic tarsus only half the length of the same joint of the caudal tarsus. Antennal club stout, conic-ovate, bearing a number of short longi- tudinal sulei, which are arranged in three circular groups along the joint, giving the appearance (easually) of three joints; the club only about two and a half times longer than wide (its greatest width at apex of proximal third).’’ Habitat: Roma, Queensland. October 6, 1911. Type: No. Hy 772, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the single female on a slide. 6. SIGNIPHORA AUSTRALICA Girault. Male. The following summarizes all that is known of this species (Girault, 1913), except two locality records added later. ‘* Length, 0.54 mm.; moderately small for the genus. General color black, the vertex and mesonotum metallic bluish green, the antenne, venation and caudal femur sooty black, the tarsi and remainder of legs pallid yellowish, the distal tarsal joint not much darker if at all; fore wings fumated throughout, the proximal fumation (out nearly to the end of the marginal vein) deeper, the whole divided somewhat distad of the middle of the wing by a moderately broad subhyaline band which is nearly regular in width and joining the costal wing margin at the end of the stigmal vein; the fore wing is also clear directly beneath the submarginal vein for nearly its whole length. Belongs to the nigra group and that section of it containing those species bearing marginal cilia at the apex of the fore wing which are subequal to or longer than a third of the wing’s greatest width, hence allied with maxima Girault, pulchra Girault, noacki Ashmead, and nigrella Girault. However, resembling australiensis Ashmead and at first mistaken for that species; the transverse clear band is somewhat farther distad (on the costal margin half or more of it extending beyond the apex of the stigmal vein), more uniform and not coming to a point at the stigmal vein; the longer marginal cilia of the fore wing in australica, the narrower fore wings, the pallid legs and other characters easily distinguish the two species. Of the four species with which it is allied, it resembles, perhaps, pulchra more than the others because of its moderately narrow fore wings, but the discal bristle is absent and the oblique hair-line-like crease but slightly indicated; the legs are much lighter in color. The species need hardly be confused with any other species of the genus, even its closest allies. Fore wings with the marginal cilia moderately long, those at apex only about slightly ‘over a third of the greatest width and slightly longer than the apical marginal cilia of the AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 71 posterior wings; stigmal vein forming a regular concave curve with the inner edge of the marginal vein at its apex, but the curve is not as deep as usual. Posterior wings moderately broad, subequal in greatest width to their longest marginal cilia or slightly more or Jess than subequal. Antennal club long and moderately stout, spindle-shaped, slightly over four times longer than its greatest width which is near its middle, with no regularly grouped or prominent longitudinal sulci.’’ Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Two males, December 4 and 21, 1911. Type: No. Hy 773, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one male on a slide. A female at Mackay, Queensland, October 19, 1911, and one at Gordonvale (Cairns), January, 1912. In the latter all the femora were dark. 7. SIGNIPHORA RECTRIX new species. Female. Length, 0.54 mm. Like aspidioti Ashmead but the antennal club wholly dusky, the cephalie two thirds of scutum dusky while the abdomen at proximal half is only obscurely dusky, hardly noticeably so, not conspicuously as in aspidioti. Also, the fore wings are somewhat narrower, the longest marginal cilia slightly longer than the wing where widest. Legs concolorous. Discal bristle absent. Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Forest. Type: No. Hy 2966, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. 8. SIGNIPHORA PERPAUCA new species. Female. Length, 0.69 mm. Differs from flavella Girault in having the pedicel long and slender, about four times longer than wide at tip and from flava Girault in having only the abdomen suffused with orange or pinkish, the club pallid, distinctly capped with dusky; and from both in having the cephalic fourth of the scutum dusky black, the fore wings only light brown and solely so under the marginal vein. Discal bristle absent. Habitat: Seymour (Ingham), Queensland. Forest, February 20. Type: No. Hy 2967, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. 9. SIGNIPHORA THUSANOIDES new species. Female. Length, 0.95 mm. Like dactylopii Ashmead but the fuscous stripe across the fore wing is farther distad, nearly half way between apex of venation and apex of blade but a little proximad of half way. Marginal cilia around apex of fore wing a little shorter than the stigmal vein. Proximal joint of hind tarsus a little shorter than the same joint of intermediate tarsus (the two equal in dactylopii). Cephalic tibiz pale yellowish. Mesonotum finely transversely lined. The stripe across the fore wing is rather broad, its lateral margins broken. Discal bristle absent. Hind wings very broad, over half the width of the fore wings. Mandibles bidentate. Four ring- joints. Club thrice longer than broad. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. “Forest, December 2, 1913. Type: No. Hy 2968, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a slide. 10. SIGNIPHORA BEETHOVENTI new species. Female:—Length, 1.10 mm. Rather robust. Dark metallic green, the four proximal tarsal joints pale yellow. In my table of the earth’s species (Girault, 1913) runs to maxima Girault from which it differs in that the fore wing bears a distinct smoky cross-stripe from whole of the marginal and stigmal veins, otherwise hyaline. The distal margin of this cross-stripe is more or less obscurely but deeply incised at middle and at the proximal margin at caudal half a hyaline indentation of rectangular shape (longer than wide cephalo-caudad). Marginal cilia at apex of fore wing not quite twice 72 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. the length of the stigmal vein, about a third of the greatest wing width. Discal bristle absent. Thorax transversely, finely lined. Caudal wings somewhat wider than their longest marginal cilia, about two thirds the width of the fore wing. Three ring-joints. Mandibles bidentate. From one female taken by sweeping forest on sand-ridges near coast, May 9, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 2969, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. Dedicated to Ludwig von Beethoven. In this genus I have met with a striking case of parallelism but unfortunately the record was lost. However, a species captured in virgin jungle at Gordonvale, Queensland agreed in every detail with the description of a West Indian or South American species and it is hardly likely that the two can be the same species but rather similar forms developed from the same parent stem. Cases of this kind in other genera of this and other families are not - extremely rare. For example, Aphelinus fuscipennis Howard, an extremely common species in the cultivated orchards of North America, is duplicated by specimens reared from native coccids in the forests or bush of North Queensland. It is not likely that the Queensland specimens are really correctly identified as fuscipennis. There may be differences not yet seen but these differences do not seem really a necessity. The species may have been introduced into North America, not improbable in this particular case. Parallel development of species groups in genera is still more marked and cases of this are common. SUBFAMILY ENCYRTIN At. Trine AMIRINI. Male and Female:—Mandibles absent; postmarginal vein absent, the marginal vein punctiform, the stigmal well developed; posterior tibizw with two spurs. Otherwise like the Mirini. Costal cell wide, its margin convex. GeNusS AMIRA Girault. Female :—Head from cephalic aspect rounded, the frons narrow, the antennew inserted near the clypeus, the scrobes separate, converging above, the head punctured, the punctures minute. Lateral ocelli nearly touching the eyes, the latter convergent. Thorax punctured like the head. Abdomen flat, short, from above triangular, no longer than the thorax ; the hypopygium small, the ovipositor not exserted. Wings hyaline, the venation not quite attaining the costa, the long submarginal vein approaching the costa gradually, then turning off to form the stigmal. Axilla meeting inwardly. Second abdominal segment short, barely longer than the following three segments. Antennze 12-jointed, capitate, the scape somewhat convexed . beneath, the pedicel long, nearly half the length of the funicle, about thrice longer than wide at apex, the distal funicle joints much wider than long, the first joint of the funicle subquadrate ; one very short ring-joint, the club 3-jointed. Fore wings with a short hairless line from middle of stigmal vein; the same not much obliqued. Frons arched or convex, the scrobes not very long. Male: About the same but totally different in color and the pedicel much longer, as long as the funicle. 1. AMIRA FABREI Girault. Female ; male. Genotype. Female :—Length, 2 mm. Robust. Shining black, the wings hyaline, the intermediate tibiw toward tip and tarsi brown. Head and thorax besides the pin-punctures, densely finely scaly, the abdomen also densely sealy. Discal ciliation of fore wing dense. Secutellum densely longitudinally lineolated or nearly. Male :—Length, 1.80 mm. Like the female but all the sides and venter of thorax and the legs, the head and antenne, the scutellum except a spot along the meson at apex, the axille and the sides of AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 73 scutum centrally (invasion from the pleurum), lemon yellow; tarsi brown. Antennal pedicel elongate, longer than the scape which is more convexed than in the female, the latter with all the joints distinctly wider than long and more or less equal. Antenna] club darker. Lateral ocelli somewhat farther from the eye than in the female. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest. Reared from a spider’s egg-sac. Types: No. Hy 2970, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two pairs on separate tags (four pins) and a slide with female fore wing and heads. TripE ARRHENOPHAGINIT. ARRHENOPHAGOIDEA new genus. 1. ARRHENOPHAGOIDEA COLORIPES new species. Female, Genotype. Length, 0.85 mm. Differs from the genotype of Arrhenophagus Aurivillius in bearing 5-jointed tarsi. The antenne are 5-jointed, quite as in Arrhenophagus—scape, pedicel and 3-jointed club, the proximal two joints of the latter transverse-linear, the third joint four times their united length. Differs from Rhopoideus Howard in the shorter form, the lack of an oblique hairless line on the fore wing and in the short, thick antenne. The species is similar in every respect to Arrhenophagus chionaspidis Aurivillius excepting that the legs are all concolorous except the knees, tips of tibixw, tarsi, the intermediate legs and the cephalic tibiz which are yellowish. Also the middle tibial spur is stouter. No yellow on body. Habitat: Ingham, Queensland. February 17, 1913. Type: No. Hy 2971, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the single female on a slide. The frons is broad, no substigmal spot but a marginal vein is indicated by a slight knot or swelling, which gives off a short, acute stigmal vein. The venation does not reach the costal wing margin. Middle tibial spur distinctly swollen or thick as normal. Hairless line of fore wing apparently absent. Type re-examined. A second species has been seen either from southern or western Queensland but unfortu- nately it was mislaid and I could not describe it from the parts mounted on a slide. The hind tibize were white, the fore wing with a more or less obscure hairless line and substigmal spot. GENuS ARRHENOPHAGUS Aurivillius. 1. ARRHENOPHAGUS CHIONASPIDIS Aurivillius. According to Schmidekneckt (1909) Ashmead records this widely distributed species from Australia. I give its principal characteristics. Tarsi 4-jointed; antenne as in Arrhenophagoidea; fore wings without an oblique hairless line, the marginal, postmarginal and stigmal veins absent; marginal vein represented by a circular fumated spot. Shining black, the disk of abdomen with some yellowish dorsad. Antennz honey yellow, also the legs but dorsal aspect of caudal legs blackish and most of cephalic femur. A small yellow area just cephalad of tegula; a moderately broad, yellow fascia on upper face (on or near caudal margin of vertex). Mesothorax scaly but the seutellum finely, delicately longitudinally striate. Wings hyaline. Mandibles acute. Tibial spurs all small. Widely distributed—Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. I have seen specimens from Java and Porto Rico (West Indies). Parasitic upon various coccide of commercial importance. TRIBE ENCYRTINI. It is unfortunate but it is to be feared that this tribe will break down and fuse with the Ectromini. Species of the genus Anasiella Girault sometimes have bidentate mandibles. Cristatithoraz Girault is exactly similar to Cheilioneurus Westwood yet in different tribes. Two Australian genera are described with 4-dentate mandibles. Careful comparison of the genera of the two will show still other marked parallelisms. In the great majority of cases no doubt has been experienced as to the dentation but doubt exists as to the meaning of the 74 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. latter. Either parallel evolution has been at work or there is ro basic reason for separation or else the characteristics of the two groups have been overlooked. The number of tibial spurs on the caudal legs seems to be without significance. I have used the tribal separations for the present. My own table is not a good one and is used here for descriptive reasons only. It was compiled before I was able to use Ashmead’s table and also because some group characters used in that table seem to me very trivial, e.g., sculpture. Some of the old genera are very indefinite and hardly valid. GeNus ECHTHROBACCHA Perkins. With the habitus of the ectromine Echthrodryinus Perkins but the head is rather more menisciform, the front between the eyes is much wider, the system of large punctures on the head is much more distinct, the punctures larger, not dense, sparser toward the facial impression. - The maxillary palpi are longer, the fourth joint much more elongate. The ocelli form more of an equilateral triangle, the caudal ones well separated (but not much) from the eye margins. The marginal vein is rather longer. Mandibles tridentate, the inner tooth broadly truncate. Antenne usual. Oblique hairless line wedgeshaped, not reaching the marginal vein. Post- marginal vein short. 1. ECHTHROBACCHA INJURIOSA Perkins. Female. Genotype. Length, 1.25 mm. Head black, faintly metallic, with evident large, shallow punctures scattered over the front, most numerous about the ocelli; funicle joints increasing slightly and gradually in width from 2 to 6. Mesonotum shining, finely distinctly punctated and clothed with short dark hairs. and black with metallic greenish tints. Scutellum dark at base, finely punctured, clothed with short hairs and with a few scattered, long and erect ones. Mesopleura black with a purplish lustre. Wings hyaline, uniformly ciliate. Abdomen triangular, with a purplish lustre. Antenne sordid yellow, the club generally entirely dark. Tibie and tarsi yellow, the front and hind femora usually blackish for the most part. Habitat: Cairns, Queensland. Parasitic upon Baccha. Type: Query. Genus ECTOPIOGNATHA Perkins. Head moderate, lower face much inflexed, frontal space between the eyes moderately wide; eyes with short, pale hairs. Front with a dense microscopic sculpture and more or less evident traces of faint, sparse punctures. Ocelli apparently in an equilateral triangle, the caudal ones separated slightly from the eyes. Mandibles broad, with three distinct teeth and an inner angulation resembling a more minute fourth one. Maxillary palpi very short, 4-jointed. Antenne 11-jointed, the club ovate, 3-jointed, the scape much dilated ventrad, the pedicel long; funicles 2 and 3 smallest, a little wider than long; club about two thirds the length of the funicle. Mesonotum with very fine surface sculpture and scattered feeble punctures which are setigerous. Axilla separated at meson. Wings with short marginal cilia, evenly ciliate, the hairless line present. Marginal vein a little longer than wide, dilated, the postmarginal indicated, the stigmal distinct, somewhat shorter than the marginal. Abdomen short, sub- triangular, depressed dorsad, with a fovea on each side toward the base and which bears very long sete, often so closely appressed as to be visible only on careful examination. Ovipositor barely extruded. 1. ECTOPIOGNATHA MINOR Perkins. Female. Genotype. Length, 0.75 mm. Head metallic green, the scape black, rest of antenna pale yellow except the dark distal half of club; mesoscutum brilliant metallic eneus, pilose, shining, the scutellum usually darker, AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 75 more coppery; mesopleura shining purplish. Legs almost wholly whitish. Abdomen yellowish, bordered with dark. Wings hyaline. _ Habitat: Cairns and Townsville, Queensland. Parasitic upon eggs of Siphanta. Types: Query. 2. ECTOPIOGNATHA MAJOR Perkins. Female. Length, 0.75 mm. Head in front coppery, more brassy above, dull, with dense minute sculpture, the scape black, rest of antenna pale, the distal part of club subinfuscate. Mesonotum slightly shining, very faintly sculptured, blue-black; scutellum hardly metallic except at tip, where in some views it is shining coppery. Legs whitish. Abdomen yellowish with a dark border. Habitat: Cairns, Queensland. Parasitic on eggs of Platybrachys or an allied genus. And see below. This is a synonym of the first species. Many females, several males which were all dark metallic purple in coloration were reared together with an Aphelinus from pentatomid eggs on Careya australis at Gordonvale, April 7, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). The fore wings are very finely ciliate discally; the males are like the females except that the scape is pale, thick but not dilated, the club solid, a ring-joint present; funicle joints longer than wide, 3 longest, 1 and 6 subequal, somewhat longer than wide. Funicle joints clothed with scraggly, rather long hairs. The pedicel is scarcely longer than wide. The female antenne also bear the very short ring-joint. Also many specimens from leafhopper eggs on Eucalyptus platyphylla, Gordonvale, January, 1913 (A. P. Dodd) and from similar eggs on banyan, Townsville, Queensland, October, 1911 (A.A.G.). And several specimens from Mr. F. P. Dodd labelled ‘‘ Fulgorid ova and parasites.’? One female, Cooktown, Queensland, February, 1912, window. One female from forest, Gordonvale, January 5, 1914 and August 13, 1914. Also three females, four males, from foliage of a wild citrus plant, October 30, 1911 and on egg-masses of a white jassid on same tree.* One female, February 26, 1913, sweeping along Herbert River, Halifax. GEeNus ECHTHROGONATOPUS Perkins. Head shaped much as in Echthrodryinus Perkins, the face inflexed, the eyes large, the least space between them much less than the width of an eye; between the eyes the face with very minute surface sculpture; lateral ocelli near the eyes, the latter sparsely hairy, the hairs inconspicuous. Antenne inserted far below the middle of the face, the scrobes elongate, the scape simple, elongate, the club large, about as long as the funicle, the joints of the latter wide and short; antenne 11-jointed, the club 3-jointed. Pedicel over a third the length of the funicle. Mandibles with three strong acute teeth. Maxillary palpi 4-jointed, moderately long, the distal joint longest; labial palpi 3-jointed, about half as long as the maxillary. Axille approximate. Mesoscutum with short, white, decumbent hairs, the scutellum with a very dense sculpture, very dull, contrasting with the metallic and finely punctured scutum. Oblique hairless line present on fore wing, the-stigmal vein short, the marginal subelongate, the postmarginal slightly developed; marginal cilia short. The eyes are much smaller in the male, the space between them wider than one of them; the male face is metallic like the seutum, the antenne much more elongate, the funicle joints elongate, the first subequal to the pedicel, the club subequal to the distal two funicle joints and solid. * Babinda, Queensland. 76 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 1. ECHTHROGONATOPUS EXITIOSUS Perkins. Female; male. Genotype. Length, 0.87 mm. Head with greenish or other metallic lustre, the front microscopically sculptured, rougher about the ocelli and with traces of larger, shallow punctures. Antenne black, the club wide, flattened, subequal to the funicle. Scutum somewhat shining neous in some aspects, finely punctate. Scutellum black, dull but the extreme apex conspicuously metallic; mesopleura purplish black. Abdomen shining brassy, coppery or purplish metallic at the base, black distad. Legs pale yellowish. Funicle 6 largest, wider than long, 1 a little longer than wide, 2 and 3 subquadrate, 4-6 enlarging. Male scape pale; furicle 6 longest, 4 and 5 subequal, slightiy shorter than 6, distinctly longer than 1. Funicle bearing long hairs directed cephalad. Habitat: Brisbane, Bundaberg and Cairns, Queensland. Parasitic on Gonatopus and _ allied genera. Type: Query. Genus CHALCERINYS Perkins. Differs froni Echthrogonatopus Perkins in the metallic scutellum which is sculptured nearly like the scutum. Marginal vein somewhat longer than wide, the stigmal a little longer than it, the postmarginal hardly developed. The front between the eyes is wider than is the case with the genus named. Differs principally from Hchthrogonatopus in the relative lengths of the marginal and stigmal veins. Axille slightly separated, the eyes sparsely hairy. The male has the first funicle joint longest, much longer than the pedicel, joint 6 next longest to 1; the club solid. Also, the eyes are very widely separated. 1. CHALCERINYS EXIMIA Perkins. Female; male. Genotype. Length, 0.75-1 mm. Metallic green, in places yellowish-brassy, the mesopleura and abdomen black, at most slightly metallic, the antennz testaceous, more or less sordid, the legs yellow except tips of tarsi. Head densely and minutely sculptured and with evident traces of larger, very feeble punctures. Caudal ocelli nearer to the eye margins than to one another. Thorax with very dense, minute sculpture, the scutum and scutellum with similar and inconspicuous pale pubescence, the seutellum smoother and more shining apically. Abdomen subtriangular, depressed. The male is the same but the antenne are long, the scape and funicle 1 distinctly marked with black, the club slender and elongate, dark or largely so. Habitat: New South Wales—Sydney; Queensland—Childers and Bundaberg. Parasitic upon Gonatopus or an ally. Type: Query. GeNus SARANOTUM Perkins. Rather slender and elongate; head (cephalic aspect) subelongate, the eyes moderate in size and diverging apically, the front with dense, microscopic sculpture and sometimes also with very faint punctures. Ocelli in an isosceles triangle, the caudal ones near the eyes and nearer to each other than to the cephalic one. Antenne gradualiy clavate, the scape simple, elongate, the proximal joints of funicle much narrower than the distal ones, the club small, the pedicel shorter than funicle 1. Maxillary palpi with a very long distal joint which is subequal to the other three united. Labial palpi short, the middle joint extremely short. Scutum with appressed, white pubescence, the scutellum with an erect tuft of bristles. Wings infuscated at distal half or more, the submarginal vein much decurved before reaching the marginal, the latter long, the stigmal rather short, the postmarginal little developed. Proximal third of fore wing nearly naked; oblique hairless line present. Caudal legs long, slender. Abdomen rather elongate, depressed, the ovipositor barely extruded. The male is not known. Apparently allied with Cheiloneurus Westwood differing in the longer head, the elongate form and the solid club. Compare Husemionella. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 77 1. SARANOTUM AUSTRALIZ Perkins. Female. Genotype. Length, 1.75 mm. Head dull, submetallic, the face below the antenne and the scape testaceous or ferruginous; scutum somewhat shining, eneous; scutellum yellow, the parapsides browner ; propodeum very smooth and shining, brassy; mesopleura purple, metapleura with white hairs. Legs brownish yellow or testaceous, the intermediate or caudai tibiw and the caudal femora piceous for the most part. Abdomen brassy at base, otherwise brown. Fore wing with a small proximal cloud and another over more than the distal half but the extreme tip and two minute, obscure spots (one at tip of marginal vein, the other nearly opposite) more or less hyaline. Habitat: Bundaberg, Queensland. Parasitic upon Pseudogonatopus. Type: Query. METALLONELLA new genus. 1. METALLONELLA AUSTRALIENSIS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.80 mm. Wings fully developed, hyaline, the marginal vein punctiform, the stigmal short but distinct, the postmarginal absent; first tooth of mandible much shorter than the other two; antenne inserted at the mouth border, much as figured for Psyselledontus insidiosus Crawford but the club is 3-jointed, the antenne 10-jointed, no ring-joint. Copper coloured, the seutellum deep blue. Thorax and abdomen densely scaly reticulated. Axille just meeting inwardly. Abdomen short, triangular; tarsi yellow. Antenne dark fuscous, the tip of the scape, fifth or last funicle joint and much of club yellowish; pedicel longer than funicles 1-3 united, long obconical, slender. Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Forest, April 26, 1913 (H. Hacker). Type: No. Hy 2972, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a slide. 2, METALLONELLA LONGFELLOWI new species. Female :—Length, 0.50 mm. Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the antenne and legs (except hind coxwe) pale yellow. Thorax densely shagreened. Valves of ovipositor distinctly extruded for a sixth the length of the abdomen, the latter more or less brownish. Pedicel dark above, stout, as long as the next three joints combined, the first four funicle joints subequal, small, wider than long, like large ring-joints, but 5 is abruptly larger, subquadrate. Club a little longer than the funicle. Differs from australiensis in coloration, in having the ovipositor extruded, the mandi- bular teeth even, the pedicel not elongate, longer than wide but stout and the club a little longer than the funicle. The teeth of the mandibles are small in both species and both bear an oblique hairless line on the fore wing in the usual position. The head is wider in australiensis; the abdomen of the latter is a little longer than the thorax and acute at apex; also the scutum bears many short black hairs from very minute punctures; the stigmal vein is longer also, than in this new species, well developed and the fore wings larger. Compared with type of australiensis. Described from one female captured January 4, 1913 in the forest. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2973, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. Dedicated to Henry W. Longfellow. The frons is moderately narrow in both species and this character together with the fully developed wings and stronger body separates the genus from Metallon. Also, the body is not. very flat or depressed. 78 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. EUSEMIONELLA new genus. See table of genera. Scutellum with a tuft of black hairs at apex; the head is longer than wide, the eyes convergent above, face not noticeably inflexed, the scrobes short, incomplete; head without large punctures. Marginal vein long, over a third the length of the submarginal, over twice the length of the moderate stigmal which is nearly twice the length of the short postmarginal. Oblique hairless line present. Mandibles with three short, subequal teeth. One hind tibial spur. Antenne 11-jointed, slender, the distal funicle joints a little wider than long; funicle partly white. 1, EUSEMIONELLA CRISTATA new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 1 mm. Orange yellow, the legs pallid, the hind legs yellowish; scape dusky yellowish, the pedicel and first four funicle joints white, fifth funicle joint whitish at base, rest of antenneze black. Abdomen silvery white at proximal third, the rest purplish, conic-ovate, short. Thorax densely shagreened, the scutum subhispid and with obscure thimble punctures. Fore wings with a distinct black spot at the base of the marginal vein, the ciliation denser and coarser over the spot; also with a large, suboval, brownish black area filling center of blade nearly to each margin and about midway between apex of blade and apex of venation. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, June 5, 1913. Tupe: No. Hy 2974, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. GENUS OOENCYRTUS Ashmead. 1, OOENCYRTUS METALLICUS Girault. Female. Length, 1.10 mm. Short, compact. Metallic purple with greenish tinges, the scutum with conspicuous thimble punctures and very finely densely polygonally scaly, the scutellum and face similarly sculptured; vertex and head densely reticulated, the former without thimble punctures. Pronotum very short but wide. Lateral ocelli not quite touching the eyes. Eyes at vertex margined obscurely with ochreous. Venation smoky brown, the fore wings subhyaline but near the middle with a large subhemispherical chocolate brown cloud extending from margin to margin from the marginal vein, its apex much distad of the end of the stigmal vein and caudad before reaching the caudal margin interrupted by a clear line projected into it; its proximal margin is nearly confluent with the oblique hairless line. Marginal vein punctiform, the postmarginal developed, half the length of the stigmal. Marginal cilia of fore wing extremely short, the discal very dense and fine, Sides of thorax sometimes yellowish. Axille meeting in an acute point, the scutellum diamond-shaped, caudad with two of the sides forming a hemisphere. Legs yellowish, washed with dusky. Abdomen very short, subtriangular, wider than long. Antenne yellowish white with the distal funicle joints blackish and the scape and pedicel washed with the same color; club not enlarged, the flagellum slightly enlarging distad, the pedicel as long as the combined lengths of the first two funicle joints, the distal two joints longest and widest of funicle, not much longer than wide. Antenne 11-jointed, no ring-joint, Habitat: Roma, Queensland. Eggs of Tara tephrosis, October 6, 1911. Types: No. Hy 2975, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, three females on a slide. A single specimen to a host. 2. OOENCYRTUS BICOLOR new species. Female :—Length, 0.50 mm. Small; valves of ovipositor a little extruded. Dark metallic blue, the abdomen coppery; sides and venter of thorax and abdomen orange yellow; legs pale, washed with dusky; the antennw whitish, the scape a little dusky, the pedicel and funicle 6 blackish. Head orange yellow, the face golden yellow. Fore wings AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 79 hyaline but with a dusky blotch across from the distal third or more of the submarginal and whole of stigmal veins; the cephalic part of this stripe is rectangular, obliqued caudo-distad, wider than long (normal position) and is separated from the other much longer than wide, caudal portion (on caudal margin) by an oblique hyaline line; the caudal portion is parallel with the caudal margin and proximad of the axis of the first. About eight lines of discal cilia proximad of the hairless line. Marginal vein punctiform, the postmarginal very short, distinct, the stigmal moderate, distinct, a little over twice the length of the marginal, Hind tibial spur single, minute. Mandibles with three weak teeth. Axille narrow, barely separated. Thorax and head scaly reticulate. Scape a little compressed; club shorter than the scape, acutely conic-ovate, about three fourths the length of the funicle or a little more; pedicel distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints which are all a little wider than long but 1 is quadrate; funicle joints gradually widening distad. Frons moderately narrow; head rounded, face inflexed, cheeks a little over half the length of the eyes. Scutellum large. Ring-joint minute. From one female caught in forest, April 16, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2976, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, a hind tibia and a fore wing on a slide. GENUS ISODROMOIDES Girault. Somewhat similar to Isodromus Howard but the marginal vein not punctiform, the stigmal nearly twice longer than it but not especially long, the pleura of propodeum without dense white pubescence and the antenne bear a ring-joint, the elub solid, the antennz 10-jointed. Head (cephalic aspect) slightly wider than long, the scrobes rather short, forming a triangle, distant from the cephalic ocellus, the antennz inserted near the clypeus, the club obliquely, acuminately truncate along one side, not half the length of the funicle where the first joint is cylindrical and as long as the pedicel, the distal joints wider than long but narrower than the club. Scape slender, pedicel long, the ring-joint very short. Eyes somewhat convergent dorsad, the lateral ocelli not quite touching their margins. Axille cuneate, meeting at the meson. Scutellum simple. Abdomen short, triangular, flat above, the ovipositor not exserted. Marginal vein about twice longer than broad, the postmarginal subvestigial, scarcely perceptible; fore wings fumated and with an oblique hairless line. Intermediate tarsi armed beneath with black teeth as in many eupelmine genera but here not quite so densely. Hind tibiz with one spur. The two lateral mandibular teeth acute, subequal, the mesal shorter and truncate. Somewhat similar to Meniscocephalus Perkins of the Ectromini. 1. ISODROMOIDES TRIANGULARIS Girault. Female. Genotype. _ Length, 1.75 mm. Black, scarcely metallic but the distal margins of the scutellum verdigris green; tips of tibiz and all of each tarsus whitish yellow. Antenne suffused slightly with brownish. Fore wings entirely embrowned except proximad out as far as the end of the submarginal vein, the fumation accented under the marginal and stigmal veins, Venation brown. Head and thorax densely, finely punctate, the punctures formed by reticulation. Axille smoother. Habitat: Townsville, Queensland, Parasitic upon EL pipyrops doddi Rothschild. Jungle? Avril 28, 1903 (F. P. Dodd). Many females. Types: No. Hy 2977, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, three females on a card; hind legs, antenne, a head and fore wing on a slide. wr. A. P, Dodd kindly identified the host, a tineid parasitic upon Fulgoridw and whose peculiar habits are described in Novitates Zoologice, XIII, 1906, pp. 162-169. In the second paragraph of p. 166, it is stated ‘‘ The ichneumons all issue from the one hole, and the earlier ones to emerge are finely powdered.’’ 80 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. GENUS AANASIELLA Girault. Head (cephalic aspect) rounded, the facial impression broad but not acutely margined, the scrobes forming a triangle; frons reticulated, without punctures; antenne inserted below the middle of the face, nearly on a line with the ventral ends of the eyes, the cheeks short. Eyes slightly convergent above; lateral ocelli their own diameter distant from the eyes. Vertex and mesonotum with similar seulpture, the mesonotum, however, with sparse thimble punctures; seutum longer than the scutellum. Axille meeting in an acute point; pronotum short. Abdomen short, pointed-triangular, the dorsum flat, without dense pubescence, the hypopygium extending sligthly beyond the tip. Strigils present; hind tibial spur single. Inner two teeth of mandible subequal, the lateral one a little longer, acute. Fore wing broad, the discal ciliation dense, the marginal short; marginal vein punctiform, slightly wider than long, the stigmal moderately long, the postmarginal well developed, about two thirds the length of the stigmal; oblique hairless line not conspicuous. Antenne 12-jointed with one very short ; ring-joint, the club 3-jointed; scape clavate, compressed, there being a regular foliaceous dilation toward apex but this is not enormous and fan-shaped as in some genera yet distinct and foliaceous; flagellum clavate, the funicle joints noticeably widening distad, the club thick and oval, wider than but only half the length of the funicle, the latter with 1 and 2 somewhat longer than wide, each somewhat shorter than the pedicel. Pubescence of antenna bristly. Mesonotum densely reticulate in polygons. Eyes longer than the malar space. Frons moderate. The genus resembles Anagyrus but the club is truncate at apex. 1. AXNASIELLA BRACHYSCELIDIS Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 2.10 mm. Short, moderately robust. Metallic green, the scutellum neous, the propodeum and abdomen purplish black. Seape and pedicel black, the club and venation smoky brown, the funicle lemon yellow to brownish but the first joint more or less dusky. Legs ferrugineous except proximal half (or nearly) of cephalic femora, all of the concolorous coxe, the dark distal tarsal joint and most of hind legs which are concolorous except at the end of each tibia and the tarsi. An elongate purplish black spot on cephalic tibia laterad. Fore wings with a small, rounded cloud at the base of the stigmal vein. Frons imperial purple. Vertex and thorax finely, densely reticulated, the polygonal areas sunk slightly below the surface but not like punctures. Funicle 1 longest, 2 and 3 subequal, quadrate, slightly shorter than 1, 6 twice wider than 1, subequal in width to the widest part of the scape. Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Associated with the gall of a Brachyscelis. October 23, 1911. Types: No. Hy 2978, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, many females on a card. 2. HNNASIELLA APIOMORPHZ: new species. Female :—Length, 1.50 mm. Same as brachyscelidis Girault but smaller, the antenne, intermediate femora and tibie and proximal half of cephalic tibie concolorous, the marginal vein a little longer than wide. Otherwise identical. Scape a little expanded ventrad in both species. Second tooth of mandible broadly truncate. Male:—The same but the antenne thick. cylindrical, 10-jointed with a ring-joint, the club solid and not greatly longer than the funicle joints which are clothed with not long hairs and longer than the small pedicel; antenne dark brown. Scape slightly compressed. Funicle joints stout. Described from one male, eleven females labelled ‘‘15. Nat. Mus. Victoria. Bred from Apiomorpha pileata. Dandenong. J. Kershaw. 2. 1900.’’ Habitat: Dandenong, Victoria. Types: In the National Museum, Melbourne, the above series of specimens on a card. Also 12 females labelled ‘‘16. Nat. Mus. Victoria’’ on a card and 1.14.1900.’’ AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 81 38. AXNASIELLA AMPLIS new species. Female :—Length, 1.35 mm. exclusive of ovipositor which is extruded for a third the length of the abdomen. Same as apiomorphe but somewhat smaller, the ovipositor is distinctly but not longly extruded, the general coloration is dark metallic purple, the knees, tips of tibia and tarsi brownish; also funicle 1 is distinctly wider than long not a little longer than wide as in apiomorphe. The obscure thimble punctures are not evident on the face. All the funicle joints here are wider than long, 1 shorter than 2, whereas in apiomorphe joints 5-6 only are wider than long, 1-3 subequal, 4 a little longer than 3. Face less distinctly carinated between the antenne. The male antennze are black and Jess densely clothed, the hairs thinner and curled; funicle 1 smaller than the others, not as large as the pedicel which is as large as the other funicle joints and subglobular. Compared with types of apiomorphe. In this species the mandibles are more distinctly tridentate. Described from one male, five females labelled ‘‘17. Nat. Mus. Victoria. Bred from Apiomorpha pileata, North Melbourne.’’ Habitat: North Melbourne, Victoria. Types: In the National Museum, Melbourne, the specimens on a card. 4. AANASIELLA PALLIDIPES new species. Female :—Length, 1.38 mm., the ovipositor just tipping the abdomen. Differs from the other species in having the legs pale yellow except coxw, a metallic spot just below knees on middle tibizw dorsad and one at same place on hind tibie, a longer one on hind tibia before tip (dorsad) and dorsal part of hind femur at distal half or more. Second tooth of mandible broadly truncate. Marginal vein punctiform. General color very dark green, blackish nearly, the antennze concolorous. Epistoma without a carina. Scattered thimble punctures less evident due probably to the back ground. Head dark metallic green. Funicle suffused with yellowish, only joint 6 being wider than long, the others quadrate or a little longer than wide. From one male, five females labelled ‘‘ 30. Nat. Mus. Victoria. Lilydale, May 27, ’09. M. Chapman.’’ Reared from leaf-hoppers. Habitat: Lilydale, Victoria. Types: In the National Museum, Melbourne, the above specimens on a ecard GENUS PSEUDENCYRTELLA Girault. 1. PSEUDENCYRTELLA FASCIATA Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 2 mm. Dark metallic purplish, the legs concolorous, the tarsi yellowish; fore wings with a fuscous stripe across them from the stigmal vein; antenns concolorous. Mesoscutum with fine scaly sculpture and dense pin punctures; the scutellum finer, with longitudinal lining, the axille meeting inwardly. Antenne inserted near the clypeus, filiform, the scape very long, extending far above the clypeus and more than half the length of the long slender flagellum, whose joints are all more than twice their width; pedicel about two and three quarter times longer than wide at apex, shorter than the first funicle joint; club not enlarged, 2-jointed, the funicle 7-jointed, no ring-joint. Head (cephalic aspect) narrow, longer than wide. Marginal vein scarcely longer than wide, the postmarginal shorter than the stigmal. Mandibles with the three teeth about equal. Habitat: Seottsdale, Tasmania. Type: I.1475, South Australian Museum, one female on a tag; hind leg and antenna on a slide. The genus differs from Pseudencyrtus Ashmead in having the elongate scape, the narrow head, the 2-jointed club and the punctate scutum. F 82 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. PHASNODISCOIDES new genus. 1. PHZENODISCOIDES AUSTRALIENSIS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.60 mm, Bluish black, the legs yellowish brown, the coxe pale, the hind femora pale proximad, washed with bluish along distal two thirds; axille meeting inwardly, reddish brown. Wings sooty, with a dirty appearance, clear as far out as the bend of the submarginal vein. Antenna 12-jointed with a very short ring-joint, the 3-jointed club and the distal funicle joint white, the rest black except the yellow-brown scape; first two funicle joints longest, subequal, each a little longer than the pedicel, cylindrical. Teeth of mandibles subequal, strong but not very long. Postmarginal and stigmal veins equal, each about a third shorter than the marginal. An obscure, oblique hairless line from the base of the stigmal vein. Propodeum with a median ¢arina, opaque, not sculptured, the thorax finely reticulated but the scutellum smoother distad. Head - impunetate or nearly, with an obtuse ridge between the antenne. Frons moderate. Palpi white. Funicle 1 nearly thrice longer than wide. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, April 27, 1913. Type: No. Hy 2979, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a slide. CERCHYSIELLA new genus. Seemingly closely allied with Cerchysius Westwood, the mandibles long and slender, the two outer (lateral) teeth long and subequal, each over twice the size of the third but the postmarginal vein is hardly developed, very much shorter than either the marginal or stigmal veins which are not very unequal, the marginal vein about thrice longer than wide, the stigmal a little longer than it. Also, the mesonotum is densely coriaceous, the scutellum glabrous, the axille shining but finely reticulated, meeting inwardly. Funicle joints distad of 1 a little wider than long, the club wider than the funicle and about haif its length. Head rounded, the frons moderately broad, the face inflexed, the cheeks two thirds the length of the eyes. Hind tibia with two spurs. Fore wings with an oblique hairless line. Valves of the ovipositor slightly exserted. Antennw 12-jointed, one very short ring-joint. 1. CERCHYSIELLA NIGRA new species. Female. Genotype. Length: 1.60 mm. Black, lustrous, the wings hyaline; distal half of tibize and the tarsi reddish brown on the intermediate legs, the tarsi and tips of tibiz in other legs pale yellowish. Pedicel a half longer than thick at apex, longer than the first funicle joint which is a little longer than wide. Funicle 6 wider than long the joints widening a little distad. Third mandibular tooth acute, not truncate as in nigrella. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, May 25, 1913. Type: No. Hy 2980, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. 2. CERCHYSIELLA NIGRELLA Girault. Female. Length, 1.60 mm. The same as nigra but the mandibles are somewhat stouter and the third tooth not so well developed being in fact very short and truncate against the side of the middle tooth; the first funicle joint is distinctly longer than wide, three-fourths the length of the pedicel (in nigra funicle 1 is nearly quadrate and not more than half the length of the pedicel). The funicle joints are all stouter. Hind tibia with two spurs. The two outer teeth of mandibles are jonger and stouter than in the genotype. Apex of distal club joint white. Habitat: Halifax (Ingham) Queensland. February 25, 1913. Type: No. Hy 2981, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 83 3. CERCHYSIELLA UMBILICATA new species. Female: Length, 2 mm. Dark metallic green, the abdomen purple except at extreme base; legs and antenne reddish brown except club, coxe and proximal half of femora; pedicel a little dusky. Wings very slightly stained. Mandibles long, slender, with two strong, acute outer teeth and a third much shorter inner one. Axillew a little separated. Head and thorax densely scaly, the vertex with scattered umbilicate punctures and a row of same along the eyes; scutum and scutellum umbilicately punctate, the punctures moderately coarse, not confluent, absent along the meson of scutellum. Abdomen very finely scaly, as long as the rest of the body, the ovipositor a little extruded. Propodeum subglabrous, with three narrow carine at the meson, the three well separated. Hind tibial spurs double, unequal. Scape distinctly compressed, (excluding bulla) stouter than the funicle; pedicel not much longer than wide at apex, longer than funicle 1 which is longest yet barely longer than wide; following joints gradually shortening and widening; club no more than half the length of the funicle whose distal three joints are subpetiolate. Thorax clothed with short black hairs. Cheeks nearly half the length of the eyes. Frons moderately broad. Secrobes deep, forming a semicircle. Hind wings curved. Marginal vein about twice longer than wide, the stigmal long, curved, a half longer than the marginal; postmarginal vein not half the length of the marginal. Pronotum transverse. Costal cell of hind wings extending to the hooklets. From one female taken in jungle, May 8, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2982, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; a fore wing, head and hind tibia on a slide. GENUS CERCHYSIUS Westwood. 1. CERCHYSIUS AUSTRALIENSIS Ashmead. Female. Length, 2.6 mm. Afneous-black, the head blue-black, the face ventrad of scrobes metallic bluish green, the mesopleura, scutellum and abdomen decidedly metallic greenish; antennzw black; legs except coxe, distal half of hind femora and proximal two thirds of hind tibize, brownish yellow. Wings fuscous, the proximal one third hyaline. Venation brown. Stigmal and postmarginal veins longer than the marginal. Ovipositor about the length of the first joint of hind tarsi, their valves broad. j Habitat: Australia. Type: Cat. No. 4895, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 2. CERCHYSIUS HISPIDISCUTUM new species. Female: Length, 2 mm., excluding ovipositor. Similar to Rhopalencyrtoidea claripennis but at once distinguished specifically by the distinet whitish pubescence on the scutum (present in that species but not conspicuous), the whitish knees and tarsi, the wholly concolorous middle tibiz, the dark eneous green colour, the legs and abdomen (except at base) very dark purple, by the shorter marginal vein which is punctiform or nearly, slightly longer than wide, the somewhat shorter postmarginal (in relation to the stigmal), by the slender scape, the slender pedicel and the longer first two joints of the funicle which are longest, subequal, each a little over twice longer than wide and somewhat longer than the pedicel which is subequal to funicle 4. The ovipositor is extruded for a distinctly greater length (about two thirds the length of abdomen). Sculpture similar in both, or nearly but in the fore wing the discal ciliation is absent proximad until near the tip of the 84 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. submarginal vein. In this second species there is a silvery crescent on thoracic pleurum just cephalad of the mesopleurum, the latter very finely polygonally reticulated. From one female caught September 28, 1913 (H. Hacker). Habitat: Caloundra (Brisbane), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2983, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and fore wing on a slide. 3. CERCHYSIUS ROBUSTUS new species. Female :—Length, 2.50 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal to. two thirds that of the abdomen. Differs from the genotype of Coccidoxenus in that the frons is moderate, not prominent, the scrobes deep, forming a semicircle or nearly; the postmarginal vein is somewhat shorter than the stigmal and the axille are a little separated. Metallic blue-green, the abdomen except across the base, very deep blue nearly black. Valves of ovipositor and antenne black; knees, tips of tibizee (more broadly in intermediate legs being nearly distal half) and the tarsi reddish yellow. Head and thorax very finely scaly and with many scattered, small setigerous punctures; scaliness of scutellum distad with a longitudinal direction or flow. Wings hyaline, the venation dark. Postmarginal vein only about half the length of the stigmal, somewhat longer than the marginal. Mandibles with the two outer acute teeth longer than the inner. Oblique hairless line of fore wing with about four short lines of discal cilia proximad of it. Hind tibial spurs double. Head with short, stiff white hairs scattered over the surface and which contrast. Pedicel subequal to funicle 2, funicle 1 longest, somewhat over twice longer than wide; other funicle joints each shortening a little, 6 being subquadrate; club short, not more than somewhat over a third the length of the funicle. Funicle densely clothed. Valves of ovipositor a little compressed. Scutum a little longer than scutellum. Propodeum and abdomen scaly, the former with an intermediate glabrous portion on each side of meson. Pubescence of scutum similar to that of the head but not as conspicuous. From one female caught in forest, November 5, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2984, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, fore wing and hind tibie on a slide. 4. CERCHYSIUS BELLULUS new species. Female :—Length, 1.65 mm. Ovipositor extruded a very short distance. Dark metallic purple, the wings uniformly lightly stained and with a small darker stain along the stigmal vein. Legs concolorous but the tarsi and tips of tibie pale. Stigmal and postmarginal veins subequal, the latter a little longer; hind tibie with one spur. Antenna 12-jointed, the ring-joint exceedingly short, hidden, the whole blackish; club 3-jointed. Eyes convergent above. Thorax very finely shagreened and the scutum and scutellum with numerous setigerous thimble punctures which are conspicuous but not confluent by far. Axille barely separated. Abdomen scaly. Pedicel longer than all the funicle joints (separately) of which 1-3 are subequal each slightly longer than wide. Frons rather narrow. Cheeks somewhat shorter than the eyes. Mandibles usual. Venation fuscous. : Habitat: Hughenden, Queensland. Forest-downs. July 14, 1912. Type: No. Hy 2985, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag; a hind leg and the head on a slide. 5. CERCHYSIUS AUSTRALIS new species. Female :—Length, 2.10 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is three fourths the length of the abdomen; their valves compressed a little, a little broader than usual. Dark metallic green, the abdomen blackish, the legs black; valves of the ovipositor black. Fore wings with a distinct brownish band across them from the marginal and stigmal veins, AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 85 otherwise hyaline, the venation black, the blade large, the postmarginal vein a fourth shorter than the stigmal the latter somewhat longer than the marginal. Third tooth of mandible shorter than the outer two which are equal and not long. Marginal vein a little longer than wide; from the stigmal an oblique hairless line which is incomplete and bounded proximad by five short lines of cilia. Knees and tarsi yellowish brown. Axille meeting inwardly, with a carina between them. Thorax densely scaly. Tegule large, reddish brown. Antenne black, 12-jointed, joints 1 and 2 of funicle subequal, each about twice longer than wide, longer than the pedicel, the distal or sixth funi¢le joint a little wider than long; one very short ring-joint. Pronotum transverse. Scutum downy from numerous obscure setigerous punctures. Frons moderate. Cheeks a little over half the length of the eyes. Abdomen about as long as the rest ot body, conic-ovate. From one female taken by sweeping miscellaneous vegetation, left bank of Pioneer River, October 19, 1911. Habitat: Mackay, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2986, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, a fore wing and a hind leg on a slide. The club is not half the length of the funicle. Scape rather stout. Hind tibial spurs double. Mandibles broad. 6. CERCHYSIUS OVIDUCTUS new species. Female :—Length, 0.75 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for two thirds the length of the abdomen. Metallic purple, the wings hyaline. Knees, tips of tibiz, tarsi and distal third of middle tibizw yellowish. Scutum and scutellum densely, finely polygonally scaly and with scattered, obscure, small setigerous punctures. Avxille distinctly separated for some distance. Seutellum metallic green at apex, a little shorter than the scutum. Valves of ovipositor black. Marginal vein a little longer than wide, the stigmal twice longer than it, the postmarginal subequal to the stigmal. Oblique hairless line present, with three or four scattered, short lines of cilia proximad of it, these cilia distinctly coarser than the very fine ciliation of the main part of the blade. Marginal cilia of fore wing very short. Abdomen flat, triangular, not as long as the thorax. Two outer teeth of mandibles a little longer than the inner, all acute, not long. Cheeks subequal in length to the eyes. the frons moderate. Head (cephalic aspect) rounded, the frons (lateral aspect) not prominent. Antenne inserted at the clypeus, quite as figured for Chalcerinys Perkins but the club is somewhat over half the length of the funicle, the first joint of the latter quadrate, the second a little longer than wide, the next four subequal in length but each very slightly broader in succession and somewhat longer than wide. Pedicel a little longer than funicles 1 and 2 combined. Male:—The same but the antenne filiform, 9-jointed, the club solid and distinetly longer than any of the preceding joints except the scape; pedicel short, barely longer than wide; funicle joints all distinctly longer than wide, 2 and 3 longest, each nearly twice longer than wide. Flagellum clothed with moderately long, soft hairs. Described from a pair captured by sweeping in the forest, December 24, 1911. Habitat: Double Island (Cairns), Queensland. Types: No. Hy 2987, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the pair on a tag, the heads on a slide. In hispidiscutum and australis, the axille are rather broadly joined and with a carina between them. ‘The species australis differs from hispidiscutum mainly in having a fuscous band on the fore wing, that wing in the latter species hyaline; but also the marginal vein is a little longer in australis. The hairless line in both species is guarded proximad by short lines ot discal cilia, five in australis, three in hispidiscutum and the line is longer in the former. 86 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. The fore wings of robustus are about as in hispidiscutum but in australiensis there is a stain against the stigmal vein, the latter is a little shorter than the postmarginal, the marginal is a little longer than wide and the hairless line is nearly complete, proximad of it about eight long lines of discal cilia. Also, in australiensis, funicle joints 1 and 2 are only a little longer than wide and the axille are a little separated. NEASTYMACHUS new genus. 1. NEASTYMACHUS AURATICORPUS new species. Female :—Length, 1.70 mm. Golden yellow, the wings hyaline but a little yellowish along under the venation. A blackish stripe across middle of occiput, face of pronotum, disk of dorsal abdomen and a spot near margin on each side of base, metallic purplish. Axillze with a short carina between them. Thorax densely, minutely scaly and with numerous minute pin-punctures which bear short white hairs. Mandibles with three equal teeth. Scape slender, curved, the pedicel a little over twice longer than wide, somewhat longer than funicle 1 which is subequal to 2, 3 and 4 subequal, a little shorter than 2, 6 a little longer than wide; funicle 1 twice longer than wide. Club barely wider than the funicle, the flagellum filiform. Cheeks two thirds the length of the eyes- Frons moderate. Scrobes forming an elongate triangle. Funicle hispid. Abdomen as long as the rest of the body, pointed triangular. Marginal vein somewhat over twice longer than wide, the stigmal about its length, the postmarginal somewhat over half the length of the stigmal. Ten or more lines of coarser discal cilia proximad of the hairless line. Club somewhat over a third the length of funicle. Lateral ocelli a little separated from the eyes. Hind tibial spurs distinct, double. Club dusky. Head a Tittle longer than wide. Agrees otherwise with the generic description. From one female caught in forest, April 24, 1914. Habitat: Gordonyale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2988, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. A second female, March 28, 1914, same place. The wings were hyaline. HABROLEPOPTERYGIS new genus. Somewhat like Pseudanusia Girault of the Ectromini, the head short and inflexed, the vertex subquadrate but the stigmal and marginal veins are moderately long and subequal, each a little over twice longer than wide, the postmarginal vein a third shorter. The antenne are of the same general form yet the club is obliquely truncate and somewhat longer than the funicle, the six joints of the latter lamellate, i.¢., each lateral end narrowed and curved distad and the pedicel is also acutely prolonged from one distal angle. Hind tibiwe not seen. Mandibles small, weak, with three short subequal teeth. Frons rather narrow, the vertex flat. 1. HABROLEPOPTERYGIS FELIX new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 1.10 mm. Orange yellow, finely densely shagreened, the proximal half of the abdomen washed with metallic greenish, the propodeum and distal half of abdomen pale yellowish. Legs deep lemon yellow, the antenne nearly the same, the club paler yellow. Fore wings deeply embrowned from a little proximad of the bend of the submarginal vein distad nearly to apex, leaving the apical margin rather broadly hyaline. Caudal wings uniformly embrowned, broad (about 16 lines of fine discal cilia). The distal margin of the infumation on the fore wing is darker forming a rather broad two-thirds circle. The fore wings in this species are uniformly fumated but a broad stripe under distal part of submarginal and all of marginal vein, distinctly darker. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 87 Head pale or ivory white, the face ventrad of the eyes crossed by a wavy dark stripe which passes through the base of the antenne. Scape ventrad edged with black. Avxille meeting inwardly. Hairless line of fore wing with about five lines proximad of it. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, June 5, 1913, a female. Type: No. Hy 2989, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above female on a slide. One female, Kuranda, jungle, September 16, 1913 (A. P. Dodd) and December 3. 1913. GENUS CHETLONEURUS Westwood. 1. CHEILONEURUS GONATOPODIS Perkins. Female. Length, 1 mm. Ferruginous or yellow, the club of the antenne and usually the basal part of the hind tibia, blackish or infuscate. Ocelli on a submetallic area and forming a triangle with a narrow base but the triangle hardly twice as high as wide at base. Eyes with a very few short, indistinct hairs. Scape very slender, cylindrical. Seutum with a caudal cross-band of blue with a silvery lustre due to the pubescence; propodeum dark at the sides. Wings infuscate on more than the basal half except that at the tips and round the margins they are nearly hyaline; a darker transverse mark bearing long black sete, near the base of the marginal vein. Abdomen dark at tip and on each side at extreme base; distad of the dark at base on each side there are some very long sete. Scutum with silvery pubescence. Habitat: Cairns, Kuranda, Bundaberg and Childers, Queensland. Parasitic on Pseudogonatopus, Echthrodelphax and so forth. Type: Query. 2. CHEILONEURUS CHLORODRYINI Perkins. Female. Length, 1.50 mm. Very like the preceding species and the North American swezeyi in habitus but differs from the former in lacking the caudal metallic cross-band on the scutum, which however has the same silvery pubescence. Scape well rounded on the ventral side and distinctly dilated. From cephalic aspect, eyes strongly convergent cephalad, the least space between them excessively narrow, not very much wider than an ocellus. The ocelli are placed in the form of an excessively elongate triangle, the anterior one being extraordinarily remote from the caudal ones. Hairs on the eyes excessively short but numerous. Scape yellowish, its ventral margin dark; pedicel and funicle white, the club black. Wings as in gonatopodis. Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. In cocoons of Chlorodryinus. Type: Query. 3. CHEILONEURUS PURPUREIVENTRIS new species. Female :—Length, 1 mm. Orange yellow, the abdomen and caudal third of scutum metallic purple (the latter green); also the antennal club is black. Tuft of hairs at apex of scutellum black. Fore wings deeply embrowned from the apical half of the bend of the submarginal vein distad nearly to tip; the latter and a small spot just distad of marginal vein hyaline. The three lines of distal cilia proximad of the oblique hairless line rather long and coarser, very much longer than the cilia of the blade generally. Mandibles with three small, acute teeth. Scape distinctly dilated ventrad but not very greatly expanded; pedicel not especially long, longer than any of the funicle joits of which all are wider than long, 1-4 subequal, 5 and 6 distinctly longer than them. Thorax very finely longitudinally lineolate-reticulated. Axille barely separated. Metallic green caudal third of scutum hispid with silvery white hairs. Vertex very narrow, nearly flat, the face greatly inflexed, the frons subprominent, overhanging the face, narrow. Legs pale yellow. Vertex with a line of faint punctures along each eye margin, the surface coriaceous. 88 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Pubescence on scutum sparse, the scutellum naked. Tip of valves of ovipositor slightly extruded, white. Marginal vein twice the length of the stigmal the latter subequal to the postmarginal. Infumation of fore wing deeper under the marginal vein. Antenne 12-jointed, one ring-joint, club three fourths the length of the funicle. Pedicel metallic purple above. Ventral border of scape black. ; Male: Not known. Described from two females captured by sweeping miscellaneous vegetation on the Herbert River, February 26, 1913. Habitat: Halifax, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2990, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimens on a tag; a head and a third antenna on a slide with type seminigriclavus. 4. CHEILONEURUS SEMINIGRICLAVUS new species. Female :—Length, 1 mm. Differs from purpureiventris in having the scutum wholly concolorous, the pedicel purple aboye, distal two joints only of club black. Stigmal vein a little longer than the postmarginal. Caudal third of seutum without the silvery hispidescence. The scape is a little more expanded, considerably convexly dilated in both species. Middle tibia darkened just below knee. From one female captured with the preceding. Habitat: Halifax, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2991, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide with type head of preceding. 5. CHEILONEURUS PERPULCHER new species. Female :—Length, 1.10 mm. Postmarginal vein absent. Mandibles with three rather long, acute teeth. Lemon yellow; meson of pronotum rather broadly, scutum and scutellum metallic grass green; propodeum, abdomen, distal half of caudal femur, caudal tibizw except at each end, the infuscation of fore wing, metallic purple. Thorax densely polygonally scaly, the scutum with silvery pubescence. The lemon yellow axille a little separated at meson. Scape slender; pedicel longer than any of funicle joints, a little longer than wide at apex. Funicle joints widening distad, 1 as long as 6 but distinctly narrower. Club enlarged, nearly as long as the funicle. Frons moderate. Hind tibial spurs double, the smaller spur no longer than the apical fringes. Apex of fore wing rather broadly and apical and caudal margin distad of venation narrowly (broadly at first from proximad) clear, the infuscation from the curve of the submarginal vein. Marginal vein black, truncate; hairless line with about 4-5 lines of cilia proximad of it. Caudal wings with about sixteen lines of uniformly fine discal cilia. From one female caught by sweeping forest uplands, May 29, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Maclean (Clarence River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 2992, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and hind tibiz with slide type of Cristatithorax pasteuri Girault. 6. CHEILONEURUS DUBIUS new species. I captured on March 1, 1914 in a jungle pocket, Gordonvale, a female specimen agreeing in every particular with chlorodryini Perkins except that the space between the eyes was about three times the diameter of an ocellus, thus not excessively narrow and the cephalic ocellus could not be called extessively remote from the other since the three were in a triangle not much more than twice higher than broad at base. The ocelli were not in a metallic area. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: None designated. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 89 ACHRYSOPOPHAGUS new genus. 1. ACHRYSOPOPHAGUS OVIDUCTUS new species. (Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.25 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a little over half the length of the abdomen. Orange yellow; face of pronotum centrally, scutum, propodeum, proximal margin of abdomen and its lateral margin along proximal half, metallic green. Tarsi, fore legs and distal half of middle tibiw, white, rest of legs blackish. Scape yellow, next three joints dusky, joints 3-6 of funicle silvery white, the club black. Face between the scrobes lemon yellow. Fore wing hyaline, deeply sooty from the straight proximal border of discal ciliation (about half the length of the marginal vein distant proximad of that vein) distad to over half the distance to apex from the apex of venation, the apical margin of the infuscation highly, regularly convex. Oblique hairless line with about six rather dense lines of discal cilia proximad of it. Marginal vein thrice the length of the short stigmal, the postmarginal vein half the length of the stigmal. Distal margin of infumation of fore wing with a hyaline, naked path bordering it; from thence distad, the wing slightly infuscated. Ovipositor valves black at distal third, soiled white elsewhere. Thorax very finely scaly, the scutum with silvery white pubescence. Axille broadly separated mesad, no carina between them. Tuft of bristles on scutellum between center ‘and apex, distinct but scanty, divided into two small tufts. Mandibles with three equal, acute teeth. Serobes well developed, the face strongly inflexed ventrad. Head narrowed ventrad, distinetly longer than wide, the face convex, the frons rather narrow, a little over thrice the diameter of the cephalic ocellus. Scape long and slender; pedicel somewhat less than twice longer than wide at apex, much longer than any of the funicle joints which are short, 1 subquadrate, 5 shortest, 3-6 somewhat wider than long; club large, 5-jointed, a little longer than the funicle. Hind tibial spur single. From two females caught by sweeping in forest, April 16, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cloneurry, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2993, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on a tag; head, fore wing and a hind leg on a slide. ; In the second female, the tuft on scutellum was quite normal. The antennal club is distinctly compressed or flattened from the sides. Discally, on dorsal abdomen within proximal half, there is much metallic coppery narrowing proximad and joining the metallic green across base. 2. ACHRYSOPOPHAGUS CLAVATUS new species. Female :—Length, 1 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for half the length of the abdomen. Differs from the genotype in being somewhat smaller, in having the valves of the ovipositor wholly white, the scutum distinctly shorter, the pronotum metallic green mesad, the propodeum wholly yellow, the proximal half of the abdomen dorsad dark metallic green, the cox and femora except distal end of hind femur silvery white, the axille joined and with a carina between them, the head wholly yellow, also the face of pronotum. Legs orange yellow. Face in oviductus metallic just above the inflection. All funicle joints and apex of scape silvery white, pedicel and scape orange yellow, the former blackish above at base. Club black. Joints 2-4 of funicle shortest. The fore wings are a little narrower than in the genotype, the short, silvery pubescence, less conspicuous on scutum, more so on scutellum. Hind femur with a black stripe down it laterad from middle to apex and central (also in the genotype). Com- pared with type of oviductus. From one female caught in forest, June 10, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2994, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. 90 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Marginal vein a little longer than in the genotype, eight or more times longer than wide in both species. In this species, the postmarginal vein is at least two thirds the length of the short stigmal, the latter less than a fourth the length of the marginal. In the single specimen, the tuft on scutellum was very sparse, represented by four or five long black hairs. In the genotype, the metallic stripe across base of abdomen is rather broad. CHRYSOPOPHAGOIDES new genus. Female :—Differs from Achrysopophagus in having the third tooth of mandible truncate, moderately broad, the funicle joints all longer than wide, the club long but shorter than the funicle, not enlarged and not with very oblique divisions as in that genus; the cheeks are a little longer than the eyes. The funicle joints are longer, the club slenderer and not as long as the funicle. 1. CHRYSOPOPHAGOIDES WESTWOODI new species. Female :—Length, 2.75 mm., excluding extruded part of ovipositor which is as long as. the abdomen. Postmarginal vein very slightly developed, much shorter than the stigmal which is not quite half the length of the marginal, the latter a little less than half the length of the long submarginal. Dark metallic purple, the fore wings deeply embrowned from the proximal end of marginal vein to apex, but on opposite sides at the edges there are two small hyaline spots, the cephalic at the end of the postmarginal vein, the caudal spot larger. Face ventrad of eyes. (which are convergent), scape, face of pronotum, thoracic pleura, propodeum (except laterad) and axille, orange yellow. Funicle and pedicel suffused with orange. Legs and extruded portion of ovipositor yellowish white, the intermediate femora at tip, the tibize just below knees purplish, the hind tibie purplish on each end. Seutum with very fine, dense silvery hairs which form distinet pilosity, the thorax densely, finely scaly, the scutellum densely punctulate, the propodeum smoother, with some (but not much) silvery pubescence laterad. Fore wings densely ciliate. Scutellum with the usual tuft of black hairs. Scape curved, thick; pedicel long-obconic, longer than any of the funicle joints of which 2 and 4 are a little the longest, 1 and 3 subequal, 4 subequal to 2, 5 to 1, 6 shortest, a little longer than wide, 2 not quite a half longer than wide; club barely wider than the filiform funicle. Face between the antennw with numerous minute pin-punctures; also some of the latter on the cheeks and on the face along ventral border of the convergent eyes. Frons narrow. Axille very slightly separated. Antenne 12-jointed with one ring-joint. Face inflexed. Scrobes semicircular. From one female, mixed forest and jungle, May, 1915. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2995, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag; head on a slide. GENUS ENCYRTUS Latreille. 1. ENCYRTUS GILBERTI new species. Female :—Length, 1.28 mm.. Orange yellow, the abdomen dorsad purplish black. Legs honey yellow; elub black; antenne honey yellow; pedicel washed with purplish, funicles 5 and 6 silvery white. Pedicel longer than any of the funicle joints of which 1 is longest, somewhat longer than wide, 2 and 3 subequal, a little shorter than 1, 4 quadrate, 5 and 6 a little wider,-a little wider than long. Club rather large. Fore wing with a broad brown band across it from somewhat less than distal half of submarginal vein to apex of stigmal; also brown along distal fourth from apex, the proximal margin triangular, converging from either side and then cbtusely prolonged centrally over half way proximad to the first brown stripe; just opposite this apical prolongation an oblique brown streak enters the wing from either margin, obliqued caudo-distad (the cephalic one), cephalo-distad (the caudal one) and approaches either side toward its apex. At the AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 91 bend of the submarginal vein is a straight deeper brown streak beset with stiff bristles and a narrow, curved hyaline line at caudal three fourths divides the first cross-stripe longitudinally. The distal stripe and streaks are blackish. Marginal vein black, about thrice longer than wide, subequal to the stigmal, the postmarginal colorless, shorter. Axille separated by a short carina. Thorax finely scaly and with scattered, minute setigerous punctures. Pubescence not conspicuous. Face inflexed, the frons narrow, about two and a half times as wide as the diameter of an ocellus. Mandibles with three subequal teeth. From one female caught by sweeping in forest, December 19, 1911. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2996, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and an injured fore wing on a slide. 2. ENCYRTUS NEWCOMBI new species. Femaie :—ULength, 1.50 mm. Exactly similar to gilberti but the abdomen concolorous, the first four funicle joints blackish, also the pedicel. Hind tibial spurs double (not seen in the other species). From one female caught February 16, 1913 on a window (H. Hacker). Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2997, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. Dedicated to Simon Newcomb, astronomer. 3. ENCYRTUS SPINOZAI new species. Female :—Length, 1.15 mm. Dull honey yellow, immaculate; funicles 1, 4 and 5 silvery white; club black. Pedicel distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints of which the first is somewhat longer than wide, the following joints subquadrate. Club wider than the funicle. Fore wings marked as in the preceding species but the apical infuscation is distinctly not connected with the M-shaped streaks proximad of it, its proximal margin practically straight; moreover, the middle piece of the M-shaped marking is isolated nearly. The infuscation under the venation is uniform, not accented. Postmarginal vein barely longer than wide. Frons a little narrower than in gilberti. Thorax finely*sheened. Axille barely separated. From one female caught sweeping in jungle, April 2, 1913. Habitat: Mulgrave River (Gordonvale near Cairns), Queensland. + Type: No. Hy 2998, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head and fore wings on a slide. 4. ENCYRTUS ARISTOTELEA new species. Female :—Length, 1.20 mm. Very similar to newcombi but somewhat less robust, the first four antennal joints are pale yellow, the postmarginal vein is somewhat less than half the length of the stigmal (fully two thirds in newcombi). Antenne as in gilberti. Otherwise the same as newcombi. Axille broadly joined, with a carina between them. Similar to gilberti but the abdomen wholly concolorous. Hind tibial spur single. From one female caught by sweeping edges of jungle, January 3, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2999, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, hind tibia and fore wing on a slide with type gilbert. 6. ENCYRTUS TRIGUTTATUS new species. Female :—Length, 1.50 mm. Similar to gilberti but the abdomen bears at apex above a distinct round purple spot and two fainter purple spots one on each lateral margin just out from base. Also, the body is somewhat more robust and the scutum bears more conspicuous blackish pubescence. Differs 92 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. trom newcombi in the coloration of the abdomen; from spinozai in the distinetly darker, deeper yellow coloration of the body, the purplish markings, the more conspicuous pubescence and the wing pattern. From aristotelea differs in being deeper orange yellow and in having the abdominal markings. Hind tibial spur apparently single. Axille with a carina between them. From one female caught by sweeping in a mangrove swamp, Tweed River, May 14, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3000, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type Spinoza. 1} 7. ENCYRTUS WUNDTI new species. Female :—Length, 1.20 mm. Orange yellow, the abdomen metallic purple, the scutellum washed with purple and less distinctly so, the scutum; abdomen suffused with yellowish. Legs concolorous. Antenne concolorous except funicle 6 and the club which are black. Scape moderately dilated, pedicel subequal to funicle 1 which is somewhat longer than wide and longest; funicles 5 and 6— distinctly wider than long; club somewhat less than half the length of the funicle. Lateral ocelli not touching the eyes, the vertex moderately broad, the cheeks somewhat less than half the length of the eyes. Mandibular teeth short, subequal. Head lenticular. Axille distinetly separated for a short distance. Hind tibial spurs double. Vertex with thimble punctures caudad of the cephalic ocellus and with a row of punctures along the eyes. Thorax finely scaly but with numerous setigerous punctures. Scutellum somewhat longer than the scutum. Marginal and stigmal veins subequal, the former a little over twice longer than wide, the stigmal curved, the postmarginal vein no longer than wide. Fore wings deeply embrowned from base not quite to apex, the margins of the latter rather broadly hyaline. Proximad of oblique hairless line, discal cilia numerous but distinctly coarser than the main ciliation. Distal joint of maxillary palpus black. Frons broader than usual and face convex. From one female taken in forest, December 31, 1912 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3001, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the-specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. Dedicated to Wilhelm Wundt. A second female, same place, July 10, 1914. Probably not a member of this genus but of the next one. 8. ENCYRTUS PURPUREIVENTRIS new species. Female :—Length, 1.25mm. Resembles Nesyrpophagus unguttatus in general appearance. Very deep orange yellow, the abdomen wholly imperial purple, also scutellum at distal third lightly. Legs paler and the antenne but the club black; funicle 5 and 6 white, pedicel purple above at base, first four funicle joints dusky. Axille slightly separated yet with a carina between them. Thorax finely scaly, the scutum and scutellum with sparse, minute setigerous punctures, the former very slightly washed with metallic. Fore wing sooty from a little distad of middle of submarginal vein to apex, the infuscation fading somewhat at apex, accented at cephalic half of its proximal margin, under the marginal vein and under the apex of stigmal vein and divided by a hyaline stripe of moderate narrowness whose proximal margin intersects apex of stigmal vein; this naked, hyaline cross-stripe is narrowed abruptly at center by a proximal projection of the proximal margin of the distal half (or somewhat more) of the infuscation which is accented rectangularly at its cephalo-proximal corner, some distance distad of the marginal vein. Marginal vein black; postmarginal vein a little less than half the length of the stigmal. Hairless line of fore wing with about seven lines of cilia proximad of it. Dilation of scape moderate. Pedicel somewhat longer than funicle 1 which is subequal to 3 and AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 93 somewhat longer than wide, 2 subequal to 4 and 5, subquadrate, 6 a little wider than long. Frons narrow; cheeks nearly as long as the eyes. A line of fine sete along the facial margin of each eye. Hind tibial spur single. From three females caught by sweeping orange trees in a neglected garden, August 15, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3003, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on a tag; head, fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. 9. ENCYRTUS PARUS new species. Similar to wundti but the face inflexed, the scutum as purple as the scutellum, the pedicel and first three funicle joints purplish, the pedicel somewhat longer than funicle 1 which is subquadrate; the axille joined, with a short carina between them. Described from one female captured by sweeping in the dry bed of Cape River, forest,. September 20, 1914. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3004, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen in alcohol (head severed) with type of Atoposoma unguttatipes. PARAPHZENODISCUS new genus. 1. PARAPHZNODISCUS VERUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.25 mm. Robust. Differs from Phenodiscus in that the scape is foliaceously dilated. Reddish yellow, the abdomen pale honey yellow, also the head, legs and antenna except the club which is black (but whitish at extreme apex). Fore wings stained brownish from base to end of venation, from thence distad less so. Head lenticular, the frons moderately broad, the cheeks over half the length of the eyes. Mandibles with three equal teeth. Funicle joints 1 and 2 subquadrate, the others shortening each a little, the distal one dusky on one side. Last joint of maxillary palpi black. Hind tibial spur single. Marginal vein somewhat over twice longer than wide, slightly shorter than the stigmal, the postmarginal not quite half the length of the marginal. Hairless line on fore wing with about 10 lines of much coarser cilia proximad of it. Costal cell rather broad, its cephalic margin convex. Scape distinctly but only moderately dilated; pedicel subequal in length to funicle 1; club about half the length of the funicle. Body flattened, very finely scaly, the thorax with many ‘scattered, minute setigerous punctures. Axille separated a little. Abdomen subglabrous. Scutellum with a thin plate around the distal edges (plate-like rim). From one female caught in forest, April 9, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3002, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, hind tibia and part of fore wing on a slide. 2. PARAPHZENODISCUS WUNDTI Girault. See Encyrtus. ABNASOMYIELLA new genus. 1. HZNASOMYIELLA COLERIDGEI new species. Genotype. Female:—Length, 1.25 mm. Frons over six times the diameter of cephalic ocellus, moderate, about twice wider than with Hncyrtus gilberti and aristotelea. Dilation of scape very convex. Marginal vein a little longer than wide. Club conic. Honey yellow, immaculate except that the scape has a conspicuous, longer than wide black area from ventral margin between base and middle; wings proximad lightly stained yellowish; venation pale. Frons moderate. Mandibles with three acute teeth. Scape dusky along ventral 94 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. margin just before tip. Pedicel small, hardly longer than wide, yet somewhat longer than any of the funicle joints which are all distinctly wider than long, 2 and 3 a little the longest, 6 widest, all hispid; ring-joint present. Hind tibial spurs double. Stigmal vein long, curved, over twice the length of the marginal, the postmarginal longer than the marginal. Many lines of discal cilia (over a dozen) proximad of hairless line. Whole body with a frosted appearance, subglaucous, extraordinarily finely scaly reticulate. Cheeks somewhat over half the length of the eyes. Scutellum reaching base of abdomen, the axilla distinctly separated by a short triangular projection at apex of scutum but they are not very wide apart. Thorax with scattered, short white pubescence. Vertex sloping; face inflexed. Wings hyaline. From one female caught by sweeping forest. Habitat: Gordonyvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3005, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; fore wings, hind tibia and head on a slide. COPIDOSOMOPSIS new genus. Female:—Form small, the thorax very convex, globular, the abdomen rather distinctly narrower than it and somewhat longer, narrow-triangular. Agrees otherwise with the description of Copidosomyia but the frons is broad, the cheeks longer than the eyes, the scrobes long. Also the marginal vein is punctiform, the postmarginal absent, the stigmal twice longer than the marginal. Mandibles rather long, with three acute, small teeth, of which the middle is the iongest. Axille distinctly separated for a short distance. Marginal vein thickened, almost eireular. 1. COPIDOSOMOPSIS PERMINUTUS new species. Female :—Length, 0.70 mm. Dark metallic purple, the wings hyaline; scape, middle legs (except coxe), tarsi and tips of hind tibiw# broadly (cephalic tibie not seen), yellow. Funicle 1 distinctly longer than wide, subequal to the pedicel, the following joints quadrate, the distal three a little wider than long. Head and thorax finely scaly. Club no thicker than the funicle and shorter. Very few sete proximad of hairless line of fore wing, the line not very definitely bounded by a single line of cilia. From one female, all remaining out of 2,120 reared from a ‘‘ pyrale larva,’’ April 23, 1914 (F. P. Dodd). Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3006, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; fore wing, head and fragments of antenne on a slide. BLATTICIDA new genus. 1. BLATTICIDA ASHMEADI new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.25 mm. Very dark metallic blue, the wings hyaline, the scutellum contrasting metallic green, the Jegs and antenne rich yellowish brown but the much enlarged club black. Head and thorax delicately scaly with obscure setigerous punctures (in rows on the vertex), the scutum pilose; seutellum densely punctate. Mandibles with three small teeth, the inner tooth shorter. Funicle joints annular. Axille slightly separated. Scape distinctly dilated for its entire length, not long, the pedicel a little longer than wide yet much longer than any of the funicle joints which do not differ much in length (4 and 5 shortest) but 6 is twice wider than 1. Club as long as the funicle and pedicel united, obliquely truncate, over twice the width of funicle 6, the flagellum strongly capitate. Face strongly inflexed, the vertex and frons moderately narrow but over thrice the diameter of the cephalic ocellus, the lateral ocelli oblique and against the eyes. Metapleura bare, the body pubescence not conspicuous. Marginal vein somewhat over twice longer than wide, the stigmal shorter than it by a fourth or more, the postmarginal vein AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 35 not longer than wide; oblique hairless line present, the marginal fringes very short, the discal ciliation fine and dense. Propodeum transverse at meson, widening laterad. Antenne 12-jointed, a very short ring-joint being present. Cheeks not much more than half the length of the eyes. Hind tibial spur single. Abdomen a little shorter than the thorax, depressed, triangular, the ovipositor just tipping it. Male:—The same but the frons is broad, the lateral ocelli a little separated from the eyes while the antenne are filiform, wholly colored like the legs and the club is solid. Scape not as distinctly swollen; funicle joints subglobular and much longer than the pedicel excepting funicle 1 which is much longer than wide. Funicle joints bristly, the bristles not very long. From one male, five females reared from eggcases of a native cockroach from the jungle and in company with Hutrichosomella blattophaga Girault, February, 1914 (A. P. Dodd), Habitat: Babinda, Queensland. Types: No. Hy 3007, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one male, five females on a tag, one female, one male and female head on a slide with type of Hutrichosomella blattophaga. Of the above eggcases, two were parasitized, the parasites issuing from both ends by way of two perfectly circular holes, one at each end and on opposite sides of the dorsal ridge of the eggcase. The eggcases are rather small, of a greyish color, the bottom and bottom sides and a longitudinal stripe somewhat below the dorsal edge abbreviated at each end and interrupted once beyond or before the middle, dark reddish brown. Subsequently a female was found in a bottle labelled ‘‘Gordonvale, sweeping grass, forest, April 10, 1912.’’ In this specimen the cephalic knees were dusky. NEOCOPIDOSOMYTA new genus. Female :—Differs from Copidosomyia Girault in that the head (cephalic aspect) is rounded and a little wider than long, not ovate and plainly longer than wide. Also, the frons is twice broader and the scrobes normal, forming a deep triangle, the face inflexed. The antenna has a short ring-joint. Axille slightly separated. Abdomen as long as the thorax, the ovipositor not exserted. Second segment of abdomen occupying only a fourth of the surface. Outer two teeth of mandibles distinctly longer than the inner. Otherwise as described for Copidosomyia. 1. NEOCOPIDOSOMYIA VIRIDISCUTELLUM new species. Genotype. Female:—Length, 1.90 mm. Robust. Purplish black, the seutellum dark metallic green, the fore wing lightly embrowned from the bend of the submarginal vein to apex or nearly so; distal half of tibize and the tarsi yellowish brown. Antenne concolorous, scape a little compressed, excised ventrad at tip; pedicel one and a fourth times longer than wide at apex, subequal to funicle 1 which is distinctly longer than wide, the longest, 2 a little longer than wide, 5 and 6 distinctly wider than long. Club obliquely truncate, not more than half the length of the funicle. Cephalic ocellus about twice its diameter from either eye. Head densely finely scaiy, the vertex with obseure, small punctures. Scutum sculptured like the vertex but the scutellum densely punctulate. Abdomen scaly like the scutum but without the punctures. Pubescence incon- spicuous. A darker spot against the marginal and proximal two thirds of stigmal veins. Marginal vein somewhat less than twice longer than wide. Oblique hairless line narrow. Mesopleura finely, longitudinally scaly and lined. Hind tibial spur single. From four females on a card labelled ‘‘ Apr. 24, 1903. F. P. Dodd.’’ Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. Types: No. Hy 3008, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, four females on a card; head, portion of fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. Later, another card with seven females, one male was found bearing the same data and a flower-like case of what appeared to be a fulgorid, the host. The male was broken but as far as could be seen resembled the female except that the frons was broader and the funicle more hairy. 96 MEMOIES OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. NEBLATTICIDA new genus. Female:—Head (cephalic aspect) rounded, the face inflexed, the eyes convergent cephalad, the frons narrowing cephalad, rather narrow, caudad where broadest, four times the diameter of the cephalic ocellus; cheeks as long as the eyes. Antenne 12-jointed, capitate, the scape greatly dilated, the funicle a little longer than the large, obliquely truncate club, the six joints widening distad, all much wider than long but not annular. Mandibles with three equal, short, acute teeth. Marginal vein about four times longer than wide, a little over twice the length of the short stigmal, the postmarginal present but wider than long; hairless line on fore wing distinct. Hind tibial spur single. Legs simple. Abdomen pointed conic-ovate,. as long as the thorax, depressed above. Scutellum broad, as long as the seutum, the pronotum transverse. Axille separated a short distance. Scutellum large, broadly rounded. 1. NEBLATTICIDA FASCIATIPES new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.12 mm. Dark coppery, the thorax with contrasting silvery white pubescence which is abundant but not dense, the sete not crowded. Legs black, the tarsi, cephalic knees, tips of all tibie, a narrow band around caudal legs proximad and distad of knees, the first oblique, most of middle femora except a narrow, oblique stripe across some distance before the knee and a rather large diffused spot dorsad somewhat proximad of middle, middle knees, a white oblique stripe across middle tibie just ventrad of knees (separated from them by an oblique black band), a spot dorsad a little proximad of middle of intermediate tibizw and distal fourth of the latter and funicle joint 6, silvery white. Funicle 5 suffused with whitish along one lateral half and funicle 4 along lateral third or less. Frons where narrowest not quite twice the diameter of the cephalic ocellus. Fore wings smoky from somewhat distad of middle of submarginal vein to within a rather short distance of apex, the distal margin of the infuscation broken centrally into two lobes which are farthest distad; a narrow longitudinal clear stripe not far from caudal margin runs through the body of the infumation but does not completely divide it, diffusing disto-caudad, proximad terminating in the oblique hairless line caudad; oblique hairless line with about 9 lines of cilia immediately proximad of it and a dense cluster of cilia are farther proximad of these lines; a short, transverse hyaline line runs in front of the venation. Pedicel small, a little longer than wide, loriger than any of the funicle joints of which 6 is largest, 1 and 2 smallest; funicle 1 twice longer than wide, 6 a little more than that and longer. Club joints wider than long. Scape with a scaly sculpture, longer than the funicle. Thorax very densely, minutely shagreened. From one female caught in forest, April 16, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3009, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, middle and hind legs and a fore wing on a slide. CHEILONEUROIDES new genus. Female :—With the habitus of Cheiloneurus. Vertex flat; frons very prominent, narrow, the face inclined ventro-caudad. Cheeks somewhat longer than the eyes. Runs to Cheiloneurus Westwood but the scutum also has a tuft of hairs like that of the scutellum, this tuft a little cephalad of center; the scape is broadly dilated ventrad for its entire length and the post- marginal and stigmal veins are longer, the stigmal as long as the marginal, a little longer than the postmarginal. Hind tibial spur single. Mandibles with three subequal, obtuse, short teeth. Antenne capitate, much as in the flagellum of the Mymarid genus Polynema. 1. CHEILONEUROIDES BICRISTATUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.30 mm. Orange yellow, the abdomen brown; antennez pale yellow except ventral edge of scape along proximal two thirds and distal two club joints all of which are blackish. Legs brownish, AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 97 silvery white toward tips of tibie and proximad on femora and the knees and tarsi; inter- mediate legs with a narrow black band above and below knees. Mesopleurum caudad washed with purple. Caudal fourth of scutum metallic bluish and there clothed with dense silvery white pubescence. Scutum and scutellum very finely, densely, longitudinally lineolated but metallic part of seutum transversely so. Axille barely separated. Distal two thirds or more of first joint of hind tarsus black. Fore wings embrowned from the first bend of the sub- marginal vein to apex, deeper under the marginal vein and quite as in species of Cheiloneurus except that the white spot just distad of venation includes the whole area subtended by the postmarginal and stigmal veins. Oblique hairless line broad, not well delimited by sete. Marginal vein about two and a third times longer than wide. Pedicel much longer than any of the funicle joints, nearly twice longer than wide at apex; funicle slender proximad, widening a little distad, the joints all subquadrate but 5 and 6 wider than the others. Distal part of submarginal vein as usual curving but the curve is rather long and concave. From two females caught on the foliage of Acalypha growing in gardens in the town, October 23, 1911. Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3010, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag; head, wing and hind tibiz on a slide. PARAPHYCUS new genus. 1. PARAPHYCUS ABNORMISCAPUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.25 mm., excluding ovipositor which is distinctly but shortly extruded. Deep orange yellow, the head except vertex, the pronotum except lateral margin, propleura, mesopleura, legs, metapleura and abdomen very pale yellow, contrasting; face of pronotum, cephalic margin of scutum and dorsum of abdomen except along each margin where there are pale yellowish marginal spots, black. A large obscure rounded area in center of scutum on each side of the meson and a distinct, large arrow-shaped spot in center of the seutellum (covering most of it, the apex blunt and at base of scutellum, the spot leaving the distal margin yellow) purple. A spot below knee and one across tip of middle tibia and a spot centrally on lateral caudal femur, one just below knee and one a little distad of middle on caudal tibia, dusky black. Wings hyaline. Upper half of occiput black. Antenne colored like the legs. Extruded valves of ovipositor dusky, whitish at extreme base and apex. Marginal vein punctiform, the postmarginal distinct, somewhat longer than the marginal, the stigmal long, curved, about thrice the length of the postmarginal. Mandibles with three equal, small, acute teeth. Axille separated by a short carina. rons broad, face inflexed, the cheeks. somewhat shorter than the eyes. Pedicel and scape dusky the latter stout, obconic, the pedicel globular, the funicle joints subequal, each a little longer than wide, a little over half the length of the scape (excluding the bulla). Club slender, nearly half the length of the funicle, longer than the scape (even if the bulla is included). Marginal fringes of fore wing very short, the hairless line guarded by two lines of cilia proximad and three or four inconspicuous. lines of cilia under, and parallel with, the submarginal vein. Main discal ciliation of the fore wing fine, dense. Thorax densely, very finely scaly. Propodeum with several transverse black spots on each side. Distal margin of scutellum pale yellow. Antenne with a very thin ring-joint, the flagellum longitudinally striate. Hind tibial spurs double, very unequal. Seape shaped like an ordinary pedicel. From one female caught in forest, April 15, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cloneurry, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3011, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 98 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. NEOCLADELLA new genus. Female :—Form elongate, the abdomen conic-ovate, a little produced at apex, longer than the rest of the body, the ovipositor valves stout, prominent, extruded a little. Frons rather broad; mandibles with three short obtuse teeth but the third is wider, obliquely truncate but not very broad. Fourth joint of maxillary palpi nearly as long as the others combined, stouter also. Marginal vein barely longer than wide, thick, as long as the stigmal and more so than the postmarginal which is barely developed. Hind legs flattened (except the tarsi), broad, the tibial spurs short, double. Antenne inserted below the middle of the inflexed face, the scape very short, broadly dilated for its entire length, somewhat longer than wide; pedicel flat, a little longer than wide; funicle with the joints wider than long, the first much the shortest, combined somewhat longer than the club which is ovate, wider than the funicle, 3-jointed, the ring-joint absent. Axillz distinctly a little separated. 1. NEOCLADELLA COMPRESSIPES new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.85 mm. Dark metallic blue, the scutellum and abdomen purple, the wings hyaline; tarsi white. Thorax densely, finely, polygonally scaly, the axille finely, transversely so. Pedicel longer than any of the funicle joints of which 2 to 6 are subequal, distinctly wider than long, 1 much wider than long, only about a third the length of the others. Club much longer than the scape, the latter distinctly longer than the pedicel. Hairless line of fore wing with two lines of coarser discal cilia along its proximal border and with two shorter lines of cilia somewhat farther proximad of these, the four lines more or less joined caudad. Discal cilia of fore wing fine, dense, distinct, the marginal fringes very short. From one female caught in forest, April 14, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cloneurry, Queensland. Tupe: No. Hy 3012, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and a caudal leg on a slide. ACHALCERINYS new genus. 1, ACHALCERINYS TRICLAVATA uew species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.65 mm. Agrees with the description of the genotype of Chalcerinys except that the distal two thirds of abdomen is brownish yellow in all that part distad of the spiracles, the legs and antenne pale yellow. The abdomen is somewhat longer than the rest of the body, conic-ovate. The marginal vein is linear and a little over twice longer than wide, the stigmal slightly shorter than it, the postmarginal absent. The fore wings are more regular in shape, slenderer, with parallel margins, shaped as in Aphelinus, their discal ciliation fine and dense, the hairless line complete. The antenne differ in that funicle 6 is plainly the longest joint of the funicle, being a little longer than wide, twice the length of the preceding joint; funicle 1 small, subglobular, 2 and 3 subequal, smallest, wider than long; 4 a little longer than 3, 5 distinetly longer than 4, a little wider than long. Funicle gradually widening, the club still wider, three fourths the length of the funicle or more. Pedicel a little longer than funicle 6. Antenne inserted some- what below the middle of the face. Axille distinctly separated but not much so. Frons moderate. Cheeks distinctly longer than the eyes. Mandibular teeth equal, acute. The marginal vein is plainly longer than wide. From one female caught April 18, 1912 in the forest. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3013, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 99 COPIDOSOMYTA new genus. Female:—Head (cephalic aspect) long-ovate, distinctly longer than wide, narrower ventrad, the cheeks two-thirds the length of the eyes, the frons narrow, the antenne inserted at the mouth border, the scrobes forming a rather shallow very short triangle, the face convex, with seattered thimble punctures. Antennz 9-jointed, the scape long and slender, the pedicel moderately long (one and three fourth times longer than wide at apex), much longer than any of the funicle joints of which 1 is longest, somewhat longer than wide and subequal to 2; 3 and 4 slightly longer than wide, 5 and 6 a little wider than long; club solid, long conic-ovate, a little over half the length of the funicle; no ring-joint. Axille rather broadly joined at meson. Hind tibial spur single; legs slender. Abdomen shorter than the thorax, flat above, compressed beneath, the ovipositor very shortly extruded. Marginal vein twice as long as wide, the postmarginal vein a third longer than it, the stigmal long, still longer than the postmarginal; oblique hairless line short, distinct, the fore wing with a rather broad, distinct sooty stripe across it from the proximal end of the bend of the submarginal vein to a little beyond the apex of the stigmal, the discal ciliation proximad coterminous with the proximal margin of this stripe. Marginal cilia of fore wing very short. Second segment of abdomen occupying half of surface, obtuse, short. Mandibles with three acute, subequal teeth. Head shaped like that of an ant. Genal suture subobsolete. 1. COPIDOSOMYIA CINCTIVENTRIS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.60 mm. Black-blue, the antennz and legs concolorous; club, a band around base of abdomen, one around hind tibie just below knees and distal third of cephalic femur, yellowish white. Pronotum and scutum finely scaly; head, scutellum and axille more coarsely so. Metapleurum with some silvery pubescence. Pronotum and scutum with some sparse whitish pubescence. Propodeum nonecarinate, together with the abdomen practically smooth. Base of extruded portion of valves of ovipositor suffused with whitish. From one female caught in jungle, December 3, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3014, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; antenna, fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. This genus seems related to Copidosoma and allies but the mandibles appear to disagree with those of that genus and the club is solid. ZARHOPALOIDES new genus. 1, ZARHOPALOIDES AXILLARIS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.80 mm. Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline; legs, head (except upper occiput), axille, the transverse pronotum, extreme apex of scutellum and a rather broad band across caudal scutum (a little over caudal third of scutum) lemon yellow; abdomen black-purple. Vertex orange yellow. Antenne dusky yellow, the scape and pedicel lemon yellow, the pedicel metallic above. Scape of moderate length, shorter than the funicle whose joints are wider than long, enlarging distad, 1 and 2 nearly like ring-joints, smallest; pedicel a little longer than funicle 6; club subequal to the scape, wider than the funicle; funicle 6 somewhat wider than 1, thrice longer. Mandibles with three short, acute, unequal teeth, the second longest, the first shortest. Cheeks nearly as long as the eyes, the face inflexed, the frons not prominent, broad. Ocelli nearly in a straight line, the lateral ones nearly their own diameter from the eye margins. Marginal vein a little wider than long, postmarginal distinct, somewhat over half the length of the stigmal which is twice the length of the marginal. Cilia proximad of hairless line sparse, two lines guarding the path distinct. Discal cilia of fore wing very fine, dense, the fore wing pyriform. Hind tibize with two spurs, the first very short. Axille separated for some little 100 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. distance. Thorax densely scaly, the scutum with short, scattered pubescence. Abdomen finely sculptured, rounded triangular, depressed, about as long as the thorax. Scutellum large. triangular. From one female taken, May 19, 1914 by sweeping forest. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3015, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; ‘head, fore wing and hind leg on a slide. 2. ZARHOPALOIDES LONGIFASCIATIPENNIS new species. Female :—Length, 1.35 mm. Abdomen longer than the thorax. Dark metallic green, the scutellum dark blue, the abdomen coppery. Fore wings hyaline: but with a distinct, moderately broad, midlongitudinal dusky stripe down them from apex nearly to a point opposite apex of venation. Trochanters, knees, tibiz and tarsi yellowish white, also the antenne; intermediate tibia dusky just below knee. Pedicel longer than any of the funicle joints of which 1-3 are subequal, each a little wider than long, smallest; funicle 1 a little smaller than 2 or 3, 6 largest, a little wider than long, twice the size of 4 which is somewhat larger than 3; club wider than the funicle and somewhat over half its length; scape slender. Serobes moderate, the antennz inserted on a level with the ventral ends of the eyes, the cheeks less than half the length of the eyes. Frons moderate, the lateral ocellus a little separated from the eye. Mandibular teeth not long, the inner somewhat shorter than the other two. Marginal vein slightly longer than wide, the stigmal vein somewhat longer than it, the postmarginal subequal to the marginal, the venation pale yellow. Oblique hairless line present and with about three lines of coarse discal cilia proximad of it; other discal ciliation very dense and fine; marginal fringes short. Fore wings moderately slender. Head and thorax densely scaly, the thorax rather sparsely pilose and with obscure scattered punctures, also present sparsely on the head. Axillew slightly separated. Hind tibial spurs small, double, unequal. Described from one female captured -by sweeping forest streamlet edged with jungle,. December 2, 1912 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3016, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the head on a slide. 3. ZARHOPALOIDES GRACILIS new species. Female :—Length, 1.10 mm. Slender, the ovipositor a little extruded, the abdomen conic, longer than the rest of the body. Differs from the preceding mainly in coloration of the legs. and the longer first funicle joint. Dark metallic blue, the scutellum dark green, the legs and antenne straw white. Fore wings hyaline, with a midlongitudinal dusky, rather broad stripe from apex (where it is a little broader) to opposite the apex of the dusky venation. Pedicel distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints of which 1-3 are subequal, each a little longer than wide and narrower than any of the three distal joints which widen slightly in succession and each of which is a little longer than wide, a little longer than either of the three proximal joints. Cheeks somewhat less than half the length of the eyes. Club somewhat wider than and somewhat more than half the length of the funicle. Third tooth of mandible shorter than the outer two which are subequal. Frons moderately broad. Face inflexed. Discal cilia under venation abruptly faint but the oblique hairless line is outlined but with no cilia proximad of it. Venation as in preceding. Hind tibial spurs double. First tarsal joint of hind legs much longer than the others taken separately. Thorax scaly, the scutum with sparse, short pubescence, apparentl~ absent on the scutellum. ‘xille distinctly separated for a rather short distance. From one female taken by sweeping along a forest streamlet, June 29, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3017, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 101 RHOPALENCYRTOIDEA new genus. Female :—Runs (in my table) to Hneyrtus but differs in having the ovipositor distinctly extruded for some length, the postmarginal vein somewhat longer than the stigmal, the latter somewhat longer than the marginal. Also, the frons is a little broader. Pronotum transverse- linear. Dilation of scape not great but distinct and foliaceous. Mandibular teeth short, acute, equal. Differs from Anasiella in having the eyes no longer than the malar space, the longer marginal vein and so forth. 1, RHOPALENCYRTOIDEA PURPUREICORPUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.83 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal to four fifths that of the abdomen. Dark metallic purple, the wings hyaline, the venation black; middie knees and tibix yellowish white (except the dusky distal joint of tarsi). Head and thorax densely scaly, the axilla with a carina between them, narrow. Scutellum extending to base of abdomen, the latter triangular, not quite as long as the thorax, finely scaly. Pedicel a little longer than any of the funicle joints which are all short, quadrate but gradually enlarging distad. Club somewhat over half the length of the funicle and distinctly wider. Cheeks long, as long as the eyes or a little longer, the face inflexed. Hind tibal spur single, the middle spur large and stout, a little longer than joint 1 of middle tarsus which is the longest of all tarsal joints. Frons nearly of moderate width. Cephalic femur compressed. Hairless line of fore wing with about six lines of coarser cilia proximad of it. Marginal vein not quite twice longer than wide (one and a half times longer than wide). Club conic-ovate. Fore wings with fine dense discal eilia. From one female specimen caught June 28, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Childers, South Queensland. Type: No. Hy 8018, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, a fore wing and a middle and hind tibia on a slide. 2. RHOPALENCYRTOIDEA CLARIPENNIS new species. Female :—Length, 2.30 mm., excluding ovipositor. Black-purple, the scutum green, the wings hyaline, the extruded valves of ovipositor concolorous; venation and antennew black, also the legs except trochanters, knees, tips of tibize (sometimes distal half of middle tibie#) and the tarsi which are reddish brown. Head and thorax very finely minutely densely scaly and with numerous obscure pin-punctures over the surfaces. Axille separated a short distance, transversely scaly. Pubescence not conspicuous. Mandibles with the two outer teeth subequal and longer than the inner. Scape distinctly dilated ventrad toward apex but not greatly so; pedicel short, a little longer than wide and barely longer than funicle 1 which is barely longer than wide; funicle joints alike but the distal three shortening a little, 6 a little wider than long. Club a little wider, hardly as long as the three preceding joints united. Wings long, extending nearly to tip of ovipositor valves; marginal vein a little over twice longer than wide, the postmarginal a little longer than it, the stigmal a little longer than the postmarginal. Oblique hairless line narrow, incomplete; discal cilia dense and fine; a little staining between stigmal and postmarginal veins; marginal fringes exceedingly short. Hind tibiz a little dilated at apex, the spur as long as the basal joint of the tarsus which bears yellowish comblike teeth as in many eupelmines. Hind femur compressed. Abdomen conic- ovate, acute, flat above, keeled beneath, a little longer than the thorax (excluding ovipositor) the valves of ovipositor distinctly exserted for a length equal to somewhat over a third of the abdomen’s length. Abdomen glossy, sculptured like the thorax but even finer and the punctures are absent. Vertex tolerably wide between the eyes, the ocelli in an equilateral triangle, the jateral ones just separated from the eyes. Head sculptured like the scutum, the face inflexed 102 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. but the frons barely visible from lateral aspect. Antenne inserted rather near the clypeus, the scrobes converging above, tolerably long. Mesopleurum finely polygonally lined or reticulated. Epistoma carinated between the antennz. Cheeks about as long as the eyes. Male:—-The same as the female but the antenne 11-jointed, one short ring-joint, the club 2-jointed. Funicle 1 much longer than wide, the following shorter. Funicle joints with numerous rather long hairs. From many female specimens and several males labelled ‘‘From Gall No. 20, H. Hacker.’’ Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Types: No. Hy 3019, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, four females and two heads on a slide, 5 females on a tag and one male head on the slide. 3. RHOPALENCYRTOIDEA DUBIA new species. Female :—Length, 1.32 mm., excluding ovipositor, the latter extruded for a length nearly equal to that of the abdomen. Differs from the genotype in being more robust, the axille are distinctly separated for some little distance, the head slightly longer than wide, eyes somewhat longer than the cheeks. and the marginal vein is twice longer than wide yet somewhat shorter than the stigmal, the latter slightly shorter than the postmarginal. Very dark metallic purplish, nearly black, the base of abdomen blue, wings hyaline. Apex of scutellum greenish. Venation dark. First two pairs of tarsi and distal half or nearly of middle tibiw reddish yellow. Seutum projected between the axilla. Scutum and scutellum densely polygonally scaly and with very many scattered setigerous pin-punctures, the pubescence soft not conspicuous. Frons moderate. Funicle 1 subquadrate, 3 and 4 longest, a little longer than wide, the other joints slightly shorter. Pedicel subequal to funicle 3 or a little longer. Club a little over half the length of the funicle and plainly wider. Hairless line of fore wing with about six scattered lines of cilia proximad of it. Hind tibial spur single. Body slightly flattened. Scutellum at base at meson with a short carina (yet the axille plainly separated!)* Abdomen scaly. Scutellum extending to base of abdomen. Fore wings broad. Differs from Cerchysius australiensis in general coloration, the axille are separated and so on. From claripennis differs in not having the middle knees broadly reddish yellow (i.e., knee, proximal end of tibia, distal end of femur) nor the middle femur broadly so colored at base, in having the carina at meson of base of scutellum, the axille a little more separated, the body distinctly shorter not slender, the axille polygonally scaly, not very finely transversely lined and so on. Described from one female caught in a mangrove swamp along the Tweed River, May 14, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3020, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and a®*hind tibia with slide type of Cerchysius robustus Girault. GENUS CERAPTROCERUS Westwood. 1. CERAPTROCERUS EMERSONI new species. Female:—Length 1.75 mm. Form slender, the abdomen pointed conic-ovate, longer than the thorax. Metallic blue-green, the abdomen darker; first two pairs of legs pale yellowish; caudal cox concolorous at proximal half, caudal legs reddish brown. Face ventrad of antenne ivory yellow. Tips of hind tibie and the tarsi whitish. Fore wings sooty and with the following normal pattern: A narrow longitudinal clear streak from base to some distance distad of apex of venation and caudad of middle; this stripe is broken just opposite origin of marginal *In all other cases where the carina is present, the axille are joined to it, i.e. meeting dowardly. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 103 vein and is more distinct distad; the region surrounding apex of submarginal vein; a space just distad of venation and irregularly joined to this farther distad a large, obliqued hyaline spot on margin; similar spot on cephalic margin before apex; a small, inconspicuous clear space at middle of apex; and two marginal spots caudad, opposite to the cephalic two but smaller; the proximal of these two is round. Body finely transversely scaly-reticulate; a short line of delicate punctures in the middle of the flat vertex caudad; thorax with numerous scattered setigerous pin-punctures. Axille a little separated. Head triangular from lateral aspect, the vertex long, the frons prominent; a line of minute punctures along lateral and cephalic margin of vertex. Frons moderate (about 8 times the diameter of the small cephalic ocellus). Mandibles with three short, equal teeth. Fore wing narrow, the marginal fringes somewhat longer than usual, the marginal vein about six times longer than wide, somewhat over twice the length of the stigmal and rather thick, the postmarginal absent. Hairless line not well defined. Scape greatly flattened; pedicel very small, flat; funicle joints all much wider than long, the first three shortest, one end curved and pointed; club 3-jointed, no wider than the funicle and a little shorter. Hind tibie with one distinct tibial spur. Legs slender. Pronotum transverse-quadrate, a third the length of the scutum. From one female taken in forest, April 24, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3021, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, hind tibia and a fore wing on a slide. ; This species most probably belongs here but the descriptions of the genus are lacking in numerous particulars. Dedicated to Ralph Waldo Emerson. GENUS CHRYSOPOPHAGUS Ashmead. 1. CHRYSOPOPHAGUS MAZZININI new species. Female :—Length, 1.65 mm. Dark metallic purple, the scutellum at cephalic two thirds lemon yellow, rest brown yellow; mesopleurum, venter and sides of abdomen, cephalic and middle femora, head, scape, venter of thorax, cephalo-lateral augle of pronotum and face of the latter yellowish brown. Frons washed with purplish; dorsum of abdomen except across base, suffused with brownish. Fore wing at extreme base and from origin of marginal vein not quite to extreme apex, deeply embrowned. About four lines of black cilia proximad of hairless line, these twice coarser than the main ciliation. Marginal vein elongate, four or more times the length of the short stigmal, the postmarginal a little over half the length of the stigmal; a small, clearer spot at apex of venation, a longer one nearly opposite at caudal margin. Fore wings narrow. Hind tibiz with one spur. Mandibles slender, with three equal acute teeth of which the middle is a little the longest. Scape long, curved, very slender; pedicel subequal to funicle 4 which is somewhat longer than wide; funicle 1 longest, somewhat over twice longer than wide, cylindrical; flagellum after funicle 2 compressed, funicle 6 a little wider than long; ciub distinctly less than half the length of the funicle. Frons moderately broad; lateral ocellus over its own diameter from the eye margins. Cheeks half the length of the eyes. Scutellum with a tuft of black bristles. Ring-joint present. Head sublenticular. Frons punctulate. A short carina between the confluent axille, the latter yellowish brown laterad. Thorax densely, finely scaly. Seutum with short, contrasting silvery white hairs. Pronotum large, not much shorter than the scutum. Legs slender. From one female on a tag; head, fore wing and hind tibia on a slide. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, August 4, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3022, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. Dedicated to Joseph Mazzini. 104 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 2. CHRYSOPOPHAGUS PURPUREICINCTUS new species. Female:—Length, 2 mm. Ovipositor slightly extruded, silvery white. Orange yellow, the scutum with a tolerably broad (over distal half) purple band across its caudal margin. Abdomen purplish across base and at apex dorsad and laterad and half way down lateral margins from base. Coxe, knees, tarsi and tips of hind tibize silvery white. Caudal tibia, funicle and club purple. One side of apex of joints 1-5 of funicle pale yellowish. Pedicel longer than any of the funicle joints of which 1, 3 and 4 are longest, 4 wider than 1 and 3, compressed; 5 and 6 still wider, barely longer than wide; 1 a half longer than wide. Caudal tibial spurs double. Fore wings about as in mazzinini but more darkly infuscated, the pair of hyaline areas at apex of venation larger, the base of the wings more broadly infuscated, the distinct concave curve of the submarginal vein distad is more pronounced and the infusca- tion is accented over the discal cilia proximad of the hairless line. Also, the stigmal vein is twice longer, the postmarginal only slightly shorter than it. Besides coloration, differs from mazzinini in having the antenne less compressed, the ocelli in a flat triangle (isosceles in the other species, or nearly), the mandibles stouter. Axille with a carina between them. Purple band of scutum with silvery pubescence. Disk of scutellum lemon yellow. Thorax sealy. Scutum wider than long, shorter than scutellum. From one female caught in forest, July 27, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3023, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and hind tibiz with slide type of Owneyrtus bicolor Girault. GENUS COCCIDENCYRTUS Ashmead. 1. COCCIDENCYRTUS BICOLORICORNIS new species. Female :—Length, 0.75 mm. Purplish black, the wings hyaline; distal half of middle tibix, tips of other tibia, knees and tarsi yellowish white; tip of scape and first four funicle joints white. Anteunwe inserted at the mouth border, the scrobes long, the head rounded, the cheeks longer than the eyes, the frons moderate; antenne capitate, the club large and appearing somewhat topheavy, thick, oval, three fourths as long as the funicle, the joints of the latter gradually enlarging distad, all wider than long, 1 shortest, the pedicel twice its length yet only a little longer than wide. Club truncate at apex. Mandibles rather long, with three rather small, subequal, acute teeth at apex, the middle tooth longest. Scape long, subcompressed. Marginal vein pnnetiform, the postmarginal as long as the marginal, the stigmal of moderate iength, about two and a half times longer than the marginal, thus not long. Scutellum densely, longitudinally striate but at tip abruptly scaly and metallic green. Seutum and head obscurely punctate. Abdomen short, depressed, triangular, the ovipositor not exserted, the surface shining, feebly sculptured. Axilles feebly sculptured, slightly separated. Male:—The same but the funicle and club honey yellow, the antennew 10-jointed, the club solid, longer than the funicle joints which are subquadrate, rather stout, bevelled off a little »p one proximal corner and clothed with short, stiff hairs which are not whorled and not very tong. Lateral ocellus about its own width from the eye margins. From one female, six males labelled ‘‘No. 29. 25-10-13 on Eugenia fruit and flowers. Geet) sell??? Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. Types: No. Hy 3024, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, four males on a card, one female head and three males on a slide. Also, one female, forest, Burnett Heads, Queensland, June, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 105 PARASYRPOPHAGUS new genus. Female:—In my table of genera runs to Helegonatopus Perkins but differs in having the marginal, postmarginal and stigmal veins subequal, the marginal vein about two and a half times longer than wide. Also, the scape is stout .and not long, the club only slightly wider than the funicle and only about half its length, the funicle joints widening a little distad, all a little wider than long and somewhat shorter than the pedicel. Valves of ovipositor extruded a very short distance. Frons subprominent, the vertex a little flattened. Face much inflexed. Head rounded. Axille with a weak carina between them. Frons moderate in width. Pronotum transverse-linear. Hairless line of fore wing well defined, the blade ciliate to base from it. 1, PARASYRPOPHAGUS FUNERALIS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.95. Dark metallic purple, the legs reddish yellowish except caudal cox and caudal femora, the latter dusky, rather stout. Body delicately, polygonally scaly, the scutum with scattered pubescence. Scape pale yellow, rest of antenna black. Club ovate. Funicle joints with rather conspicuous, rather dense, tolerably long pubescence, less dense on the pedicel, the scape with numerous scattered, rather long hairs and apparently dilated from lateral aspect but no true foliation. Caudal wings with about a dozen lines of uniform discal ciliation where widest. Venation fuscous; a rounded, dusky spot against marginal vein and under the venation, the blade is irregularly very lightly smoky. Hind tibial spur single, small. Mandibular teeth acute, the outer a little the shortest. Costal cell of caudal wings not extending to the hooklets by far. Axille not especially narrow, rather broad; meson of scutellum and the apex rather broadly glabrous. Cheeks two thirds the lengths of the eyes. Abdomen conic-triangular, depressed, about as long as the thorax. From one female captured in jungle, Tweed River, May 4, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Tweed Heads, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3625, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, pair of wings and hind tibie with the slide type of Hexencyrtus fumosipennis Girault. 2. PARASYRPOPHAGUS SEMIARGENTIPES new species. Female :—Length, 1.10 mm. Differs from the genotype in having the abdomen distinctly longer, somewhat longer than the rest of the body, the coxe and proximal two thirds of femora silvery white, rest of legs yellowish tinged with slight reddish; also the wings are slightly dusky but there is no distinct spot against the marginal vein, the hairless line has only about six lines of cilia proximad of it, the venation is yellow and the funicle joints all a little longer than wide and slightly wider distad, 1 and 2 a little the shortest. Pedicel slightly longer than funicle 6. Scape yellow, dusky at tip above, cylindrical. The frons is somewhat broader, the cheeks a little longer than in the genotype. Bulla dusky black. Hind tibial spurs double. Otherwise like the genotype. From one female captured in jungle, May 3, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3026, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type of genotype; head, fore wing, a middle tibia and caudal tibize with slide type of Hexencyrtus fumosipennis Girault. HEXENCYRTUS new genus. 1. HEXENCYRTUS ALBICLAVA new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.60 mm. excluding the normal, shortly extruded portion of ovipositor. Orange yellowish; scutum except along the median line, the scutellum except lateral and caudal margins, cephalic margin of propodeum and laterad, the dorsum of abdomen except 106 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. at base and the caudal margin and neck of pronotum, metallic purple. Face washed with metallic purple. Fore wings uniformly embrowned from about the middle of the submarginal vein distad to apex. Funicle purplish; funicle 6 at tip and the club silvery white. Extruded valves of ovipositor which are no longer than a fourth the length of abdomen, purple. Abdomen ventrad at distal fourth purple. Mesopleurum purple. Head lenticular, the antenne inserted in the middle or only a little below, the serobes. absent or nearly, the frons moderately broad, the ocelli in a straight line, not near the eyes, the latter long, over twice the length of the cheeks. Mandibles with two lateral teeth acute, subequal, the inner distinctly shorter, truncate but not very broad. Marginal vein about twice longer than wide, the stigmal and postmarginal veins subequal, each somewhat shorter. Oblique hairless line present, narrow, rather obscure. Funicle joints elongate, 1 and 2 subequal, about five times longer than wide, each over twice the length of the pedicel, 6 a little longer than the pedicel, a little over twice longer than wide. Club joints not very distinct. Scape stout, long. Metapleura purple. Head and thorax feebly reticulated and with short black pubescence: from minute setigerous punctures. Propodeum with three sharp ridges at meson, all separate. Fore wing densely ciliated discally, the marginal fringes short. Axille just not meeting acutely. Propodeal spiracle small, round, cephalad, a long lateral carina (near lateral margin) leading straight from the latero-caudal corner. Club of antenna rather long, somewhat wider than the funicle. Hind tibial spur single, distinct. Scutum somewhat longer than the scutellum. Hairless line of fore wing with very many lines of cilia proximad of it. From one female caught in jungle, June 10, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Upper Mulgrave River (Gordonvale), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3027, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, hind tibia and fore wing on a slide. This genus runs to Hexacladia Ashmead but differs in the venation. The club is not as long as the preceding three joints taken together. Scape not extending beyond the vertex. Antenne inserted much above the ventral ends of the eyes. 2. HEXENCYRTUS FUMOSIPENNIS new species. Female :—Length, 1.90 mm. Agrees with Hexacladia Ashmead but the scape is compressed yet long but not extending any distance beyond the ocelli; also the marginal vein is distinctly somewhat longer than the other two veins and about thrice longer than wide; postmarginal vein a little shorter than the stigmal. Mandibles with the two outer teeth acute, the second longer, the third tooth shortest and coneavely truncate and rather broad. Funicle joints elongate, the pedicel only one and a half times longer than wide at apex. Frons broad, convex; cheeks less than a third the length of the long eyes. Axillw separated by a short carina. Valves of ovipositor exserted for a fifth the length of the abdomen. Hind tibial spur single, stout. Club 3-jointed. Dark metallic blue, the neck of pronotum, propleurum, axilla and base of abdomen narrowly, orange yellow. Legs and scape yellowish brown; flagellum black except club and distal third of funicle 6 which are silvery white. Fore wings deeply fuscous from base to apex, the hind wings dusky. Seape and flagellum hispid (excluding club). Funicles 1 and 2 subequal, twice the length of the pedicel, about five times longer than wide, 3 and 4 subequal, 6 twice longer than wide; club only a little wider, about a third the length of the funicle. Oblique hairless line with many fine lines of cilia proximad of it. Head and thorax finely reticulated, the thorax with numerous minute setigerous punctures. Propodeum with three well separated median carina and a narrow carina just laterad of the minute spiracle and which curves around it to run along (mesad) the cephalic margin; just mesad of this carina and infolded by its two arms (the lateral and cephalic) the propodeum bears fine longitudinal strie; between these and meson, glabrous. Hairless line of fore wing closed caudad. From one female caught by sweeping in jungle, March 1, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 107 Type: No. Hy 3028, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, a hind tibia and a fore wing on a slide. This species differs from the genotype mainly in coloration but also the ocelli are in a slightly curved line and are somewhat larger. Compared with type of albiclava. Also, in the latter, the axille are separated and without a carina between them. Both species bear scattered pubescence from pin-punctures on scutum and seutellum. ZAOMENCYRTUS new genus. 1. ZAOMENCYRTUS LEPIDOPTEROPHAGUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.60 mm. Dark metallic purple, the wings hyaline but with a little stain at the marginal vein; base of abdomen across orange yellow. Legs yellow, washed in places with metallic. Antenne strongly capitate, the club as long as the funicle, large, obliquely truncate from one side: Pedicel stout, longer than any of the funicle joints yet not much longer than wide; funicle joints enlarging distad, 6 widest and longest, somewhat wider than long, 1 and 2 subequal, much smaller than 6; antennz 10-jointed, no visible ring-joint, the club only 2-jointed, the distal joint much the longest, the proximal joint much wider than long; club obtusely pointed. Marginal vein slightly longer than wide, the postmarginal somewhat shorter, half the length of the stigmal. Wings broad, with the usual hairless line. Mandibles as in Coccidencyrtus bicoloricornis as is also the body and head, the cheeks as long as the eyes, the head (cephalie aspect) somewhat longer than wide. Abdomen shaped as in the species named. Scape long, slender. Head scaly reticulate. Lateral ocelli their own diameter from the eye margins. Scrobes forming a long, rounded triangle. Frons rather broad. Seutum sculptured like the head but with additional minute, scattered setigerous punctures. Axille extraordinarily finely, transversely lined. Scutellum finely, longitudinally lineolated, scaly at apex. Axille a little separated. Abdomen scaly. Metapleurum bare. Segment 3 of abdomen long, occupying half or more of the surface. Mandibles slender. Very similar in form and most structures to Coccidencyrtus bicoloricornis. From many females labelled ‘‘ Nat. Mus. Victoria. Reared from supposed moth pupa on Lucalyptus tree near base, May, 95.’’ Habitat: Melbourne, Victoria. Types: In the National Museum, Melbourne, two females on a tag, two heads on a slide. ZOOENCYRTUS new species. 1. ZOOENCYRTUS ACUTIVENTRIS new species. Genotype. Female :—1.30 mm. Dark metallic green, the scutellum and abdomen except at base, purplish, the legs straw yellow. Tip of scape white. The distal half of that part of the blade of the fore wing distad of apex of the stigmal vein, distinctly dusky, the dusky area covering the apex of the wing and conically projected a little past apex of stigmal vein, the projection a little obliqued caudad. Mandibles not especially long, with three subequal acute teeth. Scape dilated but not greatly, not extending beyond the venter—the antenne inserted a little above the ventral ends of the eyes yet a little below the middle of the face, the pedicel somewhat over twice longer than wide, a little longer than funicle 1 which is a little the longest of the funicle; funicle 6 somewhat longer than wide. Club somewhat over a third the length of the funicle; ring-joint present. Marginal vein about four times longer than wide, the stigmal three-fourths the length of the marginal, the postmarginal a little shorter than the stigmal; marginal fringes and the oblique hairless line present. Axillzs just meeting inwardly, the head and thorax finely, densely scaly, the abdomen a little less distinctly so, pointed conic-ovate, somewhat longer than the thorax, the ovipositor not exserted. Scutellum densely scaly punctate. Frons moderately broad; cheeks as long as or a 108 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. little longer than the eyes; serobes rather short, not meeting above, the cavity divided by a median ridge. Frons not prominent. Face rather strongly inflexed. Secutellum a little shorter than the scutum, the latter with scattered hispidescence from minute, very obscure punctures. Fore wing with uniform discal cilia. Head rounded. From two females captured in jungle, March 5, 1914. Habitat: Gordonyvale (Cairns), Queensland. Types: No. Hy 3029, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the two females on a tag; head and fore wing on a slide. Hairless line of fore wing with about five lines of cilia proximad of it. Fore wings rather slender. Differs from Eneyrtus in being wholly metallic, in having the frons broad, the longer marginal vein which is somewhat longer than the stigmal. EPIENCYRTOIDES new genus. 1. EPIENCYRTOIDES QUADRIDENTATUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.83 mm. Depressed. Valves of ovipositor slightly extruded. Rather light metallic green, the abdomen coppery except at base; legs white except intermediate and hind cox, hind femur, hind knee and a band around hind tibia just below and not at knees. Antenne white except proximal two joints of club, scape at sides of tip and proximal part of pedicel. Fore wing dusky at distal third, the proximal margin of the infuseation acute at center, concaved on each side from this; also a dusky area along and against the marginal vein and obscurely opposite that vein at caudal margin. Secutellum densely punctulate. Body delicately scaly. Seape a little compressed; pedicel somewhat longer than either of the distal two funicle joints which are nearly subequal, largest, somewhat wider than long, the preceding four joints subequal, much wider than long, each not half the length of joint 5; ring-joint very short; club subequal to the funicle and wider. Marginal vein two and a quarter times longer than wide, the stigmal a fourth shorter than it, the postmarginal a little shorter than the stigmal; oblique hairless line present. Fore wing very lightly stained under all of venation. Mandibles with four distinct, small teeth, the outer a little the longer and more acute. Frons moderately broad. Cheeks subequal to the eyes. Face rather strongly inflexed. Axille narrow, joined, a short carina between them. Head (cephalic aspect) rounded. Seutellum triangular, the apex obtuse. Hind tibial spur small. Infuseation of fore wing generally coterminous with the discal ciliation. From one female caught June 27, 1913 by sweeping in forest. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3030, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, a fore wing and hind tibia on a slide. Later, two females, Kuranda, open jungle, January, 1913 (A. P. Dodd) and one ut Burnett Heads, Southern Queensland, forest, June, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Also one in forest, May 13, 1914, Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. Club conie-ovate, not obliquely truncate. Funicle joints enlarging distad. 2. EPIENCYRTOIDES AXILLARIS new species. Female :—Length, 0.78 mm. Differs notably from the genotype in having the axille distinctly separated for some distance. Similar in form to the genotype. Dark metallic green, the scutum blue, the wings hyaline excepting just under or along the marginal vein. Abdomen darker except at base. Legs about as in the genotype but the hind tibie are all black except at each end rather broadly and the middle tibia have a dusky spot ventrad below knee. Sculpture about as in the genotype; also the venation but the discal ciliation of the fore wing is uniform nearly to the hairless line, AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 109 the latter with about five lines of cilia proximad of it. The stigmal vein is shorter, subsessile. Antenne as in the genotype except that the pedicel is somewhat shorter. The frons is a little broader. Otherwise like the genotype. From one female caught in forest, December 23, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3031, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type of quadridentatus; head, fore wing and hind legs with slide type of Achrysophagus westwoodi Girault. NEZARHOPALUS new genus. 1. NEZARHOPALUS CAUDATUS new species. Genotype. Like Zarhopalus Ashmead but the funicle joints not annular. Female :—Length, 0.60 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for three fourths the length of the abdomen. Slender. Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline; legs, antenne® and ovipositor concolorous; knees, tips of tibie and tarsi pallid. Scape a little compressed, tapering toward tip; funicle 6 largest, much wider than long (not annular), over twice the width of 1, distinctly shorter than the usual pedicel; club enlarged, subequal to funicle in length; funicle widening rather rapidly distad; scape more or less equal to the funicle. Mandibles with three acute teeth. Frons rather narrow, prominent, the cheeks over half the leugth of the eyes. Venation pallid. Hind femur compressed. Thorax with a short phragma. Axillw slightly separated. Scutum a little longer than the scutellum. Abdomen conic-ovate, nearly as long as the thorax. Cephalic legs paler. Hind tibial spur minute. Fore wings densely, finely ciliate, the hairless line present, proximad of it, the discal cilia arranged only in two conspicuous lines. Venation as described for Zarhopalus Ashmead. Marginal vein punctiform, the stigmal and postmarginal very long, subequal. From one female captured July 28, 1913 in jungle (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3032, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. NEASTEROPANUS new genus. Female:—Runs to Asteropeus Howard but the funicle is a little longer than the club, the frons is subprominent only, the postmarginal vein a little shorter than the marginal which is about twice longer than wide. The axilla are distinctly a little separated and the ovipositor extruded for a length equal to a fifth that of the abdomen. 1, NEASTEROPUS CAUDATUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.85 mm. excluding the ovipositor. Dark metallic purple, the scutellum green, the first two pairs of legs (except cox), the caudal knees and tarsi and distal half (or a little more) of caudal tibie, whitish. Funicle and club brownish yellow. Wings hyaline but with a dusky spot against whole of the side of the stigmal vein. Venation black. MHairless line of fore wing with about a half dozen lines of cilia proximad of it. Pedicel slightly longer than wide, longer than funicle 6 which is largest and a half wider than long; funicles 1-2 subequal, ring like; funicle joints enlarging distad. Frons moderate. Cheeks as long as the eyes, the head rounded. Mandibles with two short outer teeth and a third broad one, the latter truneate, the mandibles small. Scape subequal to the club. Hind tibial spur weak. Fore wings broad, very finely ciliate. Body sealy. Seutellum reaching base of abdomen. Pubescence soft, weak. Abdomen pointed, conic-ovate, as long as the thorax. Axille narrow. Pronotum transverse-linear. From one female caught by sweeping on Tweed River, May 10, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Murwillumbah, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3033, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and a hind tibia with slide type of Taneostigmoidella nympha Girauit. 110 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 2. NEASTEROPAUS CINCTIPES new species. Female: Length, 0.80 mm., excluding the ovipositor. Dark metallic coppery, the scutum dark blue; knees, tips of tibie and tarsi pale yellowish; middle tibiw white with a black band just below knee. Thorax scaly. Funicle yellowish, rest of antenne black. Differs from the genotype in coloration and as follows: The wings are wholly hyaline, the venation paler, the hairless line is bounded by but a single line of cilia proximad (excluding several cilia in a second line); the third tooth of mandible is obtuse not truncate; and the club is broader. Also, funicles 1-3 are longer, each only a a little wider than long, 3 shortest of them. Otherwise about the same. Described from one female caught at 2,000 feet, June 3, 1913 in forest (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3034, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, head, fore wing and hind tibiew on a slide with slide type of Hexencyrtus albiclava Girault. Body of type accidentally destroyed. PARAINASOMYIA new genus. 1. PARZNASOMYIA ORRO new species. Differs from Hnasiella in having the club conic-ovate, the ovipositor extruded and the axille separated. Female :—Length, 1.30 mm., exeluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a fourth the length of the abdomen. Dark metallic purple, the apex of scutellum and abdomen metallic green, the wings hyaline; venation yellowish brown. Apex of valves of ovipositor, tips of tibie (more broadly in middle legs), knees and tarsi white. Funicle suffused with yellowish. Scutum and axille very finely, densely, polygonally scaly, the latter distinctly separated for some little distance. Scutellum scaly, the scaliness with a distinct longitudinal trend. Scutellum reaching base of abdomen, the latter scaly. Scutum with scattered obscure setigerous punctures, the pubescence moderate, soft normal. Abdomen conic-ovate, inclined upward at apex, as long as the thorax. Scape with a slight but distinct foliaceous expansion toward apex; a little longer than the club, the latter somewhat wider than the funicle and a little over half its length. Funicles 1-3 subequal to each other and to the pedicel but 3 wider, 1 a little over twice longer than wide ; funicle 4 a little shorter than 3, 5 still shorter and wider, 6 barely longer than wide. Ring-joint present. Marginal vein punctiform, the postmarginal subequal to it, the stigmal normal, thrice the length of the marginal. Hairless line of fore wing with only one distinct line of cilia proximad of it. Fore wings broad. Hind tibial spurs double. Mandibles with the two inner teeth shorter than the outer, not long. Frons moderately narrow. Face deeply inflexed, the frons not prominent. From one female caught in forest, January 7, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3035, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, fore wing and hind tibie with slide type of Cerchysiella nigrella Girault. . Many specimens were found later which had been reared from oval cecidomyiid galls on Melaleuca, Gordonvale, April, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). A few males were present. In this sex the frons is somewhat broader, the antenne yellow except scape and pedicel, the club solid, the funicle and club clothed with long scraggly hairs which are not in distinct whorls. Also, the scape is shorter and more dilated, the funicle joints longer than wide but shortening distad, the pedicel subglobular, wider than long. The face is metallic green in the male. In one female specimen, there was a distinct carina at meson of base of scutelium but the axillee were distinctly separated as in the other specimens! AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. ai tal PARENCYRTOMYTA new genus. 1, PARENCYRTOMYIA NIVEICLAVA new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.90 mm. Robust. Deep orange yellow, the pronotum, except caudo-mesad, head, propodeum, dorsum of abdomen except at distal fourth and at base mesad and the mesopleurum, deep*metallic purple; serobicular cavity, scape and legs yellow; antenne purple, the club white. Head and thorax finely scaly, a row of small punctures along the eyes on vertex; thorax with numerous, obscure setigerous punctures. Axille a little separated. Abdomen a little shorter than the thorax, acutely triangular, depressed; ovipositor a little extruded. Mandibles with three short, subequal teeth, the outer one acute, the mandibles rather short and stout. Fore wings distinctly infuscated at distal fourth or more (but apex clearer), the infumation acuminately prolonged proximad to the oblique hairless line; lightly stained under submarginal vein. Marginal vein two and a third times longer than wide, subequal to the postmarginal, the stigmal a little longer. Half a dozen lines of coarser cilia proximad of the hairless line. Head (cephalic aspect) longer than wide, the frons moderate (about 5 times the diameter of the large cephalic ocellus), the cheeks over half the length of the eyes. Inner tooth of mandibles blunt. Hind tibial spur stout. Scape long and slender, the pedicel subelongate, not quite thrice longer than wide, somewhat shorter than funicle 1 which is longest and about four and a half times longer than wide; 2 and 3 each a little shorter in succession; funicle 6 a little longer than wide. Club not half the length of the flagellum. Face inflexed, the frons not especially prominent. Scutellum shorter than the scutum. Club joints not very distinct. From one female caught by sweeping flowers in a garden, February 18, 1913. Habitat: Ripple Creek (Ingham), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3036, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, hind tibiz# and a fore wing on a slide. GeNus SCHEDIUS Howard. 1. SCHEDIUS UNCINCTIPES new species. Female :—Length, 1.15 mm. Differs from the genotype in having the frons broader, the club obliquely truncate, the funicle joints wider than long, the mandibles rather long and with three acute teeth of which the mesal is longest. Also, the scutellum extends to base of abdomen. Brilliant metallic green, the abdomen darker, the wings hyaline; legs (except all coxe and a broad concolorous band on hind tibie a short distance distad of knee and extending to middle) and antenne (except pedicel above at proximal two thirds) silvery white. Head and thorax densely punctulate, the axilla smoother, reticulated. Abdomen scaly. Frons moderately broad. Cheeks very short, about a fourth the length of the eyes or a little less. Frons subprominent, the vertex nearly flat. Ring-joint present. Pedicel as long as funicles 1 and 2 united, barely longer than wide; funicle 6 widest and longest, nearly twice wider than long, 5 a little longer than it, longest, 2 and 3 subequal, a little wider than 1. Club a little over half the length of the funicle and distinetly wider. Lateral ocelli nearly their own diameter from the eyes. Hind femur compressed, the hind tibial spurs single. Tarsal joints of caudal legs all longer than wide, 1 and 5 subequal, 1 a little longer, over twice longer than wide. Venation pallid. Marginal vein slightly longer than wide; other veins about as in the genotype. Hairless line of fore wing with only about three lines of discal cilia proximad of it. Pronotum transverse-linear. Scutum long. Abdomen as figured for the genotype. Fore wings with about 40 lines of very fine discal cilia where widest. Described from one female, forest, July 9, 1914. Habitat: Meerawa (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3037, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, fore wings and hind tibie# with slide type of Ectromoides purpureiscutellum Girault. 112 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Genus COPIDOSOMA Ratzeburg. i. COPIDOSOMA COMPRESSIVENTRIS new species.* Female :—Length, 1.35 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length nearly equal to that of the abdomen. Dark metallic coppery green, the wings hyaline; tarsi pale. Body polygonally scaly. Venation dusky the marginal vein punctiform, the postmarginal a little longer, the stigmal of normal length, thrice the length of the postmarginal. Cilia proximad of hairless line arranged in about seven lines. Mandibles brownish, rather slender, with equal acute teeth. Seape long, tapering distad, nearly as long as the funicle; pedicel a half longer than wide at apex, longer than any of the funicle joints which are subequal and somewhat longer than wide (but 6 a little shorter and wider than 1). Club long, a little wider than the funicle and about nearly two thirds its length, the third joint longest; obtuse at apex. Head triangular, longer than wide, the scrobes long and rather deep, the frons moderate in width, not prominent, the cheeks about as long as the eyes. Tarsal joints not long; hind tibial spur single, slender, not especially long. Abdomen curved upward toward apex and compressed strongly distad, the hypopygium prominent. Club 1 longer than funicle 6. Last two pairs of knees pale. Axille rather narrow, distinctly a little separated. Scutum with inclined, scattered pubescence. Pronotum not visible from dorsal aspect. Fore wings with fine discal ciliation, about 40 lines where broadest (proximad of mid-distance between apex of blade and apex of venation). From one female caught in forest, March, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cooktown, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3038, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag; head, fore legs, caudal tibie# and a fore wing with slide type of Cerchysiella wmbilicata Girault. GreNuS APHYCUS Mayr. 1. APHYCUS SANGUINITHORAX new species. Differs from the genotype in the venation. Female :—Length, 0.60 mm. Blood red, the legs, mesopleurum, ventral third of scape, distal third of pedicel, proximal half of mandibles, funicle and proximal third of abdomen, silvery white; club black; abdomen otherwise brown; scape and pedicel otherwise dusky; first three funicle joints tinged with dusky. Head pinkish suffused with yellow. Fore wing with a sooty stripe across them from the marginal and stigmal veins and beyond them for a distance equal to those veins, this stripe abruptly cut off distad of venation, thus not reaching the cephalic margin. Marginal vein one and three fourth times longer than wide, subequal to the stigmal, the postmarginal present but very short. Discal cilia of fore wing very fine and dense, the hairless line narrow. Pedicel distinctly longer than any of the short funicle joints of which 1-4 are globular or moniliform, 5 wider than long, 6 still wider, longest; club distinctly wider and nearly as long as the funicle. Mandibles small, with three minute teeth at apex. Frons moderately narrow, face inflexed, the cheeks not as long as the eyes. Thorax with distinct, short, silvery pubescence against the red background, densely scaly, the axille joined or nearly, the surface densely. finely scaly. From one female taken by sweeping grass in forest, April 6, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 8039, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and part of fore wing on a slide. A second female, same place, June 8, 1914. * A species similar to this (at least in form; not critically examined) was very common in the grass of parks, meadows and so on in late October at Muswellbrook, New South Wales. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 113 NESYRPOPHAGUS new genus. 1. NESYRPOPHAGUS FLAVITHORAX new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.95 mm. Rather stout. With the habitus of Encyrtus. Orange yellow, the wings hyaline, the antenne white, legs pale yellow; head and abdomen dark purplish; club and dorsal pedical, dusky. Seape slender; pedicel somewhat less thar twice longer than wide at apex, a little longer than funicle 1 which is longest and slightly longer than wide; funicles 2 and 3 subquadrate; remaining funicle joints somewhat wider than long. Club about a half the length of the funicle or a little more. Vertex moderate in width; cheeks subequal to the eyes in length. Marginal vein twice longer than broad, a little longer than the stigmal, the postmarginal short, somewhat longer than wide, the venation pale; oblique hairless line distinct, with about four rows of coarser discal cilia proximad of it. Axille joined but separated by a short, distinct carina. Thorax finely scaly, with numerous, small setigerous punctures. Propodeum naked. Pubescence not conspicuous but quite evident on scutum and scutellum. Mandibles with three short teeth. Ring-joint present. Abdomen short, triangular, depressed. Hind tibial spur single. Secutellum purplish mesad just before tip. Frons moderate. From one female caught in forest, December 19, 1911. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3040, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, a fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. Later, two females, same place. The cheeks are nearly as long as the eyes. 2. NESYRPHOPHAGUS UNGUTTATUS new species. Female :—Length, 1.10 mm. Very similar indeed to the preceding but differing in that the axille are not separated merely by a carina but are distinctly apart for some distance, rather widely separated. The purple spot on scutellum before apex is more distinct. Also, the head is metallic eneous. The marginal vein is a little shorter, the postmarginal longer, somewhat over half the length of the stigmal. Vertex with small thimble punctures, a row of them along the eye. Also funicle 1 is distinctly longer than wide. From two females caught December 2, 1913 in jungle (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Bype: No. Hy 3041, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, antenna and a fore wing on a slide. Differs from Syrpophagus Ashmead in haying the scape long and slender, the funicle joints short and the club about half the length of the funicle. ECHTHROBACCELLA new genus. 1. ECHTHROBACCELLA ARGENTINOTATA new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.50 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded distinctly a short distance. Frons prominent. Varicolored. Black. The following parts silvery white: Head except center of occiput and two stripes across cheeks beneath the eyes, the ventral one near ventral margin of head, both running to the black of the occiput and barely visible from cephalic aspect; apex of pedicel, scape (except dorsal edge broadly from base nearly to tip and ventrad narrowly all along), pronotum except its entire face, pro- and mesopleurum, prepectus, legs. (except ventral edge centrally of cephalic femur, a minute dusky spot dorsad just below knee on cephalic tibix, middle knee and a dot just below it laterad and same on hind legs::but. the spot below H 114 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. knee a distinet black band and there is a spot before knee on ventral edge of hind femur; also a minute dot on hind tibiz dorsad two thirds way to apex and the apex of middle tibia narrowly, brown); base of abdomen ventrad and proximal three fourths of margins latero-ventrad (showing dorsad as a marginal spot at proximal third and proximal two thirds), tegule and extruded valves of ovipositor at distal half. Scutum and seutellum dark metallic green, the axillw, lateral margins of scutum rather broadly, lateral and apical margins of scutellum narrowly, orange yellow. Fore wings infuscated from proximal fourth to apex, the infuscation broken by the hyaline hairless line and by a long V-shaped hyaline line whose cephalic arm originates between the stigmal and postmarginal veins. Venation blackish, the marginal vein two and a third times longer than wide, subequal to the stigmal which is about twice the length of the postmarginal. Axille just meeting inwardly. Pronotum with short black pubescence, the scutum and seutellum with short silvery pubescence, the surface extremely finely sheened. Abdomen densely scaly, conic-ovate, about as long as the rest of the body. Seutellum large, triangular, the propodeum transverse but visible from above. Mandibles with three equal teeth. Frons subprominent, the vertex flat, rather narrow, the cheeks as long as the eyes. Scape slender, with bulla about as long as the funicle, the flagellum subcylindrieal, the club barely wider than the funicle and not quite half as long. Pedicel subequal to funicle 6 which is longest, a little longer than wide, wider than 1 which is subequal to 2 and quadrate. Hind tibial spurs double, the shorter spur no longer than the apical setze but distinctly stouter. Hairless line of fore wing with many lines of cilia proximad of it. From one female caught, May 17, 1914 sweeping at 1,000 feet in forest (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Upper Tweed River, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3042, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, a hind leg and fore wing on a slide. LEUROCEROIDES new genus. Female :—Head rounded, the face inflexed, the frons not prominent, moderate in width, the cheeks somewhat shorter than the eyes. Mandibles rather small, slender, with three small acute teeth at apex. Antenns inserted below the middle of the face but not especially near the mouth border, 10-jointed with one minute ring-joint, the club solid, the seape short, dilated ventrad but not greatly, the funicle joints wider than long, enlarging distad, the first two subequal and smallest. Pedicel a little longer than wide, longer than any of the funicle joints. Funicle 3 distinetly larger than 2 but not much smaller than the following joints. Marginal vein nearly twice longer than wide, slightly longer than the stigmal, subequal to the post- marginal. Hind tibial spur small. Thorax convex, a little longer than the usual abdomen. Axillz with a carina between them (hence are joined). Scutellum reaching base of abdomen. Legs normal. Pronotum transverse-linear. Middle tibial spur large. 1. LEUROCEROIDES NIGER new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.75 mm. Jet, the wings hyaline; funicle and club suffused with brown. Knees, tips of tibie and tarsi reddish brown (middle legs), white elsewhere. Venation brown. Whole body extraordinarily finely longitudinally lineolated giving a velvety effect. Mandibles dusky, reddish at tip. Hairless line of fore wing with five lines of cilia proximad of it. Caudal tibie clavate. From one female caught by sweeping in forest, April 20, 1913 (H. Hacker). Queensland Museum Collection. Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3043, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and hind tibie on a slide. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 115 MIRRENCYRTUS new genus. Female :—Difters from Encyrtus in having the mandibular teeth rather long and acute, the third tooth much shorter than the other two, less than a third of their length but acute. Hind tibial spurs double. Frons moderate. Habitus of Encyrtus. 1. MIRRENCYRTUS GLABRISCUTELLUM new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.10 mm. Dark coppery, the wings hyaline, the legs concolorous except all tarsi, cephalic knees and tibizw, proximal half of middle femora, middle knees, middle tibiz except just below knees and caudal knees and tip of caudal tibie which are rich reddish brown. Venation blackish, the marginal vein twice longer than wide, slightly shorter than the stigmal, the postmarginal acuminate, about a third the length of the marginal. MHairless line of fore wing not distinct, there being two more or less complete, rather widely separated lines of coarser cilia proximad of the main discal ciliation but not outlining a hairless line. Funicle 1 suffused with yellow; apex of scape white. Funicle joints widening distad and lengthening a little, all distinctly wider than long and a half shorter than the pedicel. Club wider than funicle and slightly over half its length. Dilation of scape rather wide. Cheeks about the length of the eyes. Head coriaceous, with four rows of pin-punctures along the vertex, one row of each side along the eyes. Scutum densely, finely scaly and with many obscure, minute, setigerous punctures. Axille distinctly reticulated, separated by a short carina. Scutellum smooth and shining but with rather long, black setz scattered over the surface. Pubescence of scutum short. Scutellum not quite reaching base of abdomen. Fore wings broad. From one female caught in jungle, May 4, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3044, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and a hind tibia with slide type of Nezarhopalus caudatus. NEASTYMACHUS new genus. 1. NEASTYMACHUS AURATICORPUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.70 mm. Golden yellow, the wings hyaline but a little yellowish along under the venation. A blackish stripe across middle of occiput; face of pronotum, disk of dorsal abdomen and a spot near margin on each side of base, metallic purplish. Axille with a short carina between them. Thorax densely minutely scaly and with numerous minute pin-punctures which bear short white hairs. Mandibles with three equal teeth. Scape slender, curved, the pedicel a little over twice longer than wide, somewhat longer than funicle 1 which is subequal to 2, 3 and 4 subequal, a little shorter than 2, 6 a little longer than wide; funicle 1 twice longer than wide. Club barely wider than the funicle, the flagellum filiform. Cheeks two thirds the length of the eyes. Frons moderate. Scrobes forming an elongate triangle. Funicle hispid. Abdomen as long as the rest of the body, pointed triangular. Marginal vein somewhat over twice longer than wide, the stigmal about its length, the postmarginal somewhat over half the length of the stigmal. Ten or more lines of coarser discal cilia proximad of the hairless line. Club somewhat over one third the length of the funicle. Lateral ocelli a little separated from the eyes. Hind tibial spurs distinct, double. Club dusky. Head a little longer than wide. Agrees otherwise with generic description of Echthrobacca. From one female captured in forest, April 24, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3045, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; the head, fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. A second female, March 28, 1914 same place. The wings were hyaline. 116 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. PTEROMALENCYRTUS new genus. Female :—Characterized remarkably as follows: Mandibles with four distinct, short teeth which are smaller mesad; antennz with one large ring-joint as in some Pteromalide, the funicle 5-jointed, the scape much dilated foliaceously and only somewhat longer than wide, the: club conical, 3-jointed and not as long as the funicle and only a little wider, the joints of the funicle short; hind femur and tibia distinctly compressed and rather broad. Marginal vein thickened, subquadrate, a very little longer than wide, the stigmal somewhat longer than it, the postmarginal somewhat shorter than the marginal. Hind tibial spur single. Axille joined, with a slight carina between them. Abdomen narrower and longer than the thorax, conical, the ovipositor distinctly extruded a short distance. Pronotum transverse. Face inflexed. Frons. moderately narrow, narrowing cephalo-ventrad. Cheeks as long as the eyes or a little longer. Middle legs slender, the spur large. Fore wings broad. 1. PTEROMALENCYRTUS QUADRIDENTATUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.39 mm. including ovipositor. Metallic purple, the wings hyaline the venation brown; tarsi white. Thorax densely polygonally scaly, the axille less distinctly so. Scutum with rather sparse pubescence, the seutellum inclined ventro-caudad, nearly reaching base of abdomen, subequal in length to the scutum. Funicle joints subequal, each somewhat wider than long, each distinctly shorter than the pedicel which is stout, a little longer than wide. Club somewhat over half the length of the funicle, longer than the body of the scape. MHairless line of fore wing with three lines of cilia proximad of it. Marginal and discal cilia of fore wing fine. From one female caught in forest, November 2, 1912. Habitat: Ayr, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3046, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore: wing, hind tibia and middle leg with slide type of Hnasomyiella coleridgei Girault. PARACASNOCERCUS new genus. Female: Runs to Berecyntus Howard but the frons is moderate, the marginal vein thickened, quadrate, the postmarginal absent, the stigmal a little longer than the marginal. The axille are distinctly separated for some little distance. Club a little shorter than the funicle, not enlarged, long. Mandibles rather slender, with three acute teeth at apex. Mandibles- not elongate. Hind tibial spur double. Abdomen triangular, as long as the thorax. Pronotum transverse. Legs slender. 1. PARACHINOCERCUS PERSEVERANS new species. Female :—Length, 0.85 mm. Dark neous, the scutellum purple, the abdomen dark coppery, the wings hyaline, tips: of tibie, tarsi and middle knees white, also trochanters; venation black, the stigmal vein colorless. Hairless line of fore wing with only three and a half lines of discal cilia proximad of it. Scape slender, as long as the funicle, the pedicel somewhat longer than wide at apex,. longer than any of the funicle joints, the first of the latter distinctly shortest, somewhat wider than long, 2 quadrate, the following joints each slightly longer than the one preceding it. Club joints distinctly longer and larger than the funicle joints, the middle joint a little the longest of the three, longer than wide, wider than the funicle. Fore wings very broad. Cheeks. nearly as long as the eyes. Scutellum longitudinally striate, the scutum densely polygonally scaly, the axill# less distinctly so, the scutellum so at apex. Scutellum extending to base of abdomen, not quite as long as the scutum. From one female taken in jungle, June 27, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Childers, Southern Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3047, Queenslarid Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore- wring and hind tibia with slide type of Neocopidosomyia viridiscutellum Girault. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 117 EPIBLATTICIDA new genus. Female:—Runs to Neoblatticida Girault but differs in not having the club muck enlarged, stout and conic-ovate, nearly as long as the funicle; in having the third tooth of mandibles broadly truncate, the scape much less dilated, the funicle joints still longer, the frons moderate, the ovipositor distinctly extruded, the marginal vein shorter, only somewhat longer than the stigmal, very slightly longer than the postmarginal. Cheeks nearly as long as the eyes. Face much inflexed. Hind tibial spur single. Axille distinctly separated for some little distance. Habitus of Anagyrus. Ring-joint present. 1. EPIBLATTICIDA LAMBI new species. Genotype. Female :—-Length, 1.30 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is black and extruded for a length equal to nearly half that of the abdomen. Metallic purple, the scutellum dark green, the wings hyaline, the venation black. Legs bright yellowish white except middle and caudal cox, caudal femur except at each end and a minute dusky dot on caudal tibiz dorsad a little below knees. Scape pale at each end. Body polygonally sealy, the vertex thickly pin-punctate, the scutum and scutellum clothed with rather dense, short yellowish pubescence from very minute punctures. Abdomen zneous at base, about as long as the thorax, rather acute, the hypopygium prominent distad. Pronotum transverse. Scutellum triangular, subequal in length to the scutum, the two rather plane. Pedicel a little longer than wide, distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints, the latter all distinetly wider than long, 1 and 2 subequal, distinctly narrower than the others which very slightly widen to apex. Hairless line of fore wing with more than six lines of cilia proximad of it. From one female taken by sweeping the forest on sand ridges near coast, May 13, 1913 (A. PB. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3048, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fsre wing and hind legs with slide type of Dinocarsis fusciventris. PARABLATTICIDA new genus. Female :—Runs to Epiblatticida Girault but differs in having the club larger, the scape more dilated, the teeth of the mandibles all rather long and acute, the middle tooth distinctly longest, the ovipositor barely extruded. Club only two thirds the length of the funicle. Abdomen short, triangular, depressed dorsad. Axille separated by a short cavina. 1, PARABLATTICIDA PACHYSCAPHA new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.05 mm. Velvety black, the legs concolorous except tips of tibizw, tarsi, middle femora and tibizx which are reddish yellow; funicle 1 pallid dusky. Fore wings with a lightly infumated stripe across from the marginal vein and accented against that vein, the cross-stripe suffused. Vendtion dusky black. Stigmal vein nearly as long as the marginal, the postmarginal distinctly shorter than the stigmal. Hairless line of fore wing with eight or more lines of discal cilia proximad of it. Thorax finely scaly, the seales small like those on the wings of butterflies.* Sore wings moderately broad. Scape much dilated, the pedicel a little longer than wide at apex, Jonger than any funicle joint; joints 1-3 of funicle shortest, subequal in width and. shortening distad, 3 twice wider than long; joints 4-6 distinctly larger, 4 about twice the size of 1 but smaller than 6 which is distinctly wider than long. Club obliquely truneate. Cheeks * But not real scales but their appearance. 118 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. nearly as long as the eyes. Frons moderate. Eyes hairy. Caudal wings with about 15 lines of discal cilia. Hind tibial spurs double. Scutum with scattered, minute setigerous punctures. Middle femur suffused with dusky. From two females captured in jungle, July 30, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3049, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one specimen on a tag; head, pair of wings and hind tibie with slide type of Neanastatus purpureiscutellum Girault. A third female same place August 20. PRIONOMITOIDES new genus. Female:—Runs in my table to Prionomitus but differs in having the head (cephalic aspect) dist'netly longer than wide, the scape slender, the stigmal and postmarginal veins rather long and subequal. Mandibles with three acute teeth, of which the middle one is distinctly longer than the other two. rons moderately broad. Cheeks about half as long as the eyes. Hind tibial spur single, the middle one very large. Axille with a carina between them. Valves of ovipositor shortly extruded, the abdomen pointed triangular. Cephalic coxe compressed, large, the femur obclavate. Pronotum transverse-linear. Scutellum extending to base of abdomen. 1, PRIONOMITOIDES VIRIDISCUTELLUM new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.10 mm. Metallic purple, the scutellum metallic green, the wings hyaline, the venation dusky- Knees, tibiae, distal half of middle femur and tarsi pale golden yellow. Apex of scape pale. Club wider than and half as long as the funicle; joint 1 of the latter, a little shorter than the pedicel, somewhat longer than wide, subequal to 2 and 3, 4 and 5 subequal, a little longer than wide, 6 quadrate. Ring-joint present. Hairless line of fore wing with four lines of discal cilia proximad of it, the fore wings broad. Mandibles with acute teeth, the first and third subequal, small, the middle over twice longer than either. Scutellum longitudinally lined, the scntum polygonally scaly, with slight pubescence. Axille polygonally scaly, also the abdomen. From one female caught in jungle, May 4, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3050, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wing, middle and hind tibia on a slide. Genus NEOCLADIA Perkins. Head transverse, menisciform, inflexed, bearing coarse shallow punctures, the space between the eyes wide, the ocelli in a triangle much widest at base, the posterior ones being rather near to eye margins, only about half as far from these as from the anterior ocellus, Maxillary palpi long, 4-jointed, the first and third subequal, the second much longer than either of these, the fourth curved and very elongate, much longer than second and clothed with long hairs. Mandibles broad and apparently simply pointed in one aspect but in others seem to have three microscopic teeth at apex. Antenne in front view of head inserted well below the middle; those of the female simple, the scape long and slender, the pedicel rather shorter than the first of the six funicle joints, which when seen at their widest gradually decrease in length and increase in width to the sixth, which is transverse, the club oval, rather longer than the two preceding joints; the scrobes short and rather indefinite. Propodeum widely rounded in front; mesonotum about as long as the axille (which meet inwardly) and the scutellum, the latter much deflexed apically. Wings with a pattern in the female (but uniformly clear in the male), stigmal vein long, marginal very short, postmarginal longish in the female and rather longer still in the male. Middle tibiae armed at the apex with denticles as also are the AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 119 inner margins of the tarsi; posterior femora on lower side, posterior tibie and basal joint of tarsi on upper side foliaceously dilated, the tibize with two distinct spurs. Abdomen small and generally distorted after drying, the ovipositor when exserted short and recurved like that of a Pipunculus fly. The male differs chiefly in its clear wings, much less dilated hind legs and the six long branches of the antenne, which are inserted higher up on the head. 1. NEOCLADIA HOWARDI Perkins Black with various metallic reflections, the antennz with the scape ferruginous, the rest more or less obscure, becoming black or dark fuscous towards the tip, as are the branches in the male. Front and middle legs more or less yellowish-brown in the female, the middle tibia darker, the base of their tarsi being pale, the tips blackish. Posterior legs dark, apex of femora white. In the male the legs darker but both sexes vary in this respect. Wings in female with apical half fuscous, paler near the tip and containing two white spots, opposite one another, the upper placed just beyond the stigmal vein, while there is a narrow transverse fuscous band before middle of wing and a more or less evident longitudinal one, extending from near base along lower margin of wing. Head dull, green or purplish and with large shallow punctures, the lower parts of the face often more shining, mouth-parts pale. Thorax somewhat shining, distinctly but not brightly metallic, clothed with short black hairs, with indefinite surface sculpture and excessively fine puncturation; scutellum above very dull, densely sculptured the decurved apex smooth and shining. Abdomen black, purplish at base. Length, 2-5 mm. Habitat: Bundaberg, Queensland. An internal parasite of a common jassid. Type: Query. PARACHEILONEURUS new subgenus. Differs from Cheiloneurus in lacking the postmarginal vein. The genotype is Cheiloneurus perpulcher Girault. GENUS PSYLLASPHAGUS Ashmead. 1, PSYLLHPHAGUS METALLICUS (Girault). Aratus metallicus Girault. Female :—Length, 1.20 mm. Small for the tribe. Metallic green, the abdomen darker, the scutellum more or less coppery, the wings hyaline. Antenne brown, the scape and pedicel black. Legs black, the knees white (femora and coxe metallic), the tarsi brownish. Body densely, moderately roughly reticulated, the head and mesonotum with scattered, small, thimble punctures; axille a little separated. Mandi- bles with three teeth about equal; postmarginal vein about four fifths the length of the stigmal, the marginal punctiform. Funicle joints only slightly longer than wide, the distal ones subquadrate, the first smallest, not half the size of the pedicel. Club 3-jointed, two thirds the length of the funicle and wider. Ovipositor prominent, as in Ablerus. Lateral ocelli their own width from the eye margin. Face inflexed. Frons not especially narrow. Scutellum smoother than scutum and head. Type re-examined. Male:—The same but with metallic bluish on the head and thorax; the antenne light brown and with whorls of rather long hairs, the funicle joints more or less excised. Deseribed from six males and three females in the collections of the Queensland Museum at Brisbane, mounted on ecards labelled ‘‘Bred out of Eucalyptus. 5.8.11, Brisbane. H. Hacker’’ and ‘‘Gall No. 15.’’ Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Types: No. Hy 3051, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one male one female on a single card. 120 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. TABLE TO THE EARTH’S ENCYRTINE GENERA OF ENCYRTIDA.* FEMALES. Winged. Antenne inserted near the middle of the face. Scape very long; funicle 1 elongate; postmarginal vein much longer than marginal and stigmal, the marginal thick. Club solid. Male antenne with rami HEXACLADIA Ashmead, HexeNoyetus Giesait Scape normal. Marginal, postmarginal and stigmal veins long, subequal TANEONEURA ied Antenne inserted distinctly ventrad of middle of face, at the elypeus or nearly. Antennz 6-jointed, the funicle 3-jointed. Marginal vein punctiform, the postmarginal absent, the stigmal very minute : CoccoBIus Agito Antenne 9-jointed. Funicle 4-jointed; club 3-jointed. Marginal vein quadrate, the stigmal twice its length. Abdomen compressed, elongate CERCOBELUS Walker. Marginal vein short but longer than the short stigmal, the postmarginal absent. Vertex flat, the frons prominent. Seutellum with a sparse tuft of bristles at apex. Abdomen as long as thorax, the ovipositor somewhat extruded .. Homanopopa Howard. The same (?) but postmarginal vein distinct, short .. PLAGIOMERUS Crawford. Funicle 6-jointed, the club solid (see Hexacladia Ashmead, above). Caudal tibizw greatly, foliaceously flattened. Postmarginal and stigmal veins elongate, the former the longer, the marginal barely longer than wide; scape slender. Male antennze with branches ‘ NEOCLADIA Band Caudal tibizw normal. Seutellum with a tuft of hairs at apex. Marginal vein long, thrice or more the length of the short stigmal, the post- marginal subobsolete; antennw cylindrico-clavate, the scape long and slender SARANOTUM Perkins. Scutellum without an apical tuft of bristles. Scape foliaceously dilated ventrad. Marginal vein punctiform, the stigmal long, the postmarginal somewhat over half its length; flagellum greatly flattened, the funicle joints very much wider than long, 6 much wider than 1, the pedicel very small. Frons prominent. Dilation of scape great as LEUROCERUS Crawford. Marginal vein nearly twice longer than wide, subequal to the postmarginal, the stigmal a little shorter. Funicle cylindrical, the club barely wider, the joints short .. a a LEUROCEROIDES Girault. Scape slender or merely compressed or slightly enlarged distad, the flagellum normal. Head normal, that is, not noticeably longer than wide; face inflexed. Postmarginal vein subobsolete, the marginal twice longer than wide, the stigmal still longer .. bia . ISODROMOIDES Girault. Postmarginal vein a third iaueee eee ae TEaetnk which is nearly twice longer than wide. Stigmal vein slightly longer than the postmarginal . NEOCOPIDOSOMYIA Giewall * Based mainly on Ashmead and May: The ring-roint is not counted with one exception. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 121 Head (cephalic aspect) plainly longer than wide. Face not inflexed, convex, the scrobes very short. Frons narrow; axillee rather broadly joined at meson; marginal vein twice longer than wide, the postmarginal vein a third longer than it, the stigmal still longer. Genal suture subobsolete va 7. xe CoPpIposoMYIA Girault. Face inflexed, the scrobes long; axille distinctly separated for a short distance; marginal vein punctiform,. the postmarginal absent; thorax very convex, globular #6 a3 ve CopIposoMopsIS Girault. Autenne 8-jointed. unicle 5-jointéd, the club solid. (Compare Rhopus, below.) Marginal vein punctiform, the stigmal twice or more the length of it, the postmarginal absent. Pedicel nearly as large as the club which is over two thirds the length of the funicle; abdomen flat. Axille connate. Face inflexed. No ring-joint. Frons moderately broad. Metallic .. a a PSYLLEDONTUS Crawford. Antennz 10-jointed, the funicle 5-jointed, the club 3-jointed. See Pteromalencyrtus below. Wings developed, the marginal cilia of fore wing rather long. Body weak, nonmetallic, polished. Marginal and postmarginal veins very short, the stigmal longer. The club ‘‘ zeigt keine Spur einer Gliederung (selbst bei starker mikroskopischer Vergrosserung)’’ .. Bi a a2 Ruopus Foerster. The marginal cilia of fore wing short. Body not especially weak. Postmarginal vein longer than the stigmal, the marginal shortest. Body flat. The frons wide ae of oe ie is of HoncorHorRAX Mayr, METALONELLA Girault. Wings vestigial, the body flat, the frons wide oe a .. METALLON Walker. Club 2-jointed, the funicle 6-jointed. Marginal vein somewhat longer than wide, the stigmal longer than it; antenne capitate, the club obliquely truncate; mandibles slender, the teeth small. Scape slender. Frons rather broad .. ie Ay ay ZAOMENCYRTUS Girault. Antenne 11-jointed. Winged. Funicle 7-jointed, the club 2-jointed. Scape very long, extending far above the clypeus, the following joints also long. Marginal vein searcely longer than wide .. .. PSEUDENCYRTELLA Girault. Funicle 5-jomted, the club 3-jointed. Ring-joint large, distinct, counted here; scape foliaceously dilated; marginal vein subquadrate; mandibles quadridentate 45 .. PTEROMALENCYRTUS Girault. Funicle 6-jointed, the club 3-jointed. Fore wings without marginal cilia. Antenne very long and slender, the flagellar joints very long and slender, funicle 6 shortest but four or more times longer than wide. Scape reaching to the ocelli. Cheeks somewhat longer than the eyes; marginal vein punctiform PsILOPHRYS Mayr. Fore wings with marginal cilia. ; Cheeks very short, the eyes occupying nearly the whole side of the head. Frons very narrow. Flagellum short, clavate, the funicle joints annular, the club very large, longer than the funicle, the pedicel thrice longer than thick at apex; postmarginal vein subobsolete .. ae Ss =< we .. ARcHINUS Howard. About the same. Postmarginal and stigmal veins long EuRryrHorALUS Howard. 122 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Cheeks normal, variable, not especially short, the frons variable. Abdomen globose, much shorter than the thorax, compressed. Frons_ broad- Postmarginal and stigmal veins long .. ais CHESTOMORPHA Ashmead. Abdomen depressed, triangular. Seutellum with one distinct tuft of hairs from the surface near apex. Seutum with a tuft of hairs from the surface near center. Frons prominent. The vertex flat. Scape broadly dilated ventrad. Mar- ginal vein twice or more longer than wide, subequal to stigmal; antenne capitate .. ne 50 .. CHEILONEUROIDES Girault. Seutum naked. Frons prominent, the vertex flat! Antenne not compressed. Scape more or less dilated ventrad or toward apex but often cylindri- cal, sometimes foliaceously dilated; marginal vein twice or more longer than wide, much longer than the stigmal or postmarginal. Funicle joints more or less subquadrate, the club as long or nearly as the funicle, usually varicolored. Frons narrow CHEILONEURUS Westwood. Scape broadly dilated; stigmal and postmarginal veins very long}. facial impression carinated .. CHRYSOPLATYCERAS Ashmead. Frons not prominent. Head longer than wide. Flagellum compressed. Stigmal and postmarginal veins short. Marginal vein fully twice longer than wide, twice the length of the stigmal ae a CHRYSOPOPHAGUS Ashmead. Funicle cylindrical; head longer than wide. Face strongly inflexed, ovipositor not extruded. Club enlarged .. oe ae .. ACHRYSOPOPHAGUS Girault. Club not enlarged, shorter than the funicle .. ae Son Oc CHRYSOPOPHAGOIDES Girault. Face not inflexed, the scrobes short. Ovipositor not extruded EUSEMIONELLA Girault. Seutellum armed at apex ‘‘mit lamellartigen Schuppen’’ (lamella-like scales). Axille united. ‘‘Nacken mit lamellartigen Schuppen’’ .. as et HABROLEPIS Foerster. Scutellum unarmed at apex. Scape more or less foliaceously expended ventrad for its entire length, the expansion usually greatly convexed. Abdomen globose, compressed. Funicle foliaceously compressed. Pronotum longer than the scutum Mira Schellenberg. Abdomen normal, triangularly depressed. Funicle very strongly compressed. Head oblong, the frons prominent. Marginal vein longer than the stigmal .. CERAPTROCERUS Westwood, EuSEMION Dahlbom. Funicle not compressed. Club as long as or longer than the funicle, usually enlarged, always two thirds the length of the funicle. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 123 Head lenticular, the scrobes very short. Marginal vein barely wider than long .. oi aM oe AHNASIUS Walker. Head not lenticular, the face inflexed. Marginal vein distinctly longer than the stigmal. Funicle joints annular. Club as long as rest of the flagellum. Frons moderately narrow. Marginal vein a fourth longer than the stigmal sna Se .. BLAtTricipa Girault. Funicle joints not annular but wider than long. Club a little shorter than the funicle. Marginal vein four times longer than wide, twice the length of the stigmal. Frons narrow NEBLATTICIDA Girault. The same but marginal vein not twice the length of the stigmal. Ovipositor extruded; frons moderate; club not very much enlarged. Tooth 3 of mandible truncate Se EPIBLATTICIDA Geaale Ovipositor not suas club enlarged; tooth 3 of mandible ACTLC Ise - : - 8 PARABLATTICIDA Girault. Marginal vein oueen shorter than the stigmal. Face inflexed. Funicle joints much wider than long but not annular; post- marginal vein longer than the marginal about half the length of stigmal .. we TyNDARICHUS Howard. Marginal vein subequal to the stigmal. Frons prominent. Funicle joints annular .. .. HABROLEPOPTERYGIS Girault. Club distinctly shorter than the funicle and not especially enlarged. Pedicel flattened. Form elongate. Caudal femora and tibie flattened, the spurs of the tibiew double. Axille a little separated. Marginal vein no shorter than the short stigmal. Scape very short NEOCLADELLA Girault. Pedicel normal. Thorax clothed with a scaly pubescence. Stigmal vein longer than the marginal .. BLASTOTHRIX Mayr. Thorax not so clothed. Head inflexed. Marginal vein no longer than wide, the stigmal as long as it. Postmarginal vein subobsolete. Dilation of scape convex .. EcrToploGNATHA Perkins. The same but stigmal vein much longer than the marginal, the postmarginal distinct. Dilation of scape linear, broadening toward apex. Club truncate at apex Be .. ABNASIELLA Girault. Club conie ovate - .. PARAHNASOMYIA Girault. Dilation of scape very convex .. ASNASOMYIELLA Girault. Marginal vein plainly longer than wide, the postmarginal distinct, the stigmal longer than it, subequal to the marginal. Ovipositor not extruded ENCYRTUS = MICROTERYS ; ZOOENCYRTUS Caan Ovipositor extruded .. .. RHOPALENCYRTOIDEA Girault. Head lenticular As ate _. PARAPH#NODISCUS Girault. 124 MEMOIRS .OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Scape normal, cylindrical, compressed, obconic or clavate not foliaceously dilated. Antenne very long and slender, all funicle joints much longer than wide. Club not enlarged. Ovipositor much extruded. Cheeks not quite half the length of the eyes; head longer than wide. Mandibles long, their teeth acute .. ; PARAPSILOPHYS Howard. Cf. CopiposoMA Gateoburg (below). Ovipositor not extruded. Pedicel thrice longer than wide at apex ais LiorHorax Mayr. Club enlarged (teste Ashmead). Frons prominent. Wings with leopard-like spots CALLIPTEROMA Motsahulalers Antenne not especially long, normal. Marginal vein punctiform or very little longer than wide. Head convex-lens-shaped, the scrobes short. Usually coarsely punctate. Frons broad. Seutum only half the length of the seutellum; club as long as the funicle; postmarginal vein as long as the stigmal; coarsely punctate .. ae tre Et . .CHALCASPIS Howard. Seutum as long as or longer than the scutellum; club shorter than the funicle; postmarginal vein usually much shorter than the stigmal. @hutasty punctate ae : BoTHRIOTHORAX Rate ARATUS Howe. HeMZNASIUS Ashmead. The same; postmarginal and stigmal veins short, subequal 56 z PENTELICUS Howard. The same; club longer than rest of flagellum, very large; post- marginal and stigmal veins very long, unequal BLEPYRUS oman Frons moderate 5¢ oe ie .. HemMnasius Ashmead. Head not lenticular, the scrobes long, the face inflexed. Postmarginal vein absent or very short, much shorter than the stigmal. Frons not prominent. Stigmal vein normal. Metallic. Club as long as or longer than the funicle. Postmarginal vein present. Funicle joints short, distad wider than long; frons of moderate width. Pedicel barely longer than wide .. : COCCIDENCYRTUS Aceeaty Compare PARACHNOCERCUS Girault. Club distinctly shorter than the funicle, the pedicel longer than wide. Head (cephalic aspect) distinctly longer than wide. Abdomen long, compressed, the ovipositor extruded. Funicle long .. oe CopiposoMaA Ratzeburg. Abdomen rotund-oval, the ovipositor long, slender .. oe Ca&NOcERCUS Thomson. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 125 Abdomen normal, the ovipositor not extruded. Frons rather narrow; club much enlarged, obliquely trun- cate .. (teste Ashmead). LiroMastix Thomson. Frons broad x ote vs BERECYNTUS Howard. Head (cephalic aspect) no longer than wide. Axilla connate or barely separated. Stigmal vein long and curved. Club large, obliquely truncate .. IsopRoMuUS Howard. Stigmal vein not especially long. Pedicel longer than funicle 1; frons rather narrow OoENCyRTUS Ashmead, PSYLL@PHAGUS Ashmead. Frons rather broad... or. CHALCERINYS Perkins. Axille distinctly separated. Hind tibiz with one spur. Mandibles short; frons rather narrow. Funicle joints longer than wide .. sy .. SCHEDIUS Howard. Hind tibial spurs double. Frons broad; funicle joints wider than long, enlarging distad .. =e ae ZARHOPALOIDES Girault. Nonmetallic. Postmarginal vein present. Scape normal. Funicle joints all short, wider than long or not much longer than wide .. be oe - ApHYCUS Mayr. Funicle 1 much longer than the pedicel, cylindrical, the others gradually shortening oe a0 Be HETERARTHRELLUS Howard. Scape short, obeconic ae ne PaRAPHYCUS Girault. Postmarginal vein as long as or longer than the stigmal. Frons prominent. Stigmal vein as long as the postmarginal. Antenne short, the scape somewhat broadly dilated toward apex, the flagellum strongly incrassated, the joints of the funicle annular; club as long as the funicle .. - (teste Ashmead). ZARHOPALUS Ashmead. The same but funicle joints not annular. Ovipositor extruded ee oe .. NEZARHOPALUS Girault. Stigmal vein shorter than the postmarginal. Antenne normal. Ovipositor strongly extruded .. ox Coccipocronus Crawford. Frons not prominent. Head normal .. a .. (Male) Prionomitus Mayr. Postmarginal vein only somewhat shorter than the stigmal. Ovipositor usually strongly extruded. Funicle joints longer than wide (partim) CERCHYSIUS Westwood. Head longer than wide .. .. PRIONOMITOIDES Girault. 126 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Marginal vein not punctiform, plainly longer than wide. Metallic. Club usually very large, as long as or longer than the funicle; always subequal to the funicle. Eyes large, rounded, strongly convergent above, the frons linea”, very narrow. Antennz very short; club enormous; funicle joints transverse ; face inflexed .. si sb .. ZAoMMA Ashmead. yes normal, the vertex not linear. Head convex-lens-shaped, the scrobes short. Funicle joints wider than long; abdomen short; marginal vein about twice longer than thick. Mandibles with small subequal teeth .. CoccopHoctonus Ashmead. Head not lenticular. Stigmal vein shorter than the marginal. Frons not prominent. Postmarginal vein shorter than the stigmal; club as long as the funicle, the joints of the latter short. Abdomen ovate. Mandibles 3-dentate .. Eprencyrtus Ashmead. ECHTHROGONATOPUS Perkins. Mandibles 4-dentate .. EPIENCYRTOIDES Girault. Frons prominent. Stigmal and postmarginal veins short. Club longer than the funicle ae o aa ac Anicetus Howard, ? ADELENCYRTUS Ashmead. Stigmal vein as long as or longer than the marginal. Marginal and postmarginal veins subequal; funicle not longer than the first joint of the club. Frons prominent .. ..» .. ASTEROP2US Howard. Marginal vein longer than the postmarginal; funicle subequal to the elub. Joints of funicle enlarging distad * as .. NEASTEROPAUS Girault. Club of normal size. Flagellum long, the funicle joints all longer than thick. Head lenticular. Marginal vein about twice longer than wide, not as long as the stigmal, the latter shorter than the long postmarginal ; two lateral teeth of mandibles more acute and longer than the third tooth .. .. HEMENCYRTUS Ashmead. Head not lenticular. Stigmal vein much longer than the marginal or postmarginal veins. Axille separated 516 .. PSEUDENCYRTUS Ashmead. Stigmal vein shorter than the postmarginal. Mandibles long, with acute teeth. Pedicel about thrice as long as thick PARENCYRTUS Ashmead. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 127 Stigmal vein a little longer than the postmarginal. Man- dibles short. Head longer than wide ‘ PARENCYRTOMYIA Gani Flagellum shorter, the funicle joints not all longer than wide. Head lenticular. Pedicel elongate. Marginal vein longer than the stigmal RHYTIDITHORAX Dererbadh Pedicel not especially long. Marginal and stigmal veins subequal. Funicle usually ringed with white .. .. PH#NopISCUS Foerster. Marginal vein somewhat longer than the stigmal which is subequal to the postmarginal. Funicle joints longer than wide .. as .. PH2NODISCOIDES Girault. Head not lenticular. Ovipositor distinctly extruded (except Cerchysius austra- liensis). Axille connate or a little separated. Ovipositor valves compressed, broad; abdomen rather long, conic-ovate; stigmal vein longer than the marginal .. ie .. CERCHYSIUS Westwood. Ovipositor not extruded. Postmarginal vein distinetly much longer than the marginal (teste Ashmead). HomatotyLus Mayyr. ? Marginal vein punctiform; head lenticular. Seutellum with a delicate grooved line at proximal half* Houcencyrtus Ashmead. Without status? AGENIASPIS Dahlbom. Postmarginal vein not much longer than the marginal, sometimes much shorter. Mandibles elongate. Frons broad. Hind tibiz with two spurs. Scape more or less compressed CERCHYSIELLA Gucanity Mandibles normal. Marginal vein subequal to the stigmal. Postmarginal vein absent ACHALCERINYS Girault. Postmarginal vein evident, much shorter than the marginal. Hind tibial spurs single. Club wider than the funicle. Funicle joints longer than wide HELEGONATOPUS Perkins. Hind tibial spurs double. Club no wider than the funicle. Funicle joints barely longer than waidep oo. .. ECHTHROBACCELLA Girault. Postmarginal vein as long as the stigmal. Club about half the length of the funicle PARASYRPOPHAGUS Gil * Is this the carina between the axille? 128 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Marginal vein distinctly longer than the stigmal. Frons not prominent. Postmarginal vein a little longer than the mar- ginal. Stigmal vein very short. Axille a little separated .. APHIDENCYRTUS Ashmead. Postmarginal vein shorter than the _ stigmal. Funicle joints much longer than wide. Scape short hy .. SYRPOPHAGUS Ashmead. Stigmal vein distinctly longer than the post- marginal. Marginal vein very much longer than the postmarginal. Frons rather broad. Funicle joints barely - wider than long. Inner tooth of mandible broadly truncate. Marginal vein over twice the length of the stigmal .. EcCHTHROBACCA Perkins. Frons prominent ie .. ATROPATES Howard. Nonmetallic. Postmarginal vein absent. Funicle joints increasing in length distad, wider than long. Frons not prominent we ok a * .. AstTyMacHUS Howard. Postmarginal vein distinct. Funicle joints all longer than wide. Frons moderately broad. Hind tibial spurs double .. Ne oe .. NEASTYMACHUS Girault. TrisE EUCOMINI. GENUS EUCOMYS Foerster. This genus resembles closely Husemion in nearly everything except venation and the ; mandibles. 1. EUCOMYS HIBISCI new species. Female :—Length, 1.33 mm. Deep orange yellow, the abdomen dark metallic purple; legs and scape paler yellow; rest of antenna concolorous or nearly. Pronotum and vertex washed with purple. Fore wing embrowned to apex from a little out from base but clear disto-caudad, in a transverse, slit-like spot just distad of postmarginal vein, in a distinct not very narrow transverse band from the distal fourth or less of submarginal vein and along the caudal margin proximad of this cross-band. A clump of coarse black sete at the proximal margin of the cross-band of fore wing, cephalic half, followed proximad by over a half dozen lines of normal discal cilia. Post- marginal and stigmal veins rather long, subequal, the stigmal curved, the marginal distinctly shorter, about twice longer than wide, not half the length of the stigmal vein. Oblique hairless line obscure, of necessity short because of the hyaline, naked cross-band. Head lenticular, the scrobes short, the surface finely transversely sheened, the frons and vertex with thimble punctures; lateral ocellus over their own diameter from the eyes. Scutum very finely longi- tudinally lined, hispid. Axille meeting. Apical tuft of hairs on scutellum black. Hind legs more or less black. Flagellum clavate, compressed distad, the club short, truncate; scape slender, purple at tip above; pedicel rather long, a little longer than funicle 1, which is subequal AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 129 to 2 and longest; 1 or 2 about one and a half times longer than wide, 3 a little longer than wide, 4 a little wider than long, 6 distinctly wider than long. Frons broad; cheeks as long as the eyes. Flagellum hispid. Metapleurum not noticeably pubescent. Hind tibial spurs distinctly unequal but distinct; hind tarsi white, proximal portion of first tarsal joint of hind legs purple. Ring-joint absent. From two females captured while crawling over the stems of an Hibiscus in a garden, October 30, 1911. Habitat: Mossman, Queensland. Types: No. Hy 3052, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on a tag; head, a fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. The Hibiscus plant mentioned was badly infested with a lecaniid and ants were also constantly running to and fro in large numbers. The encyrtid resembled the latter somewhat, walking very rapidly and unevenly and jumping strongly when disturbed. Another female of this species was taken by miscellaneous sweeping (including Hibiscus and other ornamentals in neglected gardens) along the Herbert River at Halifax, February 26, 1913. In this specimen, the hind legs were coloured like the others. 2. EUCOMYS ARGENTICOXA new species. Female :—Length, 1.80 mm. Robust. Like the preceding but the antenne are black, the scape silvery white, black along dorsal edge; pronotum metallic purple except laterad; scutum metallic purple at distal half, the purple advanced a little at meson and with dense whitish pubescence; thorax on each side of scutellum (dorsal aspect), purple. Middle cox purple, the others silvery; tarsi, knees and most of middle tibie pale, other tibiz purple, other femora white, purple along dorsal edge. Disk of occiput purple. Cheeks with conspicuous long bristles along ventral half (present in hibisci). Lateral ocelli distinctly separated from the eyes. Antennal segmentation differs in that the joints are all a little longer, funicle 1 being subequal to the pedicel; the pedicel is subcompressed in both species. Mandibles shorter. Antenne inserted on a level with the ventral ends of the eyes in both species. The fore wings differ, being blackish rather than brownish. Propodeum shagreened, purple at the spiracle. Rest of thorax finely longitudinally lined. Hind tibial spurs and hind tarsi the same. From one female caught in jungle, March 1, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (type) and Ingham, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3053, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wings and a hind tibia on a slide. . Also one female, Ingham, March 30, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 3. EUCOMYS AURANTIFASCIATA new species. Female :—Length, 1.65 mm. Similar to argenticoxa but the cephalic margin of scutum is purple followed by a rather narrow transverse stripe of orange yellow, the rest purple, the cross-stripe of orange straight and thus the caudal purple on scutum has a straight cephalic margin. Also, the propodeum is wholly purple. Otherwise very similar. Cephalic margin of seutum narrowly black and also of the scutellum. Cephalic femur purple dorsad only at distal third (about distal half in argenticoxa). From one female caught on a window, January 11, 1912. Habitat: Innisfail, Northern Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3054, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 130 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 4, EUCOMYS ARGENTISCAPUS new species. Female :—Length, 1.80 mm. Similar to aurantifasciata but differs in that the caudal margin of scutum is narrowly orange yellow and the narrow stripe across cephalic scutum is a little narrower. Also the axille are purple except laterad and the immediate base of scutellum at meson. First and last pairs of coxe, cephalic femora except along dorsal and ventral edges rather broadly and distal three fourths of lateral aspects of middle femora, silvery white; also a spot ventrad at tip of caudal femur; rest of legs purple except tips of middle tibia and middle tarsi which are reddish brown and other tarsi which are silvery white (joints 2-4). Occiput with a central purple V and a purple semicircle ventrad of it. Caudal edges of cheeks from mouth, purple. Head with scattered punctures. Antenne differ from those of argenticoxa in that the pedicel is-distinctly not twice longer than broad at apex; the caudal tarsus in that the distal joint is purple not white; and the fore wing not greatly. From one female caught June 3, 1914, in jungle (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Grafton, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3055, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag with tag type of aurantifasciata; head, a fore wing and a hind tarsus with slide type of HEncyrtus spinozat Girault. 5. EUCOMYS PROSERPINENSIS new species. Female :—lLength, 1.75 mm. Similar to argenticoxa Girault but the pronotum is orange except narrowly along caudal margins and the scutum bears a conico-triangular purple marking from cephalic margin to apex, at base this marking as wide as the scutum but narrowing to a point at apex. The propodeum is washed with purple and also the distal part of the mesopleurum. Cephalic legs mostly all pale. Otherwise the same or nearly, but the pedicel is purple only at proximal three fourths dorsad, the scape pale yellow except above at immediate tip and the sete on the ventral cheeks much shorter and less conspicuous. The fore wings are brown not black. From two females caught by sweeping in forest near a cultivated area, November 3, 1912. Habitat: Proserpine, Queensland. Types: No. Hy 3056, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the two specimens on a tag; head, a fore wing, hind and cephalic tibia on slide with type Hneyrtus newcombi. 6. EUCOMYS HORTENSIS new species, Female :—Length, 1.55 mm. Orange yellow, the following parts metallic purple: Occiput, frons, clypeus, cheeks beneath the eyes, last two (from mesal aspect) funicle joints and the club; a large peltate area center of scutum from cephalic margin nearly to apex (whose lateral margins are < -shaped and whose caudal margins oblique to meson) and a little longer than wide, widest at cephalic margin of scutum, next so just before the markings caudal end; caudal margin of each axilla centrally, base of scutellum between the axille, abdomen, propodeum; middle legs dorsad on each side of knee, middle coxe, hind femora dorsad, hind tibize except ventrad, mesopleurum except cephalic end, thoracic venter mostly, hind knees and hind tarsi at immediate base. The following parts silvery white—first and last pairs of coxe, cephalic femora except above at tip, all of middle femora except at each end, caudal tarsi. Differs from proserpinensis notably in the different shape of the marking on the scutum which in that species is conical with regularly curved lateral margins and extending the whole length of the scutum. Both species AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 131 bear numerous pin-punctures on the frons, the caudal margin of pronotum is very narrowly purplish and the axille are slightly separated, fringed with lashes along caudal margin. Funicle 1 barely shorter than the pedicel. Infuscation of wings dark. Head lenticular. ‘Seape above at tip and the pedicel purple. From one female caught in a garden, August 1, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Harvey’s Creek (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3057, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. ENCYRTOMYTA new genus. Female :—Resembles Omphalencyrtus of the Ectromini. Form small, rather slender, the head (cephalic aspect) rounded, the frons moderately broad, the antenne inserted distinctly below the middle, 10-jointed, the club 3-jointed, large and ovate, the divisions faint, the region longer than the funicle whose joints, except the first, are transverse; one short ring-joint. Pedicel normal, but much longer than any of the funicle joints. Scape moderately dilated, yather short. Scutellum simple; axille meeting or nearly, transverse-cuneate. Middle tibial spur slender, long. Hind tibial spurs single, small. Abdomen as long as the thorax, the ovipositor short, inserted at distal third, not exserted. Metapleurum bare. Legs slender. Marginal vein short, twice longer than wide, the stigmal somewhat shorter, the postmarginal half the length of the marginal. Oblique hairless line narrow. Mandibles truncate. Cheeks ‘somewhat shorter than the eyes. Wings with short marginal fringes. 1, ENCYRTOMYIA ALBIFLAGELLUM new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.50 mm. Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline. Funicle, club, knees, tibiae (except proximal half of cephalic tibia and middle tibiew at base) and tarsi pure white, rest of legs and antenne concolorous; tip of pedicel and scape pale. Scutum sealy but with scattered minute setigerous punctures; seutellum apparently very» finely longitudinally lineolated. Head very finely sculptured. Funicle 4 wider than long, twice the length of 3 which is subequal to 2, 1 a little longer than wide, shorter than the pedicel, the ring-joint very minute. Discal ciliation proximad of hairless line sparse (four short lines) and coarser than the main ciliation; hind wings densely ciliate diseally. From one female taken in jungle, June 7, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3058, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 2. ENCYRTOMYIA SECUNDUS new species. Female :—Length, 0.75 mm. Differs from Omphalencyrtus wallacei Girault in being black, or nearly and the inter- mediate femora are concolorous centrally, the cephalic legs like the hind iegs. Also the antenna differs in that funicle 1 is subquadrate and the following joints all transverse and subequal, ring-like. The scape is metallic except at tip, the pedicel wholly metallic; rest of antenne white. Mandibles truneate, unarmed. Oblique hairless line present. From three females caught sweeping miscellaneous trees (some ornamental, some jungle) along a tramway and along the banks of the Herbert River, February 26, 1913. Habitat: Halifax (Ingham), Queensland. Types: No. Hy 3059, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two specimens on a tag, one in fragments on a slide. 132 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 3. ENCYRTOMYIA ALBITARSUS new species. Female :—Length, 0.75 mm. Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline; funicle and club yellowish white; tarsi, tips of first two pairs of femora, knees, cephalic tibiz except centrally, middle tibiz except a rather wide band some distance below knee (midway between knees and the middle point of those tibie) and hind tibiew, white. Scutellum longitudinally, finely lined; scutum densely scaly. About four rows of coarser cilia proximad of the oblique hairless line. Funicle joints all much: wider than long, much shorter than the pedicel, widening distad but the first funicle joint is a little longer than wide; a minute ring-joint present. Agreeing with the description of Omphalencyrtus. Scape distinctly dilated for its entire length, the mandibles truncate. Frons a little narrowed (over six times the diameter of an ocellus). Stigmal vein very short, the postmarginal subobsolete. From one female caught July 14, 1912, on forest-downs. Habitat: Hughenden, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3060, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. Very similar indeed to albiflagellum but the pedicel is paler and the frons distinctly narrower. 4. ENCYRTOMYIA AUSTRALIS new species. Female :—Length, 1.05 mm. Dark metallic green and scaly, the wings hyaline, and with an oblique hairless line. Agreeing with Plagiomerus diaspidis Crawford but the pedicel at proximal half dusky, the first funicle joint is longer than wide, the second transverse, shortest, the third a little longer than it while the fourth is the next longest of the four yet wider than long; pedicel over half the length of the funicle; the three club joints subequal in length. Marginal vein rather thick, longer than wide. Mandibles short, truncate, one edentate, the other with a small outer tooth, the inner broadly truncate. Antenne 10-jointed. Club long. From one female captured by sweeping the foliage of lantana, October 20, 1911. The mandibles in this species are anomalous. r Habitat: Mackay, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3061, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the head ot above specimen on a slide with Sympiesomorphelleus suttneri Girault. 5. ENCYRTOMYIA VIRIDISCUTELLUM new species. Length, 0.98 mm. Very dark metallic blue-black, the seutellum contrasting, rather bright metallic green;, knees, tips of tibiz (all of intermediate tibiz except below knee) and tarsi straw yellow,. also the funicle and club; the scape and pedicel black, the former white at distal third, the latter around apex. Antenne with a very thin ring-joint. Teeth of mandibles not developed; scape slender, the pedicel elongate and slender. Thorax with a dense, minute sealy sculpture.. Funicle as figured for the genotype of Psylledontus, the club appearing solid. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, November 1, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3062, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the head on a slide. A second female caught by sweeping mangroves, bank of Tweed River, Chindera, New South Wales, May 14, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). TRIBE ECTROMINI. The table of genera given at the end of this tribe has been followed. It was compiled from original sources as much as possible, mainly from Foerster, Mayr and Ashmead. The latter in his table of genera, makes the principal division on too variable a character—the AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 133 earina between the antenne—and I have also ignored such of his characters as pubescent eyes, wing pattern and sculpture. For remarks on the validity of the tribe see elsewhere. The width of the frons seems variable but for the present I have used it for a generic character. The position of the ocelli is not considered stable enough to be of use. GENUS ANAGYRUS Howard. 1. ANAGYRUS PURPUREUS new species. Female :—Length, 1.60 mm., excluding ovipositor. Metallic purple, the abdomen green, the legs brownish yellow, the cox concolorous; wings hyaline. Scape and pedicel concolorous, the first three funicle joints dusky, the rest yellowish except the distal two club joints which are dusky. Head and thorax with a dense scaly sculpture, the axille finer, the seutellum longitudinally lined. Abdomen densely finely scaly. Valves of ovipositor black, distinetly but shortly exserted (for about a fifth the length of the abdomen). Lateral ocelli not especially near the eyes, the marginal vein punctiform, the moderately long stigmal a half longer than the postmarginal. Funicle joints more or less subquadrate, the first shorter than the next two which are longest, a little longer than wide, the sixth or distal joint wider than long. Body flattened. Oblique hairless line on fore wing rather obscure, very narrow. Club rather large. Segments of abdomen more or less equal. Second tooth of mandible broadly truncate. Scape broadly dilated. Frons moderately narrow. Deseribed from one female captured by sweeping miscellaneous vegetation, November re ees ee Habitat: Bowen, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3063, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head and a hind leg on a slide. 2. ANAGYRUS MAZZININI new species, Female :—Length, 3.25 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for one third the length of abdomen. Similar to Coccidoxenus worcesteri Girault with which I have compared it but very much more robust, the ovipositor is distinctly extruded, the scape distinctly dilated, with a foliaceous expansion ventrad which, however, is not great but distinct and prominent; funicle 2 barely shorter than the pedicel and distinctly longer than wide, 1 and 3 each only a little shorter than it, funicle 6 a little wider than long. Club fuscous. The fine down on the seutum is a little denser in this species, not conspicuous in either. Eyes convergent above in both species, the frons narrow in this species, moderately broad in worcesteri. Described from one female caught in forest, December 24, 1912. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3064, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag with type of C. worcesteri; the head on a slide with head of worcester. 3. ANAGYRUS AURICORPUS new species. Female:—Length, 1.20 mm. Short, stout, depressed, broad. Pale golden yellow, the eyes pale green, the wings hyaline. rons densely scaly punctate, also the scutum and scutellum, the axille and the wide, linear pronotum scaly. Axille apparently joined by a piece between them, the mesal ends separated by this piece. Scutellum large, flat. Scape dilated distinctly but not greatly. Club two thirds the length of the funicle, short, stout; funicle joints wider than long, widening distad, 1 smallest, all a little shorter than the short pedicel. Second tooth of mandible broadly truncate. Cheeks about ais long as the eyes; frons rather broad, face inflexed. Marginal vein triangular, the stigmal 134 ° MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. rather long, a third longer than the postmarginal. Hairless line with 5-6 lines of cilia proximad of it, the first ones long. Second spur of hind tibiw very short. Lateral ocelli their own diameter from the eye. From one female taken April 13, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Forest. Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3065, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, fore wing and hind leg on a slide. 4. ANAGYRUS HOWARDII new species. Female :—Length, 2.10 mm. Similar to mazzinini but the ovipositor not at all extruded, the fore wings are slightly stained along and under the submarginal vein, the scape is foliaceously dilated somewhat wider than in the named species, the scutum is more distinctly punctate. The funicle and club are brown in both species. In this new species, the frons is a little wider than with mazzinini. Scape metallic. Both species bear a dull golden yellow lunula before the tegula (lateral aspect). The legs are dull golden yellow in both, the caudal two pairs of cox metallic. Postmarginal vein three fourths the length of the stigmal. Caudal tibial spurs single, long and stout. Compared with type of mazzinini. From one female caught April 16, 1914, sweeping forest (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3066, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. Dedicated to Leland Ossian Howard. 5. ANAGYRUS CELLININI new species. Female :—Length, 2.60 mm. Metallic green, the abdomen dark purple, the fore wings sooty dusky at distal fourth, the legs yellowish brown except the concolorous caudal coxe. Is similar to howardii but the whole antenna is black except the white tip of scape, the different staining of the fore wing,. the longer funicle joints (1-3 being subequal, long, over twice longer than wide, distinctly longer than the pedicel; funicle 6 somewhat longer than wide); caudal tibial spurs not seen; the abdomen not green at base; the axille are not separated so widely as in howardii. Funicle 6 subequal to the pedicel. Lateral apex of the truncate second tooth of mandible acute. Compared with type body of howardii. Frons moderate. From one female taken May 2, 1914, sweeping jungle (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3067, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and a fore wing on a slide. Dedicated to Benvenuto Cellini. 6. ANAGYRUS GUTTATIPES new species. Female :—Length, 1.20 mm. Dark rosaceous green, the abdomen honey yellow, slightly embrowned across base, the tegule, legs, distal end of both scape and pedicel and funicle 6, pure white. Each cephalic and caudal femur with a narrow encircling band of blackish a short distance proximad of knees (an encircling band on caudal femur, a spot dorsad on cephalic femur); each tibia with two black dorsal spots, one just before tip, one just distad of knee. Scape and club black; first five funicle joints dusky. Fore wings lightly dusky and with four obscure radiating hyaline rays, of which the cephalic two form a curved, transverse hyaline marking from apex of postmarginal vein, all central and a little distad of venation. Scape distinctly com- pressed for its entire length. Pedicel slightly shorter than funicle 1 which is one and two thirds fimes longer than wide and subequal to 2 and 3; funicle 6 a little longer than wide; club somewhat wider, somewhat over half the length of the funicle, not quite as long as the scape. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 135 The broad, second tooth of mandibles with a concave apical margin. Hind tibial spur single. Face inflexed, the frons narrow, somewhat over thrice the diameter of the cephalic ocellus. Hairless line complete, with a dozen or more lines of discal cilia proximad of it. Venation pale yellow, the marginal vein punctiform, the postmarginal about half the length of the slender stigmal. Fore wing broadly pyriform, densely ciliate. Head, seutum and scutellum densely shagreened, the scutum with an obscure median impression. Axille steel blue, smoother, acute mesad and there broadly separated. Scutum broad, scutellum large, peltate. Pubescence distinct but not conspicuous. Abdomen conic-ovate, no longer than the thorax. Seape compressed distinctly, not dilated so much as usual. From cne female caught in forest, January 4, 1914 ae P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonyale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3068, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; hind legs, fore wing and head on a slide. 7. ANAGYRUS GROTII new species. Female :—Length, 1.35 mm. Scape as in guttatipes. neous green, the wings hyaline, the abdomen purplish black, the funicle, club and legs light pale lemon yellow, the coxe metallic green, the hind femora with a purplish black stripe around them at proximal third. Tegule yellowish at base. Mandibles with the second tooth broadly truncate. Postmarginal vein two thirds the length of the stigmal, longer than the marginal which is somewhat longer than wide. Thorax densely scaly, the axille transversely lineolated, distinctly separated at meson though not for a great distance. Scape a little dilated ventrad, whitish at tip; pedicel whitish at tip. Ovipositor not exserted. Abdomen reticulated. Funicle joints all somewhat shorter than the pedicel, 2-4 longest, a little longer than wide, 1-2 subquadrate, 5 and 6 wider than long, wider than the preceding. From one female caught in forest, November 30, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3069, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, head and a fore wing on a slide. Later, a female same place caught November 5, 1913. Dedicated to Hugo Grotius. 8. ANAGYRUS ALBICLAVA new species. Female :—Length, 1.60 mm. Metallic grass green, the abdomen dark purple, the coxw concolorous, the legs pale yellow except hind femur and a spot dorsad on hind tibia just below the knees. Wings hyaline, the marginal vein punctiform, the postmarginal vein not quite half the length of the stigmal which is: long and clavate. Antenne concolorous, the club yellowish white; seape greatly dilated ventrad, pedicel somewhat longer than funicle 1 which is subequal to 2, 3 and 4, all of which are somewhat longer than wide; funicle 5 and 6 subquadrate; club ovate, not long. Second tooth of mandible broadly truncate. Frons moderately broad. Head and thorax very densely scaly punctulate, the frons with scattered obscure punctures, the scutum also. Axillse finely delicately scaly, separated by a short carina. Abdomen densely scaly, the ovipositor just tipping it. Hind tibial spur single. Closely allied with purpureus but the antenne are differently colored, the frons a little wider, the hind legs half metallic and the funicle joints all longer, 1 not shortest; subquadrate as in purpureus. Also, the ovipositor is not distinctly but shortly exserted and the axille are not a little separated. Also the thorax is convex and the general coloration quite different. Scape broadly dilated in purpureus. From one female caught by sweeping forest on Mount Pyramid (3,000 feet) August 17, 1912. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3070, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. 136 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 9. ANAGYRUS NOVIPURPUREUS new species. Female :—Exactly similar to purpureus with which I have compared it (types) but the . funicle and club all white except the dusky funicle 1 and the axille are distinctly joined and with a short carina between them. Also funicle 2 is slightly wider than long not slightly longer than wide. Hind tibial spur single. The extruded portion of the ovipositor is somewhat shorter than with purpureus. From one female taken by sweeping forest, January 8, 1913. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3071, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; the head, a fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. 10. ANAGYRUS HEGELI new species. Female :—Length, 0.90 mm. Ovipositor not exserted. Scape but slightly dilated. Color pattern similar to albiclava but the fore wings have a distinct, oblique, dusky stripe across from the stigmal, marginal and distal part of submarginal veins and the funicle and club are yellowish white. More closely allied with spongitus which it resembles very much differing only in that the fore wing bears the dusky stripe. Otherwise as in spongitus with which I have compared it (types). Face much inflexed. Frons moderately broad. Hind tibial spur single. Thorax polygonally scaly. From one female caught in forest, May 2, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3072, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and hind tibie with slide type of Ceraptrocerus emersoni Girault. Dedicated to G. W. F. Hegel. 11. ANAGYRUS SEMIFULVUS new species. Female:—Length, 1 mm. Seape only slightly dilated, appearing merely compressed. Marginal vein somewhat longer than wide. Yellowish brown, the wings hyaline; the knees (except those of middle legs), tips of tibies and the tarsi white, the dorsal thorax dark metallic green. Middle of middle tibize white and also on these a white ring a short distance out from knee (thus middle tibize white with two rather broad yellow-brown encircling bands and a narrower one at base). Axille slightly separated. Vertex blackish. Scutum and scutellum very finely densely scaly and with a short silvery pubescence. Pedicel somewhat longer than any of the funicle joints, the first of the latter rather abruptly shorter than the following, distinctly wider than long, joints 2-6 subequal, a little wider than long, a half longer than 1. Face much inflexed, the frons sloping, mode- rately narrow. Postmarginal vein barely shorter than the stigmal which is distinctly longer than the marginal. Cheeks nearly as long as the eyes. Hind knees broadly white. From one female caught by sweeping foliage of lantana in fields near town, October 20, 190 Habitat: Mackay, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3073, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, hind tibize and a fore wing on a slide. 12. ANAGYRUS SPONGITUS new species, Female:—Length, 0.80 mm. Ovipositor not extruded. With the general color pattern of albiclava but differing from that species in being much less robust and more depressed, the axille usual (that is, a little separated), the general colora- tion a little brighter, the distal five antennal joints are yellowish white and apex of scape and pedicel, the scape is only moderately dilated, the funicle joints all somewhat wider than long and gently widening distad, all shorter than the pedicel. Funicles 1-4 slightly dusky. Other- wise the same as albiclava. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 137 From one female specimen caught in a mangrove swamp, May 14, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3074, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type albiclava; head, a fore wing and a hind tibia with slide type of Cheiloneuroides bicristatus Girault. 13. ANAGYRUS CICADA new species. Frons narrow. Scape rather much dilated. Female :—Length, 1.05 mm. The ovipositor distinctly extruded a short distance. Hind tibial spur slender. Like howardii but a half smaller, the middle coxz are pure white, the legs are white, the thorax zneous and without numerous distinct large punctures, finely, densely punctulate, the axille reticulated, the fore wings are hyaline, the funicle and club yellowish white, one side of funicles 1-3 and base of club 1, black. Apex of scape pale. Venation pale; postmarginal vein very short, shorter than the marginal, the stigmal moderately long and slender, the marginal a little longer than wide. MHairless line of fore wing guarded proximad by a distinct line of stiff sete proximad of which are about six lines of smaller cilia. Funicles 2 and 3 longest, subequal, somewhat longer than wide, subequal to the pedicel, 1 a little shorter. From two females caught in forest, July 27 and August 2, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvaie (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3075, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one specimen on a tag with type howardii; head, fore wing, hind tibiz and head with slide type of dius. 14. ANAGYRUS DYARI new species. Female :—Length, 2.20 mm. Mandibles rather abnormal in that the lateral angle of each forms an acute tooth. Thus two short acute teeth and an inner truncation from base of the mesal one. Differs from all of the first eight species except cellinini and howardii by having the numerous large punctures on head, scutum and (less numerous) scutellum distinct. Differs from both the named species in having all the coxw metallic. Specifically from cellinini in having the fore wings a little less darkly infuscated, the abdomen is shorter, the hind tibize dorsad just below knee blackish, the funicle a little stouter, the cephalic femora dark metallic along proximal half. In howardii, the legs are distinctly paler, the wings hyaline, the antennz different. Scape greatly dilated. Hind tibial spurs double. Tegule reddish brown. From one female caught in jungle, Tweed River, May 4, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Tweed Heads, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3076, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type cellinini; head, a fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. 15. ANAGYRUS DIUS new species, Frons moderately broad. Hind tibial spurs single. Female :—Length, 1 mm. Like novipurpureus in structure (the axille with a carina between them) but the legs are bright golden yellow, the thorax metallic green (not purple), the form more slender and flattened and less robust, the ovipositor not extruded, the scutum more densely scaly, the scutellum not longitudinally lined but densely punctulate. Venation yellow. Hairless line of fore wing with about six lines proximad of it. Funicles 1 and 2 dusky, rest of antenna distad yellowish white. Apex of scape whitish. Funicles 1-3 subequal, a little longer than wide, shorter than the pedicel; 4-6 wider than long. Scape not greatly dilated, only moderately so. From one female caught April 13, 1913 in forest (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3077, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type novipurpureus; head, fore wing and hind tibiz on a slide. 138 * MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 16. ANAGYRUS SUBGIGANTEUS new species. Female :—Length, about 3.35 mm. Robust. Dark rosaceous coppery, the head, face of pronotum and mesopleurum neous green, the antennw black metallic. Legs concolorous but the tarsi soiled white, the cephalic knees, middle coxw#, femora and knees and most of dorsal edge of caudal femur, reddish brown. Cephalic femur toward apex above and immediate tips of cephalic tibie, reddish brown. The very broad caudal wings hyaline, the fore wings very deeply infuscated from base nearly to apex, the latter rather broadly hyaline, the infuscation rather light proximad, distinctly much darker and pronounced from a little proximad of the bend of the submarginal vein distad to apex, sooty except the first part out to end of stigmal vein which is dark brown; proximal margin of the deeper infuscation proximad of the hairless line and obliqued caudo-proximad: from cephalad; distal margin of infuscation convex. Venation brown-black, the postmarginal vein nearly four fifths the length of the stigmal; hairless line with many lines of cilia proximad of it. Axille normal. Frons with rather dense pin-punctures, moderate, a little wider than the cheeks are long, the latter a little over half the length of the eyes. Femora and tibiz distinctly compressed (except middle legs); hind tibial spur distinct. Mesopleurum very finely, densely sheened. Dorsal thorax (except propodeum) with numerous, small yet distinct setigerous punctures, the pubescence contrasting, silvery, moderately dense. Scutellum extend- ing to abdomen. Expansion of scape great; pedicel small, scarcely longer than wide at apex; funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, somewhat longer than the pedicel, the others all a little shorter and shortening slightly distad. From one female caught by sweeping foliage of forest trees, September 20, 1914. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3078, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen in alcohol with type of Atoposoma unguttatipes, the head and several legs severed from the body. This species is able to jump enormous distances. GENUS COCCIDOXENUS Crawford. This genus seems to intergrade with Anagyrus Howard, the scape gradually widening, the trons variable. However, it may prove sufficiently distinct to be retained. The tendency of the species to cluster about the genotype is marked. 1. COCCIDOXENUS AUSTRALIENSIS (Girault). Female. Anagyrus australiensis Girault. Length, 2.75 mm. Robust. Dark weneous green, shining; cephalic knees, tips of cephalic tibie and cephalic tarsi fuscous, the other tarsi white, the distal joint black. Fore wing with a distinct broad smoky stripe across it from the apex of the submarginal vein, its distal margin conical, the apex obtuse and distad of end of stigmal vein, the proximal margin nearly straight. Venation black. Frons shagreened, with scattered thimble punctures; eyes convergent above, ‘ the lateral ocelli near them; clypeus emarginate at the meson shallowly (cephalic margin) ; antennz widely separated at base, inserted near the clypeus. Marginal vein not much longer than wide, slightly shorter than the postmarginal which is only about two thirds the length of the stigmal. First tooth of mandible acute, the second broadly somewhat concavely truncate. Thorax and abdomen very finely polygonally reticulate, the scutum also with minute, shallow punctures, the scutellum densely punctulate. Abdomen depressed conic-ovate, the valves of the ovipositor extruded for a sixth of the length of the abdomen. Oblique hairless line of fore wing narrow. Propodeum short, without a median carina, laterad with dense feathery, greyish pubescence. Diseal cilia of fore wing dense and fine, the marginal cilia very short. Antenna 12-jointed, cylindrical, the club 3-jointed and only slightly enlarged, its distal joint subhemi- spherical, its intermediate joint shortest, wider than long; pedicel slightly shorter than funicle AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 139 1, the funicle joints shortening distad, the distal two subquadrate. Scape moderately widely dilated at apex. One very short ring-joint present. Antenne concolorous, moderately pubescent. Frons with some bronze. Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Associated with a psyllid. Type: No. Hy 3079, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a card, the head on a slide. This species resembles the North American Anagyrus nubilipennis Girault. 2. COCCIDOXENUS CHANNINGI (Girault). Female. Anagyrus channingi Girault. Length, 2.20 mm. excluding ovipositor. Bright metallic blue-green, the wings wholly hyaline; postmarginal vein as long as the stigmal, the marginal a little longer than wide. Legs and tegule yellow. Valves of ovipositor black. Head and thorax densely reticulated, the mesonotum with numerous thimble punctures. Posterior tibiz with an obscure, roundish spot above near each end. Posterior coxz concolor- ous. Antenne 12-jointed, with one very short ring-joint, the scape compressed distad, joints 2 and 3 of funicle longest, subequal to the pedicel, 1 slightly shorter, 6 a little wider than long; club wider than funicle, short, ovate, 3-jointed; antennz dark, suffused slightly with brownish. Ovipositor exserted for half the length of the abdomen. Habitat: South Australia: Port Lincoln. Type: I.1471, South Australian Museum. One specimen and a slide with the head. 3. COCCIDOXENUS PENNI (Girault), Female. Anagyrus penni Girault. Length, 2 mm. excluding ovipositor. Dark metallic green, the scutellum more or less coppery; wings hyaline, the postmarginal vein distinctly not more than a half the length of the stigmal; legs dark brown; antenne as in channingi but the club is more or less distinctly brownish, the scape less compressed distad, the second and third funicle joints not distinctly longer than wide, a little wider than long, somewhat shorter than the shorter pedicel, the funicle widening distad. Axille blue, barely separated. Ovipositor exserted for a length equal to a fifth that of the abdomen. Habitat: South Australia: Port Lincoln. Type: I. 1472, South Australian Museum. One specimen and a slide with the head. 4. COCCIDOXENUS EMERSONI (Girault), Female. Anagyrus emersoni Girault. Length, 1.50 mm. Like penni in mandibular structure. Bright bluish green, the scutellum with eneous tinges; legs bright yellowish brown, the cephalic femur and the middle of cephalic tibia metallic greenish, the posterior femur dusky proximad. Fore wings with a distinct yellowish stain under the stigmal and marginal veins, otherwise hyaline. Antenne concolorous with the legs but the scape metallic. Postmarginal vein no longer than half the length of the stigmal, the marginal subpunctiform. Head and thorax with a minute scaly sculpture. Ovipositor not extruded. Habitat: New South Wales: Sydney. Type: I. 1474, South Australian Museum. One specimen and a slide with the head. 5. COCCIDOXENUS WORCESTERI new species, Female, Length, 1.32 mm. Like channingi but bright metallic green, the ovipositor not exserted, the postmarginal vein a fourth shorter than the stigmal, the sculpture of the head a little rougher than that of the scutum, the caudal tibia without a black spot, the legs bright lemon yellow except caudal 140 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. cox. Funicle joints all distinctly shorter than the pedicel, the latter and the scape metallic green except at apex. Distal three funicle joints wider than long. Outer apical angle of the broad second tooth, acute. The minute ring-joint is present. Funicle and club concolorous with legs, the scape only slightly widened distad. Marginal vein punctiform. Frons mode- rately narrow. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Forest, January. Type: No. Hy 3080, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the head on a slide. A female, forest-downs, Hughenden, July 14, 1912. 6. COCCIDOXENUS WUNDTI new species. Female :—Length, 1.05 mm. Runs to Anagyrus purpureus but the legs are concolorous except the brown intermediate femora and tibie and the yellow tarsi, knees, front tibiz# and distal half or more of hind tibia. Body densely scaly. Ovipositor barely exserted. Dark metallic green. Antenne black or else concolorous, the club lighter; scape only very slightly thickened distad, the pedicel much longer than any of the funicle joints which are subquadrate, the distal two wider than long; funicle 1 not quite half the length of the pedicel. Postmarginal vein about a third the length of the slender stigmal, a little longer than the marginal. Frons broad. Axille a little separated. Hind tibial spurs apparently single. Middle tibia with a dusky spot just below knee. From one female taken sweeping on forest downs, July 14, 1912. Habitat: Hughenden, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3081, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 7. COCCIDOXENUS LUNULATUS new species. Female :—Length, 1.28 mm., exclusive of ovipositor which is distinctly, shortly extruded. Very similar to australiensis but differs in the following particulars: The general coloration is lighter green, the lower face dark blue; the middle legs are pale brownish yellow except femora proximad; funicle 2 is longest, somewhat longer than wide, 1 subequal to 3 and the pedicel, 5 and 6 wider than long; the band on the fore wing is not so black; the axille are acute at mesal aspect, distinctly separated for a short distance (in australiensis blunt at mesal end and separated narrowly by a short sulcus); the abdomen is somewhat shorter, the pubescence on scutum more variable; the thorax bears a white lunula laterad just cephalad of the tegule and the latter are margined cephalad with pale brown. Ovipositor valves reddish brown just beyond middle nearly to tip (also present more faintly in australiensis) ; the funicle is suffused with white. Scape serrate dorsad. Frons densely shagreened, moderately narrow, about three and a half diameters of the cephalic ocellus). Ring-joint present. Hind tibial spur single. Face inflexed. Compared with type of australiensis. From one female caught sweeping in forest, April 14, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3082, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; hind leg, fore wing and a head on a slide. 8. COCCIDOXENUS TRICOLOR new species. Female :—Length, 0.70 mm. Small, stout. Dark metallic green, the broad wings hyaline, the abdomen orange yellow at proximal half except narrowly along the margins; antenne and legs pale yellow. Head and thorax densely scaly. Marginal vein quadrate (a little longer than wide in one wing), the stigmal a little longer than it, the postmarginal vein subequal to the marginal or a little shorter. Axille distinctly but not widely separated. Abdomen short, triangular, the ovipositor slightly AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 141 extruded. Mandibles with the second tooth broadly truncate. Resembles Hctopiognatha minor Perkins. Frons twice the diameter of the cephalic ocellus. Pedicel a little dusky. Cheeks somewhat shorter than the eyes. Pedicel longer than any of the funicle joints of which 4 is longest, somewhat longer than wide, 5 next, then 6 which is barely longer than wide; 1-3 subequal, moniliform. Club somewhat over half the length of the funicle. Segment 3 of abdomen apparently occupying two thirds of the surface. Differs from Fulgoridicida dichroma Perkins in having the second tooth of mandible broad, the proximal three joints of funicle smaller than the distal and the general metallic green color of the thorax. Near to bicolor from which it differs principally in the color of the abdomen. From one female taken by sweeping in jungle, May, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3083, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. 9. COCCIDOXENUS BICOLOR new species. Female :—Length, 0.80 mm. Habitus of a scelionid. Brown, the head and thorax washed with metallic greenish, the wings hyaline, the abdomen pale honey yellow (darkening after death or drying), the antennew and legs concolorous with the abdomen. Head and thorax finely scaly. Axille distinctly separated for a short distance. Marginal vein slightly longer than wide, the postmarginal and stigmal veins subequal, each distinctly longer than the marginal but not twice its length, the two forming a V. Second tooth of mandible broadly truncate. Pedicel much longer than any of the funicle joints of which the first three are subquadrate and narrower, the distal three subequal, a little longer than wide, each distinctly longer than the proximal three. Club about two thirds the length of the funicle. Frons narrow but not very narrow. From one female caught by sweeping a jungle-clothed forest streamlet, January 3,. 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3084, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head on a slide. 10. COCCIDOXENUS INCONSPICUUS new species. Female:—Length, 0.80 mm. Axille with a carina between them. Ovipositor not extruded. Metallic purple, the wings hyaline. Body finely scaly. Tarsi yellowish, also knees and tips of tibie; middle tibiw# yellow except proximad. Scape and pedicel concolorous, rest of antenne yellowish brown, the first two funicle joints darker, subequal, wider than long, 3 slightly longer than 2, rest like 2 but 6 distinctly wider; pedicel distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints. Scape pale at tip, compressed, its bulla concolorous. Frons narrow. Club two thirds the length of the funicle or a little more. As compared with wundti, the body is distinctly smaller, the thorax distinctly less flat, convex, the abdomen more produced beneath. Venation pale yellow, the postmarginal vein not quite half the length of the average stigmal. Hairless line of fore wing with at least five lines of cilia proximad of it. Discal ciliation of the broad fore wing exceedingly dense and fine. Hind tibial spur single. From one female caught in forest, January 6, 1913. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3085, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type wundti; head, hind tibia and fore wing with slide type of Rhopalencyrtoidea purpureicorpus Girault. Fulgoridicida apparently differs from this genus in having the third segment of the abdomen occupying most of the surface. 142 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. PARACALOCERINUS new genus. 1, PARACALOCERINUS AUSTRALIENSIS new species. Genotype. Female :—ULength, 1.20 mm. Metallic purple, the scutellum and propodeum green; cephalic and intermediate tibiae pale brown, the hind tibiz whitish below the knees for some distance; tarsi pale brown. Fore wings brown from the bend of the submarginal vein to apex, the brown broken by a large, obliquely ovate white area at each wing margin and thus two opposite white areas, situated just a little distad of the apex of the venation. Stigmal and postmarginal veins short, the former a little the longer, the marginal vein long, four or more times longer than the stigmal; oblique hairless line distinct. Axille nearly meeting. Ovipositor valves black, extruded for a length equal to half that of the abdomen. Head and thorax with a fine scaly sculpture. Mandibles with two equal acute teeth. Propodeal spiracle minute, round. Antenne 9-jointed, the club solid, no ring-joint. Scape slender, the pedicel much longer than any of the funicle joints which are all much wider than long, and widening distad; scape without the bulla about as long as the funicle, the club more or less the same length. Frons moderately broad, the face inflexed. From one female captured by sweeping the forest floor, top of coast range of mountains (1,500 feet), May 26, 1912. ; Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3086, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head on a slide. In a female from Gordonvale, January 1, 1913, caught by A. P. Dodd sweeping a jungle- clad forest streamlet, the middle tibia was lemon yellow. A female was caught in jungle, May, 1913, at the same place and another there in the forest on March 31, 1914, the latter with no trace of wings. Also, a normal female by sweeping grass in forest, Capeville, Pentland, Queensland, September 15, 1914. A female from Kuranda, Queensland, September 12, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). ECTROMELLA new genus. Female:—Head thin, somewhat longer than wide, the antenne 11-jointed, the funicle 5-jointed, three club joints, one very short ring-joint; scape cylindrical. Wings hyaline, the marginal vein barely longer than wide, the stigmal short but distinctly longer than the marginal, the postmarginal nearly as long as the marginal, subobsolete; wings with an oblique hairless line. Axille barely separated. Abdomen pointed conic-ovate, the ovipositor not extruded. Form small, slender. The mandibles are very small, with two acute teeth. Frons narrow at upper face, rather broad caudad at occipital margin, the eyes rounded; cheeks long. Hind tibial spur single, the middle tibial spur over twice its size but not very stout. Oblique hairless line of fore wing obscure, apparently running along against the submarginal vein. Fore wings densely, very finely ciliate discally. Scutellum convexly rounded at apex. 1. ECTROMELLA BICOLOR new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.65 mm. Dark metallic purple, the thorax mostly yellowish brown washed lightly with purplish, the pronotum and propodeum purple. Antenne yellowish brown, the pedicel as long as the first funicle joint which is twice longer than wide and distinctly longer than the other four joints of which 2 is shortest, somewhat shorter than 5 and narrowest; joints 3 and 4 subequal, each a fourth shorter than 1; club dusky, wider than the funicle. Thorax with a distinct scaly sculpture. Legs pale yellow. 7 AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 143 Described from one female captured from a window in a wool-house in the city, October 3, 1911. ; Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3087, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. Also one female, Townsville, January 23, 1915. Compared with type. GENUS EPIDINOCARSIS Girault. Head a little longer than wide (cephalic aspect), the antennz inserted near the clypeus, 12-jointed with a ring-joint, the scape enormously dilated ventrad, the funicle filiform, the joints all longer than wide, the first as long as the pedicel which is elongate; club 3-jointed, cylindrical. Abdomen elongate, sharply pointed, distinctly longer than the head and thorax combined, the ovipositor slightly exserted. Marginal and stigmal veins subequal, moderately long, the stigmal curved, the postmarginal a half shorter; oblique naked line present. Vertex punctate. No carina between the base of the antenne. Propodeum without a median carina, transverse, widening distad. Frons moderately broad. Mandibles with two acute teeth. Axille meeting or separated. Corrected description. 1. EPIDINOCARSIS TRICOLOR Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 1.80 mm. Orange yellow, the legs pale yellow, the coxe nearly white, the fore wings slightly stained proximad under the submarginal vein; pronotum (except laterad), cephalic margin of scutum, a large egg-shaped spot filling the center of scutellum from base to apex, two large areas on metathorax, their lateral margins involving the spiracle and separated broadly at meson and the distal half or more of the abdomen, purplish black. Head black, also the antenne except distal fifth or more of the scape, a little less than distal half of the pedicel, distal (sixth) funicle joint and the club which are white. Head and thorax finely densely alutaceous; the vertex and scutum with many pin-punctures. Distal funicle joint a little over half the length of the first which is three and a half times its own width. Funicle 6 not twice longer than wide, subequal to club 1. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, 1,500 feet, May 30, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3088, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head on a slide. 2. EPIDINOCARSIS SUBFLAVICEPS new species. Female :—Length, 2 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal to a fifth that of the abdomen. Like tricolor but the head is concolorous with the body as are also the legs; the fore wings are hyaline; all of the pronotum and scutum immaculate but the face of pronotum is black; scutellum with a narrow black line down the meson or a central spot mesad. Otherwise as in tricolor except that the funicle and club are orange yellow to brown-black, the second funicle joint white, the third and fourth more or less blackish. The pedicel is a little shorter than the first funicle joint while the distal joint of the funicle is longer than in tricolor, over twice longer than its width, over half the length of the club while funicle 1 1s subequal to the pedicel. Cephalic margin of scutum sometimes blackish. From one female caught by sweeping in forest, September 12, 1912. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3089, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head on a slide with type of tricolor. 3. EPIDINOCARSIS MIRUS new species. Female :—Length, 1.30 mm. Uniformly brownish yellow, the wings hyaline. From tricolor antenne, differing in that all of the funicle joints are black except 2 and 3 which together with the club are pure white; and from subflaviceps in having much shorter distal funicle joints as in tricolor and in 144 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. subflaviceps only the second joint of the funicle is white. Mesonotum clothed with short white pubescence. Legs pale yellowish. Ovipositor only slightly exserted. The short ring-joint is present. The extreme tip of the scape is black in all three species. The ovipositor in mirus is barely exserted. Scape colored as in the other species. Described from one female captured by sweeping miscellaneous vegetation along the left bank of the Pioneer River, October 21, 1911. Habitat: Mackay, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3090, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag; the head and a hind leg on a slide. A second female from virgin jungle, Malanda, Northern Queensland, December 31, 1911. 4. EPIDINOCARSIS FUSCIVENTRIS new species. Female :—Length, 1.80 mm. : Orange yellow, the face of pronotum, ventral margin of the face and the antenna jet black; wings hyaline; legs white; cox, abdomen and metapleura, brownish black; pronotum silvery white, also an oval spot in center of propodeum with a black dot in its center. Tegule silvery. An inverted conspicuous, tau-shaped marking on each side of scape at apex silvery white. Eyes hairy. A quadrate, white dot on scape at base. Mandibles with two acute teeth. Funicle 1 about four times longer than wide, somewhat longer than the pedicel; 2-4 subequal to eacn other and to the pedicel, 6 somewhat longer than wide; club longer than distal two funicle joints together. Caudal tibial spurs double. Frons moderate. Cheeks not half the length of the eyes. Ring-joint present. Oblique hairless line of fore wing closed at both ends; the numerous cilia proximad of it no coarser than the main ciliation; marginal vein four times longer than wide, a little shorter than the long stigmal, the latter a little shorter than the postmarginal. Scutum and prothorax with short silvery pubescence. Postscutellum lemon yellow, laterad the propodeum concolorous with abdomen. Head and thorax extraordinarily, finely, densely, pin-punctured and also the dorsal surface of the abdomen. Venation rather abnormal. Axille distinctly separated for some distance. From one female taken by sweeping, May 4, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3091, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; fore wing, caudal tibie and head on a slide. 5. EPIDINOCARSIS AURATISCUTUM new species. Female :—Length, 1.25 mm. Like tricolor but differing as follows: The large, black spot on scutellum is absent, the mesopleurum is purplish black while the distal half of dorsum of the honey yellow abdomen is not black, the extreme tip of abdomen silvery white. The funicle joints are all a little shorter. Postmarginal vein hardly developed, the stigmal somewhat shorter than the marginal. Otherwise the same. From one female caught sweeping jungle along a forest streamlet, December 4, 1915. Habitat: Gordonvyale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3092, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and a fore wing on a slide. 6. EPIDINOCARSIS CUNEINOTA new species. Female :—Length, 1.80 mm., including the ovipositor which is shortly extruded, black, white at base. Differs from tricolor only in having the postmarginal vein a little over a third the length of the stigmal and in bearing a long conical black marking on seutum from base nearly to apex, the base of this marking fitting the broad mesal black of the pronotum which widens. rapidly from it; hence the base of the marking is but moderately broad, the whole a little AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 145 longer than wide at base. Also only distal third of pedicel is white, the distal two thirds of dorsum of abdomen is purplish black and there is a wider than long marginal blackish area on each side of abdomen at base. Tibie concolorous with the body. Avxille joined, with a carina between them. Venation yellow. Hairless line of fore wing with many lines of cilia proximad of it, broad, closed caudad. Hind tibial spurs double. Marginal vein four or five times longer than wide. Face inflexed. Cheeks nearly as long as the eyes, the frons moderately broad. From one female caught June 10, 1914, sweeping in forest. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3093, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specinen on a tag; head, fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. 7. EPIDINOCARSIS FOERSTERI new species. Female :—Length, 1.35 mm. Orange yellow, the face and dorsum of pronotum except laterad, propodeum, dorsal abdomen, median line of scutellum centrally and antenne, black. A silvery, curved stripe across scape just before apex; club and funicles 5 and 6 silvery white, also the legs, funicle 4 a little suffused with whitish. Wings hyaline. Scrobes not joined dorsad. Funicle 1 a little longer than the pedicel, 2-4 subequal, each a little shorter than 1, 6 a little longer than wide. Hind tibial spur single. Hairless line of fore wing closed at each end, proximad of it, many lines of cilia. Axille with a carina separating them. Scutum and scutellum with short silvery pubescence. Scape greatly dilated. Venation normal. Funicle 1 about two and a half times longer than wide. From one female caught by sweeping forest on sand-ridges near coast, May 8, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3094, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; fore wing, head and a hind tibia with slide type of Aphycus sangwinithoraz. 8. EPIDINOCARSIS SIMILIS new species. Female :—Length, 1.10 mm. Very similar to auratiscutum Girault but only the face of the pronotum is purplish and the antenne differ in that the scape is much less dilated and is distinctly narrowly black at tip, the discal funicle joint is white only at tip; the pedicel and first three funicle joints are rather shorter and the head is orange yellow. Dorsum of abdomen more or less purplish or washed with that color. Propodeum wholly black in both species except cephalad of spiracle. The fore wing is more stained under the venation in this species, the venation more distinct (in both species about eight lines of discal cilia proximad of the hairless line). The scape is distinctly white at base (barely so in auratiscutum). Hind tibial spurs single. From one female caught sweeping in forest, April 12, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3095, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; fore wing, hind Jegs and head on a slide. 9. EPIDINOCARSIS NIGRIFLAGELLUM new species. Female :—Length, 1.75 mm. Orange yellow, the wings hyaline, the phragma, propodeum and abdomen brown-black, the antenne jet black except part of the scape which is colored as in the other species. Postmarginal vein a little longer than the stigmal which is still longer tuan the marginal. Head and thorax densely, finely, scaly reticulate, the abdomen somewhat more coarsely so, the second segment occupying somewhat less than a fourth of the surface, the third occupying the rest of the surface, bearing a spiracle at base which bears several very long sete. Pedicel K 146 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. subequa\ to funicle 3, a little shorter than 1 which is longest, nearly thrice longer than wide; funicle 6 somewhat longer than wide. Ovipositor inserted a little beyond proximal half. Legs pale, whitish. Oblique hairless line present. Stigmal and postmarginal veins longer than in the genotype. One minute ring-joint present. Axilla separated. Abdomen depressed, obtusely triangular, no longer than the thorax. Scutum with short, black not very dense pubescence, the seutellum with much less pubescence. Like the genotype but the abdomen shorter. From one female caught on flowers of Beckea, April 22,°1913 (H. Hacker). Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3096, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. GENUS MENISCOCEPHALUS Perkins. Head menisciform, the eyes widely separated in front, the axille in a triangle with extremely wide base, the caudal ones close to or touching the eye margins, the sculpture consisting of very large deep punctures. Mandibles short, wide, with two acute teeth at the apex. Antenne short and stout, inserted far below the middle of the face, the funicle joints short and becoming wider toward the club, clothed with short bristly black hairs. Mesoseutum about as long as the scutellum and bears appressed white sete. Axille meeting inwardly. Propodeum clothed with conspicuous silvery hairs. Wings hyaline, the marginal vein very short, subquadrate, the stigmal moderate, shorter than the marginal, the postmarginal subobsolete. Abdomen short and wide, depressed above, subtriangular, the ovipositor slightly exserted. Antenna 9-jointed, no ring-joint the club solid. In the male the antenne are inserted much nearer the middle of the face and the six funicle joints are elongate, subequal, each constricted in the middle and bearing above and below the constrictions a whorl of long hairs, the pedicel being much shorter than any one of these joints; but the club is one and a half times longer than one of the funicle joints. The axille are well separated inwardly. The marginal vein is rather longer than with the female. Genitalia almost entirely extruded. 1. MENISCOCEPHALUS EXIMIUS Perkins. Female; male. Genotype. Length, 2mm. Robust. Head dark blue, the great punctures metallic green, the antennz yellowish, more or less sordid, largely owing to the dense clothing of sete, the club paler than the rest. In the male the antennz, except the scape, are entirely infuscate. Mesonotum dark purplish, opaque or suboqaque, punctured like the head but not so deeply and coarsely; the seutellum very dull; mesopleura blue, opaque. All the tarsi and the tips of the middle tibiae pale, white or yellowish. Abdomen shining blue across the base. Habitat: Bundaberg, Queensland. Internal parasite of jassids. Type: Most likely in the entomological collection of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association, Honolulu. ‘« Form robust, the head thin, large, convex, lenticular, the antennz inserted near the mouth, their scrobes subobsolete, the scape slender, the flagellum clavate, one large ring-joint. Thorax convex. Axille separated by a distinct carina, otherwise broadly connate. Hind tibial spurs double, the hind tibiz compressed; front coxe large, together with their femur and tibia strongly compressed or flattened, the front tibia not quite two-thirds the length of the front femur. Abdomen short, triangular, depressed, the ovipositor not exserted. Frons broad. Scutum with scattered, white, thickened sete. Fore wings shaped as figured for Meniscocephalus eximius Perkins and with the exception of the flattened front legs, large ring joint in the antenne and the 3-jointed club, this specimen agrees with the description of that species. Marginal vein twice longer than wide, subequal to the stigmal; oblique hairless line present, short, guarded proximad by several short lines of coarse discal cilia, from thence proximad, the AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 147 wing naked except at base where there are numerous cilia. The specimen agrees with the original description except that the pedicel is black, the distal half of the club white. Scutellum and axille densely shagreened.’’ The added notes made from one female, caught on flowers of Beckea, Brisbane, April 22, 1913 (H. Hacker). The specimen is in the collections of the Queensland Museum, a. female on a tag, appendages on a slide. Genus FULGORIDICIDA Perkins. Head very wide, the hairy eyes extremely large, so that the part between them is very narrow, not more than a third as wide as one of these; ocelli in the form of an isosceles triangle which is much less wide at base than high and the caudal ones are close to the eye margins. Front dull, with dense, excessively minute sculpture. Antenne slender, the scape simple, the pedicel longer than the first funicle joint, the six funicle joints mostly longer than wide, the club as long or longer than the last three funicle joints. Mandibles bidentate, the teeth acute. Club 3-jointed, wider than the funicle. Thorax dull, sculptured like the front, the axilla meeting inwardly. Wings hyaline, hairy, the marginal fringes very short, the naked oblique line thin, the marginal vein short and thick and longer than wide, longer than the stigmal, the postmarginal acute and barely developed, shorter than the stigmal. Abdomen subtriangular, wide, depressed, foveated on each side toward base, the fovea bearing short bristles; ovipositor slightly exserted. In the male, the eyes are much more widely separated, the intervening space about as wide as one eye; the funicle joints are elongate, mostly twice longer than their width, bearing conspicuous, shortish hairs, the pedicel much shorter than the first funicle joint, the club about equal to the two preceding. The head is more decidedly menisciform, the ocelli placed in the portion of the angles of an almost equilateral triangle. 1. FULGORIDICIDA DICHROMA Perkins. Female; male. Genotype. Length, 1.25 mm. Head dull black, the scape yellowish or brownish yellow, the rest of antenna sordid. ‘Thorax opaque, black with slight greenish or bluish tinge, the tip of the scutelium more brightly blue or green in some aspects; mesepisternum more or less brownish or piceous; legs yellow, the cephalic femora darker. Abdomen of male very short and wide, blackish; that of the female yellow or brownish, dark apically and along the sides to near base. Antenne of male sordid yellowish, the elongate funicle joints subequal, the pedicel much shorter than the first of these and apparently darker than the other joints. Habitat: Cairns, Queensland. From eggs of Platybrachys or an allied genus. 2. FULGORIDICIDA SAINTPIERREI (Girault). Anagyrus saintpierret Girault. Female. Length, 2 mm. Differs from Anagyrus penni Girault in that the mandibles have the second tooth acute, not broadly truncate at apex and it is only a third of the size of the first tooth. Dark metallic bluish, the head and mesothorax rather bright green; legs metallic bluish, the tarsi brown. Wings hyaline, the venation blackish, somewhat as in penni. Antenne the same but the scape hardly at all dilated, the first and second funicle joints longest, each subequal to the pedicel, longer than wide (distinctly), the following joints more or less subquadrate; antenne blackish. Ovipositor projecting slightly. Habitat: South Australia: Port Lincoln. Type: I. 1473, South Australian Museum, one specimen on. a card and the head on a slide. 148 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 3. FULGORIDICIDA MINUTA new species. Female :—Length, 0.70 mm. Frons moderate. Dark metallic green, polygonally scaly. Knees, cephalic tibiz, other tibia except a dusky ring a short distance below knees and the tarsi yellowish white; also the funicle, club. and apex of pedicel. Axille very slightly separated if at all. Mandibles with two equal acute teeth, very small. Funicle joints enlarging distad, the first three subequal, narrower than the distal three, each a little longer than wide, 4 and 5 subequal, somewhat longer and wider than 3, 6 somewhat longer and wider than 5, about twice the size of 3, a little longer than wide, a little shorter than the pedicel. Club three fourths the length of funicle and a little wider. Cheek as long as the eyes. Hairless line of fore wing with many lines of discal cilia proximad of it. Venation yellow; a small dusky spot at the quadrate marginal vein. Post- marginal vein nearly as long as the thickened marginal, the stigmal not long but somewhat. -longer than the marginal. Fore wings moderately broad, finely, densely, ciliate. Club 1 longer than funicle 6. From one female caught in forest, November 1, 1911. Habitat: Cairns, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3097, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide with type slide of Epidinocarsis similis Girault. 4. FULGORIDICIDA NIGRICORPUS new species. Female :—Length, 1.05 mm. Black, the wings subhyaline, the antenne and legs brown-black. Head and thorax densely punctate. Marginal vein semicircular, barely longer than wide, the postmarginal vein much shorter than the marginal, as long as wide, the stigmal a little longer than the marginal. Axille a little separated. The second tooth of mandible a little longer than the first. Frons about two and two third times the width of an ocellus. Antenne filiform, the scape (excluding bulla) not as long as the funicle; pedicel longer than any of the funicle joints of which 2 is. longest, one and a half times longer than wide, 1 somewhat shorter than it, 3-4 subequal, each a little shorter than 2; funicle 6 subquadrate. Club a little wider than the funicle. Propodeum finely transversely lineolated. Thorax with scattered short yellowish hairs. Hind tibial spur single. At least ten lines of somewhat coarser cilia proximad of hairless line. From one female taken by sweeping forest, March 6, 1912. Habitat: Thursday Island, Torres Strait. Type: No. Hy 3098, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, hind tibia and a fore wing on a slide. 5. FULGORIDICIDA SIMPLICISCAPUS new species. Female :-—Length, 0.80 mm. Very dark metallic green, the head and thorax almost black; knees, tips of tibie and the tarsi brownish; middle legs suffused with brownish. Wings hyaline. Antennz concolorous; scape long and slender; pedicel rather long, as long as funicles 2 and 3 united, much longer than any of the funicle joints of which 3 is longest, somewhat longer than wide; funicle 1 barely longer than wide together with 2 which is a little longer, not as long as the pedicel. Distal funicle joint somewhat wider than long; club somewhat over half the length of the funicle, somewhat wider than the funicle. Mandibles with two short, subequal, acute teeth. Marginal vein a little longer than wide, the postmarginal very short, half the length of the marginal, the stigmal nearly twice the length of the marginal. Oblique hairless line present. Frons about half the width of the eyes, moderately narrow. Lateral ocelli slightly separated from the eyes. Cheeks nearly as long as the eyes. An obscure stain about the marginal vein. Head and thorax densely, finely punctulate, the axille a little smoother, the abdomen shining, finely scaly reticulate. Axille joined at meson. Scrobes rather long. Abdomen as long as the thorax. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 149 From one female from miscellaneous sweepings along the Herbert River, February 26, 1913. Habitat: Halifax (Ingham), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3099, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, a fore wing and an antenna on a slide. EPISTENOTERYS new genus. Female:—In my table of genera runs to the group containing Coccidoxenus Crawford but differs from all the included genera in having the vertex flat (the frons prominent), the face greatly inflexed and inclined ventro-caudad. Frons of moderate width. Antenne capitate, the large club somewhat longer than the funicle, the joints of the latter transverse linear, rapidly widening distad; scape slender; pedicel over half the length of the funicle. Mandibles small, with two acute teeth. Cheeks long. Marginal vein punctiform, the stigmal long and slender, curved, the postmarginal as long as the marginal; oblique hairiess line present. Axillee just meeting inwardly. Pronotum transverse-linear. Abdomen ovate, as long as the rest of the body, the ovipositor extruded for a third of its length. Hind tibial spur single. Secutellum rounded at apex. Thorax with a short phragma. 1. EPISTENOTERYS MARMORATIPES new species. Female :—Length, 1 mm., excluding the ovipositor. Orange yellow, the legs, occiput, ventral half of face, apex of pedicel, club and ventral edge of scape, silvery white. Abdomen silvery white, the distal half of ovipositor valves dusky, the dorsal abdomen with five rather broad brownish black cross-stripes, the first at base, the fifth at apex; two quadrate marginal spots of the same color between stripes 1 and 2, the latter and 5 accented quadrately at lateral margin. Pronotum except laterad and the cephalic margins (cephalic fourth) of seutum blue-black; phragma, antennew, propodeum except cephalo- laterad rather broadly, a convex stripe across scutellum just before apex, brownish black. Legs marked as follows: A broad dusky band around middle of cephalic tibiz and apex of same; cephalic knees dusky; two rather broad bands of same encircling middle tibie, middle tibie at apex and base; the same on caudal tibiw but the caudal knees are also dusky black and the tibiw at apex black only dorsad. Base of scape white. Fore wings very finely ciliate discally, stained lightly from bend of submarginal vein to apex of stigmal; proximad of hairless line (which is closed caudad), over fifteen lines of cilia which are about twice coarser than the main ciliation yet fine. Cheeks just ventrad of eye dusky. From one female taken in forest, May 2, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3100, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide with the slide type of Anagyrus novipurpureus Girault. GENUS ECHTHRODRYINUS Perkins. Head much wider than the cephalic part of the mesonotum, subsemicireular, the space between the great eyes very narrow, where narrowest not more than half the width of one of the eyes; caudal ocelli close to the eye margins and much more remote from the cephalic one than from each other, the face inflexed. Eyes clothed with very short, pale hairs. Mandibles with one small but distinct and more or less acute tooth and an inner apical truncation with its angle subrectangular, forming a distinet truncate second tooth. Antenne inserted near the mouth, the scrobes elongate and convergent above, the scape simple, the six funicle joints short and not differing much in length but the apical ones much wider than the basal; club with three subequal joints and as long as the three or four preceding joints of the funicle united; pedicel elongate, as long, or longer than, the first two joints of the funicle but not much thickened. Maxillary palpi short, joints 2 and 3 extremely short, 4 distinctly longer than either. 150 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Face between the cephalic ocellus and the great facial impression nearly smooth but with some sparse and very faint punctures. Mesonotum finely punctured and somewhat shining, the scutelium excessively densely sculptured except at apex, the axilla’ meeting inwardly. Wings. with a very short marginal fringe, the marginal vein very short (twice longer than wide) ,* the stigmal longish and clavate (subequal to the marginal), the postmarginal indistinct and little developed; the oblique, hairless line present. Abdomen short, triangular, about as long as the thorax, concave above, the ovipositor very slightly extruded, the hypopygium not prominent. With the habitus of Parencyrtus Ashmead. Antenne 11-jointed, the club 3-jointed. Male differing in the comparatively small, widely separated eyes, the ocelli in a sub- equilateral triangle, the very dense surface sculpture of the head and mesonotum and the more hairy antenne with a solid and smaller club-joint (the antenne 9-jointed). 1. ECHTHRODRYINUS DESTRUCTOR Perkins. Female; male. Genotype. Length, 1 mm. Head black, the mesonotum blue, metallic, in some aspects shining, very finely punctured and clothed with short black hairs; scutellum dull at base and with very dense, microscopic sculpture, its apex in some aspects shining and brilliantly green or blue and with some longish dark hairs; thorax beneath and the pleura, black, not or hardly metallic; abdomen bright metallic green on the basal portion. Wings hyaline, uniformly hairy except at base, the venation obseure brownish yellow. Antenne sordid yellowish, clothed with short hairs. The whole of all the legs pale yellowish. Habitat: Queensland. Parasitic on larve of Neodryinus, Paradryinus and so forth. Type: Query. 2. ECHTHRODRYINUS XANTHOGASTER new species. Female :—Length, 1.20 mm. With the habitus somewhat of Hadronotus. Dark metallic blue, the abdomen honey yellow and margined nearly to tip from base with brownish. Wings subhyaline, the venation as figured for the genotype; oblique hairless line present. Legs and antenna pale yellow, the scape concolorous at proximal half, the pedicel above at base. Funicle hispid, the joints all shorter than the pedicel, 1-3 narrower and shorter than the others, quadrate; 4 a little longer than wide, 5 and 6 subquadrate. Pedicel not long. Club naked, subequal in length to the three preceding joints combined. Scape slightly com- pressed. Mandibles as figured for the genotype. Axille connate at meson. Fore wings with short marginal fringes, slightly stained about the marginal and stigmai veins. Body finely densely scaly, the mesonotum with scattered pin-punctures. Pubescence sparse. Seulpture of the axille finer. A spiracle on margin of abdomen just proximad of middle and which bears a few very long hairs. Apparently agreeing in other characters with the genotype. Hind tibial spur single, small. Frons narrow. Club very little wider than funicle. Described from one female captured by sweeping in the jungle, July 24, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3101, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; the head, a fore wing and the anterior legs on a slide. The species resembles Coccidoxenus tricolor Girault but the marginal and stigmal veins are longer and the color of the abdomen is different. GENUS LEPTOMASTIX Foerster. Synonym: Calocerinella Girault. In the Australian species the head is lenticular, the costal cell extraordinarily narrow so that the marginal vein appears to be very elongate. Frons broad. Wings long, rather slender. Cheeks short, the eyes long. Scape long, slender, the bulla long. Stigmal and post- * The parenthetical remarks are mine. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 151 marginal vein moderately long, subequal. Lateral ocellus nearer the cephalic one than to the eye; axille meeting. Face convex, the antenne inserted near the mouth border, 12-jointed with one very short ring-joint, the club 3-jointed, the funicle joints very long, 1 being over twice the length of the pedicel. Mandibles with nearly equal acute teeth. Propodeum with three median carine, the lateral ones curved. Fore wings with an oblique hairless line from the stigmal vein, the line being more or less parallel with the cephalic margin. Stigmal vein a little shorter than the postmarginal, both moderately long. Abdomen shorter than the thorax, compressed, pointed at apex the wings extending beyond it for some distance. Legs long. Corrected description. 1. LEPTOMASTIX TRIFASCIATUS (Girault). Female. Genotype of Calocerinella. Length, 1.90 mm. Very dark metallic purplish, the proximal four tarsal joints and cephalic femora and tibize dusky yellowish, also the head and first two antennal joints. Finely alutaceous, the scutum also with small thimble punctures. Club not as long as funicle 1, its joints short, the region a third longer than funicle 6, the latter only about half the length of the first. Third band of fore wing much the longest, covering all of the distal third of the blade except around apical margin, which is clear; middle band with its distal margin crossing the apex of the stigmal vein, about equal to the proximal band. Propodeum and base of abdomen with silvery pubescence. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, April 9, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3102, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the head on a slide. One male, forest, Gordonvale, April 16, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Im the male, the funicle joints subnodular, with 3-4 whorls of long hairs to each. Honey yellow except the purple brown of thorax and abdomen; antenne 10-jointed, the club solid, hairy; funicle joints elongate, the first three longest, each subequal to the club. Two females, sweeping grass in forest, Capeville (Pentland), Queensland, September 12, 1914. Associated with forest grasses. 2. LEPTOMASTIX GUTTATIPENNIS new species. Female :—Length, 1.75 mm. Dull brown, the scutellum, axilla and abdomen deep purplish black; seutum with a purplish tinge; hind legs (except tarsi) purple, also the antennez except scape and pedicel. Nearly distal half of caudal wings dusky. Tips of hind tibize brown. Fore wings very deep purplish black, the extreme base hyaline and with the following perfectly clear areas—two obeonical areas suspended from the submarginal vein, the first with pubescence, the second naked; a similar naked area from the costal margin just distad of venation, obliqued proximad so as to touch the apex of the stigmal vein; a somewhat smaller, similar area opposite, from caudal margin and obliqued proximad; and a smaller, naked, oval spot nearly central on the wing blade and a little distad of the disto-caudal angle of the area distad of venation. A sub- quadrate, half clear area under marginal vein between it and the hairless line. Postmarginal vein shorter than the stigmal. Costal cell exceedingly narrow. Head densely, polygonally scaly, lenticular. Funicle 1 longest, somewhat over thrice the length of the pedicel, 2 a little shorter, 3 and 4 subequal, each a little shorter than 2; 6 somewhat over thrice longer than wide. Resembles structurally trifasciatus. Thorax sculptured like the head but the areas smaller. Axille with a carina between them. Scutum with greyish pubescence. Club joints somewhat longer than wide. Two hind tibial spurs, one very short. Described from one female caught in forest, April 20, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3103, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wings and hind tibie on a slide. 152 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 3. LEPTOMASTIX TRIFASCIATIPENNIS new species. Female :—Length, 2.15 mm. Similar to the original description of trifasciatus but the pronotum is also golden yellow except across cephalic and caudal margins and down the meson narrowly; propleura golden yellow. Middle tibia in both species yellowish. Axille with a carina between them in both species and the scutum bears short silvery pubescence. In this new species maxillary palpi 4-jointed, hind tibial spurs double, the two white stripes on fore wing nearly equal in length (proximo-distad). Proximal margin of third stripe triangularly produced. From one female caught by sweeping forest, May 27, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3104, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type trifasciatus; head, fore wing and hind leg on a slide. 4. LEPTOMASTIX AURATICORPUS new species. Female :—Length, 1.35 mm. Bright golden yellow, the flagellum (excluding pedicel) and a conspicuous spot on the thoracic pleurum caudad, jet black. Bulle and dorsal edge of scape dusky black, the former long; scape extending to tip of vertex; pedicel twice longer than wide; funicie 1 six (or more) times longer than wide, twice the length of the pedicel, 3 and 4 subequal, a little shorter than 1 or 2, 6 a little longer than the pedicel; club not as long as the scape. Fore wings hyaline but distinctly embrowned along each margin (all of caudal margin narrowly except at each end and the cephalic margin more broadly from venation to cephalo-distal apex); fore wings somewhat over thrice longer than wide. Frons and face coarsely scaly reticulate; thorax more finely so, the scutum with numerous, minute, setigerous punctures. Axille very narrowly separated by a short, narrow carina (same in trifasciatus); propodeum without a median carina. Propodeum and base of abdomen naked, not with silvery pubescence as in the genotype. Marginal vein normal, about three and a half times longer than wide, a little longer than the stigmal vein which in turn is a little longer than the postmarginal. Costal cell very narrow. Head (cephalic aspect) a little wider than long, the eyes large, the cheeks only about a fourth the length of the eyes; frons broad; lateral ocelli about as far from the cephalic ocellus as from the eye margins; face convex, head lenticular, the scrobes very short. Mandibles with two small acute teeth. Abdomen as in Hpidinocarsis, shorter than the slender fore wings but as long as the thorax. Hind tibial spurs double, very unequal. From one female taken by sweeping in forest, August 30, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3105, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and fore wings, middle and hind tibiz# on a slide with fore wing of genotype. 5. LEPTOMASTIX BICOLORICORNIS new species. Female:—Length, 1.80 mm. Wings shorter than the abdomen which is longer than the rest of the body and acute. Dark metallic purple, the wings hyaline, the cox concolorous, the iegs yellowish brown except the femora above and near base. Antenne black, scape at apex broadly, a silvery white stripe along each side of scape, proximal fifth of funicle 1 and proximal four fifths of funicle 2, silvery white. Pedicel over thrice longer than wide at apex, somewhat over half the length of funicle 1 which is longest, somewhat longer than 2 or 3 which are elongate and subequal; funicle 6 somewhat less than twice longer than wide, somewhat shorter and thicker than the pedicel. Head with very fine surface sculpture and distinct, moderate-sized thimble punctures. Body similar to that of the genotype except that the abdomen is longer than the thorax, the propodeum lacks the median carine# and the scutellum and scutum also bear the silvery pubescence. Thorax minutely densely sheened; scutum with short silvery pubescence, the AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.-GIRAULT. 153 punctures evident, the pubescence a little less conspicuous than that of the scutellum. Hind tibial spurs unequal. Postmarginal vein a little longer than the stigmal, subequal to the marginal which is about two and a quarter times longer than wide. Funicle 6 twice longer than wide. Head finely reticulated, with scattered thimble punctures. From two females captured by sweeping in forest, December 19, 1911 and March 21, 1912. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3106, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. 6. LEPTOMASTIX NIGRITEGULZ new species. Female :—Length, 1.80 mm. Like auraticorpus but the pedicel is only a little longer than wide at apex, the body is wholly golden except the large black tegule, funicle 1 is over twice the length of the pedicel, 6 distinctly longer than the pedicel; margins of fore wing embrowned cephalad from apex of marginal vein to apical bend, caudad barely at all; fore wings not quite thrice longer than wide. Propodeum short at the meson. Marginal vein a little shorter than the postmarginal, a little longer than the stigmal. An obscure brown streak on fore wings disto-caudad, a little away from the margin. Costal cell narrow but distinct. Cheeks about a third the length of the long eyes. Dorso-lateral margins of abdomen forming narrow ecarinze. Caudal tarsi blackish. Otherwise about as the description of the named species. Hind tibial spurs not seen. From one female caught September 15, 1914 in grass in forest. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3107, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen in aleohol with type of Atoposoma unguttatipes. Genus ANUSIA Foerster. 1. ANUSIA FLAVA new species. Male :—Length, 1.25 mm. Honey yellow, fuseous in places, wholly wingless. Pedicel minute; scape, funicles 1 and 2 and proximal part of 3 reddish brown, the pedicel pale yellow; rest of antenna and the ventral margin of the flat scape, black. Pronotum conical, broad and long, nearly twice longer than the seutum and together with the latter pubscent. Axille meeting at meson, the triangular secutellum finely longitudinally striate. Propodeum with an inverted V-shaped median carina, the arms diverging from base and separated there. Abdomen glabrous except the rather long second segment and segments 3-5 united, the latter transverse; segment 6 occupying the rest of the surface of the abdomen or over half, much over twice the length of 2, at base laterad with a spiracle which bears very long sete; base of abdomen fuscous. Mandibles small, with two acute teeth. Head held nearly horizontally (face dorsad), narrowed cephalad of the eyes as though the cheeks were absent. Funicle 1 much the longest, the antenne 11-jointed, no ring-joint. Frons moderately broad. Ant-like. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, July 24, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3108, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on a slide. GENUS PARANUSIA Girault. Cephalic aspect, head rounded, the antenne inserted below the middle of the face, much below the eyes, but not near the clypeus, widely separated, the scape very long, extending far beyond the vertex, cylindrical, the flagellum compressed, clavate, the funicle joints transverse and short, much wider than long, the club solid, no ring-joint, the antenna 9-jointed; pedicel very short. Lateral ocelli distant from the eye margins; a distinct transverse suture across face 154 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. above antennal insertions. Axille not quite meeting inwardly. Mandibles bidentate, both teeth strong. Abdomen short, produced ventrad, the ovipositor usually projecting some distance beyond, naked and slender. Fore wings simple, infuscated, with an oblique hairless line from the junction of the marginal and stigmal veins, the marginal vein rather long but a third shorter than the postmarginal, the stigmal well developed slightly shorter than the postmarginal. Legs normal, the posterior tibiz with one spur, the intermediate tibial spur not enlarged. Mandibles appearing acute or edentate from above (their lateral aspect). Labial palpi 3-jointed, the maxillary 4-jointed. The cylindrical scape, cephalic characters, antennal segmentation and the long post- marginal vein serve to distinguish this genus. 1. PARANUSIA LONGISCAPUS Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 1.75 mm. Submetallic greenish black, the face below the transverse suture, the mesoscutum and axille dark reddish; legs black, the tarsi lemon yellow; fore wings stained irregularly, the venation fuscous. Sides of thorax reddish; antenne black. Head and thorax impunectate, finely alutaceous. Pedicel longer than any of the funicle joints, of which the third is longest, all widening distad and prolonged at one side from apex, the sixth four times wider than long; club somewhat over half the length of the funicle. Described from eleven specimens on two cards (one pin) and mounted with ants upon which they are probably parasitic. Habitat: Murray Bridge, South Australia. Type: I.1290, South Australian Museum, the above specimens and a slide bearing head and fore wing. GENUS EPANUSIA Girault. Like Anusia Foerster but the marginal vein not short, over twice longer than wide, the postmarginal vein not much shorter than the marginal, somewhat longer than the stigmal; the lateral ocelli are far distant from the eye margins, the frons is moderately broad, with a very fine scaly sculpture and scattered pin-punctures. The wings are perfect and banded. Otherwise the same. Fore wing with a long hairless line back from stigmal vein and which curves, proximad. Axille slightly separated. Robust. 1. EPANUSIA BIFASCIATUS Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 2.10 mm. Dark biue, submetallic, the scutum and propodeum with short white pubescence, the scutellum bright orange, the axilla and pronotum (less so) suffused with orange; head also orange, the vertex darker. Fore wings with two narrow black bands, the first across from the marginal and posimarginal veins, suberescentic, its distal margin concave; the second across. from the bend of the submarginal vein, both fainter near caudal margin; the blade distad of the apex of the postmarginal vein densely, finely, uniformly ciliate and tightly embrowned; venation brown-black; stigmal vein nearly at right angles to the marginal. Legs concolorous, except cephalic femora, all knees and tarsi which are brownish. Antenne foliaceous, including the scape, greatly compressed, concolorous, the 3-jointed club, however, conico-cylindrical, the sixth or distal joint of the funicle subquadrate but still flat, the pedicel triangular, minute, the first funicle joint obconic, much the longest of the funicle, the next three joints distinetly much wider than long; no ring-joint, eleven antennal joints. Scutum green, body finely sculptured. Seutum with a short silvery pubescence. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, September 3, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3109, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head and a fore wing on a slide. A second specimen, type locality, May 29, 1912 in forest at 1,500 feet. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 155 PSEUDANUSIA new species. Female :—Head with the vertex perfectly flat as viewed from above and jong, the face inclined ventro-caudad, the antenne inserted below the ventral ends of the eyes, the scape and pedicel foliaceously dilated, the funicle compact, compressed, its six joints transverse-linear and subequal, together no longer than the 3-jointed cylindrical club which is as wide as the funicle aud as long. Mandibles small, the second tooth broadly truncate. Marginal vein punctiform, the postmarginal barely developed, the stigmal much longer than it, moderately long. Fore wings with fuscous rays. Avxille barely separated. Hind tibize with one spur. Abdomen short, depressed, cordate. Allied with Hpanusia but the antennal joints are not greatly flattened. Seutellum convex at apex. Frons moderate. 1. PSEUDANUSIA PIA new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.20 mm. Dark metallic green, the vertex white and with a black stripe along its center. Legs and antenne concolorous, the middle tibize suffused with yellowish, the tarsi yellow except the distal joint; caudal leg compressed, the middle tibie slender. Fore wings beautifully infuscated with brown (in rays); a long-ovate clear area under the sub- marginal vein proximad of the bend and a shorter and broader one distad of the bend; at the disto-cephalic angle of this and just under the marginal and base of stigmal veins is a jet black spot. Just distad of the venation the blade is clear with the exception of the cephalic oblique ray to be described; in a little less than the distal half of the blade, there are two prominent, diverging, broad, fuscous rays, the cephalic one longest, its caudal margin just reaching the distal blade margin a little caudad of extreme apex; the shorter ray runs more nearly distad to the caudal margin; these two rays converge proximad but do not quite meet and are separated from the convex margin of the proximal infuscation by rather narrow clear spaces. Cephalic margin of fore wing changing angle at the marginal vein, the wing with a broken appearance. Club joints all wider than long, the first of them longest. Oblique hairless line of fore wing not very distinct, limited proximad by a single line of cilia but there are more cilia farther proximad. From one female taken from a window in February. Habitat: Ingham, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3110, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. ANAGYRODES new genus. Female :—Like Anagyrus Howard but more robust, the pronotum large, over half the length of the scutum, the mandibles acute and with two acute teeth, the head lenticular. Marginal vein punctiform, the stigmal long, curved, the postmarginal elongate, about twice the length of the stigmal. Second segment of abdomen occupying about a third of the surface, segment 8 over half the length of the second, the others moderately short. Hind tibial spurs double. Frons moderately broad, the cheeks over half the length of the large eyes. Distal or fourth joint of maxillary palpus as long as the others combined, 3 shorter than 2, 1 very small. 1. ANAGYRODES MAXIMUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 2.60 mm. Deep orange yellow, the head, pronotum, scutum, axillz except lateral margin, scutellum (triangularly) except lateral and distal margins and a little more than distal half of abdomen (distad of segment 3) steel blue. Club blackish. Head and thorax densely scaly, the head with punctures scattered over it. Fore wings with the distal third dusky, the duskiness also projecting proximad along the midlongitudinal line to the obliqued caudal margin about opposite the submarginal vein at its distal third. Venation yellow. Scape cylindrical, the funicle cylindrical, the 3-jointed club not much wider; joints 1 and 2 of funicle somewhat longer than wide, subequal, longest, longer than the pedicel, the 156 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. distal funicle joint a little wider than long. Antenne 12-jointed with a short ring-joint. Scutum and seutellum with scattered obscure, setigerous punctures. Hairless line of fore wing with over a dozen lines of coarser cilia proximad of it. Axille broadly joined, with a carina between them. Type re-examined. Described from one female captured by sweeping in jungle, June 10, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Little Mulgrave River, Gordonvale, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3111, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and a hind tibia together on a slide. 2. ANAGYRODES GIGANTEUS new species. Female:—Length, 3 mm. Larger than the genotype. Differing from maximus in having the entire thorax, a large part of the maxillary palpi, the middle tibial spurs (only tip of same in maximus), distal half of abdomen dorsad and a broad band around caudal tibia at proximal third, caudal tibiz dorsad except at base and a narrower stripe across caudal tibia slightly before tip, metallic blue. Also, the infuscation of the fore wing is different in that its proximal margin is straight and across from the base of the stigmal vein. The latter is also longer, a little over half the length of the elongate post- marginal; the hind tibiew are a little more compressed. Head with numerous pin-punctures, the scrobes somewhat longer than wide. Thorax sculptured as in the genotype but the pronotum is shorter, only about a fourth the length of the scutum while the axille are separated a short distance distinctly yet with a short carina between them. Joints 3-6 of funicle each a little wider than long. Otherwise like the genotype. From one female caught in jungle, June 4, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3112, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, fore wing and hind tibizw on a slide. Even after careful examination, the mandibles of both species seem edentate; they are shaped like those of the Arrhenophagini yet a second and shorter minute tooth is undoubtedly present but very difficult to discover. The hind tibial spurs are short and stout. The ovipositor in death is curved ventro-proximad from about the middle of the venter and the valves are inconspicuous.* GENUS CRISTATITHORAX Girault. The same as Cheiloneurus except in the mandibles. 1. CRISTATITHORAX HUGOI new species. Female :—Length, 1.30 mm. Stigmal vein tolerably long, the frons very narrow, the eyes convergent, the fore wings infuscated but without fuscous rays. Head longer than wide, the scrobes forming a semicircle. Antennz 12-jointed, the elub enlarged, 3-jointed, the funicle joints all short, wider than long, less than half the length of the pedicel. Marginal vein twice the length of the stigmal, the postmarginal very short; oblique, hairless line present. Axille rather broadly meeting, the seutellum with a tuft of hairs at apex.. Face obtusely convexed between the antenne but there is no distinct carina there. Somewhat like Hchthrodryinus Perkins but the head is longer, the scrobes are not elongate, the narrow front is densely punctate, the marginal vein much *The abdomen in this genus is proctotrypoid, the venter undivided, the ovipositor issuing from the apex. Other encyrtid genera have this anomalous structure (e.g. Eucomys) which does not seem to have been noticed before. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 157 longer, the wings infuscated and the scutellum with a tuft of hairs, the antenne with a ring- joint and ringed with white. Like Chrysopophagus Ashmead but the latter bears tridentate mandibles and the head differs. Scape only very slightly compressed. Dark metallic purplish, the scutellum green, the thorax densely, finely shagreened or sealy; antenne dusky yellowish, the distal three funicle joints white, the club black, the two distal funicle joints longer and wider. Club obliquely truncate. Legs concolorous except a spot below knees on tibie, distal two thirds of hind tibia, distal half of other tibie and the tarsi which are yellow. Fore wings deeply embrowned from a little proximad of the origin of the marginal vein nearly to apex where there is a narrow apical clear portion. Nearly all of second femora pale yellowish except a concolorous band around before apex, the other femora yellowish near base. Described from one female captured by sweeping in the forest, April 13, 1912. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3113, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a slide. The species is respectfully dedicated to Victor Hugo. 2. CRISTATITHORAX BIDENTIMAXILLZ new species. Female :—Length, 0.92 mm. With the form of Cheiloneurus purpureiventris Girault. Dark metallic green the head orange yellow, the legs whitish except the concolorous caudal femora and tibiew; caudal tibie white at tip. Antenne white, the club black; pedicel — and funicles 1 and 2 dusky. Scutum with close silvery hispidescence except along cephalic margin. Pedicel subconcolorous with body. Second tooth of mandible truncate, broad, only two teeth. Fore wings embrowned from origin of marginal vein distad nearly to apex, deeper under the marginal vein, clear at apex, the latter distinctly longer than the stigmal vein which is longer than the postmarginal which is little developed. Scutellum with the black tuft of bristles. Scape curved not dilated, the short pedicel longer than any of the funicle joints all of which are transverse, 6 largest, thrice the size of 1 or 2. Thorax densely shagreened, the axille smoother, coppery, very slightly separated. From one female taken in forest, November 30, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3114, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. Later, one female reared from leaf-hopper eggs on gum, November 27, 1911, Gordonvale. 3. CRISTATITHORAX MANDIBULARIS new species. Female :—Length, 0.80 mm. Same as the preceding but dark metallic purple, the axille, seutellum, neck of prothorax orange yellow, the pronotum honey yellow, the abdomen “dull brown, margined very narrowly all around with purplish and with a dark purplish stripe across base. Sides and venter of thorax yellowish. Legs pale yellow, the hind legs purplish except the tarsi. Otherwise about the same. Segment 3 of abdomen apparently occupying more than half of the surface; extreme apex of abdomen silvery white. Head (at least above the inflexion) densely finely punctate. Ocelli in an equilateral triangle. Club somewhat shorter than the funicle. Scutum same length as in mackayensis. From one female caught November 30, 1913 by sweeping in forest. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3115, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 4. CRISTATITHORAX QUADRICOLOR new species. Female :—Length, 1.60 mm. Very similar to Cheiloneurus gonatopodis Perkins but the head wholly lemon yellow, also the scutellum, the axille and scutum except the purplish caudal part, deep reddish orange. 158 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Also funicle 6 is black as well as the club. A stripe across the honey yellow abdomen at base, margins of abdomen centrally, propodeum, the part of the mesothorax just laterad of seutellum and a concave curved stripe across abdomen at about middle about in the shape of a U, purplish. Fore wings embrowned margin to margin from about the marked concave bend of the submarginal vein to apex but obscurely clearer at apex centrally, distinctly clear in a triangular spot just distad of postmarginal vein and a larger oblong area opposite at caudal margin. Discal cilia proximad of hairless line about two lines, coarser and blacker than the other ciliation. Vertex shagreened. Segment 3 of abdomen occupying more than half the surface. From one female caught sweeping in forest, June 27, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3116, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 5. CRISTATITHORAX VIRIDISCUTUM new species. Female :—Length, 1.45 mm. Like mackayensis but a little stouter, the abdomen broader, less pointed, the middle of the propodeum visible and yellowish, the metallic green band across the base of abdomen narrow and only a little purplish on abdomen above centrally. Legs all white except caudal knees and a dusky band above and one below middle knees. The scutum is distinetly longer. Scape rather greatly swollen its entire length, the club dusky, much enlarged, longer than the funicle. Funicle and pedicel dusky, scape yellow. Scape hardly more than a half longer than broad. Frons four times as wide as an ocellus. Funicle 6 longest and widest. Fore wings about as in mackayensis and so the mandibles. Axille slenderly joined not distinctly so as in mackayensis and with a short carina between as in that species. First five funicle joints annular. From one female caught August 12, 1913, sweeping forest (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3117, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head and a fore wing on a slide. 6. CRISTATITHORAX NOVIMANDIBULARIS new species. Female :—Similar to mandibularis but honey yellow, the axille distinctly separated for some distance, the pronotum also purple. Middle legs with a dusky spot just below knee. Frons somewhat narrower. Abodomen mostly all purplish. From two females caught crawling over a seashore plant infested with unarmored coccids, October 30, 1911. "Habitat: Port Douglas, Queensland. Types: No. Hy 3118, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimens on a tag; heads on a slide. 7. CRISTATITHORAX MACKAYENSIS new species. Female :—Length, 1.30 mm. Short, rather stout. Orange yellow; scutum dark metallic green; propodeum and a rather broad stripe across base of the abdomen washed with the same color; knees, caudal legs except articulations and tarsi and ventral edge of the somewhat swollen scape, dusky. Pedicel at base above, club, first two funicle joints and part of the third, black. Tuft of hairs on scutellum black, the sclerite finely longitudinally scaly striate; axille broadly joined, transversely scaly reticulate. Ocelli in a nearly equilateral triangle, the frons moderately narrow. Scutum with short silvery pubescence. Pedicel distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints, all of the latter plainly wider than long, 3 and 4 shortest. Second tooth of mandible subtruncate, the third tooth thus not formed. Fore wings embrowned to apex from base of marginal vein but the apex is AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 159 hyaline and also the spot just distad of venation at cephalic margin and the larger one opposite to it. Marginal vein twice or more the length of the short stigmal, the latter a little longer than the postmarginal. From one female caught October 20, 1911, by sweeping foliage of lantana and other bushes in a field near town. Habitat: Mackay, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3119, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 8. CRISTATITHORAX VINCULUM new species. Female :—Differs from pasteuri as follows: The frons is a little broader, the distal three funicle joints are white, the infuscation of the fore wing does not proceed quite so far distad, the apex of the wing more broadly hyaline, the tip of the pedicel is white and of all tibie and the first two pairs of knees are much more distinctly white. Otherwise the same. Differs from bidentimaxille in having the cheeks more distinctly metallic, the scape black, the first three funicle joints distinctly black, the legs black (except as noted; there is a white spot dorsad on hind tibiz in both species), the fore wing more deeply infuscated. Otherwise the same. From one female taken May 9, 1914 by sweeping sand-ridges near coast, forest Cae. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3120, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and caudal tibiz on a slide. 9. CRISTATITHORAX PASTEURI new species. Female:—Length, 1.10 mm. Dark steel blue, the scutellum dark green, the head orange yellow but the face suffused with dusky, the cheeks ventrad of the eyes dark metallic blue, also the ventral edge of the head narrowly (cephalic aspect). Antennz and legs concolorous, the tarsi white. Fore wing sooty from the origin of the marginal vein distad to within a short distance of apex which is thus left broadly hyaline; the proximal margin of the infusecation is straight and coterminous with the discal ciliation. Marginal vein over four times the length of the stigmal which is short but longer than the postmarginal. About five lines of cilia proximad of the hairless line. Seape compressed. Pedicel much longer than any of the funicle joints which are wider than long, 6 largest. Club much wider than and nearly as long as the funicle. Frons densely punctate, narrow. Second tooth of mandible broadly truncate. Scutum with short silvery pubescence, minutely, densely scaly, the scutellum densely punctulate. Axille acute mesad, there a little separated. Tegule reddish brown. Hind tibial spur single. A yellowish lunula (laterad) just cephalad of tegula. Described from one female caught in forest, April 14, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3121, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, a caudal tibia and a fore wing on a slide. GENUS CALOCERINELOIDES Girault. Like Calocerinus Howard but the marginal vein punctiform, the wings hyaline, the axille not quite meeting inwardly, the sixth funicle joint elongate but not much longer than the other five joints, distinctly not twice longer than their united length, funicle joint 5 only half the length of the preceding part of the funicle; branches long, subequal, clavate, on funicle joints 2 to 5. Antenne 9-jointed, inserted slightly below the middle of the face, the club solid, no ring-joints. Stigmal vein slender, twice the length of the short postmarginal. Second tooth of mandible broadly emarginate. 160 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 1. CALOCERINELOIDES RAMOSA Girault. Male. Genotype. Length, 1.50 mm. Steel blue, the abdomen metallic greenish; head and thorax polygonally shagreened, the abdomen likewise but smoother, the axille still smoother, scaly. Legs yellowish brown; the antenne# dusky brownish. Club about half the length of the sixth funicle joint. Habitat: Murray Bridge, South Australia. Type: I. 1470, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. EPANAGYRUS new genus. Male :—Agrees with Anagyrus Howard but the antenne are only 10-jointed with one very short ring-joint, the club solid and not much longer than one of the funicle joints. Second mandibular tooth broad and truncate. Scape foliaceously dilated, the antennze inserted very - widely apart, under the mesal half of the eyes, the head subquadrate. Lateral ocelli a little separated from the eyes. Marginal vein quadrate, the postmarginal nearly twice longer than it, three fourths the length of the stigmal. Oblique hairless line present. Head and thorax densely finely scaly punctate, the scutum and scutellum with scattered obscure thimble punctures; axille finer, wide, nearly meeting inwardly. Punctures on scutum numerous, sparse on scutellum. Abdomen depressed above, triangular, sculptured like the head but not quite as densely, mostly scaly, as long as the thorax. Pronotum transverse. Legs normal; hind tibial spurs double. 1. EPANAGYRUS PUNCTATISCUTUM new species. Genotype. Male :—Length, 1.55 mm. Bright metallic green, the scutellum coppery, rest of body (except the bright green head), nearly black. Wings hyaline. Scutum and scutellum with slight down. Axille, legs except hind coxa and hind tibize (dorsad only) and the scape bright lemon yellow. Pedieel short, a little longer than wide; funicles 1-3 subcompressed, a little wider than long, larger than the pedicel; joint 4 more rounded, 1 and 7 cylindrical ovate, hence longest, the club the same shape but larger. Scape short, with a metallic green stripe along and just below dorsal edge. Marginal fringes of fore wing very short, dense. Middle tibial spur stout, long. From one male labelled ‘‘ 53, National Mus. Victoria. Out of galls on gum leaves, 1-11-10, F. Spry.’’ Habitat: Melbourne, Victoria. Type: No. Hy 3122, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the male on a card; hind leg and head on a slide. ECTROMOMYIELLA new genus. Male :—Head (cephalic aspect) rounded, the face inflexed, the frons moderately broad, the cheeks as long as or longer than the eyes, the antennz inserted on the middle of the face, 6-jointed including a very short ring-joint, the club solid, the first funicle joint elongate, longer than the rather long club (about six times longer than wide), the second funicle joint long but only about half the length of the first; scape short, simple. Mandibles small, bidentate, the second tooth truncate. Hind tibial spur single, small. Avxille a little separated at meson. Marginal vein about thrice longer than wide, the stigmal and postmarginal veins much shorter, the former a little the longer, slightly longer than wide. Oblique hairless line present. Pronotum transverse. Scutellum hemispherical, somewhat shorter than the scutum. Abdomen triangular, shorter than the thorax. A spiracle on abdomen at proximal third bearing long sete. 1. ECTROMOMYIELLA ARTICULUS new species. Genotype. Male :—Length, 0.52 mm. Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the antenna, face and middle legs (except a band around middle tibiae just below knees), knees, tips of tibize and tarsi of caudal legs yellowish = AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 161 white. Hairless line of fore wing with about 5 or 6 lines of coarser cilia proximad of it. Thorax finely scaly. Fore wing pyriform, not especially broad, the marginal fringes short. From one male taken by sweeping forest, January 8, 1913. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 31238, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. PSEUDECTROMA new genus. Female :—Short and slender, the abdomen conic-ovate, a little longer than the rest of the body, the ovipositor and its valves plainly extruded for a third of the abdomen’s length. Distal four tarsal joints very short; first tarsal joint of cephalic legs half shorter than the same of other legs. Scutum wider than long; the axille barely separated. Fore wings densely ciliate discally, with an oblique hairless line from the stigmal vein, the marginal vein quadrate, the stigmal short and broad, longer than the marginal, the postmarginal very short; fringes of margin short. Head somewhat wider than long. Mandibles narrow, with two equal acute teeth. A spiracle on each lateral margin of abdomen a little beyond middle and which bears: long sete from pores. Antenne 9-jointed; five funicle, two club joints, the first shorter, the articulation not very distinct, no ring-joint, the flagellum clavate but not compressed, the funicle joints all very much wider than long, 5 much the widest, 1 narrowest; pedicel obconie,, two thirds or more the length of the funicle. Scape somewhat compressea.- Antenne inserted! at the base of the mandibles. Head a little wider than long. Middle tibial spur normal for the family. Frons broad. 1. PSEUDECTROMA AURICORPUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.65 mm. Golden yellow, the wings subhyaline; abdomen with three narrow dusky stripes across, the first complete, at proximal third, the second and third abbreviated laterad, on distal third; also between the spiracles a dusky crescent (just caudad of first cross-stripe). Propodeum suffused with dusky. Valves of ovipositor black. Club ovate, large, longer than the funicle. Fore wing with indefinite infuscation along the oblique hairless line. Hind wing acute, the part distad of venation very short, about ten lines of fine discal cilia. Described from one female captured by sweeping second forest growth and in grass, January 8, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3124, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. SCELIOENCYRTUS new genus. Female :—Form slender, depressed, the abdomen much like that of the genus Phanarus of the Proctotrypoidea but broad at base. Head depressed, circular, the face directed dorsad as in the scelionid genus Aradophagus, the antenne inserted at the base of the acute bidentate mandibles, 10-jointed, the club 2-jointed, no ring-joint. Middle tibial spurs not stout,-small. Fore wings slender, with an oblique hairless line from the stigmal vein, the marginal vein punctiform, the stigmal short but distinct, twice the length of the very short postmarginal. Abdomen long, obtusely conical, the ovipositor very short, inserted near the tip, the abdomen longer than the rest of the body. Axille not widely separated. Body finely sculptured. Frons: wide. Cheeks a little over half the length of the eyes. 1. SCELIOENCYRTUS NIGRICLAVUS new species. Genotype. Female :—lLength, 1.10 mm. Honey yellow, the wings hyaline, the antennze dusky yellowish, the elub jet black. Fore wings densely finely ciliate, the marginal fringes longer than usual, a fifth the greatest wing width. Seape (excluding bulla) shorter than the club, the latter ovate, wider than the funicle. Pedicel Te sf 162 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. longer than any of the funicle joints of which 6 is longest, a little wider than long, 1 sub- quadrate, small, the others small, wider than long. Funicle 6 over twice the size of 1 which is subequal to the others or nearly. From one female caught in forest, August 13, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3125, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. 2. SCELIOENCYRTUS TRICOLOR new species. Female:—Similar to the genotype but the frons is narrower, the shaft of the scape somewhat longer, the scape and pedicel dusky, pale beneath (the former) and at tip (the latter); first three funicle joints blackish, the distal three white. Also the fore wings are broader, very much more finely ciliate discally and the marginal cilia are very short, not distinctly longer than usual. Shaft of scape nearly twice the length of the pedicel (not distinctly less than that). The body is golden yellow. Avxille rather broadly joined. Funicles 1-5 subequal, 6 distinctly longer. From one female captured in forest, December 29, 1912 (A. P. Dodd). Haltliiat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3126, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide with the type of Coccophagus boswelli Girault. 3. SCELIOENCYRTUS KEATSI new species. Female :—Length, 1 mm. Similar in all respects to nigriclavus but the whole antenne are jet black and the body is marked with dusky black as follows: Proximal three fourths of abdomen except near base, cephalic margin of the triangular scutum (the blunt apex of the triangle cephalad), pronotum, caudal margin of scutum, propodeum and a round spot in center of scutellum just before apex. Both wings are somewhat broader. Body finely sculptured. From one female caught April 16, 1914 by sweeping in forest Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3127, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. Dedicated to the poet Keats. HOLANUSIA new genus. Female :—In the table of genera runs to Hpanusia Girault but differs in not having the flagellum foliaceous and greatly compressed, only the scape being so. Frons moderately broad, a little over thrice the diameter of the large cephalic ocellus. Cheeks two thirds the length of the eyes. Mandibles with two acute teeth. Marginal vein about twice longer than wide, subequal to the stigmal vein, the postmarginal vein a little shorter. Hind tibial spur single. Eyes hairy. Thorax rather much convexed, no longer than the abdomen which is conic-ovate, depressed, the ovipositor not exserted. Axille not separated. Marginal fringes of fore wing short, the oblique hairless line present. Scrobes evident. 1. HOLANUSIA CONVEXUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length 1.10 mm. Black, the abdomen shining dark purplish, the wings hyaline excepting for a brownish spot against the marginal vein; funicle 1 silvery white. Knees, tips of tibie and tarsi yellowish. Head and thorax very finely, densely scaly, the scutum and scutellum with a soft, non-dense yellowish pubescence from obscure punctures. Club three fourths the length of the funicle; pedicel distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints which are wider than long but not annular, widening distad, 5 and 6 being distinctly the longest, 1 narrowest, somewhat wider than long, 3 shortest. Flagellum clavate, the club obliquely truncate. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 163 From one female caught sweeping in jungle, February, 1914 (A. P. Doda). Habitat: Babinda, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3128, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, pair of wings and a hind tibia on a slide. BASOANUSIA new genus. Female:—Runs to Holanusia Girault but the club is greatly enlarged, nearly twice the length of the funicle, the joints of the latter subannular. Also the second tooth of the mandibles is broadly truncate, the hind tibial spurs are double, the marginal vein about thrice longer than wide, over twice the length of the stigmal which is not long and only somewhat longer than the postmarginal. The axille have a carina between them. Otherwise much the same. Frons moderately narrow, somewhat over thrice the diameter of an ocellus. Pronotum transverse. Ring-joint present. Scutum and scutellum not much unequal in length. 1. BHOANUSIA MAGNICLAVA new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.30 mm. Dark metallic blue-green, the axilla and scutellum coppery, the wings hyaline; knees, tips of tibize and tarsi pale yellow; antenne concolorous but funicle 6 is white, also the palpi. Head very densely punctate-scaly, also the thorax, the scutum with distinct short, white pubescence which contrasts with its background. Funicle joints each widening, 6 distinctly wider than 1 but all subequal in length. Pedicel barely longer than wide but much longer than any of the funicle joints. Cheeks subequal to the eyes. Propodeum and abdomen scaly. Hairless line of fore wing with about ten lines of coarser cilia proximad of it. From one female taken by sweeping forest, January 8, 1913. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3129, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. 2. BASOANUSIA PERFUSCIPENNIS new species. Female :—Length, 1.30 mm. Differs from the genotype in that the frons is a half narrower, the scape much more dilated and the club somewhat narrower but as long. Dark metallic blue-green, the abdomen and legs metallic purple, the tarsi pale yellow, the antennz wholly concolorous. Thorax densely scaly, the axilla and abdomen smoother; axille with a carina between them. Scutum somewhat wider than long, a little shorter than the scutellum; scutum with scattered setigerous punctures, the pubescence not as distinct as in the genotype. Fore wings very deeply embrowned but clear around apex, the infuscation deeper under the venation; a white, transverse dash just cephalad of venation. Much discal ciliation proximad of hairless line. Funicle and club hispid. Other- wise about as in the genotype. Costal cell of hind wings extending to the hooklets. From one female captured on edge of jungle, May 28, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3130, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head hind tibia and a pair of wings on a slide. 3. BHOANUSIA PERSIMILIS new species. Like the genotype but the axille are a little separated and thus without the distinct carina between them. Otherwise the same or very nearly. Dark steel blue, the scutellum dark coppery, the legs concolorous except on each side of knee, tips of tibize and tarsi which are white. Body densely scaly, the scutellum densely punctulate, the scutum with a fine silvery pubescence. Distal funicle joint white. Caudal femur black to knee. Axille a very little separated. Scutellum reaching base of abdomen. Hind 164 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. tibial spurs double. Face much inflexed, the scrobes forming a deep semicircle. Postmarginal and stigmal veins subequal. Compared with type body of magniclava. From one female caught on sand-ridges, forest, May 15, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3131, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and hind tibie with slide type of Zooencyrtus acutwentris Girault. ANUSOMYIA new genus. 1. ANUSOMYIA AURATISCUTUM new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.90 mm. Dark metallic purple, the scutum and propodeum, venter and sides of thorax deep: reddish orange; legs yellowish brown except the purple middle coxa. Wings lightly stained: throughout. Distal half of body of scape, apical part of pedicel and distal four joints of flagellum silvery white, rest purple. Pedicel thrice longer than wide at apex, distinctly longer than funicle 1 which is longest, one and a half times longer than wide, 2 longer than wide,. 3 subquadrate, 6 wider than long; club somewhat over half the length of the funicle. Hind tibie with two spurs. Marginal vein twice longer than wide, the stigmal a third shorter, the postmarginal a little shorter than the stigmal. Mandible acute as in the Arrhenophagini but inwardly with a second small acute tooth some distance down from tip of the other. Frons. punctate. Head and thorax hairy, the scutellum punctate, the seutum with scattered (setigerous) punctures. Axille a little separated, without a carina between them. About five lines of coarse cilia proximad of hairless line. Otherwise as in Holanusia but the thorax is less convexed. From one female taken January 15, 1914 in jungle (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3132, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore- wing and a hind tibia on a slide with type of Holanusia convexus. 2. ANUSOMYIA AERISCUTELLUM new species. Female :—Length, 1 mm. Dark shining metallic green, the scutellum and abdomen bronze or coppery, the wings- hyaline, the legs, propleura and caudal end of mesopleurum, rich yellowish brown; antenne- concolorous except extreme tip of scape which is white. Vertex with numerous thimble punctures; scutum scaly and with scattered, numerous, minute setigerous punctures; scutellum and abdomen glabrous. Axille finely transversely sheened, separated by a carina. Scape greatly dilated (more than twice wider than that of the genotype) ; pedicel only a half longer than wide at apex, somewhat longer than funicle 1 which is longest and a little longer than wide, 2 and 3 subquadrate, the rest very slightly shortening distad. Club a little wider than - and half the length of the funicle. Vertex flat. Postmarginal vein a little shorter than the stigmal, the latter a little shorter than the marginal which is two and a fourth times longer than wide. Mandibles short with two acute, slender teeth of which the first is much longer than the second. Otherwise as in the genotype. Hyes hairy. From one female taken by sweeping jungle along a forest streamlet, foothills, March 31,. 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3133, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on 2 tag; fore wing, head! and a hind tibia on a slide. EPITETRACNEMUS new genus. 1. EPITETRACNEMUS SEXGUTTATIPENNIS new species. Genotype. Female:—Length, 0.75 mm., excluding ovipositor which is distinctly but shortly extruded. Dark bluish black, the head and scutum metallic green, both finely scaly reticulate with scattered minute setigerous punctures, the scutellum triangular, with a wide base, sealy punctate ;. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 165 axille distinctly separated for some distance; knees, tarsi and tips of tibie yellowish white. Joints 5 and 6 of funicle white, 5 suffused with dusky; distal two club joints suffused with whitish. Fore wings sooty from the bend of the submarginal vein distad to apex, the sootiness broken by the oblique hairless line and by six rounded spots—two eggshaped ones facing each other in the center of the blade just before apex; two larger rounded ones, one at apex of venation at cephalic margin, one at caudal margin somewhat distad of a point opposite the first; a similar spot opposite the marginal vein at caudal third, one end against the oblique hairless line; and the sixth (smallest) one between the oblique hairless line and venation, in the angle subtended by them. Scape distinctly dilated (compressed) ventrad but the convexity not very great; pedicel a little longer than wide, somewhat longer than funicle 6 which is longest of the funicle, yet wider than long; funicle joints 1-4 short, twice longer than wide, 4 a little the longest, 5 twice the length of 4, a little smaller than 6. Club conic-ovate, nearly as long as the funicle. Second tooth of mandible truncate. Marginal vein a little over thrice longer than broad, the postmarginal subobsolete, the stigmal vein short, colorless, the fuscous patch just cephalad of the hyaline spot at apex of the black marginal vein, distinctly darker. Discal ciliation of fore wings extremely fine and dense, the marginal ciliation short. Frons moderate, the antenne 11-jointed, inserted about on a level with the ventral ends of the eyes. Head (cephalic aspect) rounded. Pubescence not conspicuous, very sparse, no ring-joint. Scrobes distinct, moderate. Cheeks nearly as long as the eyes. From one female caught by sweeping jungle along a forest streamlet, December 2, 1912 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3134, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head and a fore wing on a slide. Later, a female was found from Ayr, Queensland, captured November 6, 1912 by Sweeping in natural forest. In this specimen all of funicle 5 was white. Also a female from Cloncurry, forest, April 18, 1914 (A. P. Dodd); one from Chindera, New South Wales (forest, sand-ridges near coast), May 9, 1914 (A. P. Dodd); and one at Capeville (Pentland), Queensland, forest, September 10, 1914. PARASTENOTERYS new genus Female:—In Ashmead’s (1904) table of genera running to the second part ot couplet 15 but differs from the included genera in having the axille distinctly separated yet not for a great distance. The flagellum is strongly clavate, the vertex and frons moderate (neither broad nor especially narrow), the scrobes deep, tolerably long, not joined above but separated by a distinct ridge from the base of the antenne. From cephalic aspect, the head is longer {han wide. Marginal vein of fore wing a little over thrice longer than wide, the postmarginal “nd stigmal veins subequal, each about two thirds the length of the marginal. Oblique hairless line and marginal cilia present, the former narrow. Abdomen not as long as the thorax, pointed, depressed, the second segment occupying over a third of the surface, the others short, trausverse. Ovipositor not exserted. Propodeum large. Mandibles with two equal, acute teeth. 1. PARASTENOTERYS PUNCTATUS new species. Genotype. . Female :—Length, 1.33 mm. Metallic purple, the scutellum rosaceous coppery; legs except the concolorous hind coxe and the scape reddish or yellowish brown, the distal two club joints yellowish white. Fore wings distinctly embrowned from a little out from base to apex but with a midlongitudinal hyaline line from apex to proximal third. Thorax very finely scaly, the pronotum, scutum, axille and scutellum with numerous, distinct, but not large, setigerous punctures. All of the mesal part of propodeum foveolate, farther laterad smooth, with a lateral carina and the lateral 166 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. margin carinated; propodeal spiracle minute, laterad of the lateral carina. Abdomen glabrous. Propodeum black. Club larger than the funicle but only about half its length, obliquely truneate; pedicel a little over twice longer than wide at apex, a little longer than funicle 1 which is longest, the following joints shortening and widening gradually to the club, 4 subquadrate, 5 and 6 somewhat wider than long. Hind tibial spurs double. Cheeks two thirds the length of the eyes. Antenne well clothed; pubescence on thoracic dorsum present but not vonspicuous yet from lateral aspect rather dense. Scutellum more coarsely scaly than rest of thorax. Mesopleurum densely, distinctly punctate, smooth at extreme cephalic end. Head impunctate but a row of fine punctures across the vertex by the eye margins. From one female caught May 19, 1913 by sweeping in jungle (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3185, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and a hind leg on a slide. 2. PARASTENOTERYS VARIPES new species. Female :—Length, 1.50 mm. Black or nearly, the scutellum metallic blue, the abdomen dark coppery, green at base. Fore wings lightly stained yellowish under marginal vein, the venation pale. All coxe and cephalic legs except the tarsi and each end of the tibiz, concolorous; rest of legs reddish brown. Scape reddish brown except the bulla which is concolorous; rest of antenne black, except the yellowish apex of pedicel. Wings hyaline. Pedicel somewhat longer than wide at apex, some- what longer than any of the funicle joints which thicken a little distad but are subequal, a little longer than wide; club two thirds the length of the funicle and distinctly much wider, conic-ovate. Hairless line rather obscure, with about five lines of cilia proximad of it. Marginal vein about five times longer than wide, the postmarginal a little longer than the stigmal which is two thirds the length of the marginal or a little longer. The smaller spur of hind tibia no longer than the apical sete but distinctly stouter. Head somewhat longer than wide. Seutum polygonally scaly and with pilosity; axille more finely scaly, the scutellum like the axille but the scaliness has a longitudinal trend. Meson of propodeum with oblique ruge. Segment 2 of abdomen occupying a third of the surface, much longer than any of the other segments. Face rather much inflexed, frons not prominent, the scrobes as in the genotype. Ovipositor slightly extruded. Otherwise as in the genotype. From one female caught May 4, 1914 in jungle near Tweed River (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Tweed Heads, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 8137, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, a pair of wings and hind tibie with slide type of Hetromomyiella articulus Girault. PARATETRACNEMOIDEA new genus. Female :—Difters from Tetracnemoidea Howard in that the venation does not reach the costal margin, the marginal vein punctiform, the postmarginal absent, the stigmal short but distinct, clavate, about twice longer than wide. Mandibles with two unequal, acute teeth. Carina on epistoma not distinct; the thorax is globular, the axille separated a short distance; abdomen very short, depressed, pointed triangular, shorter than the thorax, the ovipositor extruded a short distance. Fore wing extending well beyond the body. Scutellum overhanging the short propodeum, convex, globular from dorsal aspect. 1. PARATETRACNEMOIDEA BREVIVENTRIS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.70 mm. Very short but rather robust. Dark metallic purple, the legs and scape except at apex, rich yellow-brown, the cox mostly concolorous with the body. Antenne inserted at the elypeus, the flagellum spear-shaped, the scrobes long, the scape slender; pedicel somewhat longer than funicle 1 which is longest, somewhat longer than wide, 2 somewhat shorter than 1, a little longer than wide, 3 and 4 quadrate, 5 and 6 wider and AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 167 subequal in length to 2. Club long, acutely conic-ovate, a little shorter than the funicle; the flagellum concolorous with body. Frons broad. Fore wings distinctly stained yellowish brown to apex from the bend of the submarginal vein, the marginal fringes very short, the discal cilia very dense and fine, the hairless line not distinct though indicated. Thorax and head densely, moderately coarsely polygonally scaly, appearing like scaly punectation but the areas not truly sunken. Abdomen subglabrous. Pronotum distinet, transverse. Scutum subequal to the scutellum in length. Pubescence not conspicuous. Antenne 12-jointed, with one ring-joint, the club 3-jointed. From one female taken from a window, October, 1912. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3136, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and fore wing on a slide. AMENISCOCEPHALUS new genus. Female :—Agrees with the description of Meniscocephalus Perkins but the lateral ocelli are distinctly separated from the eyes, the flagellum is filiform, the club 3-jointed, the axille are widely separated and the marginal vein is linear, five or six times longer than wide, the postmarginal distinctly absent, the stigmal long and slender, subequal to the marginal. Oblique, hairless line of fore wing only twice longer than wide, completely enclosed. Hind tibial spur single. Scutum wider than long, shorter than the triangular scutellum. Pronotum transverse jiear. Serobes distinct, separated at apex, the face not inflexed. Cheeks half the length of the eyes. 1. AMENISCOCEPHALUS MENISCOCEPHALUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.15 mm. Short, robust. Deep golden yellow, the head and thorax very finely, densely scaly and with minute scattered setigerous punctures. Proximal half or two thirds of fore wing embrowned but not very deeply so. Antenne and legs pale yellow; pedicel dusky above at proximal half. Seape long and slender, longer than the club which is not enlarged and somewhat over half the length of the funicle; scape dusky centrally; pedicel subequal to funicie 1 which is not quite twice longer than wide, 2 a little shorter than it, 5 and 6 quadrate or very little longer than wide. Distal two club joints dusky. Discal cilia of fore wing very short. From one female caught in forest, April 9, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3138, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide with type Hchthrobacca auraticorpus Girault. ECTROMOIDES new genus. Female:—The stigmal vein is slightly longer than the marginal, the postmarginal distinctly longer than the marginal, the latter only slightly over twice longer than wide. Mandibles slender with two rather long, acute unequal teeth. Frons moderate, about four times the diameter of the cephalic ocellus; face inflexed, frons not prominent. Hind tibiew apparently with two spurs. Antenne cylindrical. 1. ECTROMOIDES PURPUREISCUTELLUM new species. Female :—Length, 1.25 mm. Orange yellow, the head, abdomen, scutellum, pronotum and cephalic part of seutum at meson narrowly, metallic purple. Wings slightly yellowish throughout. Scape concolorous; funicle and pedicel purple, the club white; distal two funicle joints inclined to be paler. Pedicel subequal to funicle 1 which is longest, one and a third times longer than wide, 2-3 subequal, a little shorter than 1, 4 and 5 subequal, a little shorter, 6 still shorter, a little longer than wide. Club no wider than the funicle and not quite half its length. Cheeks about half the length of the 168 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. ‘eyes. Frons with some punctures; scutum finely scaly, the scutellum glabrous; scutum with numerous obscure setigerous punctures, the seutellum with only few. Avxille separated for a short distance. From three females caught May 28, 1913 by sweeping jungle. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. ' Type: No. Hy 3139, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one specimen on a tag; head, a wing and a hind tibia on a slide. PARALEPTOMASTIX new genus. Female:—Form robust, the head lenticular, narrowed ventrad of the face, the mandibles not large, with two acute teeth, the second tooth much shorter than the first, from lateral aspect acute. Frons broad, the cheeks over half the length of the eyes; scrobes very short. Fourth joint of maxillary palpus elongate. Antenne slenderly clavate, the scape slender but normal, the first funicle joint elongate, the club short, ovate, its first two joints much wider than long, together forming only about a third of the length. Marginal vein about thrice longer than wide, the postmarginal elongate, over two and a half times the length of the marginal, the stigmal long, curved, one and two third times longer than the marginal. Costal cell large. Hind legs (including first tarsal joint, excluding coxa) compressed, the femur along distal half ventrad with a narrow colorless membranous exfoliation; two tibial spurs. Ovipositor not exserted, the abdomen much smaller than the thorax. Pronotum transverse. Axille meeting. 1. PARALEPTOMASTIX THOREAUINI new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, about 2.30 mm. Dark metallic green with bluish tinges, the abdomen and hind legs black-blue, the first two pairs of legs and antenne reddish brown; antennal club black. Venation dusky black, the fore wing with a large, diamond-shaped smoky area suspended from the distal half of -stigmal vein and reaching nearly to caudal margin, its apex distad and extending to a point beyond apex of the postmarginal vein. The area is divided longitudinally nearly into two equal halves by a clear line. Head densely punctulate. Seutum finely scaly, pilose. Scutellum longitudinally lineolated. Axilla with a short carina between them. Oblique hairless line with over a dozen lines of coarser cilia proximad of it. Club shorter than funicle 1 which is distinctly twice longer than the normal pedicel; funicle 2 a little over half the length of 1, distinctly longer than the pedicel, 4 and 5 subequal, each slightly longer than wide, 6 a little wider than long. Joint 1 of maxillary palpus black. From one female taken November 19, 1913 (H. Hacker). Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3140, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and a hind leg on a slide. PARATETRALOPHIDEA new genus. Female:—In Ashmead’s (1904) table of genera runs to Calocerinus Howard but the scape is distinctly but not greatly dilated, foliaceously widening toward apex. Head a little longer than wide, the second tooth of mandible broadly truncate, the cheeks not quite as long as the eyes, the scrobes tolerably short, forming more or less of a semicirele, the face sub- lenticular; frons tolerably narrow. Antenne inserted not far above the clypeus, clavate, 12-jointed with one short ring-joint, the club short and stout, compressed, about a third the length of the funicle; pedicel subequal to funicle 3, the distal three funicle joints wider thaa long. ‘Axille broadly joined. Marginal vein about four times longer than wide, the stigmal a fourth shorter than it, the postmarginal just developed. Oblique hairless line present. Fore AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 169 wings with a pattern, the marginal fringes short. Hind tibial spurs double. Funicle 1 nearly twice longer than wide, longest. Cephalic and caudal femora and tibiz compressed. Seutum a little longer than the scutellum, the abdomen depressed, triangular, as long as the thorax, the ovipositor not exserted, segment 3 apparently occupying two thirds or more of the surface. 1. PARATETRALOPHIDEA ORNATIPENNIS new species. Genotype. Female:—Length, 1.60 mm. Stout, rather short. Dark metallic purple, the scutellum dark blue at distal third, rest green; middle legs except coxe and femora proximad and all tarsi, brown. Fore wing with two conspicuous, broad, black stripes across them, the first from the distal fourth or less of the submarginal, all of marginal and stigmal veins (not crossing the latter), its proximal margin straight, continuous with the discal ciliation, its cephalic margin convex; the second stripe is a little longer and occupies about the distal third of the wing; a rather broad hyaline band between the two; cilia proximad of the hairless line dense, twice coarser, about 10 lines. Head and thorax delicately reticulate and with numerous, distinct but minute setigerous punctures, the scutellum polished but with faint traces of scaliness proximad and with a few scattered setigerous punetures. Propodeum with a weak median carina, the surface nearly smooth. Pubescence not conspicuous. From one female taken in jungle, March 5, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3141, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; hind tibia, head and a fore wing on a slide. OMPHALENCYRTUS new genus. Female :—Antenn inserted below the middle of the face, 9-jointed with no ring-joint, the club long, 3-jointed, the incisions faint. Abdomen rather stout, longer than the thorax, the ovipositor short, inserted toward tip, not extruded. Middle tibial spur normal for the family. Axille wedge-shaped, meeting at meson or nearly. Mandibles with the second tooth truncate. Eyes not convergent. Wings present, the marginal vein about twice longer than wide, the stigmal and postmarginal veins still shorter. Scape a little compressed. With the habitus of an omphaline eulophid. 1. OMPHALENCYRTUS WALLACEI new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.75 mm. Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the cox concolorous, also the pedicel above; antenne and legs pallid white except hind femur and proximal two thirds of hind tibia which are concolorous. Club longer than the funicle. Incisions of abdomen showing as more or less distinet whitish cross-stripes. Pedicel not much over a third the length of the club, distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints of which 1 is longer than wide and plainly the longest, the others wider than long, 2 and 3 subequal, shorter than 4 which is not much wider than jong. Pedicel nearly twice the length of funicle 1. Thorax finely scaly. Deseribed from one female caught January 2, 1913 by sweeping forest (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3142, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. ERICYDNELLA new genus. 1. ERICYDNELLA ASHMEADI new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.80 mm. Dark metallic purple, the wings hyaline; tarsi, cephalic tibia and distal half of inter- mediate tibie reddish brown, the scape so at proximal third and the intermediate femora in 170 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. the same place. Scape slender not reaching beyond the vertex; pedicel one and a half times: longer than wide, longer than any of the funicle joints of which 1 is longest, somewhat longer than wide, 2 and 3 subquadrate, 4 a little wider than iong, 6 distinctly wider than long; club not especially enlarged, the flagellum regularly clavate, the club a little less than half the length of the funicle; antenna 12-jointed, inserted at the clypeus. Frons very broad, the lateral ocelli their own diameter from the eye margins, the eyes somewhat longer than the cheeks. Fore wing with an oblique hairless line; marginal vein about thrice longer than wide, the postmarginal very short, about a third the length of the marginal, the stigmal a little longer than the marginal. A single line of coarser discal cilia proximad of the hairless line; marginal fringes very short. Mandibles with two rather stout, acute teeth. Head sublenticular,. the scrobes not long, the surface finely, transversely sheened but with scattered thimble punctures a line of which runs over the partially impunctate vertex along the eyes. Axille “joined acutely at the meson. Scutum and axille sculptured like the head but the punctures are rather numerous minute setigerous ones; scutellum glabrous. Metapleura with white pubescence; propodeum short at meson, with a median carina joined to the apex of scutellum,. widening laterad,and there with distinct transverse ruge (cephalo-laterad), otherwise glabrous. Abdomen pointed conic-ovate, a little longer than the rest of the body. Secutellum with sparse pubescence. Segments 3 and 6 of abdomen transverse, shorter than 2, 7 apparently occupying the rest of the surface (a third). Pronotum transverse. Hind tibial spurs double. From one female caught on a window, June 4, 1912. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3143, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, hind tibia and wing on a slide. TETRACNEMELLA new genus. 1. TETRACNEMELLA AUSTRALIENSIS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.05 mm. Dark metallic blue, the abdomen purple, the scutellum green; wings hyaline; legs and antenne pale yellow (coxe not plainly seen). Antenne inserted near the mouth border, the serobes tolerably long, forming a triangle, the scape slender; pedicel metallic, bluish except at apex, twice longer than wide’ at apex, much longer than any of the funicle joints of which 1-4 are subequal, each a little longer than wide, 5 and 6 longest, somewhat longer than wide and a little wider than the others; club slender, a little wider than the funicle and somewhat over half its length. Mandibles with the second tooth truncate, rather broad, its lateral apical angle subacute, the apex a little concaved. Axille widely separated. Marginal vein somewhat thickened, a little longer than wide, the postmarginal vein a little shorter than the marginal, the stigmal nearly twice longer than the marginal; oblique hairless line present. Frons narrow, the cephalic ocellus about its diameter (or a little less) from the eye margin; cheeks nearly as long as the eyes; frons not prominent but the face inflexed. Head with very fine surface sculpture and with a few very minute setigerous punctures. Seutum and axille like the head but the minute setigerous punctures rather numerous on the former. Scutellum: finely, densely punctulate or shagreened. Pronotum transverse. Proximal two segments of - abdomen greenish, scaly, the rest shining, the abdomen flat, pointed-ovate, as long as the thorax,. the ovipositor distinctly but very shortly extruded, white. Scutellum overhanging meson of propodeum. Pubescence not conspicuous. From one female captured by sweeping miscellaneous vegetation along the Herbert River, February 26, 1913. Habitat: Halifax (Ingham), Northern Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3144, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; fore wing and hind legs on a slide. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 171 2. TETRACNEMELLA VIRIDISCUTELLUM new species. _ Female :—Length, 0.85 mm. Differs from the preceding principally in having the frons broad. Dark metallic blue, the wings hyaline, the scutellum contrasting green; knees, tarsi, tips of tibie (all of middle tibize except just below knees), yellowish; funicle and club whitish, also tips of pedicel and scape. Head and thorax densely scaly. Funicles 1 and 4 shortest, all the others short, subquadrate, 4 a little wider than long; pedicel distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints; club a little over half the length of the funicle. Scutum with soft scattered pilosity. Axille not greatly separated. Stigmal vein twice the length of the marginal which is quadrate and subequal to the postmarginal. Otherwise as in the preceding. From one female taken by sweeping in forest, December 25, 1912. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3145, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, hind wing and hind legs on a slide. 38. TETRACNEMELLA MINUTELLA new species. Female :—Length, 0.85 mm. Dark grass green, metallic, the wings hyaline, the venation, knees, distal half of cephalic tibiw, distal three fourths of middle tibix, tips of caudal tibiz, tarsi and tegule pale yellowish brown. Funicle yellowish brown, the club a little darker, the pedicel and scape dark metallic green. Abdomen dark, shorter than the thorax. Funicle joints subequal but widening a little distad. Frons moderately narrow. Venation as in viridiscutellum and resembles that species closely but in the head it is like australiensis except that the frons is subprominent. Differs from viridiscutellwm in having the cephalic tibiz# mostly yellowish, the scape and pedicel wholly dark metallic, the frons is narrower, the thorax is a trifle more densely, finely scaly. Scutum and seutellum large in both species, the scutellum extending to base of abdomen. From one female caught on forest uplands, May 3, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3146, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, a hind leg and a fore wing on a slide. PARECTROMOIDES new genus. Female:—In the table of genera runs to Eeclromoides Girault but differs in that the marginal vein is longer than either the postmarginal and stigmal which are subequal and rather long, the venation as in Hurytoma. Also, the scutellum is larger, extending to base of abdomen. The marginal vein is five or more times longer than wide. Scrobes long, separated by a median ridge from between base of antenne. rons moderately narrow. Mandibular teeth a little unequal, acute. Flagellum capitate, the funicle cylindrical, the scape long and slender, longer than the club which is about two thirds the length of the funicle. Cheeks about as long as the eyes. Ovipositor distinctly shortly extruded. Club long-ovate. Thorax convex, not flat as in Ectromoides. Cephalic legs compressed. 1. PARECTROMOIDES MAGNISCUTELLUM new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.50 mm. Stout. Dark purple, the abdomen dark green, the extruded valves of ovipositor and antennz (except the brownish yellow apical end of scape) black. Seutum with an obscure silvery stripe across caudal edge. Fore wings with a distinct yellow stain from whole of the marginal vein two thirds the way across the caudal margins and diffused distad under the stigmal vein, the venation yellow. Legs concolorous except tarsi, tips of tibiz, distal half of caudal femur, caudal two pairs of knees, distal half of middle tibizw and all of, caudal tibiz, which are rich yellowish brown. Frons with a double row of fine punctures along the eyes, otherwise scaly. 172 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Seape dusky. Distal three funicle joints longest, each somewhat longer than wide, the proximal three slightly longer than wide. Pedicel somewhat longer than funicle 4. Oblique hairless line of fore wing with about half a dozen lines of coarser cilia proximad of it. Hind wings short and broad, with about twenty-three lines of fine discal ciliation where broadest. Ring-joint present. Axille finely scaly, narrow, just joining at meson, with an obscure carina between them; scutellum longitudinally lined; scutum and the transverse pronotum densely scaly, the former with very many minute setigerous pin-punctures, the pubescence not silvery. Abdomen shorter than the thorax, finely scaly, bright green at base. Hind tibial spur single. From one female taken May 29, 1914, forest uplands (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Maclean (Clarence River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3147, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, with type of WHpitetracnemus sexguttatipennis Girault, tag and slide. GENUS ERICYDNUS Walker, 1. ERICYDNUS CHRYSCUS Walker. Male. ‘*Pteromalus ? chryscus Walker, Mon. Chaleid, II, p. 34, 3: Australia. ’’ 2. ERICYDNUS MEGALARUS Walker. Female. ‘‘Bulophus megalarus Walker, Ent. Mag. V, p. 477, 9, Australia.’’ 3. ERICYDNUS HEMIPTERUS new species Female:—Length, 1.15 mm. Short and robust, resembling a Hadronotus. Brilliant metallic dark green, the mesopleurum and abdomen purple; distal fourth of fore wing sooty; legs purple except tarsi and distal two thirds of middle tibiz which are brownish yellow, also the knees and more or less of tips of tibie. Antenne purplish, the club paler; scape slender, cylindrical; pedicel subelongate, longer than any of the funicle joints, all of the latter longer than wide, 4 somewhat the longest, 6 somewhat the shortest. Club slightly wider than the funicle, its three joints a little shorter than the funicle joints; pedicel not quite a third the length of the funicle; antenne 12-jointed, one short ring-joint. Middle tibiw armed with black teeth beneath as in many Eupelmine. Head densely scaly punctate, the thorax polygonally scaly; axille widely separated, the scutellum convex, sublenticular but nearly as long as wide, rounded at apex. Wings very small, reaching to proximal fifth of abdomen, the latter short. Front femur compressed, middle tibia somewhat dilated at apex, the spur with hairs ventrad. Lateral ocelli somewhat separated from the eyes, the ocelli minute. Mesopleurum finely, longitudinally lineolated. Abdomen finely scaly, green at base. Scrobes not long. Vertex moderate in width, the frons moderately narrow. Ovipositor not exserted. Hind tibial spurs apparently double. Pronotum transverse-linear. Second tooth of mandible broad, truncate, the first small. Described at first from eight females reared from a mass of pentatomid eggs on a bush in the forest. The hosts were obtained May 7, the parasites emerging May 30, 1912. Later two females were seen in the collections of the Queensland Museum labelled ‘‘Sweeping under- growth, mostly eucalypts, Brisbane, April 4 and 16, 1913 (H. Hacker).’’ Also, what appears to be a male was captured by sweeping in the dry bed of the Proserpine River, at Proserpine, Queensland, November 3, 1912. It is similar to the female except that the middle tibie are wholly yellow, the club is solid, the pedicel shorter, the funicle joints longer; pedicel much shorter than funicle 1; funicles 2 and 3 slightly the longest, two and a half times longer than wide. The antennal pubescence though not long is longer than in the female. Diseal cilia of fore wing confined to the small distal sooty area, the venation running to apex. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Proserpine and Brisbane, Queensland. Forest. Types: No. Hy 3148, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, four females on a tag; two female heads and three legs on a slide. Type locality, Gordonvale. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 173 A. ERICYDNUS HEMIPTERUS PENTLANDENSIS new variety. Female :—Like the typical form but the funicle joints all shorter, subequal, all some- what longer than wide; funicle 4 not distinctly longest. From one female taken by sweeping forest, January 4, 1913. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: None designated. GENUS TETRACNEMOIDEA Howard. 1. TETRACNEMOIDEA AUSTRALIENSIS Howard. Female, male. ‘‘Tetracnemoidea australiensis Howard, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 21, p. 232, 9, ¢ (1898). Australia: Sydney.’’ EPICHEILONEURUS new genus. Female :—Like Cristatithorax but the seutellum is simple, scape distinctly compressed. In the table runs to Paratetralophidea Girault from which it is easily distinguished by reason of the long marginal vein and the short stigmal, the latter about a fourth of the length of the former. 1. EPICHEILONEURUS ALBICOXA new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.25 mm. Very similar to Cristathoraz pasteuri Girault but the legs are lighter, funicle 6 suffused with whitish, tips of tibia white and the scape somewhat more dilated and of the head only the occiput is dark metallic. Compared with type of C. bidentimazille. Dark metallic green, the head orange yellow, the scutum with a short dense silvery pubescence, the middle coxe concolorous. Antenne all black, funicle 6 suffused with white. First and last pairs of coxa, tarsi, tips of tibia (broadly so on middle legs) and middle femur silvery white. Rest of legs blackish, front legs dusky. Tegule orange. Scutellum with a pair of long seta from extreme apex. Head as in C. pasteuri and also the antenne. Wings as in the same species. Hind tibial spur single. Scutellum densely shagreened, the scutum very finely scaly, the propodeum yet finer, laterad with silvery pubescence. Axille separated distinctly a short distance. From one female caught in forest, August 14, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3149, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wings and a hind leg on a slide. COCCIDOXENOIDES new genus. Female :—Like Fulgoridicida Perkins but the antennal club but 2-jointed, the frons moderately broad. Marginal vein a little longer than wide, the postmarginal barely developed, the stigmal somewhat longer than the marginal. Mandibles very small, with two minute, acute teeth. Fore wings of moderate width. 1. COCCIDOXENOIDES PERMINUTUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.50 mm. Dark metallic purple, the wings hyaline, the knees, tarsi and tips of tibie yellow, the venation dusky. Hairless line of fore wing with 3-4 lines of cilia proximad of it. Thorax polygonally scaly. Axille meeting inwardly. Abdomen triangular, pointed, as long as the thorax. Scape of moderate length; first five funicle joints short, subequal, each much wider than long (nearly twice wider), 6 abruptly much larger, a little longer than wide, thrice the 174 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. length of one of the others or nearly and a little longer than the pedicel. Club conic-ovate, not enlarged, nearly as long as the funicle or scape. From one female caught in forest in January. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3150, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; a fore wing and the hind tibie on a slide. NEANAGYRUS new genus. 1. NEANAGYRUS CAPITATUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.33 mm. Habitus of Anagyrus. Body depressed. Afneous green, the wings hyaline, the abdomen dark coppery, the legs reddish yellow “except the metallic caudal coxe, the somewhat dusky metallic tibize and two blackish spots on caudal tibiz dorsad, the first some little distance below knee and small, the second large and midway between middle and apex. Vertex densely punctulate. Apex of pedicel and proximal third or more of scape lemon yellow, rest black, the funicle and club dull brown. Venation black. Thorax densely polygonally scaly, with numerous obscure, small, setigerous punctures, the axille finely, transversely scaly, a little separated, no carina between them. Face much inflexed, the scrobes arched above but the frons sloping, not prominent. Fons moderate. Cheeks a little over half the length of the eyes. Scape a little dilated foliaceously, the funicle joints all wider than long but not annular, the flagellum capitate, the club very short, 2-jointed, strongly obliquely truncate, not much longer than wide, the flagellum somewhat as in Taftia Ashmead. Pedicel longer than any of the funicle joints, the latter gradually enlarging distad. Second tooth of mandible truncate. Marginal vein punctiform, the post- marginal and stigmal veins subequal, moderately long, normal. Hairless line of fore wing with many lines of cilia proximad of it. Caudal wings short and broad, the submarginal vein convexly curved, the costal cell not extending to the hooklets, the blade where widest with about twenty-five lines of fine uniform discal cilia. Fore wing broad, very finely ciliate. Hind tibial spurs double. Abdomen flat ventrad and dorsad, the ovipositor valves apparently absent. Club distinctly shorter than the funicle. From one female caught May 30, 1914 on forest uplands (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Maclean (Clarence River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3151, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, pair of wings and hind tibiew with slide type of Paraphenodiscus verus Girault. ARHOPOIDEUS new genus. Female :—Head (cephalic aspect) longer than wide, the serobes long, the frons rather broad, not prominent, the cheeks fully as long as the eyes, the mandibles small, apparently acute, the antenne inserted near the mouth border, 10-jointed without a ring-joint, the club 3-jointed and distinctly wider than the funicle and nearly its length. Marginal vein a little over twice longer than wide, subequal to the stigmal, the postmarginal absent. Hind tibial spur single. Abdomen longer than the rest of the body, compressed, pointed slender, the ovipositor nakedly extruded for a third of its length. Tarsi 5-jointed. Axille a little separated, the pronotum transverse-linear, barely visible from dorsal aspect. Propodeal spiracle minute, round, situate a little caudad of center. Scutellum rounded at apex, nearly as long as the scutum. Mandibles small, appearing acute but really with two small acute teeth at apex, one longer than the other. 1. ARHOPOIDEUS BREVICORNIS new species. Female :—Length, 1.30 mm. excluding ovipositor. Slender. Dark metallic green, the scutellum purple, the wings hayaline, the legs white except caudal coxa. Propodeum and abdomen Very dark green. Body scaly, the seutum somewhat more AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 175 coarsely so, the propodeum subglabrous, short at meson. Venation dark. Proximal half of scape except bulla and apex of pedicel, lemon yellow. Fore wing densely ciliate discally, the hairless line very broad and but obscurely defined proximad by scattered minute cilia. Club conic-ovate, rather large; pedicel large, nearly a half longer than wide at apex, longer than any funicle joint; funicle 1 longest, not quite twice longer than wide, 2 and 3 subequal, subquadrate, shortest, 4 and 5 subequal, widest, a little longer than wide. Scape subequal to the club, a little compressed. From one female caught in forest, June 4, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Copmanhurst (Upper Clarence River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3152, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, hind tibize and a fore wing on a slide with type Achrysopophagus oviductus. 2. ARHOPOIDEUS SECUNDUS new species. Female :—Slightly smaller than the genotype and differing in having the seape all black, shorter and stouter, the caudal femora and tibiz washed with dusky. Also, the frons is moderate and the scutellum black-green. Compared with type of genotype. From one female caught on forest uplands, May 28, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Maclean (Clarence River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3152, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type of brevicornis, head and a fore wing with slide type of Signiphora beethoveni. PARECTROMOIDELLA new genus. Female :—In my table of genera runs to Kctromoides from which it differs in having the postmarginal vein much shorter than the stigmal and the hind tibial spurs single. 1. PARECTROMOIDELLA THACKERAYI new species. Female :—Length, 1.10 mm. Dark metallic purple, the prothorax except apex of neck and caudal margin dorsad, the head and the scutellum, orange yellow, the face slightly washed with purple. Legs con- colorous except middle femur, a ring at base of caudal tibiew a little out from knee and the tarsi which are silvery white. Cephalic tibia brownish. A small elliptical purplish spot on seutellum mesad at about middle. Axillz orange caudo-laterad, with a distinct carina between them. Fore wings hyaline but with a broad subquadrate smoky cross-stripe from about distal third of submarginal vein to apex of postmarginal (broken centrally by an elliptical hyaline area against the venation—submarginal and marginal veins—and distad immediately followed by a naked hyaline cross-band about a third of its width). Distad rest of fore wing lightly dusky and more finely ciliated. Hairless line of fore wing closed at both ends, proximad of it about eight lines of cilia. Venation black, the marginal vein about five times longer than wide, slightly longer than the stigmal which is about twice the length of the postmarginal. Fuscous stripe of fore wing proximad coterminous with the discal ciliation. Scape long, slender, distad a little dilated ventrad (apex), distinctly longer than the club which is about half the length of the funicle and ovate, not much enlarged; pedicel slender, two and a half times longer than wide at apex, distinctly longer than funicle 1 which is a little the longest, somewhat longer than wide; funicle 6 a little wider than long. Scape serrate along the dorsal edge. Frons moderately narrow, convex, not prominent but the facial impression deep. Lateral ocelli not quite their own diameters from the eyes. Cheeks not half the length of the eyes. Mandibles slender, with equal, acute teeth. Scutellum with scattered black hair (a pair of long ones near apex), the scutum with short greyish pubescence. Body scaly. Abdomen pointed. Thorax with numerous minute setigerous pin-punctures. Pronotum transverse-linear, inverse V-shaped (dorsal aspect). Propodeum laterad with rather dense silvery pubescence, the spiracle minute. Scutellum not quite reaching the abdomen. 176 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. From one female caught May 10, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Murwillumbah (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3153, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and hind tibia with slide type of Hncyrtomyia viridiscutellum. Dedicated to the author of ‘‘ Vanity Fair.’’ STENOTEROPSIS new genus. Female:—In my table runs to Fulgoridicida Perkins but differs in that the stigmal and postmarginal veins are subequal, each somewhat longer than the marginal, the latter a little longer than wide. Also the head is a little longer than wide, the scrobes very long extending not quite to the cephalic ocellus. Hind tibial spur single. Club five sixths the length of the - funicle, long conic-ovate. Abdomen rounded triangular, depressed, not as long as the thorax. Seutum and scutellum not much unequal. Pronotum transverse-linear. 1. STENOTEROPSIS ABJECTUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.80 mm. Dark metallic blue, the abdomen green, the wings hyaline. Body finely sealy, the seutum clothed with black sete which are not very dense. Axille slender, separated by a short carina. Antenne black. Scape long, very slender, as long as the funicle whose joints are all subquadrate and nearly of equal width, shorter than the usual pedicel. Venation pale yellow, the fore wings broad, densely finely ciliate. rons moderately narrow. Cheeks much shorter than the eyes. Antenne inserted at the mouth border. From one female from the Queensland Museum collections labelled ‘‘ April 20, 1913. (H. Hacker). Sweeping young Lucalyptus.’’ Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3154, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag; head, hind tibiz and fore wing on a slide. EPITETRALOPHIDEA new genus. Female:—Runs to Paratetralophidea Girault but differs in having the head rounded, the scape dilated for its entire length, the face much inflexed, the frons subprominent; also the postmarginal and stigmal veins are short and subequal, the marginal vein nearly twice the length of either and a little more than twice longer than wide; the club is not compressed and is over half the length of the funicle, the joints of the latter enlarging distad. The legs are slender, the hind tibial spur single. Axille with a short carina between them. Otherwise agreeing with the generic description of the genus named except that the ovipositor is distinctly but very shortly extruded. 1. EPITETRALOPHIDEA BICINCTIPES new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.85 mm., excluding ovipositor; the latter is extruded for a length less than a seventh that of the abdomen. Metallic purple, the abdomen very dark, the fore wings hyaline but very lightly dusky along distal third. Venation pale yellow. Legs concolorous; all tibie and tarsi silvery white; cephalic tibia black just below knee, middle tibia with a rather broad black band between middle and knee; caudal tibia with a broad black band nearer to knee than to apex; middle femur silvery white encircled by a tolerably broad black band between middle and knee; knees silvery white. Antenne yellowish white except over proximal half of scape and proximal half of pedicel above; dilation of scape moderate. Pedicel subequal to funicle 6 which is largest, a little longer than wide; funicles 1-2 subequal, small, a little wider than long, 3-4 subequal, AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. IVA a little longer than wide. Funicle 1 not half the size of 6. Club distinctly wider thau the funicle, conic-ovate. Hairless line of fore wing with about six lines of faint but coarser cilia proximad of it. Scutum and scutellum densely polygonally scaly. From one female caught in forest, sand-ridges near coast, May 9, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3155, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; fore wing, middle leg, hind tibiz and head with slide type of Paratetracnemoidea breviventris Girault. 2. EPITETRALOPHIDEA MINUTA new species. Female :—Length, 0.40 mm. Axille distinctly separated a short distance. Ovipositor slightly extruded. : Metallic purple, the scutellum green. Legs white except caudal coxe, femora and tibiz (except tip of latter broadly and the knees), concolorous; a rather wide dusky band on middle legs on each side of knee. Antenne white, the club and proximal two thirds of pedicel dusky, also the venation, the marginal and stigmal veins with a small dusky spot aguinst them. Hairless line of fore wing with about four lines of discal cilia proximad of it. Seape a little less dilated than in the genotype, the funicle joints all wider than long, the elub three fourths the length of the funicle. Frons moderate. Funicle 3 shortest, twice or more wider than jong, the joints enlarging distad. Thorax finely scaly. Fore wing extraordinarily finely ciliate in the disk. Otherwise like the genotype. From one female caught in forest, December 4, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3156, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with bicinctipes; head, fore wing and hind tibiz with slide type of Paraleptomastix thoreauini. CHEILONEURELLA new genus. 1. CHEILONEURELLA BINOTATIVENTRIS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.30 mm. Bright golden yellow, the face paler; ventral margin of face except at each side (practically the clypeus), lateral margin of axille and a large rounded marginal spot on abdomen at apex of proximal third, black. Fore wing lightly infuseated from about the middle of the submarginal vein to apex, the portion under the venation deeper and there is a subhyaline cross-band just distad of venation which is of moderate width and somewhat curved. Tarsi white; pedicel and club dusky. Marginal vein dark, a little over thrice longer than wide, the stigmal somewhat over half its length, a little longer than the postmarginal. About six lines of coarser cilia proximad of hairless line. Mandibles with two outer acute teeth and a third, inner truneation from near base of the second tooth. Face inflexed. Frons moderate, not prominent. Cheeks rather long. Antenne with short funicle joints, 1 only a little longer than wide, subequal to 2 and 3, the next three a little shorter, all shorter than the pedicel; the frons is a little narrower than with that in Neastymachus auraticorpus. Body finely polygonally scaly. Axille with a short carina between them. Hind tibial spur single. Club not much enlarged. Head sublenticular. From one female caught in forest, April 12, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3157, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the fore wing on a slide. A second female same place, June 6, 1914. The marginal spots on abdomen are really short crescents. M 178 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. CHEILONEUROMYIA new genus. 1. CHEILONEUROMYIA SIMPLICISCUTELLUM new species. Genotype. Female :—-Length, 1.10 mm. A marginal dusky spot on each side of abdomen at base. Orange yellow, the head except the vertex lemon yellow, the face with a black line across at the insertion of antenna, this line curving dorsad obtusely at meson; funicle and distal club joint whitish; proximal two club joints black. Fore wings embrowned, crossed by a broad naked hyaline band at apex of the stigmal vein, this band a little longer than the deeper infuscated stripe distad of it, the proximal margin of latter projected proximad at meson. Apex of fore wing clearer. Propodeum, two round marginal spots on each side of the abdomen out about middle and hind tibia just below knee, purplish black. Ovipositor valves slightly extruded, concolorous. Legs yellow. Mandibles with second tooth truncate. Axille just joined at meson, with a distinct carina between them. Lateral ocelli barely separated. Head as in Habrolepopterygis. Scape slender; pedicel a little longer than funicle 1 which is subequal to 2, both distinctly longer than wide; funicle 6 quadrate. Club ovate, wider than the funicle. Stigmal vein short, the postmarginal not quite as long as it, the marginal about twice its length. Oblique hairless line present. Scutellum simple. Thorax reticulated, with black sete which are not very long. Abdomen acute, its second marginal spot at the spiracle and more or less obscure. From two females caught in jungle, April 3, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3158, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one specimen on a tag, the head and a fore wing on a slide. GENUS ANNASIOIDEA Girault. 1. HENASIOIDEA VARIA new species. Female :—Length, 1.50 mm. exclusive of ovipositor which is extruded for a fifth the length of the abdomen. Differs from the genotype in having the mandibles with two short, subacute teeth. Silvery white, the wings hyaline, the following parts black: Upper third of occiput, caudal margin of cheeks ventrad of the eyes, cephalic margin of axilla, dorsum of abdomen, face of pronotum, propodeum, a small spot just above and below (the latter split into two) knees, a linear dot on middle tibia dorso-caudad a little distad of middle, caudal knees lightly and a very thin dot below them, scape except apex of bulla, apex and base of its body, pedicel except apical third, first four funicle joints, fifth slightly and base of first club joint. Vertex, scutum, seutellum and axilla orange reddish. Rest of funicle and club yellow. Thorax and head finely scaly. Scutellum large, extending to base of abdomen, the axille very broadly joined at meson, with a carina between them. Scutum and scutellum with short, moderate- silvery pubescence. Abdomen acutely conic, nearly as long as the thorax, scaly. Hind tibial spurs single. Face much inflexed, but the vertex not flat, the frons rather narrow; cheeks over half the length of the eyes. Pedicel nearly twice longer than wide at apex, the first four funicle joints submoniliform, 5 and 6 wider, wider than long; club large, blunt at apex, three fourths the length of the funicle. Ring-joint minute. Hairless line of fore wing with many lines of diseal cilia proximad of it. Stigmal vein long. Venation very pale. From one female caught in forest, June, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Burnett Heads, South Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3159, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore wing and a hind tibia on a slide. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 179 TABLE TO THE EARTH’S ECTROMINE GENERA OF ENCYRTID Al.* FEMALES. The minute ring-joint is usually not considered as of any weight. It is probably present in most of the old genera. The frons is normal unless stated to the contrary. Winged. I. Venation of fore wing not reaching the costal margin, the postmarginal vein absent. Antenne 12-jointed, with one ring-joint, the scape slender; mandibles with two unequal, acute teeth; frons broad; marginal vein punctiform, the stigmal twice longer. Abdomen very short, depressed, triangular ae . .PARATETRACNEMOIDEA Girault. II. Venation of fore wing normal. 1. Funicle 2-jointed, the club solid, one ring-joint. Antenne inserted on middle of the face; funicle 1 elongate; marginal vein thrice longer than wide. Male t. ae a .. ECTROMOMYIELLA Girault. 2. Funicle 4-jointed, the club 3-jointed. Two ring-joints. Sometimes wingless. Marginal vein linear. Seape slender .. se MEROMYZOBIA Ashmead. No ring-joints. Ovipositor inserted near tip of abdomen. Winged. Marginal vein about twice longer than wide. Scape a little compressed ae Fi site OMPHALENCYRTUS Girault. 3. Funicle 5-jointed, the club solid (male). Postmarginal vein absent. Axille widely separated; frons broad; funicle with four branches (joints 1-4 of funicle ) a2 oe te oF te: 58 .. TETRACNEMUS Westwood. 4. Funicle 5-jointed, the club 2-jointed. No ring-joint. Ovipositor extruded; marginal vein quadrate; mandibles narrow, with two equal acute teeth; funicle joints all much wider than long. Club longer than the funicle. Frons broad. Articulation of club not very distinct .. PsrupECTROMA Girault. 5. Funicle 5-jointed, the club 3-jointed. One ring-joint. _Abdomen normal. Seape slender. Form small, slender; marginal vein barely longer than wide, the stigmal longer. Frons narrow, broadening at caudal vertex. Club distinctly articulated .. a Be See .. ECTROMELLA Girault. Abdomen distad compressed, longer than the rest of the body, the ovipositor nakedly extruded. Postmarginal vein absent, the stigmal as long as the marginal which is about twice longer than wide .. ar ws .. ARHOPOIDEUS Girault. 6. Funicle 6-jointed. Club solid. Scape extending far beyond the vertex. No ring-joint. Flagellum clavate, compressed, the funicle joints much wider than long; mandibles with two acute teeth; face with a transverse suture above antenne; marginal vein long but shorter than the postmarginal and stigmal veins He aye PARANUSIA Girault. Seape of normal length. Marginal vein punctiform or only slightly longer than wide. Scape slender. Funicle joints a little longer than wide. Postmarginal and stigmal veins short, longer than wide. Male with antennal branches - PENTACNEMUS Howard. Compare TETRACLADIA Howard and TETRALOPHIELLUS Ashmead. * AFnasioidea Girault excluded. 180 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Marginal vein distinctly much longer than wide. Funicle joints all much wider than long. The scape slender. Postmarginal and stigmal veins short. Ovipositor extruded. Mandibles with two equal acute teeth .. se a6 oh ie .. PARACALOCERINUS Girault. Club 2-jointed. No ring-joint. Form slender, depressed, the face directed dorsad; mandibular teeth acute; fore wings slender, the marginal vein punctiform, the stigmal longer; ovipositor- inserted near tip of the long obtusely conical abdomen .. 5 ee ae SCELIOENCYRTUS Girault.. Compare NEANAGYRUS Girault and COocCIDOXENOIDES Girault.. Club 3-jointed. Seape with a broad leaf-like expansion, broadly foliaceously dilated for its entire length. Flagellum greatly compressed, flat. Flagellum fusiform; axille meeting; marginal vein subpunctiform. Sometimes. apterous. Head thin. Funicle joints wider than long. Wings abbreviated. Ovipositor extruded. Thorax weak Bee Ps .. ANUSIA Foerster. The same but fully winged, the marginal vein over twice longer than wide, the. postmarginal vein not much shorter, longer than the stigmal; frons moderately broad. Robust ae 53 x ce of .. Epanusia Girault.. Flagellum not flattened, normal or nearly. Flagellum very long, filiform, the funicle joints elongate. Wings vestigial, the axilla well separated (weit von einander getrennt). Post- marginal vein very short, the stigmal long, the marginal short and thick. No ring-joint .. ie a2 Be at .. DINOCARSIS Foerster. Fully winged. Axille usually connate; marginal and stigmal veins subequal,. moderately long, the postmarginal distinct, somewhat shorter, frequently subequal to marginal. Antenne usually varicolored. Abdomen conic-ovate. One ring-joint. Nonmetallic. Mandibular teeth acute a ae EPIDINOCARSIS Girault.. Flagellum normal or short and thick. Marginal vein punctiform or quadrate, the postmarginal variable; second tooth of mandible truncate. Vertex normal, the flagellum cylindrical, normal. Stigmal vein well developed, longer than the postmarginal a 56 ANnaGyrRuUS Howard. Compare NEANAGYRUS Girault and male EPANAGYRUS Girault. Vertex flat (the frons very prominent); funicle joints transverse-linear,. the pedicel flattened. Stigmal vein moderately long. Club equal in length to the funicle. PSEUDANUSIA Girault.. Marginal vein twice or more longer than wide. Club greatly enlarged, twice or more the length of the funicle. Funicle joints subannular. Hind tibial spurs double; second tooth of mandible truncate; marginal vein over twice the length of the stigmal. Frons rather narrow : BAOANUSIA Girault. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 181 Club normal, the funicle normal. Mandible with two acute teeth. Hind tibial spurs single. Mandibles with two acute teeth; marginal vein about twice longer than wide, subequal to the stigmal. Flagellum clavate, the funicle joints wider than long, not annular... ie ate se zi .. Honanusi4 Girault. Hind tibial spurs double. Mandibles abnormal, acute but with a small tooth inwardly some distance proximad of tip. Marginal vein thrice longer than wide, longer than the stigmal. Funicle joints longer than wide, except distad en ate .. ANUSOMYIA Girault. Mandibles with the second tooth broadly truneate. See description as ae a .. PARATETRALOPHIDEA Girault. Scape normal or only compressed or else dilated only toward tip, not with a foliaceous expansion. Pronotum large, a quarter to a half the length of the scutum. Postmarginal vein elongate. Marginal vein punctiform. Mandibles with two acute teeth. Flagellum cylindrical. Robust. Hind tibial spurs double... is .. ANAGYRODES Girault. See Ecrroma where the pronotum is described as gross. ) Pronotum normal, transverse. Marginal vein punctiform, or only slightly longer than wide, the stigmal normal, the postmarginal very short. Axillz normal. Vertex normal, the frons not prominent. Frons rather narrow or moderately so. Fore wings with an oblique hairless line. Scape slender, the flagellum normal. Mandibles with the second tooth broadly truncate; axille a little separated. Stigmal vein plainly longer than the marginal ae CoccIDOXENUS Crawford. Mandibles with the second tooth acute like the first; axille connate. Stigmal vein subequal to or longer than the marginal, longer than the postmarginal on; sre < .. FuLeoripicipa Perkins. Compare STENOPTEROPSIS Girault. Frons broad. Fore wings without an oblique hairless line. Antenne capitate, the scape slender; stigmal vein semicircular; axilla meeting .. ae oF 5c .. Tartra Ashmead. Fore wings with an oblique hairless line. Scape usually more or less distinctly dilated toward apex, the flagellum long, cylindrical; axille a little separated; stigmal vein normal TETRACNEMOIDEA Howard. Vertex flat, the frons prominent. Mandibles with two acute teeth; funicle joints transverse-linear, the funicle not as long as the club, the latter large. Oblique hairless line present .. si of Ae ah .. EPISTENOTERYS Girault. 182 : MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Axille widely separated. Seape slender, the flagellum normal; second tooth of mandible truncate; marginal vein a little thickened, somewhat shorter than the stigmal; frons variable; face inflexed oe a .. TETRACNEMELLA Girault.. Marginal vein distinctly longer than wide, usually much more so. Axille distinetly separated. Both teeth of mandibles acute. Flagellum filiform; marginal vein linear, the postmarginal absent, the stigmal long and slender, subequal to the marginal. Face lenticular or convex AMENISCOCEPHALUS Girault. Flagellum rather strongly clavate; stigmal and postmarginal veins subequal, two thirds the length of the marginal. Face inflexed Se ee PARASTENOTERYS Girault. Second tooth of mandible broadly truncate. Scape compressed, the club nearly as long as the funicle; stigmal vein short, the postmarginal still shorter. Face inflexed EPITETRACNEMUS Girault. Axille connate or but slightly separated. Abdomen compressed, distinctly longer than the rest of the body, the ovipositor prominently extruded. Flagellum subclavate; stigmal and postmarginal veins very short, the marginal linear Bi et oe .. TINEOPHOCTONUS Ashmead. Abdomen usual. Seutellum with a tuft of hairs near apex. Face inflexed; second tooth of mandible broadly truncate; marginal vein linear, thrice the length of the stigmal, the latter longer than the short postmarginal. Like Cheilonewrus .. CRISTATITHORAX Girault. Scutellum naked at apex or practically so. Antenne long and slender, funicle 1 elongate, the other joints gradually shortening, 6 short. Axille united, with a carina between them. Marginal vein longer than stigmal or postmarginal. Legs slender a ie 58 = LEepTroMASTIx Foerster, STENOSTERYS Thomson. Axille united. Marginal vein thrice longer than wide, the postmarginal elongate, over twice the length of the marginal, the stigmal shorter but much longer than the marginal. Hind legs compressed . PARALEPTOMASTIX Girault. Antenne: not especially long, usual. Frons broad. Marginal vein not much longer than the stigmal. Postmarginal vein absent. Head lenticular; marginal vein rather thick, about twice longer than wide; front legs compressed; mandibular teeth acute; flagellum clavate; scutum with short thickened setz MENISCOCEPHALUS Perkins. Postmarginal vein present, long. Face inflexed; flagellum cylindrical; often wingless 8 ae EricypNus Walker. Postmarginal vein short 5% sic .. ERICYDNELLA Girault. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 183 Marginal yein distinctly longer than the stigmal. Stigmal and postmarginal veins short, less than half the length of the marginal. Wings usually fuscous, with white rays CALOCERINUS Howard, TETRALOPHIDEA Renenoms Frons narrow or moderate. Stigmal vein twice the length of the marginal. Marginal vein about twice longer than wide; postmarginal vein very short; antenne clavate; the club much shorter than the funicle. Valves of ovipositor prominent Ss TETRACNEMOPSIS Meimenal Stigmal vein only as long as or a little longer than the marginal. Flagellum clavate. Wings variable HABROLEPOIDEA Howard, HABROLEPOPTERYX Rented Flagellum subeapitate or cylindrical. Second tooth of mandible truncate; postmarginal vein very short ECHTHRODRYINUS Perkins. Second tooth of mandible acute, shorter than the first; post- marginal vein as long as stigmal. Face inflexed ECTROMOIDES Girault, PARECTROMOIDES Girault. Compare CHEILONEURELLA Girault and CHEILONEUROMYIA Girault. Apterous or subapterous. Antenne 11-jointed, the club 3-jointed. Axille separated, the scutellum between them with two fovee. Scape extending beyond the ocelli, the flagellum cylindrical; pronotum large. Frons broad Bi Suc ee ee oe ve 3 .. EctromMa Westwood. Axille the same but seutellum without two foveze between them, the scutellum lunate. Frons rather narrow. Flagellum cylindrical 5¢ oe .. BaocHaris Mayr. Axille the same. Flagellum compressed. Ovipositor much exserted. Seutellum sub- triangular, rounded at apex. Abdomen strongly compressed oe ay 35 HeEmicopyeus Ashme:'!. Axille the same; scape greatly foliaceously dilated. Scutellum acute at apex : DINOCARSIS Macrae. See EricypNUS, MEROMyYZOBIA, ANUSIA. I'he genus Calocerineloides Girault, male, is not included in the table. In the Eneyrtine, there are three or four kinds of heads: (1) The inflexed or normal 1: which the vertex is normally rounded, the antennal scrobes present, the ventral half of the face depressed, the outline of the head usually circular (cephalic aspect), the frons broad or narrow; (2) the kind in which the frons is prominent (from lateral aspect especially), the inflexion very great, the vertex flat and abruptly declivous so that from lateral aspect it forms the base of a more or less distinct triangle; (3) the lenticular or convex-lens-shaped head, characterized by the face not being inflexed, the scrobes absent or very short, the whole surface a regular convexity (the occiput usually a regular concavity); and (4) the head which is plainly longer than wide as viewed from the cephalic aspect (normal position).* * Like the head of an ant or a Spalangia. The frons is considered broad when the distance between the eyes is great or normal, the eyes wide apart and narrow when they are much converged so that the vertex is linear caudo-cephalad, or more or less so. A moderate frons is therefore the state more or less between these two extremes. 184 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. The following eneyrtids have been described or recorded from Australia, besides those in foregoing: Coccophoctonus dactylopii Ashmead. Aphycus alberti Toward. Aphycus australiensis Howard. Heterarthrellus australiensis Howard. Enecyrtus arsanes, cheles, luceltius, odacon, pacorus, salacon, xuthus, zameis and zebina of Walker. Chirolophus koebelet Ashmead. Myrmecomimesis nigricans Walker. Eupelmus dodone Walker. ELupelmus howardi Ollie. Tineobius citri Ashmead. Walker records Hupelmus urozonus Dalman from Sydney and King George’s Sound. Of the foregoing, Walker’s species seem hopeless from the descriptions which do not relate, apparently, to species of Hneyrtus. Hupelmus dodone Walker does not seem to be an Eupelmus. The other descriptions have not been available. This most fascinating group must have many more species and genera in the Australian fauna. The species seem rather widely distributed. The group will repay careful study. The abdomen of the Eupelminew shrivels; the Aphelinine are better preserved in xylol-balsam. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VIII.—GIRAULT. 185 AUSTRALIAN | HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA—VIIL* | The Family Miscogasteridze with Descriptions of New Genera and Species. By A. A. GIRAULT. THe forms do not seem numerous in the Australian fauna. Famity MISCOGASTERID. SusBraAMiILy TRIDYMIN Ai. Tris—E TRIDYMINI. GENUS GASTRANCISTRUS Westwood. 1. GASTRANCISTRUS MENZETES (Walker). Miscogaster menetes Walker; male, 1839, pp. 20-21. 2. GASTRANCISTRUS ROBERTSONI new species. Female :—Length, 1 mm. excluding the ovipositor, the latter extruded for a sixth the feneth of the abdomen. Metallic purple, the wings hyaline; middle tibize pallid dusky; tarsi white. Thorax scaly, the propodeum more delicately so. Funicle joints all a litte wider than long, 2 quadrate, shorter than the pedicel. Hind wing with about eight lines of discal cilia. Much like Tetracampoides of A. P. Dodd of the Eulophidae. Antenne 12-jointed, the funicle 5-jointed, two short ring-joints; they are inserted nearly at the mouth border, ventrad of the ends of the eyes; head oblong as in Spalangia, the abdomen short yet conic-ovate and produced beneath at apex, the ovipositor distinctly extruded a short distance. Marginal vein a little shorter than the submarginal and only two and a half times the length of the rather long stigmal, the postmarginal slightly longer than the stigmal. Submarginal vein distinctly broken. Mandibles 4-dentate, the teeth long, the outer distinctly the longest, slender. Parapsidal furrows distinct, curving off laterad before reaching the transverse pronotum. Propodeum with a median carina only. Abdomen sessile. Scutellum simple. Propodeal spiracle minute, round, at cephalic margin. ; Described from one female captured by sweeping on forest sand-ridges near coast, Tweed River, May 9, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3163, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, pair of wings and a hind tibia on a slide. Respectfully dedicated to F. W. Robertson. * Contribution No. 31, from the Entomological Laboratory, Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, Bundaberg, Queensland. 186 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. GENUS SEMIOTELLUS Westwood. 1. SEMIOTELLUS DICE (Walker). Miscogaster dice Walker, male, 1839, p. 24. 2. SEMIOTELLUS THEOPE (Walker). Male; female. Miscogaster theope Walker, 1839, p. 25. GENUS ASEMANTUS Foerster. 1. ASEMANTUS CECIDOMYIZ Ashmead. Female; male. Length, 2.4 mm. Metallic bronzed green, finely, closely punctate; head with some thimble-like punctures along anterior orbits and on vertex; mesopleura blue, almost smooth; scrobes distinct, semicircular; antenne brown-black, scape zneous black, flagellum subclavate, sparsely pubescent, funicle joints longer than thick. Parapsidal furrows distinct, entire; thorax abruptly truncate anteriorly, the pronotum not visible from above except slightly at lateral angles; scutellum large, axille widely separated. Legs yellow, coxe except at tips, metallic; trochanters, tarsi and tibie yellowish white. Wings hyaline; marginal, postmarginal and stigmal veins light brown, the marginal being very long, fully four fifths the length of submarginal vein; postmarginal half the length of marginal; stigma! a little shorter than the marginal and ending in a rounded knob. Abdomen conically elongate and about one third longer than head and thorax united. Male measures 1.8 mm. Blue to bluish green; flagellum long, filiform, the joints more than twice as long as thick, the first and second fully thrice as long as thick; legs, except middle and hind coxe#, wholly yellow; abdomen oblong, depressed and scarcely as long as thorax. Habitat: Sydney, New South Wales. On Cecidomyia frauenfeldti. Type: No. 4888, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Genus SYSTASIS Walker. This genus is similar to Paruriella of the Pteromalide. 1. SYSTASIS VARIPES new species. Female :—Length, 2 mm. Afneous green, the wings hyaline, the coxe, first two pairs of femora at middle ventrad and hind femur except at apex, concolorous, also the antenne. Legs otherwise reddish brown including the trochanters, the tips of tibia and tarsi white. Vertex with shallow thimble punctures, rest of head scaly. Abdomen darker. Funicle joints subequal, 5 quadrate, barely shorter than 1, the latter a little shorter than the pedicel, slightly longer than wide. Mandibles. tridentate, maxillary palpi white. Club 1 quadrate. Postmarginal vein a little longer than the stigmal. Thorax densely, rather finely punctate, the scutum and scutellum with traces of obscure larger punctures. Propodeum moderate in length, distinctly tricarinate, the lateral carina at apex running strongly mesad along caudal margin and also laterad and so up lateral margin but more weakly. Abdomen longer than the thorax, scaly. From one female from the Queensland Museum collections, October 11, H. Hacker, collector. Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2164, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; hind tibie and head on a slide. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VIII—GIRAULT. 187 2. SYSTASIS HENRICI Girault. Female. Length, 2.10 mm. Dark metallic eneous green, reticulately punctate, the thorax also with obscure thimble punctures. Wings hyaline. Legs brownish yellow, the cephalic femora washed with metallic green, the posterior femora darker at the middle and submetallic; antenne dusky black, 12-jointed, with two ring-joints, the club 3-jointed, the funicle joints subquadrate, the first longest, slightly shorter than the pedicel; postmarginal vein somewhat longer than the stigmal. Mandibles 5-dentate, the three inner teeth minute. Propodeum tricarinate, the scutellum without a cross-furrow. Ovipositor not exserted. Habitat: King Island, Tasmania. Type: No. I. 1344, South Australian Museum. 3. SYSTASIS GROTIUSI new species. Female. Length, 1.75 mm. Like henrici but the mandibles without two small inner teeth and all femora and tibie are concolorous, the knees and tips of tibie broadly yellow. Propodeum short at the meson. Robust and with the habitus of Ormyrus. A few punctures on upper face and vertex and the fore tibiz are mostly yellowish. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, May and December 2, 1912. Type: No. Hy 3165, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the head and hind legs on a slide. 4. SYSTASIS SEPOSITUS new species. Female. Length, 1.40 mm. Bright metallic blue-green, the funicle joints except the first wider than long, the first quadrate and twice or less the length of the second which is shortest. Otherwise like grotiusi. Club enlarged, ovate. Pedicel longer than any of the funicle joints. In grotiusi, the three distal funicle joints are wider than long and the scape is longer. In sepositus the complete median carina is very short, the propodeum short. Thus very similar to grotiusi but the antenne are shorter, the flagellum brown (black in grotiusi) and the second funicle joint distinctly shorter than the first. Abdomen slender, conic, longer than the thorax. The propodeum is short and with a median carina in both species and the sculpture is identical; but the hind wings in grotiusi are broader. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Forest, January 8, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3166, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the head and hind legs on a slide. 5. SYSTASIS INSULARIS new species of A. P. Dodd and Girault. Female. Length, 1.90 mm. Brilliant metallic green, the coxe and femora concoiorous; knees, tibiz and tarsi white, the tibiee yellowish centrally, the antennw black, the scape brownish. Thorax densely finely reticulate-punctate. Propodeum somewhat finer, short, broad, with a median carina, the lateral carina present, abbreviated anteriorly, the spiracle rounded, the spiracular sulci faintly indicated. Abdomen somewhat longer than the thorax, wholly finely scaly and with whitish scattered pubescence; second segment occupying over a third of the surface. Wings hyaline; marginal vein over twice as long as stigmal, the postmarginal a half longer than stigmal. Pedicel a little shorter than first funicle joint which is a half longer than wide, the others subequal, slightly longer than wide; club joints a little wider than long. Habitat: Thursday Island, Torres Strait. Forest, March 11, 1912. Type: No. Hy 3167, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag; head and hind _ legs on a slide. 188 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 6. SYSTASIS PUNCTATIVERTEX new species. Female :—Length, 2 mm. Like insularis but the tibize concolorous also except the cephalic tibia which are washed with metallic green dorsad; antennzw wholly black wneous, the funicle joints all a little longer than wide, somewhat shorter than the pedicel and subequal to each other. Vertex and upper face with numerous thimble punctures. Propodeum not seen. Second and third teeth of mandibles not very well differentiated, short, obtuse, the division between them rather shallow. Postmarginal vein distinctly longer than the stigmal. Tips of tibiew whitish. Described from one female taken from a window, March 18, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queeensland. Type: No. Hy 3168, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the fore wings, head and hind tibia - on a slide. TRYDYMIFORMIS new genus. A genus differing from Trydymus Ratzeburg in the structure of the clypeus and from other genera of its tribe in the normal venation, 12-jointed antenna and their insertion and so on. 1. TRYDYMIFORMIS AUSTRALIENSIS new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 1.75 mm. Steel blue, metallic, the wings hyaline, the legs concolorous except all of tibiz and the four proximal tarsal joints which are white. Reticulated and with scattered minute setigerous punctures, the abdomen densely reticulated, except the second segment which is glabrous and occupies about half of the surface. Abdomen depressed, ovate, as long as the thorax, segment 7 longer than segments 3-6 united, the latter transverse. Abdomen pilose. Propodeum with a strong median carina. Mandibles small, bidentate. Antennewe 12-jointed, concolorous to black, inserted below the middle of the face, one ring-joint, the club 3-jointed, the distal one terminating in a distinct spinelike seta. Funicle joints transverse, all shorter than the pedicel, the first longest and narrowest, the last three subequal. Propodeum glabrous. Marginal vein subequal to the submarginal, the stigmal shorter than the postmarginal. Clypeus not produced at meson, there gently concaved. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, June 14, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3169, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the head and hind legs on a slide. NEOSYSTASIS new genus. Female :—Runs to Systasis Walker, the antenneze inserted above the middle of the face but the first funicle joint is elongate, the postmarginal vein elongate, over twice the length of the stigmal, the abdomen long and conical, longer than the rest of the body, the thorax is finely polygonally lined and with scattered umbilicate punctures. Mandibles with two acute teeth. Antenne 12-jointed. 1. NEOSYSTASIS UMBILICATUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.85 mm. Dark metallic blue, the head, seutellum and abdomen purple, the legs straw yellow (hind coxa metallic at base); also the seape, the club suffused with whitish. Fore wings distinctly infuscated, the infuscation taking the shape of an obscure midlongitudinal line which diffuses over the blade from each side. Marginal fringes very short. Hind wings knife-shaped, rather narrow, the margin subparallel, the apex blunt. Funicle 5 a little longer than wide, 4 distinetly longer than wide, a little longer than the pedicel, 3 and 2 each longer in succession proximad, 1 a fourth longer than 2, subequal to proximal two elub joints combined. Scape moderately long, slender. Face with scattered thimble punctures, rather numerous; punctures numerous on whole of mesonotum but a median path down scutellum, slightly broadening distad, narrow proximad, free of punctures. Axilla not advanced, with only one or two punctures; punctures AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VIII—GIRAULT. 189 of moderate size, setigerous, the sete very short. Propodeum rather short, with a distinct median carina which is short and broad, forking strongly at apex, running along the caudal margin. Spiracle at the cephalic margin, round, small, in a more or less obscure impression whose caudal margin is subearinated. Propodeum finely scaly, impunctate. Abdomen also finely scaly, none of the segments greatly lengthened. Parapsidal furrows deep, complete. Legs slender. From one female captured in jungle, May, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3170, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag; hind legs and antennz on a slide. 2. NEOSYSTASIS ORMYROIDES new species. Female :—Length, 1.80 mm. With the habits of Ormyrus. Brilliant coppery, the wings slightly uniformly infuscated throughout. Legs white except the sides of cephalic coxe and the hind coxe which are concolorous; cephalic femora and tibiz and caudal femur above, pinkish orange. Mandibles with three well-developed, acute teeth. Scape and pedicel yellowish brown; rest of antenna black but the club a little whitish. Venation brown. Head with numerous, scattered punctures; also the dorsal thorax except the propodeum. Scutellum rather broadly at meson from a little cephalad of middle, without punctures. Scutum and scutellum with a short greyish pubescence. Thorax finely scaly reticulated, the abdomen a little more coarsely so. Propodeum similarly sculptured, very short at the meson, nearly hidden from above by the scutellum, widening laterad, the median carina not distinct. Funicles 4 and 5 subequal, each a little wider than long, 2 and 3 subequal, each a little longer than wide; funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, subequal to the pedicel, distinctly shorter than with the genotype. Described from a single female captured in the jungle, July 31, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3171, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, hind legs and a fore wing on a slide. In this genus, the submarginal vein is broken. In the genotype, the median carina of the propodeum is short yet distinctly longer than wide and a lateral carina is indicated from caudad. GENUS EPITEROBIA Girault. Female :—Agyreeing with Terobia Foerster but the scutellum with a distinct cross-suture before apex and the marginal vein is fully twice the length of the stigmal, which is distinctly shorter than the postmarginal. Both mandibles flattened, distinctly 4-dentate. Abdomen conic- ovate, keeled beneath, the second segment longest, occupying about a fifth of the surface, its caudal margin with a slight notch at the meson; abdomen somewhat longer than the rest of the body. Antenne inserted below the middle of the face but somewhat above the ventral ends of the eyes, the first ring-joint very short. Lateral margins of propodeum carinated, but true lateral carine absent, the median carina distinct, not very long, complete. Spiracle small, round, central (i.e. midway between cephalic and caudal margins, far from cephalic margin). Parapsidal furrows deep. 1. EPITEROBIA RETICULATITHORAX Girault. Genotype. Female :—Length; 1.15 mm. Dark coppery green, the wings hyaline, the thorax finely reticulated, the lines not raised, smooth on scutellum caudad of cross-suture; propodeum glabrous. Coxe concolorous, the femora also, the knees, tibie and tarsi pale. Mandibles some- what like an outspread hand with the last finger-joints turned down and the thumb hidden. Antenne pale yellowish, the pedicel above at base and the club dusky. Club somewhat enlarged; funicle joints subglobular, wider than long, increasing somewhat in size distad but always 190 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. shorter than the pedicel, which is a little longer than wide. Club apparently with a minute apical fourth joint (excluding this, antennew 13-jointed with two ring-joints). Described from one female captured by sweeping in forest, December 2, 1912 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3172, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag, the head and a hind leg on a slide. A second female, type habitat, May 27, 1914. Trine METASTENINI. METASTENOIDES new genus. Form short, robust, the head large, from cephalic aspect rounded, the antennz inserted in the middle of the face, 13-jointed, three ring and club joints. Clypeus emarginate at meson. Mandibles 3- and 4-dentate. Postmarginal and stigmal veins long, the former longer than the latter, nearly as long as the rather short marginal. Scutellum simple. Pronotum distinct, transverse. Propodeum conical, without a median carina, the lateral carine present and a foveate, irregular, short spiracular sulcus, the spiracle narrow, long-reniform. A large transverse fovea at cephalic margin of propodeum just mesad of lateral carina. Abdomen short, depressed ovate, the second segment longest, occupying a little less than a fourth of the surface, the others shorter but not transverse-linear. 1. METASTENOIDES SIMUS new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 2.70 mm. Bronze, the wings hyaline, the abdomen dark green, legs (except the concolorous hind coxa, others not noted) reddish; the knees, tips of tibize and tarsi white. Antenne reddish, the first funicle joint longer than the pedicel, longest of the funicle, the others shortening, joint 1 nearly twice longer than wide; funicle 5 slightly longer than wide. Scape long and slender. Head and thorax densely punctate. Distal half of hind tibiz white. Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Jungle, September 15, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3173, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the hind tibiz and antenn on a slide. GENUS ARTHROLYSIS Foerster. 1. ARTHROLYSIS FLAVIVENTRIS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Female. Length, 3.25 mm. Head and thorax dark metallic blue, the cephalic coxe concolorous; anterior femora black-brown; rest of legs golden yellow; abdomen with a longitudinal stripe running down each lateral margin from base to two thirds length and a median stripe from one sixth length to two thirds length, brown; apex of abdomen black, rest golden yellow; antennz wholly brownish yellow. Wings hyaline, long and broad, the venation yellow; marginal vein one third longer than postmarginal, the latter twice as long as the rather long stigmal vein. Abdomen conic-ovate, depressed above, convex beneath, as long as the head and thorax combined, its second segment occupying one fourth of the surface, 3 and 4 subequal, together equal to 2, 4-6 gradually lengthening, 6 as long as 2. Pronotum distinctly separated ; parapsidal furrows only indicated anteriorly; scutellum as long as wide, simple; propodeum moderate in length, punctate, without carine or sulci. Thorax densely umbilicately punctate and with a few seattered hairs. Mandibles 4-dentate. Antenne inserted about on the middle of the face, 13-jointed with two ring-, three club joints; pedicel distinctly longer than wide, AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VIII—GIRAULT. 191 the funicle joints long and slender, 1 nearly twice as long as the pedicel, 2-6 gradually shortening, 6 a little longer than the pedicel; club no longer than funicle 1, without a terminal spine. Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Forest (1,500 feet), September 16, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3174, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the head and hind legs on a slide. 2. ARTHROLYSIS TRILONGIFASCIATA new species. Female :—Length, 3 mm. Very similar indeed to flaviventris Girault and Dodd but somewhat more slender and all of each leg is golden yellow; the median stripe of abdomen extends distinctly distad of the distal ends of the marginal stripes (the distal ends of the three stripes even in the first species) and each end of it is about equally distant from base and apex (in the first species, the distal end is farther from apex than the proximal is from base). Also, the club is distinctly longer than funicle 1; funicles 1-4 subequal, about twice the length of the pedicel; funicle 6 somewhat longer than wide. Scape and pedicel golden yellow; rest of antenna black. Mandibles 4- and 5-dentate. Sculpture coarse, uniform scaly punctation over the entire thorax (closer, denser, the punctures small, roundish in flaviventris). Both species blue-black with a saddlelike neck on propodeum and with the parapsidal furrows obsolete or nearly. Described from one female captured by sweeping in the forest, May 8, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3176, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag with type jluvwwentris; an antenna and a hind leg on a slide. 3. ARTHROLYSIS MIRIFICUS new species. Female :—Similar to flaviventris G. and D. but the marginal stripes of abdomen extend from base nearly to apex, the median stripe is correspondingly longer, its apex even with the apex of the marginal stripes and a little nearer to apex of abdomen than the proximal end is to its base (distinctly the other way round in flaviventris). Also, the three stripes are more distinctly broken at each segmental incision. Otherwise similar to the named species. Antennal club not seen. f Described from one female captured by sweeping in the forest, August 14, 1914. . Labitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3177, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. A second female was captured September 20, 1914 by sweeping grass in forest, at Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. The three species greatly resemble Apirene longifasciata Girault with which they have been compared. HABRITELLA new genus of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Female :—Antennez inserted above the middle of face, 13-jointed, with three ring, three club joints; funicle joints not lengthened, club without a terminal spine. Mandibles 4-dentate. Antennal scrobes not defined. Head no wider than the thorax, not much wider than long. Pronotum short, distinctly separated. Secutum much wider than long, parapsidal furrows half complete. Seutellum simple. Axillze widely separated. Propodeum not long, with a short neck; median carina absent; lateral carinz distinct, branching in two, one branch running to caudal margin mesad, the other to caudal margin laterad. Spiracle small, round; no spiracular sulcus. Marginal vein twice as long as the stigmal; postmarginal a little longer than the stigmal, the latter with a large knob. Abdomen conic-ovate, nearly straight above, convex beneath; sessile; second segment narrowed; third deeply incised at meson of caudal margin, the incision reaching back to caudal margin of second segment; 4 longer than 2 and 3 united, occupying over one half of the surface; remaining segments short. Hind tibize with two short apical spurs. 192 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 1. HABRITELLA GRACILIVENTRIS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Female :—Length, 1.70 mm. Dark metallic blue, the cox and femora concolorous; second and third segments of abdomen brilliant blue-green; knees, tibiew, tarsi and antennal scape golden yellow; rest of antenne black. Wings hyaline, the venation fuscous. Thorax, including propodeum, densely punctate; the abdomen smooth. Pedicel slightly longer than first funicle joint which is a little longer than wide; 5 quadrate; club no longer than two preceding joints united, the first two joints subequal, the third shorter. Abdomen slender, narrower than the thorax. Described from one female caught by sweeping in forest, summit of second coast range,. 1,500 feet, May 29, 1913 (A. A. Girault). Habitat: Northern Queensland (Gordonvale near Cairns). Type: No. Hy 3175, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the head and hind “legs on a slide. GENUS AMICROMEULUS Girault. This genus belongs here, not where formerly placed. Similar to Micromelus Walker but funicle 1 is a little longer than the pedicel, segment 2 of abdomen not more than a fifth the length of the abdomen, the antennz only 12-jointed,. the club but 2-jointed the second joint terminating in a distinct spur. Marginal vein longer than the stigmal, the abdomen longer than the thorax, the ovipositor not exserted. Propodeum with a fovea on each side at cephalic margin midway between the meson and the oval spiracle. 1. AMICROMELUS CYANEUS Girault. Genotype. Female :—Length, 2.20 mm. Dark metallic blue, the abdomen above dark coppery, the wings hyaline, the venation pale; coxee and femora concolorous, the knees, tibiz and tarsi pale, nearly white; thorax with a white pubescence somewhat as in Aplastomorpha. Head and thorax densely punctate, including the propodeum; abdomen microscopically sculptured. Antenne capitate, the distal funicle joint just a little longer than wide, the whole dusky brownish, the club brown. Corrected description. Described from three females captured by sweeping in a forest, May 5, 1913. Tabitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3178, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one of the above on a tag and a slide with parts of the others and the appendages. There are two ring-joints and no carine on the propodeum. Mandibles 3- and 4-dentate,. the 3-dentate one with its third tooth broad, incised at middle. Antenne inserted slightly below the middle of the face, the scape very long, slender. Types re-examined. Compare Neocaudonia Dodd of the Cleonymine. SuBFAMILY PIRENINA. GENUS APIRENE Girault. Head somewhat wider than long (cephalic aspect), the antenne inserted high up, above the middle of the face, the scape extending above the vertex—11-jointed with two ring-joints, the club solid and terminating in a nipple-like projection, the funicle joints long, the first plainly more than twice the length of the short pedicel and twice the length of the distal funicle joint. Maxillary palpi with at least three joints. Postmarginal and stigmal veins well developed, the former a third longer. Parapsidal furrows obscure, only about half complete (from cephalad). Abdomen subsessile, ovate, depressed above, produced ventrad beneath, the ovipositor not exserted. Propodeum with neither spiracular sulci nor carina, the spiracle not large, oblong. Second abdominal segment longest. Posterior tibiew with two spurs. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VIII—GIRAULT. 193 Non-metallic. Eyes naked. Pronotum as seen from above, transverse-linear, widening laterad, normal. Segment 2 of abdomen occupying about a fifth of the surface, notched at meson caudad; no petiole. Pronotum well separated. 1. APIRENE LONGIFASCIATA Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 2.60 mm. Black, the abdomen honey yellow and with a long broad black stripe down each side from base to apex; coxe black, the legs fuscous, tips of tibie and most of the tarsi paler, the cephalic femora darker, washed with more or less blackish. Wings hyaline. Head and thorax densely but not deeply punctate, the propodeum less rough, polygonally reticulated, the abdomen all similarly reticulated but more delicately. Face with converging striw above the clypeus. Second and third funicle joints subequal, the third, fourth and fifth each shortening. Scape and pedicel fuscous; ring-joints yellowish, the funicle yellow, suffused with dusky. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, December, 1912. Not uncommon. Types: No. Hy 3179, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on tags (two pins) ; head on a slide. EROTOLEPSIELLA new genus. Running to Eroiolepsia Howard but the stigmal and postmarginal veins extremely long, subequal, each over three fourths the length of the marginal, the antennal pedicel somewhat shorter than the solid club, the eyes naked or nearly so. There is a single ring-joint and the first funicle joint is subquadrate and narrower than the others, the second and third joints longest. Fore wings banded. Cephalic femur somewhat swollen but simple. Mandibles tridentate. Parapsidal furrows complete, delicate. Abdomen pointed conic-ovate, segment 2 longest but occupying only about a third of the surface, its caudal margin entire. Propodeum with a neck but no carinez, rugose, the scutellum with a not very distinct cross-furrow before apex. Abdomen with a short stout petiole. Antenne 11-jointed. With the habitus of the Pteromalide. 1. EROTOLEPSIELLA BIFASCIATA new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 1.80 mm. Purplish brown, the tip of abdomen ringed narrowly with white, the distal part of metathorax and the short abdominal petiole also white. Legs concolorous, the tarsi yellowish white, the antenne concolorous. Fore wings with two conspicuous black-brown bands across them, the first narrow and from the bend of the submarginal vein, the second very broad and from the stigmal vein. Thorax punctate. Habitat: Babinda, Queensland. Jungle. October 28, 1911. Type: No. Hy 3180, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the head and caudal tibiz on a slide. EROTOLEPSIOPUS new genus. Female:—Form short. Head wider than long, the antennz inserted on a level with the ventral ends of the eyes, capitate, the club short, obliquely truncate, 3-jointed; eleven joints with one ring-joint, the funicle joints after the subquadrate first, wider than long and sub- pedunculate. Mandibles slender, with three long teeth. Parapsidal furrows complete, deep. Pronotum transverse. Scutellum with a punctate cross-groove just before apex. Propodeum polished, with a median carina only, the spiracle small, round. Axille large, widely separated. Second abdominal segment occupying a little over a third of the surface, the others much shorter than it. Marginal vein short, less than half the length of the submarginal, the stigmal not long, two thirds the length of the marginal, the postmarginal somewhat longer than the stigmal. N 194 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 1. EROTOLEPSIOPUS SUBSOLANUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.35 mm. Metallic purple, the base of abdomen dorsad and the propodeum dark bluish green, the wings hyaline. Legs and antenne straw yellow, the coxw metallic, concolorous. Propodeum with fovew along cephalic margin. Thorax reticulately scaly, the lines not raised. Scape cylindrical, moderate in length; joints 2-5 of funicle gradually widening. Third club joint very flat, the first forming nearly half the enlarged club. Pedicel oval. Hind tibial spurs normal. Legs simple. First femora subfuscous, a little compressed. Funicle 1 shorter than pedicel, a little wider than long, longest and narrowest of the funicle. Described from one female captured by sweeping in jungle, July 24, 1913. Iabitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3181, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. PAREROTOLEPSIA new genus. With the habitus and structure of Pteromalus but the antenne are inserted on a level with the ventral ends of the eyes or nearly and are 11-jointed with one rather short ring-joint, the club 3-jointed; the postmarginal vein is only slightly longer than the stigmal, of average length, the marginal somewhat less than twice the length of the stigmal; the propodeum is short, with a distinct median carina and no others; parapsidal furrows complete, no spiracular sulci. Segment 2 of abdomen occupying a little over a fourth of the surface. Scutellum with a punctate ecross-suture before apex. Mandibles 4-dentate. Maxillary palpi 4-jointed. Second division of club not very distinct. Differs from Hrotolepsiopus Girault in the shorter, 4-dentate mandibles, the cylindrical funicle and the rounded head. Propodeal spiraele round, cephalad. 1. PAREROTOLEPSIA AURIPES new species. Female:—Length, 1.50 mm. Habitus of a species of Pteromalus. Dark metallic prussian blue, the legs golden yellow except cox, the wings hyaline, the venation golden yellow. Thorax densely, finely scaly punctate, the propodeum shining, showing no trace of coarser polygonal scaliness, eneous green except along the median carina. Abdomen scaly. Pubescence not conspicuous. Scape golden yellow, rest of antenna dark brown, the club lighter. Funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, subequal to the pedicel, 5 a little wider than long. Club about two thirds the length of the funicle. Third tooth of mandible smallest. From one female caught in forest (swamp), May 14, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3183, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. SuspraMity MISCOGASTERIN 2. TrinE MISCOGASTERINI. GEeNusS TOXEUMA Walker. 1. TOXEUMA PAX new species. Female. Length, 0.70 mm. Like species of Toxewma but the antenne apparently only 12-jointed with one ring- joint, club 3-jointed, the distal joint terminating in a nipple-like seta. Mandibles weak, with two teeth. Scutellum with a eross-furrow before apex. Abdomen depressed above, conic-ovate, not as long as the thorax, the petiole distinct, moderate in length. Propodeum with a median carina (lateral carinw not observed, may be present). Marginal vein nearly as long as the submarginal, the postmarginal well developed, a little more than thrice the length of the AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VIII—GIRAULT. 195 rather short stigmal. Abdominal segment 2 longest, together with 3 occupying two thirds of the surface. Parapsidal furrows complete. The ring-joint in one antenna appeared to be divided. Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the legs except hind coxz which are more or less concolorous, straw yellow; scape straw yellow, the flagellum black. Pedicel wider than the filiform funicle, the club still wider; joints 2 and 3 of funicle subequal, each nearly as long as the pedicel, all the funicle joints longer than wide, the sixth or last shortest, the first subequal to the pedicel. Thorax reticulated. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, June 16, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3182, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head and caudal tibiz on a slide. TOXEUMORPHA new genus. Like Toxeuma Walker but the scutellum without a cross-furrow, the mandibles strongly 4-dentate. The three carine of the rather long, punctate propodeum are obtuse and much as in Pachycrepoideus. Antennz 13-jointed with two ring-joints. Pronotum transverse. Segments 2 and 3 of abdomen occupying four fifths of the surface, long, subequal. 1. TOXEUMORPHA NIGRA new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 1.65 mm. Black with a faint suffusion of green, the wings hyaline; legs and venation yellow-brown, the coxee jet black; postmarginal vein a little longer than the stigmal, shorter than the marginal. Thorax finely punctate. Antenne black, the scape, pedicel and two ring-joints yellow-brown, the funicle joints all much shorter than the pedicel, the distal three a little wider than long, 2 and 3 quadrate, 1 a little longer than wide and narrower than the others. Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. From a window in a wool-house, October 3, 1911. Type: No. Hy 3184, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the hind legs and head on a slide. Genus TOXEUMELLA Girault. 1. TOXEUMELLA PULCHRIPES new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Length, 2.60 mm. Short and stout. Agreeing with the generic description except that the propodeum lacks the median carina. Bright metallic coppery green, the abdomen polished; coxe# concolorous, femora and tibie bright yellowish reddish; the knees, distal half of posterior tibiz and the tarsi pale straw yellow; antennal scape bright reddish; rest of antennez yellow suffused with dusky. Wings hyaline; venation golden yellow, the marginal vein a half longer than the long stigmal, the postmarginal nearly as long as the marginal. Head and thorax densely punctate, the propodeum slightly more finely so. Propodeum short and broad, with lateral carinew. Parapsidal furrows complete. Head large, a little wider than the thorax. Abdomen compressed above, convex beneath, no longer than the thorax, the petiole short and stout; second abdominal segment occupying almost half the surface, remaining segments subequal. Mandibles 3- and 4-dentate. Antenne 13-jointed with three ring- and three club joints; funicle 1 distinctly longer than pedicel, almost twice as long as wide, 2 subequal, 3-5 shortening, 5 almost quadrate; club searcely longer than funicle 1, its first joint as long as the other two combined. Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Jungle (1,100 feet), September 16, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3185, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head and hind legs on a slide. 196 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 2. TOXEUMELLA DISSIMILIS new species of A. P. Dodd and Girault. Female :—Length, 2.75 mm. Very dark metallic green, the coxe concolorous, the femora brown, the tibiz, tarsi, antennal scape, pedicel, first two ring-joints, golden yellow; rest of antenne black. Head not large, no wider than thorax. Thorax (including propodeum) densely punctate; parapsidal furrows faint but complete. Propodeum with an abbreviated median carina at base only and with two pairs of lateral carine. Abdominal petiole stout, short, the abdomen conic-ovate,. depressed above, convex beneath; segment 3 as long as 2, the two together occupying over half the surface; segments 2-4 smooth, the others finely scaly. Tegule yellow. Wings hyaline, the marginal vein no longer than the long stigmal, the postmarginal a half longer. Pedicel somewhat longer than funicle 1 which is somewhat longer than wide, 5 quadrate; club joints - distinetly wider than long; third ring-joint larger than the other two. Mandibles not seen. Described from a female taken from a window, June, 1912 (A. A. Girault). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3186, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, an antenna and hind legs on a slide. TOXEUMOPSIS new genus. Like Toxeumella Girault but the marginal vein short and thickened as in the Pachyneurini,. no longer than the long stigmal which is somewhat shorter than the postmarginal. Distal club joint not ending in a nipple. Propodeum distinctly tricarinate, the median carina rather obscure but visible from lateral aspect, the lateral carine complete, rather obtuse. Second and third abdominal segments subequal, combined occupying nearly two thirds of the surface; segments 4 and 5 transverse-linear. Petiole of abdomen short and stout. Mandibles 3- and 4-dentate. Hind tibial spurs double. 1. TOXEUMOPSIS NIGRA new species. Female. Genotype. Black, the abdomen shining, the wings hyaline; legs yellowish brown, the coxe con- colorous; venation dark. Scape and pedicel colored like the legs, the rest of the antenne- black; cephalic femur suffused with black. Finely reticulate-punctate, the propodeum some- what more coarsely so. Abdomen glabrous. Pedicel blackish above, the first two ring-joints yellow. Pedicel much longer than any of the funicle joints, the first of the latter only slightly wider than long, the second and third subquadrate, the fifth wider than long. Length, 1.60 mm.. Described from one female from a window. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3187, Queensland Museum, Briskane, a female on a tag; head and caudal legs on a slide. A second female was taken from a window at Ingham, Queensland, February 17, 1913. MISCOGASTERIELLA new genus. Head from cephalic aspect rounded, large, wider than the thorax, the mandibles strong, 3- and 4-dentate, the antenne long and filiform, inserted above the middle, the scape short, the pedicel of usual length, the following joints all long and slender, shortening distad, the first funicle joint about thrice the length of the pedicel; thirteen joints in all, including two ring-joints, the club solid. Parapsidal furrows distinct, complete. Pronotum distinctly separated, large but wider than long. Abdomen with a short stout petiole, much elongate, twice the length of the thorax, cylindrical, the second and third segments long, subequal, together occupying nearly half. Mesoscutum short. Seutellum with a distinct transverse: AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VIII—GIRAULT. 197 grooved line before tip. Propodeum with a distinct median groove and with two half complete lateral grooves followed by a distinct, spiracular suleus which is foveate; the spiracle is large, reniform. Propodeum longer than scutum. Postmarginal vein extending nearly to apex, much longer than the marginal, the stigmal short, a third or less the length of the marginal. Clypeus barely wider than long. Hind tibial spurs double, the legs slender but normal in length. Habitus of the Pteromalide. 1. MISCOGASTERIELLA LONGIVENTRIS new species. Male. Genotype. Length, 6.30 mm. Dark metallic green, the wings slightly embrowned throughout, the scutum and seutellum (cephalad of the suture) coppery; abdomen Coppery black; venation very dark; coxee concolorous, the legs reddish brown, the hind femur washed more or less with metallic greenish. Antenne black. Clypeus blue-black, glabrous, the face and head finely reticulated, the scutum and scutellum more coarsely so, scaly, but distad of the cross-furrow, the scutellum much smoother and of a different color. Vertex back of and upon each side of the ocelli apparently smooth, but in reality extraordinarily finely alutaceous; however, smooth as compared with the reticulation of the rest of the head. First two pairs of coxe sometimes brownish. Habitat: Little Mulgrave River (Gordonvale), Queensland. Jungle, June 10, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3188, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on separate tags; and a slide with a head and cephalic legs. TOXEUMOIDES new genus. Similar to Toxeumorpha Girault but both mandibles are long and narrow, equally bidentate at apex, the stigmal and postmarginal veins are subequal, short, the stigmal subsessile, the parapsidal furrows are deep, the median carina of propodeum sharp and long, the lateral carina represented by a curved, foveate groove leading directly from the spiracle. Segment 2 of abdomen occupying somewhat over a third of the surface, 3 still longer, extending nearly to tip where 4 shows as a small cone. Petiole about as long as the hind coxa. Antenne inserted a little above the ventral ends of the eyes, short, clavate, one ring-, three club joints, 13-joimted. Abdomen flat beneath, not triangularly produced as in Toxeu- morpha nigra. 1. TOXEUMOIDES HENEICORPUS new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 2 mm. Brassy green, the wings hyaline, the tibiz reddish brown washed with metallic, the tarsi pale. Antenne dark metallic green, all funicle joints wider than long, 1 shortest and narrowest, thrice the length of the ring-joint, 7 widest, 3 a little the longest. Pedicel longer than any funicle joint (in one antenna, funicles 2 and 3 were fused into a joint somewhat longer than wide). Abdomen glabrous, the petiole with a median carina and earinated lateral edges, scaly. Propodeum glabrous, with short cross-stitching-like effects along the median carina; rest of thorax transversely lined except distal third of scutellum, the head, axille and pronotum scaly. Described from one female captured October 11 (H. Hacker). Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3189, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag; hind leg and an antenna on a slide. 198 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. GENUS SELADERMA Walker. {. SELADERMA ATHANIS (Walker). Female; male. Miscogaster athanis Walker, 1839, pp. 26-27. ca) . SELADERMA CERNUS (Walker). Female. Miscogaster cernus Walker, 1839, p. 22. GeENuS LAMPROTATUS Westwood. 1. LAMPROTATUS BATO (Walker). Female; male. Miscogaster bato Walker, 1839, pp. 22-23. 2. LAMPROTATUS CIRON (Walker). Female. Miscogaster ciron Walker, 1839, pp. 16-17. 3. LAMPROTATUS DAMIA (Walker). Male; female. Miscogaster damia Walker, 1839, p. 21. 4. LAMPROTATUS HECATARUS (Walker). Male. Miscogaster hecateus Walker, 1839, p. 19. 5. LAMPROTATUS MYCON (Walker). Male. Miscogaster mycon Walker, 1839, pp. 19-20. 6. LAMPROTATUS NELO (Walker). Female. Miscogaster nelo Walker, 1839, p. 17. 7. LAMPROTATUS NICON (Walker). Female; male. Miscogaster nicon Walker, 1839, pp. 17-18. 8. LAMPROTATUS THERA (Walker). Male. Miscogaster thera Walker, 1839, pp. 18-19. 9. LAMPROTATUS UMBRO (Walker). Male. Miscogaster wmbro Walker, 1839, p. 24. 7ENUS MISCOGASTER Walker. 1. MISCOGASTER DAICLES Walker. Male, 1839, p. 20. 2. MISCOGASTER LETUS Walker. Female, 1839, p. 26. 3. MISCOGASTER SAMBUS Walker. Female, 1839, pp. 21-22. Trine HALTICOPTERINI. HALTICOPTERELLA new genus of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Female :—Head (cephalic aspect) a little wider than long, the antennz inserted above the middle of the face, 13-jointed with three ring- and club joints. Pronotum distinctly separated, transverse, the parapsidal furrows three fourths complete from cephalad. Pro- podeum with spiracular sulci and lateral carine, the median carina absent.. Abdominal petiole AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VIII—GIRAULT. 199 short, the second segment occupying less than a fifth of the surface, the next three or four short, the abdomen pointed conic ovate, as long as the rest of the body. Postmarginal vein long, nearly as long as the marginal, the stigmal well developed but much shorter, somewhat less than half the length of the marginal. Propodeum with a short neck. Mandibles strong, 3- and 4-dentate. Scutellum simple. Head wider than the thorax (as seen from above). Cephalic ocellus not within the scrobes. 1. HALTICOPTERELLA NIGRIFLAGELLUM new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 2.50 mm. Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline; tibiz, tarsi, knees, trochanters and much of ends of first two pairs of femora, pale straw yellow, the scape reddish yellow. Funicle 1 about twice longer than wide, distinctly longer than the pedicel which is subequal to the first funicle joint. Head and thorax uniformly, densely reticulate-punctate, the propodeum and head somewhat smoother. Cox concolorous, femora washed with metallic. Occipital impres- sion immargined. Legs not noticeably swollen. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, November 10, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3190, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. . PARADICYLUS new genus of A. P. Dodd. Head no wider than thorax, from cephalic aspect not distinctly wider than long; cephalic ocellus not within the scrobes. Antenne inserted above the middle of face, 13-jointed with three ring- and club joints, the funicle joints elongate. At least one mandible 4-dentate. Pronotum distinctly separated. Parapsidal furrows three-fourths complete. Scutellum simple. Propodeum not long, without a distinct neck, with a distinct median carina and a cross-carina, the lateral ends of which curve cephalad and join the cephalic margin of the propodeum mesad of the spiracle. Spiracle rather large, in a depression, bounded caudad by a ridge which is a continuation of the cross-carina. No spiracular suleus. Abdominal petiole short. Abdomen conic-ovate, somewhat longer than the rest of the body, somewhat produced at apex; segment 2 of abdomen occupying about a fifth of the surface, 3-5 each a little shorter than 2, subequal, 6 as long as or a little longer than 2; caudal margin of segment 2 at meson incised. Marginal vein not much longer than postmarginal, over thrice longer than stigmal. Related to the foregoing genus but that genus lacks the median and the cross-carina on propodeum, and has complete lateral carine and spiracular sulci; also the second abdominal segment is not incised. 1. PARADICYLUS VARICORNIS new species of A. P. Dodd. Female. Genotype. Length, 3.45 mm. Dark metallic blue-green, the coxe concolorous; femora dark brown, also basal third of tibie; knees, apical two thirds of tibie and the tarsi (except apical joint) white; antennal scape yellow; pedicel, first two ring-joints and funicles 2-4 dusky yellow; last ring-joint, funicle 1 and club black. Wings hyaline. Funicle 1 four times longer than wide, twice as long as pedicel, 2 two thirds the length of 1, the others gradually shortening, 5 slightly longer than pedicel; club no wider than funicle, scarcely longer than funicle 1; first club joint as long as the other two combined. Thorax densely punctate, the propodeum reticulated. Abdomen (except the smooth second segment) with very fine scaly sculpture. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, January 9, 1914 (A.P. Dodd). “Lype: No. Hy 3191, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head and ‘caudal legs on a slide. 200 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. SuBrAMILY LELAPINA. GeNus LELAPS Haliday. 1. LELAPS FUSCA new species. Male. Length, 1.35 mm. Reddish brown, the abdomen and proximal halves of each parapside black, the petiole of abdomen reddish toward base, the posterior cox blackish toward tip; legs yellowish brown, the posterior cox which are large and cylindrical, nearly as long as the femur of the same legs and nearly as long as the long abdominal petiole, reddish. Wings subhyaline, the marginal vein distinctly longer than the submarginal, the postmarginal a half longer than the stigmal. Seutellum with a ecross-furrow. Parapsidal furrows complete, curved off rather shortly. Axille just about meeting inwardly. Pronotum long, nearly subquadrate, distinctly separated. - Propodeum produced into a distinct neck, with median and lateral carine. Abdomen small, the second and third segments subequal, together occupying over three fourths of the surface. Thorax scaly, the abdominal petiole rough; also the hind coxe. Antenne inserted slightly below the middle of the face, 13-jointed, with one ring-joint, the club 3-jointed, the funicle pilose, the joints all a little wider than long. Mandibles tridentate. Two posterior.tibial spurs. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, May 8, 1913 (A. P. Dodd.) Type: No. Hy 3192, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the male on a tag; head, a caudal leg and the abdomen on a slide. GENUS NEAPTEROLELAPS Girault. Agreeing with the description of Apterolelaps Ashmead but the antenne only 12-jointed, one ring-joint, the parapsidal furrows absent, posterior tibize armed with two very long spurs, one of which is comparatively enormous, much larger than the other. Wings entirely absent. Abdomen with a very short, transverse petiole but the propodeum prolonged into a hood-like neck to meet it; no median carina on propodeum. Mandibles bi- and tridentate, in the latter the middle tooth shortest. 1. NEAPTEROLELAPS LODGEI Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 2.15 mm. Ferrugineous, the pronotum darker, the mesoscutum, a stripe across the abdomen before tip and the coxe (nearly) black; tibiz nearly black except at tip; funicle black, the élub yellowish white, the pedicel and ring-joint dark fuscous. Second abdominal segment somewhat over half the length of the body of the abdomen; one spur of posterior tibiz as long as the first two tarsal joints united, the other a half shorter; posterior coxa with a tooth above just before apex. Pedicel longer than funicle 1, which is longest of the funicle, the distal joint wider than long. Scape somewhat dilated toward tip. Funicle joints 2 and 3 subquadrate. Thorax coriaceous, clothed with recumbent hairs, which are not dense; posteriorly mesoscutum bevelled off and smooth to the scutellum. Proximal tarsal joint of caudal leg black or dark. Habitat: Mount Tambourine, Queensland. Type: No. 1.1269, South Australian Museum. GENUS LELAPSOMORPHA Girault. Agreeing with the foregoing but the antennz only 11-joimted with one ring-joint, the club solid, the posterior tibial spurs stout and unequal but normal in length, the wings fully developed and infuscated and the propodeum with a median and a lateral carina. Otherwise AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VIII.—GIRAULT. 201 the same, there being no parapsidal furrows. Stigmal and postmarginal veins long and subequal. Mandibles tridentate, at least on one side. Second abdominal segment only a fourth the length of the body of the abdomen. Funicle joints transverse, all much shorter than the pedicel. Maxillary palpi 3-jointed, the labial 2-jointed. 1. LELAPSOMORPHA MYERSI Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 2 mm. Ferrugineous, the proximal half of the abdomen yellowish with one or two cross stripes of fuscous, the other half blackish, the lateral carinw of the propodeum darkened. Legs yellowish brown, the caudal coxa dark with a distinct purplish tinge proximad exteriorly, the caudal tibia fuscous. Antenne dusky yellowish, the club and distal two funicle joints yellowish white. Fore wings with a straight-margined brown stripe across it at the submarginal vein just out from apex where the stripe itself is accented in the form of a deeper colored round spot by a roundish cluster of hooklet-like black spines; distad a very large subspherical brownish spot across the wing from the postmarginal vein, the middle of its proximal margin narrowly joining the middle of the proximal stripe so that when looking up the wing (apicad) the large spot looks not unlike the bag of a gas balloon attached to the basket below it. Thorax with polygonal reticulation (scaliness), the scutum with obscure thimble punctures. First funicle joint only about twice the length of the ring-joint, the funicle widening distad. Habitat: Port Lincoln, South Australia. Type: No. 1.1270, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. URIOLELAPS new genus. Female :—Differs from Lelaps Haliday in that the antenne are 13-jointed with two very short ring-joints, the club only 2-jointed. Secutellum with a punctate cross-suture at distal two thirds. Petiole of abdomen distinct, plainly longer than wide, segment 2 occupying about half the surface. Parapsidal furrows curved, converging caudad, not quite complete caudad and tending to join there obtusely, barely missing caudal margin; the short, semi- circular parapsides are thus narrowly connate caudad, the scutum obtusely conical distad. Distal segment of abdomen long-conical, over half the length of segment 2, the ovipositor ‘slightly exserted. Mandibles tridentate. Antennz inserted on a line with the ventral ends of the eyes. Marginal cilia of fore wing short. Maxillary palpi 4-jointed, the last joint much the longest; labials 3-jointed. 1. URIOLELAPS ARGENTICOXZE new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 2.84 mm. Dark reddish brown, the cephalic and caudal cox silvery white; funicles 3-7, the short parapsides, distal end of scutum and the very short projecting ovipositor valves black; fore wings trifasciate, the third stripe at apex, the second largest, from the postmarginal vein, the first next longest, subcrescentic, from about distal two thirds of marginal vein; base of wing also infuscated. Venation with many stiff black bristles; postmarginal and stigmal veins long, the first longer. Abdomen, scutellum distad of cross-suture and propodeum glabrous. Petiole rather coarsely, longitudinally striate. Propodeum with a median carina to the neck and with a eross-carina distad of middle whose arms are obliqued latero-caudad and then abruptly change angle to caudad running to the short neck; several other irregular carine laterad; Spiracle round. Rest of thorax densely scaly reticulate, bearing scattered, long black sete and also many more short black ones (all cephalad of transverse suture of scutellum, the same 202 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. bearing a large black seta at each lateral end). Pronotum transverse. Tibial spurs normal, leg slender. Pedicel not especially long but longer than any of the funicle joimts of which 1 is longest, not much shorter than the pedicel, somewhat longer than wide; 2 subquadrate, the others gradually shortening, 7 being distinctly wider than long. Vertex also with several long black sete, the head scaly reticulate. From one female captured in jungle, February 5, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Babinda, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3193, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, front and hind legs on a slide. 2. URIOLELAPS POEI new species. Female:—Length, 2 mm. Similar to the genotype but shorter and besides the black parapsides, the proximal third dorsad of segment 2 of abdomen is purplish black, there is a round spot of the same color on each side of meson of the same segment at apex and the rest of the abdomen dorsad is. of the same color except a short, intervening space caudad of the two spots. Also, the propodeum is black centrally on each side of meson. The antenne differ in that the funicle is entirely black and the joints are a little shorter. Otherwise about the same. In both species, the scutellum caudad of the transverse suture is glabrous and the whole surface of the abdomen except slightly distad. The propodeum in both bears several irregular carine: blocking out large, sunken areas. Compared with type of argenticoze. Described from one female captured in the jungle on the Tweed River, May 2, 1914 (A> PDoedd): Habitat: Tweed Heads, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3194, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. Respectfully dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe. This family shows most interesting parallelisms with the Pteromalide. The species do not shrivel very much. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, IX.—GIRAULT. 203 AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA — IX.* The Family Cleonymide with Descriptions of New Genera and Species. By A. A. GIRAULT. Faminry CLEONYMIDA. CLEONYMINA. GENUS BELONEA Westwood. 1. BELONEA AUSTRALICA Westwood. Belonea australica Westwood, Thesaur. Ent. Oxon., p. 147, t. 27, f. 5 (1874). Australia mer. 2. BELONEA ERYTHROPODA Cameron. Belonea erythropoda Cameron, Mem, Philos. Soc. Manchester, XXVI, p. 122, 9 g (1888). Australia mer. GENUS CAMERONELLA Dalla Torre. 1, CAMERONELLA BLACKBURNI (Cameron), Panthalis blackburni Cameron, Mem. Philos. Soc. Manchester, XXVI, p. 121, 9 (1888). Australia. Genus THAUMASURA Westwood. 1. THAUMASURA TEREBRATOR Westwood. Thawmasura terebrator Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 36 (1868). Australia. Ashmead (1900) records a specimen of this species from South Australia. 2. THAUMASURA RUBROFEMORALIS Ashmead. Female. Length, 10 mm.; to tip of ovipositor, 14.5 to 15 mm. Head and thorax metallic bronzed green, tinged with blue and clothed with a whitish pubescence; abdomen above blue, beneath bronzed, segments bearded with white hairs at sides; flagellum brown; coxe metallic blue-green, all femora red, rest of legs fuscous or brown-black. Wings hyaline, venation brown. Habitat: Sydney, New South Wales. Type: No. 4891, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. * Contribution No. 32, Entomological Laboratory, Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, Bundaberg. Queensland. 204 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. GENUS DINOURA Ashmead. 1. DINOURA AURIVENTRIS Ashmead. Female; male. Length, 4.8 mm.; to tip of ovipositor nearly 7 mm. Head bluish or blue-green, with a metallic green spot on vertex enclosing ocelli; thorax above metallic green, at sides and beneath with metathorax, blue or blue-green; femora except tips, eneous black, anterior pair more or less bluish; rest of legs pale yellowish; hind tibiz obfuscated medially. Wings hyaline, venation dark brown. Abdomen gold green and terminating in a prominent ovipositor which is dilated into three broad leaf-like expansions, like a propeller in a naphtha launch. Male measures 3.60 mm. Antenne 9-jointed, flagellum filiform, clothed with a short dense felt-like pubescence, the joints longer than thick; all legs wneous black with white tarsi; abdomen oblong-oval, bronzed black, metallic greenish above toward base. Habitat: Sydney, New South Wales. From galls of Brachyscelis pileata. Type: No. 4892, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 2. DINOURA CYANEA Ashmead. Female. Length, 5 mm.; to tip of ovipositor, 10 mm. Head and thorax blue with a metallic green tinge on thorax above; basal half of abdomen yellowish; anterior and middle tibia, hind tibize along outer face and all tarsi ivory white. Wings hyaline, as in the previous species. Habitat: Wellington, New South Wales. From galls of Brachyscelis ovicola Schr., August 20, 1891. Type: No. 4893, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. GENus SCHIZONOTUS Ratzeburg. 1. SCHIZONOTUS DODDI new species. Female. Length, 2 mm. Dark metallic purple, the scutellum and base of abdomen green; the legs concolorous, the knees and tarsi yellowish; wings hyaline, the venation dark; antenne black, 12-joimted with two ring-joints, the pedicel scarcely longer than the first funicle joint which is not much longer than wide, the distal three funicle joints subequal, the 3-jointed club not enlarged. Stigmal vein somewhat shorter than the postmarginal. Secutellum with a cross-furrow near apex, proximad of this with some scattered thimble punctures. Thorax densely shagreened, the propodeum with a sharp median carina, near its base crossed by a sharp transverse carina near or at the caudal margin; parapsidal furrows sharp. Mandibles tridentate. Abdominal segments more or less equal. Front femora only slightly swollen, not toothed. Antenne inserted near the middle of the face. Habitat: Gordonyale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest (2,500-3,000 feet), June 3, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3195, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a slide, 2. SCHIZONOTUS AMABILIS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Length, 2.10 mm. Bright metallic green, the mesonotum coppery; coxe and femora concolorous; tibiz and basal half of antennal scape golden yellow; tarsi white, the apical joint dusky, rest of antenne black. Secutum, scutellum and axille with fine scaly reticulation, the median lobe of scutum with large deep punctures. Parapsidal furrows deep and distinct. Scutellum rather long with a deep cross-suture before apex. Propodeum short, broad, glabrous; with a distinct median carina. Abdomen short, shorter than the thorax, segment 2 longest, occupying about a third of the surface, smooth, rest of abdomen with very fine reticulation. Wings hyaline, the venation AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, IX.—GIRAULT. 205 golden yellow. Stigmal vein only a little shorter than marginal; postmarginal slightly shorter than stigmal. Antenne 12-jointed, two ring-joints, three club joints, the first ring-joint minute; pedicel distinctly shorter than funicle 1 which is somewhat longer than wide, 2-5 subquadrate, wider than long; club not much wider than funicle, nearly as long as the three preceding joints united. Club joints of equal length. At least one mandible 4-dentate. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, July 28, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3196, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head and hind legs on a slide. GENUS PARAHEYDENIA Cameron. Antenne slender, not thickened toward apex. Front wings with a small cloud on the costal nervure at the kase of its apical third; a larger cloud at and touching stigmal vein; marginal vein twice the length of stigmal; postmarginal thickened and projecting beyond the apex of the latter. Occiput transverse, temples obsolete above. Ocelli in a triangle. Eyes large, parallel; malar space distinct. Pronotum a litile longer than the mesonotum without the scutellum, the centre raised, widened towards the base; sides with a large, oval depression below the raised centre; it is distinctly narrower than the mesonotum, which is flat, narrowed in front and without furrows. Scutellum large, flat, wider than long, rounded at the base, the apex transverse; metanotum short, rounded, a keel running down the centre and one on either side of this on the apical half; sides bordered by a keel. First abdominal segment campanulate, longer than wide, the narrowed end at the base; second the longest, longer than the following united, the segments becoming gradually widened to the penultimate, the whole being shorter than the thorax. Fore-femora greatly swollen, straight on the lower, roundly broadly narrowed on the upper side; base in front slightly depressed in the middle; middle femora more slender than the hinder, as are the middle tibize than the posterior. Pedicel about twice longer than wide, funicle 1 twice the length of pedicel, 2 about one fourth shorter, the others shorter, 3 and 4 twice longer than wide, the others wider than long. Parapsidal furrows almost obsolete. ce... «6CNearly related to Heydenia, a genus which appears to be very little known. It is stated by Foerster to resemble one of the Dryinoide, which is certainly the case with the present genus. In Heydenia the parapsidal furrows are indicated; there are no keels on the metanotum nor clouds on the wings. ’’ 1. PARAHEYDENIA LONGICOLLIS Cameron. Male. Genotype. Length, 4 mm. Upper part of head and thorax brassy golden, sutures blue; pleure similarly colored but more largely tinged with blue, especially below; abdomen dark purple, base blue, middle laterally tinged with golden brassy; legs dark red, four hinder coxe purple, tarsi testaceous, basal joint white; antennal scape red, pedicel brassy, other joints black; wings hyaline, venation black, an oval fuscous cloud at the stigma. Antennal furrows wide, converging and uniting above, dark green, closely reticulated-punctured, as is also the vertex; the rest of the head more finely punctured. Ocelli in an equilateral triangle, the hinder separated from each other by a slightly greater distance than they are from the eyes. Pronotum finely, closely transversely striated; pleure smooth. Mesonotum and scutellum closely, rather strongly, reticulated-punctured, the lateral divisions more finely than the central; mesopleurza more finely, similarly punctured, more finely so at the base, where there is a raised longish area, the narrowed end above; apex bordered by a smooth line. Metanotum smooth in the middle, a stout keel down its centre, with a less distinct one, bulging out in the middle, on either side of it; sides aciculated, also the metapleure, densely covered with white pubescence. Coxe and the dilated front femora closely, finely punctured; the former densely covered with white pubescence. Mandibles red, black at apex. Palpi white. Habitat: Wagga, New South Wales. 206 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Genus ARESSIDA Cameron. 1. ARESSIDA ANNULICORNIS Cameron. Female. Genotype. Length to end of ovipositor, 12 mm. Dark bronzy red tinged with green; on top, the pleure and sternum blue, more or less tinged with indigo above, the upper part of the meso- and the metapleure purple, the basal four dorsal segments of the abdomen fiery red; the apical, the sides and ventral sur- face dark purple; the sides of the second to sixth above with emerald green spots; that on the fourth longish, oval, extending from the top to the bottom, much larger than the others; these spots are densely covered with silvery pubescence. Legs red, coxe to near the apex blue, tinged with violaceous, hind coxa with a fiery red spot on the apex above; apex of the fourth front femora, the hinder for the greater part and the base of the tibiz, dark bronzy green and blue; knees pale testaceous. Wings hyaline, venation dark fuscous; a longish pyriform cloud at the end of the submarginal vein and touching it, the narrowed end in front; a smaller transverse, triangular cloud beyond it, a much larger cloud at and touching the stigmal vein, narrow at it, commencing near the base and extending a little beyond its apex; thence it becomes gradually roundly widened, more so at the base than at the apex. Head behind the ocelli with fine, close, rounded transverse strie, below with stronger longitudinal striw, the strie more or less obliqued. Malar space as long as the eyes; a fine furrow down its center. Eyes converging above, separated there by the length of the fifth antennal joint. Anterior ocellus larger and paler than the others and separated from them by double the distance these are from each other. Pro- and mesonotum and scutellum closely covered with roundly curved strie; those on the base of the pronotum stronger and more widely separated than on the rest; apex of scutellum with a rounded projecting - border. Metanotum smooth, the centre with stout diverging striw, the outer longer than the inner; the sides densely covered with silvery pubescence. Abdomen shining, smooth; the basal two segments larger than the others; not much longer than wide. Third and fifth longer than wide, sixth still longer, of equal width, tubular; beyond it is a much longer segment above and closely pressed to the ovipositor, which is broad, of equal width and projects one third of its length beyond it. Smooth keel down center of pronotum; its apex becomes gradually widened from the middle. Seutellum obliquely narrowed at the base, which is transverse and one fourth the width of the broadly rounded apex. Mesopleure above the furrow closely, regularly reticulated, below vertically, more or less obliquely striated, as are also the metapleure, the basal (and larger) part more strongly so. Parapsidal furrows distinct, curved. The fore and posterior femora are thickened, the anterior with a curved incision on the lower part of apex; the middle thinner and narrowed at the apex. There are some longish, scattered white, weak spines on the hind tibizw; the tarsi have shorter and more numerous spines; the shorter spur of the hind tibie is longer than the width of the apex of tibie. Habitat: Gosford, New South Wales. Type: Query. 2. ARESSIDA NIGRICORNIS Cameron. -* Length, 6; terebra, 2 mm. Belmore, near Sydney, N.S. Wales (F. Taylor).’’ The difference between this species and A. annulicornis may be shown thus:— Antenne entirely black, the knees not pale, the basal cloud in fore wings of equal width, the apical not roundly curved and narrow, its base oblique; the upper part of ovipositor shorter than the preceding two segments united, longer than the apex of the projecting lower part .. be ae ae ot 5 ae 50 ae oie nigricornis. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, I1X.—GIRAULT. 207 Antenne with the base of flagellum annulate, the knees pale, the basal cloud in fore wings narrowed at base, the apical roundly gradually widened from the base; the upper part of ovipositor longer than the preceding three segments, nearly two thirds of the length of the lower part .. ee i: oe oi are ae os -. annulicornis. Almost similar as regards coloration and sculpture to A. annulicornis. The antennal scape is metallic green, the basal joint of flagellum dark purple; the upper part of the antennal depression dark purple. Parapsidal furrows shallow. Metanotum strongly, irregu- larly striated, the striz more or less oblique, not projecting in front at the apex. The apex of scutellum strongly, regularly crenulated behind the keel. It is probable that Aressida may be the same as Thawmasura West., but there are apparently some structural differences. ’’ TOMICOBOMORPHA new genus. Head as viewed from above wider than the thorax, the occipital margin coneaved, the vertex transverse; viewed from in front triangular, the antennez inserted far down near the mouth, the eyes small and situated at the dorso-lateral angles of the triangle (cephalic aspect); mandibles tridentate. Antenne short, somewhat compressed, the scape foliaceously dilated, the club solid, enlarged somewhat as in the mymarid genus Polynema but shorter, the five funicle joints all wider than long, the single ring-joint very short, flat, usually hidden, the antenne 9-jointed. Cephalic femur only moderately swollen, not toothed, the hind femora swollen more than the front ones. Parapsidal furrows complete; scutellum simple. Abdomen from above flat, ovate, not conically produced and about as long as the thorax, the second segment very long, occupying three fourths of the surface. Marginal vein very short, about a fourth the length of the submarginal, the stigmal two thirds of the marginal’s length; the post- marginal absent or nearly. Abdomen with a very short, stout petiole. Fore wings patterned. Ovipositor not exserted. Intermediate tibial spur long, the hind ones short and stout, double. Abdomen with a brush-like short tuft of hairs at base, one on each side. 1. TOMICOBOMORPHA STELLATA new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 1.60 mm. Shining black, the antenne concolorous, also the legs, the tarsi pale. Fore wing with a large brownish, rather irregular stripe across it between the bend of the submarginal vein and a point somewhat distad of the apex of the stigmal, this stripe or area complete, its proximal margin oblique. Thorax very finely, not densely, reticulated. Second and fifth funicle joints longest, the latter widest. The apical margin of fore wing for a short distance cephalad is also brown or fuscous. Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Jungle, May 19, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3197, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; the legs and the head on a slide. GENuS TOMOCERA Howard. 1. TOMOCERA GLABRIVENTRIS new species. Female. Length, 2.10 mm. Differing from the genotype of Tomicobomorpha in having the scape long and slender and the front femora more swollen than the hind ones. Also, a fine cross-suture on the scutellum. Dark metallic green, the abdomen very dark purple, the legs reddish excepting the hind femur above and the middle and hind tibiw; seape and head reddish, rest of antenna black; pedicel much longer than any of the funicle joints, of which 1 is subquadrate, the 208 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. others gradually widening. Thorax finely reticulated, the lines not raised, the axille- polished, not sculptured. Abdominal petiole scaly, the scutellum finely striate longitudinally and near apex bearing a very fine convex cross-suture distad of which it is brassy. Propo- deum short, with lateral carinze but the median one at base only. Apical margin of fore wing hyaline, the large black spot not touching the curved distal part of the submarginal vein as in the type species of Tomicobomorpha and is almost kite-shaped, the proximal part pointed. Laterad, propodeum glabrous. Pleura glabrous. Four long sete from about center of scutum, the first pair closer together. Long sete from cephalic margin of pronotum. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, November 1, 1913 (A.P.D.). Type: No. Hy 3198, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head and a hind leg on a slide. The abdominal petiole in this genus seems rather to be the produced propodeum because the lateral carine continue without break its entire length along the lateral edge; above centrally it (the so-called petiole) is distinctly striated longitudinally; the postscutellum is a glabrous platelike sclerite followed by a transverse row of fover ard then a transverse ridge. The type has been re-examined; it bears a complete median carina on the propo- deum. Two females at Gordonvale, forest, January 4 and 6, 1914 and another from forest swamp, May 15, 1914 at Chindera, Tweed River, New South Wales (A. P. Dodd). 1. TOMOCERA FLAVICEPS new species. Female :—A little smaller than glabriventris which it is like excepting in the follow- ing particulars: About the distal half of that part of the scutellum distad of the faint transverse suture is glabrous (in the other species only apex at meson); the fore wings are narrower, the fuscous spot less distinct, its distal edge over the length of the marginal vein from apex (about that length in the other species), the hind wings are somewhat narrower, the stigmal vein a little shorter, the antenna reddish brown, the club black, the fore wings lack a large, isolated discal bristle near caudal margin at proximal edge of the fuscous spot. The thorax is brassy, the legs all reddish. Head reticulated. Described from three females reared from a coccid, October 10, 1913 (G. F. Hill). Labelled ‘‘ No. 24.’’ Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. Types: No. Hy 3199, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, three females on a tag. CHEIROPACHYSIA new genus. Built like Cheiropachys Westwood but the legs slender and unarmed, the funicle 5-jointed, the antennw 12-jointed with two ring-joints, the club 3-jointed. Pedicel much shorter than the first funicle joint. Mandibles bidentate, the second tooth broad at apex, its outer apical angle acute like a second tooth but the truncate mesal slope does not form a third tooth but is gradual. Parapsidal furrows complete, the scutellum without a cross furrow, the propodeum strongly tricarinate or short and noncarinate. Abdomen sessile, non- carinated, longer than the rest of the body, pointed conic-ovate, the segments not lengthened, 2 longest; ovipositor only slightly exserted, the valves less so. Fore wings with a midlongi- tudinal black stripe from apex or hyaline, the postmarginal vein twice or more the length of the moderately long stigmal, nearly as long as the marginal which is only somewhat shorter than the submarginal. 1. CHEIROPACHYSIA LONGIFASCIATIPENNIS new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 3 mm. Brilliant metallic purple, the scutellum, propodeum and base of abdomen metallic green; legs pale reddish brown, the coxze metallic basally, the trochanters and knees white. Seape white at base, otherwise like the legs, the club yellowish white; rest of antenne black. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, 1X.—GIRAULT. 209 Funicle joints all longer than wide, 5 shortest, subequal to first club, 1 longest, about twice the length of 5, the others each shortening perceptibly, 1 about thrice longer than wide. Seutellum and scutum with umbelicate punctures which are not dense, each isolated, the scutellum without them at apex and along meson at distal half. Space between the punctures very finely reticulated. Axille a little more densely reticulated, the punctures absent except along cephalic and mesal margins. Parapsides like the axille but the punctures on lateral half. Propodeum finely scaly, the three carine strong, only moderate in length but complete. Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Jungle, September, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3200, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head and hind legs on a slide. 2. CHEIROPACHYSIA TENEBRICOSA new species. Female. Length, 2.85 mm. At once differing from the type species in having the propodeum very short and nonearinate, the mandibles tridentate and the abdomen stylate caudad. Purple copper, the wings subhyaline, the cox concolorous, the legs white washed more or less with salmon. Scape reddish brown, rest of antenna black except the club which is white. Stylus about two thirds the length of the rest of the abdomen. Funicle 5 quadrate, 1 longest but plainly not twice the length of the pedicel, 4 and 5 subequal, subquadrate, slightly longer than 5. Seulpture about as in the genotype. Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Jungle, September 12, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 5201, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head and hind legs on a slide. GENUS EPICAUDONIA Girault. With the build of EHpistenia Westwood but the abdomen noncarinated along each side, the second, sixth and seventh segments longest. Head rather large, the antennae 13-jointed, inserted in the middle of the face, three ring and club joints, the first funicle joint elongate. One mandible 4-dentate (other not seen). Parapsidal furrows four fifths complete. Seutellum simple. Pronotum transverse, the propodeum without a median carina but with a fovea more than half way to the round oval spiracle from the meson at cephalic margin. Postmarginal vein three fourths or more the length of the marginal, the stigmal about half the length of the marginal. Like Caudonia Walker otherwise. Anterior femora distinctly swollen, the posterior still much more so but neither are excised nor dentate. Wings subhyaline, the infumation very faint or totally absent. Stigma] knob small. Caudal coxe flattened. Spiracular sulci present. 1. EPICAUDONIA SCELESTUS Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 3.90 mm. Dark metallic green, the mesothorax with rather inconspicuous pubescence somewhat like that of Aplastomorpha. Tegule, venation, trochanters, knees, tarsi, scape, pedicel and joints 2 and 3 of funicle reddish brown; antenne black; tips of tibiz white. Thorax finely reticulately punctate (including the propodeum). Legs concolorous. First club joint forming half of that region, the distal funicle joint distinctly longer than wide but less than half the length of the first; joints 2 and 3 subequal, 4 about equal in length to the pedicel. The three ring- joints large. Habitat: Meerawa (Cairns District), Queensland. Jungle, July 26, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3202, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, a fore and hind leg on a slide. NEOCAUDONIA new genus of A. P. Dodd. Antenne inserted a little above ventral ends of the eyes, 12-jointed with two ring and two club joints, the club with a terminal spur; funicle joints somewhat lengthened, the pedicel not lengthened. Head large (cephalic aspect), not distinctly wider than long, antennal scrobes ie) 210 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. not distinct, very short, cephalic ocellus not within the scrobes. Mandibles 3- and 4-dentate. Pronotum short, distinctly separated. Parapsidal furrows half complete. Secutellum simple. Propodeum rather short and broad, without carine or sulci. Abdomen with a very short petiole; the body pointed conic-ovate, longer than the thorax, depressed above, convex beneath, the sixth and seventh segments somewhat the longest, the third shortest, caudal margins of all segments straight. Wings without bands, marginal vein twice as long as the long stigmal, some longer than the postmarginal. Front and hind femora distinctly swollen, simple; tibial spurs rather short, stout. 1. NEOCAUDONIA SPINOSICLAVA new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Female. Genotype. Length, 3.50 mm. Very dark metallic green, the coxe, tibie and femora concolorous, the abdomen somewhat brighter, brilliant at base, the tarsi pale straw yellow, the antenne wholly black. Wings hyaline. Thorax (including propodeum) densely punctate. Abdomen finely scaly, the second segment smooth. Ring-joints wider than long; first funicle joint distinctly the longest, twice as long as the pedicel, which is as long as 6, the first club joint shorter than the second. Club no longer than funicle 1. Each end of tibia yellowish white. Clypeus longitudinally striate. One female, Halifax, March 29, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Babinda, Queensland. Jungle, February 11, 1914 (A.P.D.). Type: No. Hy 8203, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head and legs on a slide. A second female at Halifax (Ingham), Queensland, March 29, 1914 (A.P.D.). 2. NEOCAUDONIA AUREICORNIS new species of A. P. Dodd and A. A. Girault. Female. Length, 2.50 mm. Similar to spinosiclava but dark metallic blue, the abdomen darker, the femora brown, the tibiz and tarsi yellow, the antennew yellow brown; funicle 1 barely longer than pedicel, no longer than 2; abdomen rather shorter, the segments 5-7 subequal, each a little shorter than 2. Habitat: Clayfield (Brisbane), Queensland. Forest, March 29, 1913 (H. Hacker). Type: No. Hy 3204, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a slide. A second female at Gordonvale, Queensland, April 27, 1913 (A. A. Girault). ‘‘This genus appears to me to be the same as Amicromelus Girault of the Misco- gasteride’’ (A. A. Girault). TRIGONODEROPSIS new genus. In Ashmead’s (1904) table of genera running to Trigonoderus Westwood but the abdomen is totally different, being short sessile and ovate, no longer than the rest of the body and the scutellum has a transverse line of fine punctures across it. Propodeum with a distinet median carina but no others, polished. Marginal vein five or more times longer than the stigmal, the latter short, less than half the length of the postmarginal, the wings hyaline. Second abdominal segment longest, occupying about between a third and a half of the surface. Antenne 13-jointed, with two ring-joints, the club 3-joimted. Pronotum wider than long, transverse but with a median neck. Both mandibles 4-dentate, the maxillary palpi 4-, the labial, 3-jointed. Club short, ovate, without a nipple, the pedicel short, the funicle joints except the short first, wider than long. Parapsidal furrows very deep. Cephalic femur distinctly swollen but otherwise simple; hind femur hardly swollen. Postmarginal vein very much shorter than the marginal. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, IX.—GIRAULT. 211 1. TRIGONODEROPSIS SILVENSIS new species. Female. Length, 1.50 mm. Bright metallic greenish blue, the knees, tibiz and tarsi yellowish brown, the tarsi paler, the first eight joints of the antenna dusky, the rest black; scutellum distad of transverse suture and the postscutellum polished. Scutum finely, transversely lineolated, longitudinally so distad, the scutellum finely, polygonally scaly, also the axille. The abdomen polished. Habitat: Babinda, Queensland. Jungle (500 feet), October 28, 1911. Type: No. Hy 3205, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, the caudal legs and a fore leg on a slide. TOMICOBIELLA new genus. Female:—Head small, triangular, the antenne inserted at the mouth border, filiform, 8-joited without a ring-joint, the club solid; scape long and slender, the club also long, cylindrical but a little less than two thirds the length of the scape; funicle joints about twice longer than wide, a little less than half the length of the club. Mandibles 4-dentate. Pedicel somewhat longer than funicle 1. Hind femur short, compressed, unarmed; hind tibial spurs double, short and stout. Cephalic femur very slightly enlarged, simple. Marginal vein short (as in the Eurytomide), only about four times longer than wide, much less than a third the length of the submarginal, subequal to the stigmal, the postmarginal vein practically obsolete. Pronotum distinct, transverse; scutum wider than long, the parapsidal furrows moderately delicate, complete. Scutellum simple but its distal margin indented. Axille widely separated. Postscutellum a transverse row of fovew. Propodeum transverse-linear, broadening a little laterad, foveate, mesad prolonged into a thick petiole-like projection to which is attached the abdomen. The latter thus appears to be stoutly petiolate. Second segment of abdomen (which is ovate) occupying fully somewhat over two thirds the surface, its caudal margin ‘straight. Ovipositor just tipping abdomen at apex. Fore wings with short marginal fringes, the discal ciliation normal. Mesepisternum large, indented. A short tuft of hairs from base of abdomen on each side of meson. 1. TOMICOBIELLA SUBCYANEA new species. Female :—Length, 1.30 mm. Tolerably stout. Very dark metallic blue-black, the wings hyaline, the legs brown except cephalic coxa and femur which are concolorous; rest of cephalic leg white. Antenne brown, the distal third of club black. Funicles 3 and 4 somewhat the longest of the funicle; 1, 2 and 5 subequal. Club a little wider than the slender funicle, thrice longer than its width. Second abdominal segment, axille and caudal margin of pronotum glabrous. Thorax scaly reticulated and with scattered thimble punctures which bear solitary, long black sete. ‘‘ Petiole’’ with a few longitudinal ruge, one of which is median, the surface densely sculptured. Axille with two rather large fovee caudad. Abdomen dark blue. Described from one female captured in jungle, February 13, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Babinda, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3206, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag; head and hind tibiz on a slide with type appendages of Chrysocharomyia cyancicorpus. Grnus PLATYGERRHUS Thomson. 1. PLATYGERRHUS AUSTRALIENSIS Girault. Female. Length, 4.10 mm. Eright metallic green with eneous tinges (especially axilla, centres of seutum and seutellum), polygonally punctate, the propodeum smooth and shining with a strong median carina and more or less bluish; the spiracle round, a line of fovexw leading from its tip mesad. 212 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Fore wings hyaline but with a distinct fuscous or smoky loop curving from the base of the marginal vein convexly to the stigmal vein and when curving up to the latter suffusing indistinctly across to the costal margin in the form of a branch. Legs and tegule fuscous; also the scape. Postmarginal vein very long, nearly as long as the marginal. Antennal club solid, long, acuminately truneate from one side, the first funicle joint narrower than the others, the second longest but not as long by far as the long pedicel, which is subequal to the club; no real ring-joint, eleven joints. Eyes, head and thorax pilose. Posterior tarsi white, their tibize whitish at tips. Ifabitat: Uobart, Tasmania. Reared from wood. Type: No. 1.1252, South Australian Museum. A tag and a slide 2. PLATYGERRHUS ANNULICORNIS Girault. Female. Length, 5.20 mm. Dark metallic green and punctate, the wings hyaline, the coxe concolorous except at. tips, the legs brownish yellow; antenna black, just before tip encircled by a broad ring of yellowish white (distal three funicle joints); stigmal vein shorter than usual. Second funicle- joint nearly as long as the pedicel, the club oval; all funicle joints longer than wide. Habitat: Hobart, Tasmania. Reared from wood. Type: No. I. 1253, South Australian Museum. ‘Tag and slide. 3. PLATYGERRHUS TASMANIENSIS Girault. Female. Length, 3 mm. The same as australiensis but-smaller and the fore wings in addition to bearing the same pattern also have their tips fuscous and the backward branch of the loop is more distinet.. Moreover, in this species the second funicle joint is shorter and also the pedicel in relation to the club. Habitat: Hobart, Tasmania. Reared from wood. Type: No. I. 1254, South Australian Museum, two females on pins and a slide. 4. PLATYGERRHUS FULVIVENTRIS new species. Female:—Length, 3 mm. Abdomen long and conical, twice the length of the thorax or nearly, the ovipositor not extruded. Cephalic femur edentate and only moderately enlarged, as with my other Australian species. Also, the scutellum is simple, as with the others. Club- solid. Scape slender. Dark ewneous green, the wings hyaline, the venation pale brown, also the abdomen,. the latter washed lightly over with metallic greenish. Ovipositor valves and antenne black. Legs concolorous with abdomen, the caudal and middle tibia and all tarsi lemon yellow. Vertex reticulate. Scrobes deep, forming a triangle. Thorax densely, shallowly sealy- punctate. Axille a little advanced. Segment 2 of abdomen longer than 3, incised at meson of caudal margin, not especially lengthened. Propodeum glabrous, shorter at meson, there with a distinct carina; no lateral carine but a line of punctures runs along both cephalic and caudal margins. Mandibles tridentate, the third tooth barely formed. Pedicel distinctly Jonger than any of the funicle joints, nearly twice longer than wide at apex; funicle 1 longer- than wide, narrower than the rest, 2 slightly longer than 1, slightly longer than wide; 3-5 longest, subequal, somewhat longer than wide; 6-8 subequal, each a little shorter than 5, Club as long as the preceding three joints taken together. Legs slender. Proximal joint of caudal tarsus long and slender, the tibial spurs distinct but not stout. Parapsidal furrows deep; pronotum transverse, not very distinetly separated. Stigmal vein moderately short, the postmarginal two and a half times longer than it, somewhat shorter than the marginal. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, IX.—GIRAULT. 213 Deseribed from a female captured by sweeping in the forest, August 2, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3207, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, «caudal tibiw, a fore leg and a middle tibia on a slide. GENUS APLATYGERRHUS Girault. 1. APLATYGERRHUS MAGNIFICUS Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 4.70 mm. Dark metallic green, densely punctate but the propodeum shining, only reticulate and with a median carina; rather hairy, the eyes also. Posterior coxe metallic bluish; legs fuscous except posterior coxe and the black posterior tibiw (middle) and portions of the femora of the posterior legs. Wings with a conspicuous, large, subsagittate, smoky area suspended from the postmarginal vein and distad, the apex obscurely darkened. Postmarginal vein longer than the stigmal, which is long. Antenne 11-jointed, no ring-joint, the club single, terminating in a conical projection and embraced by a long lateral extension of the distal funicle joint; first funicle joint smaller than the second, which is larger than the pedicel; other funicle joints wider than long. Antenne brownish toward tip. Distal funicle joints peduneulate. . Habitat: Hobart, Tasmania. Type: No. I. 1251, South Australian Museum. ‘Tag and slide. The genus is characterized by the antennal structure. Later one male and six females were found in the same collection. In the male the distal funicle joint has not the long projection. GeNuS AMEROSTENUS Girault. Agreeing tolerably well with Merostenus Walker but the antenne with four ring-joints and a 3-jointed club, 13-jointed; flagellum cylindrical, the first two funicle joints subequal, longest of the flagellum, each over a half longer than the fourth (distal) funicle joint, which is subquadrate. Parapsidal furrows complete; scutellum with a transverse groove before apex. Propodeum with a median carina which divides at base, its spiracle round. Postmarginal vein nearly as long as the marginal, the stigmal shorter. Pronotum rather large. Abdomen long and pointed, conic-ovate, produced beneath near base. ore wings obscurely stained. Femora subsimple. Scutellum broadening distad. Mandibles 4-dentate, the inner tooth truncate and broad. Hyes naked. 1. AMEROSTENUS AUSTRALIENSIS Girault. Female; male. Genotype. Length, 5.20 mm. ; Bright metallic blue-green, the antennz, coxz and femora concolorous, also the tibie along proximal half, the remainder of the legs reddish brown. Venation dusky brown. Fore wings obscurely stained. Body densely reticulated, the scutellum and parapsides not as rough as the scutum. The male measures 4.50 mm. and has the tibie all dark. Habitat: Hobart, Tasmania. Reared from wood. Type: No. I. 1255, South Australian Museum, one male, three females on a card and a slide. 2. AMEROSTENUS AEREIPES new species. Female :—Length, 3 mm. The same as australiensis but the wings hyaline, the legs all metallic and dark except the pale knees, tips of tibize and tarsi, the scutum and parapsides transversely lineolated, the first joint of the funicle is longest but not twice the length of the fourth which is subequal to joint 3, both quadrate or else a little wider than long; second funicle joint somewhat shorter 214 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. than 1 which is plainly longer than wide. Scape metallic. Postmarginal vein as long as the stigmal. Scape short. Pronotum transverse (without the head, rather large, conical). Antenna inserted a little above ventral ends of the eyes. First femora slightly swollen, simple. Described from one female reared from galls on young gum trees, March, 1911 (F. P- Spry). Habitat: Melbourne, Victoria. Type: No. Hy 3208, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head, a fore leg and a hind tibia on a slide. GENUS APHOTISMUS Girault. Agreeing with Photismus Walker but the abdomen with a very short petiole, its body _ compressed, appearing sublinear from dorsal aspect and large and round from lateral aspect, the ovipositor hidden. Head from cephalic aspect subrectangular, a little wider than long, the antenne inserted slightly above the ventral ends of the eyes, 13-jointed with one ring- joint and a 3-jointed club. Pronotum transverse; parapsidal furrows complete, the scutellum simple but with a cross-groove, the median carina of propodeum weak, the spiracle small, round. Marginal, stigmal and postmarginal veins about equal, the first and last a little longer, the fore wing with a longitudinal, suberescentic, fuscous band extending from apex of submarginal vein to apex of stigmal. Mandibles bidentate but the second tooth broad, its: apex concayely emarginate. Posterior femora much swollen and with a large triangular tooth beneath near apex whose distal margin is minutely serrulate; cephalic femora also swollen but simple. Hind tibie with two spurs. ' 1. APHOTISMUS NIGER Girault. Female; male. Genotype. Length, 1.85 mm. Shining black, the tibiz and tarsi lemon yellow, also the distal third of cephalic femora; antenne concolorous, the funicle joints transverse, the first only twice the size of the ring- joint, the others wider, all shorter than the pedicel; flagellum short, clavate. Thorax finely, transversely lined and polygonally reticulated and with obscure thimble punctures. Short and stout. The male is about the same. Habitat: Adelaide, South Australia. From galls on Caswarina. Type: No. I. 1337, South Australian Museum. _ TOMICOBOMORPHELLA new genus. Head triangular, the antennz inserted at the clypeus, clavate, the club solid, the scape dilated but not very greatly, the first two funicle joints like ring-joints, the others all wider than long, widening distad. Mandibles tridentate. One spur of caudal tibiz very short, the other large but not especially long. Postmarginal and stigmal veins elongate, the former somewhat longer, nearly as long as the marginal. Parapsidal furrows complete, shallow. Pronotum transverse. Scutellum simple. Propodeum conical, nonearinate. Postseutellum rounded triangular, platelike. Abdomen sessile, depressed, conic-ovate, noncarinate, subequal to the thorax, segments 2 and 3 large, together occupying not quite half the surface, 2 the larger. Cephalic femur swollen but simple; caudal femur stout, simple. Club obliquely truncate. Antenne 11-jointed. 1. TOMICOBOMORPHELLA JUSTICIA new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 2 mm. Dark metallic green, the scutellum, propodeum and abdomen dark ecoppery purple, the wings subhyaline or but very slightly yellowish; legs concolorous except the knees broadly, tips of tibiae and the tarsi which together with the funicle and club are rich reddish brown AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, IX—GIRAULT. 215 (first three funicle joints blackish). Caudal tibial spurs white. Pedicel distinctly longer than any funicle joint, a little longer than wide at apex. Club a little over half the length of the funicle. Frons broad. Scutum transversely lineolated; rest of thorax scaly but the propo- deum punctate. Head finely scaly lined. First two segments of abdomen glabrous, the others showing scaly sculpture, especially from cephalic margins. Propodeum glabrous in a line mesad from the spiracle to the postscutellum, the latter with rimmed margins. Wings normally ciliate. Described from two females captured by sweeping on forest uplands, Clarence River, May 30, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Maclean, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3209, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on a tag; head and a pair of caudal legs on a slide. PARATOMICOBIA new genus. Like the preceding but the frons prominent, the vertex flat, the scutellum bears a curved, shallow cross-groove just before apex, the propodeum bears a median earina, the seutellum a shallow lateral groove; segments 2 and 3 of the abdomen together occupying somewhat less than a third of the surface; parapsidal furrows subobsolete, the pronotum transverse-quadrate. Stigmal vein as long as the postmarginal. Scape stout, not noticeably dilated. Caudal femur not stout. Postmarginal vein somewhat shorter than the marginal; cheeks longer than the eyes. Caudal tibiz compressed toward apex. 1. PARATOMICOBIA FLAVIOS new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 2.50 mm. Dark metallic green, the oral area yellowish, the legs, propodeum and abdomen coppery blue, the knees and tips of tibia reddish brown, the tarsi white, the eaudal tarsi black (also the spurs). Tips of caudal tibie concolorous. Distal three funicle joints and the club reddish brown. Fore wing with the apex moderately, broadly infuscated and that portion between the bend of the submarginal vein and apex of venation. Under and against the marginal vein, a large, pyriform, hyaline area turned sideways and with the narrow end just a little proximad of the junction of marginal and stigmal veins; this area extends half way across the wing; a narrow, subhyaline area at caudal margin opposite the pyriform area. Apical and central infuscated areas narrowly connected along each margin. Infuseated areas generally coterminous with the discal cilia. Median carina of propodeum forking at base distinctly, the propodeum punctate and with lateral carine indicated distad. Abdomen showing a scaly sculpture after segment 4. Thorax polygonally sealy, the scutum scaly punctate and with short, whitish pubescence. Frons moderately broad. Described from one female captured by sweeping forest uplands, Clarence River, May 30, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Maclean, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3210, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, hind legs and a fore wing on a slide. GENUS EPISTENIA Westwood. 1. EPISTENIA NIGRIZENEA new species. Female :—Length, 1.85 mm. Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the abdomen coppery, blue at base; legs and antenne concolorous, the knees and tips of tibiz brownish, the tarsi white. Head and thorax umbilicately punctate, the propodeum subglabrous, with a row of punctures along the cephalic and caudal margins, a short, strong median carina, a rather small, round-oval spiracle and a broad sulcus just laterad of the latter. Abdomen with the incisions between the segments, 216 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. and the lateral margins carinated, the surface of the segments coarsely scaly. Face inflexed, the head much as in the Eupelminew, the antenne 11-jointed without a ring-joint, the first funicle joint small, like a large ring-joint, the club solid; pedicel much longer than any of the funicle joints which widen distad, joints 3 and 4 about longest, not much longer than the others, barely wider than long; club ovate, not half the length of the funicle; scrobes forming a triangle. Hind femora simple but more swollen than the front ones which are also simple (very finely serrulate) yet distinctly swollen. Incisions of abdomen smooth. Plate at apex of scutellum entire. Mandibles tridentate. Described from one female caught by sweeping in forest, December 2, 1912 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Northern Queensland (Gordonvale near Cairns). : Type: No. Hy 3211, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag; the head, hind legs and a front leg on a slide. SuBFaAMiIny CHALCODECTINA. GENUS CHALCODECTUS Walker. 1. CHALCODECTUS CUPRESCENS (Westwood). Polychroma cuprescens Westwood, Thesaur. Ent. Oxon. p. 142 (1874). Australia. GENUS AGAMERION Haliday. 1. AGAMERION GELO (Walker). Miscogaster gelo Walker, 1839, p. 27. Male. ‘* Mas. Purpureo cyanea viridi-varia, antennae nigrae, pedes nigro-virides, tarsi picei, alae subfuscae. Purpureo-cyanea: caput cyaneo-viride; sulea quo insidet scapus laete cuprea: oculi et ocelli obscure rufi: antennae nigrae: thoracis segmentorum suturae nonnullae virides: meso- thoracis scutellum purpureum: abdomen laete purpureum, basi viride micans, apice eyaneo- varium: pedes virides, cyaneo et purpureo varii; trochanters ferruginei; genua ferruginea; tibiae nigrae, spinae fulvae; tarsi picei; pro- et mesotarsis articulus lus fulvus: alae subfuscae; squamulae piceae; nervi picei. (Corp. long. lin. 24%; alar. lin. 3.) Sydney, New South Wales. 2. AGAMERION METALLICA new species. Female :—Length, 2.60 mm. Propodeum polygonally scaly. Occiput finely scaly. In Ashmead’s (1904) table of genera running to Conura Spinola in the Haltichellini but the body is metallic, the antennew only 11-jointed with one large ring-joint, the club 2-jointed. Marginal vein three fourths the length of the submarginal, the postmarginal and stigmal moderate in length, the latter the shorter. Hind tibia at apex normal, squarely trun- cate, with two large, unequal, normal spurs. Second abdominal segment occupying about a fourth of the surface, not much longer than 4 which is a little longer than 3. Scrobes rather deep. Propodeum with a distinet, thick median carina and no others. Pronotum subtransverse. Scutellum at apex with a short, entire plate. Hind femur beneath distinctly serrated, with no large teeth. Dark metallic blue, the wings hyaline, the tarsi brown, the dorsal edge of hind tibia white together with the first joint of hind tarsus, the rest of that tarsus blackish blue; tip of hind tibia margined with brown. Densely punctate (head and thorax). Pubescence incon- spicuous. Scape straight, cylindrical; pedicel long, distinctly longer than any of the funicle AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, [X.—GIRAULT. 217 joints, about as long as the second club joint which is longer than the first and conical. Funicle 1 a little longer than wide, 2 and 3 subquadrate, the others shorter; funicle 1 not quite half the length of the pedicel. Dorsal aspect of hind tibia armed with short, stout white ‘spur-like setee somewhat like the black ones present on the middle tarsi of many eupelmine genera. Ovipositor not exserted. Distal two thirds of side of middle tibia ivory white; tips of first two tibie reddish brown. Metapleurum punetate. First two tarsi reddish brown; joint 1 of hind tarsus white, rest blue. Male :—Not known. Described from one female captured by sweeping foliage, forest, on the outskirts of the township, November 30, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3212, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the antenna and a hind leg on a slide. It is no wonder that Kirby was misled by this insect and allied it with the Chalcidide ; its normal hind tibia, metallic coloration and the median carina on propodeum incline me to think that Ashmead has correctly placed it. The above species disagrees with the figure _given by Kirby in having but two elub joints. The propodeal spiracles are large, the opening reniform, the boundaries oval; no lateral carinw. Also at Port Darwin, N.T. This species differs from Ashmead’s in having the tips of tibie and first two pairs of tarsi reddish brown not white, the middle tibizw white along one side. Ashmead’s species may not be congeneric. I have seen a female through the kindness of Mr. A. P. Dodd which was reared from a pale blattid egg-case in 1903 at Horton Park, New South Wales (W. W. Froggatt). 2. AGAMERION CQERULEIVENTRIS Ashmead. Male. Length, 3.8 mm. Robust. Metallic blue-green; thorax above bronzed green; face from ocellus, thorax at sides and beneath, tegule and legs except as noted and abdomen decidedly blue; flagellum brown- black; anterior and middle tarsi and hind tibiz, all along outer face, ivory or yellowish white. Head transverse, eyes large, convergent above, face below between base of eyes fully twice as wide as the space on vertex; scrobes distinct, long, in outline triangular; head above and thorax above with a close thimble-like punctuation, finer and feebly on sides and on hind coxe. Wings hyaline; subcostal and stigmal veins yellowish, postmarginal and marginal veins pale brown, the latter being two thirds the length of the subcostal; postmarginal longer than the stigmal. Habitat: Australia. Type: No. 4890, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. GENUS SYSTOLOMORPHA Ashmead. 1. SYSTOLOMORPHA THYRIDOPTERYGIS Ashmead. Female. Length, 1.8 to 2 mm. Black, shining; flagellum brown; sutures of trochanters, tips of femora and all of tibie and tarsi yellowish white; wings hyaline, venation brown. Head transverse, a little wider than thorax, about thrice as wide as thick anterio- posteriorly; scrobes delicately impressed but distinct; ocelli arranged in an obtuse triangle, lateral ocelli being a little farther from each other than from the front ocellus; surface of head distinetly coriaceous. Antenne short; flagellum clavate; pedicel short, obconical, a little longer than thick and much larger than the first two joints of funicle; funicle joints short, wider than long, all gradually widening to club. Thorax in shape similar to the Eurytomid genus Systole Walker; parapsidal furrows distinct, entire; mesonotum delicately transversely acicu- late; scutellum coriaceous; axille meeting at their inner, basal angles; metathorax short, 218 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. abrupt, smooth, with small rounded spiracles. Wings hyaline, with a faint discoidal cloud; venation brown; marginal and postmarginal veins about equal, one third the length of the subcostal vein; stigmal vein a little shorter than the marginal, gently curved and ending in a small knob. Abdomen subglobose, subcompressed beneath and sessile, not longer than thorax; the second segment (or first body segment) nearly twice the length of the third, the following subequal. Hind femora somewhat swollen, with a slight tooth beneath before apex. Reared October 22, 1886 from Thyridopteryx species on an Eucalyptus (A. Koebele). Habitat: Adelaide, South Australia. Type: No. 4889, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. GENUS EUCHRYSIA Westwood. 1. EUCHRYSIA CLEPTIDEA Westwood. Female. Euchrysia cleptidea Westwood, Thesaur. Ent. Oxon. p. 139, 9, t. 26, f. 3 (1874). 2. EUCHRYSIA GEMMA Westwood. Female. Buchrysia gemma Westwood, Thesaur. Ent. Oxon. p. 139, 2, t. 26, f. 4 (1874), New South Wales. 38. EUCHRYSIA PRASIMA Westwood. Female. Buchrysia prasima Westwood, Thesaur. Ent. Oxon. p. 140, female (1874). Australia. In a small collection received from the National Museum, Melbourne, there was a species: agreeing with the diagnosis of this genus in that the abdomen was depressed from both dorsad and ventrad, appearing membranous and as if crushed and pulled (like a normal abdomen of a small locustid which had been much stretched by pulling and then pressed and allowed to dry in that position). Segment 2 of abdomen occupied over a third of the surface. The cephalic femora were excised before tip, with a tubercle in the excision. Otherwise like Agamerionella but funicle 1 was more like a ring-joint. The distal two or three joints of the antennz were missing. The species resembled Agamerionella locustiformis but the fuscous- spots on the fore wing were distinct and more continuous, forming 2 crescent. The legs. (except cox) and joints 2-4 of funicle red. Propodeum with a median carina. The label was ‘‘No. 49. Nr. Melbourne.’’ The sex apparently female but not really known PAREPISTENIA new genus of A. P. Doda. Head no wider than the thorax, viewed from front no wider than long; eyes large,. pubescent. Cephalic ocellus not within the scrobes. Antenne inserted close to the clypeus-. and close together, 11-jointed, without true ring-joints, funicle 1 being like a ring-joint, the club solid. Mandibles tridentate. Pronotum large, quadrate; parapsidal furrows complete, scutellum simple. Abdomen conic-ovate, depressed above, gently convex beneath, carinated laterally, scarcely longer than rest of body, the second segment as long as wide, third quite short, 4-6 long, longer than 2; 7 and 8 somewhat produced, the valves of the ovipositor not plainly exserted. Fore wings long and broad, reaching apex of abdomen, the stigmal vein barely a fourth as long as the long marginal, the latter longer than the postmarginal. Posterior femora much swollen, more so than the anterior ones and simple; the anterior tibi@ with five: teeth from half length to apex. Hind tibial spurs not long. Propodeum rugose, without definite carine. Distinguished by the teeth on the anterior tibia. 1. PAREPISTENIA VARICORNIS new species of A. P. Dodd. Female. Genotype. Length, 5 mm. Metallic coppery green, the legs (except posterior cox), basal half of antennal scape and funicle, golden yellow, the antenne darker; apical half of scape, pedicel and club black. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, [X.—GIRAULT. 219 Pedicel two thirds longer than funicle 2, which is somewhat longer than wide, the others shortening, the last much wider than long; club as long as three preceding joints united. Thorax coarsely, densely punctate, the abdomen coarsely transversely wrinkled, the second segment smooth and shining. Wings almost hyaline. Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. November 19, 1913 (H. Hacker). Type: No. Hy 3213, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, fore and hind legs on a slide. GENUS CALOSETROIDES Girault. Allied with Amotura Cameron but the front femora are swollen, compressed and excised beneath at apex, the posterior femora unarmed beneath. Legs otherwise unarmed; cephalic tibize and caudal coxe somewhat compressed, the latter flat interiorly, the caudal femur enlarged but unarmed; caudal tibiz with two unequal spurs, both rather large. Tarsi 5-jointed. Antenne inserted distinctly below the ventral ends of the eyes, very near the clypeus, the scape obclavate and long, the flagellum 9-jointed, no ring-joint. Scrobicular cavity long but not including the cephalic ocellus, the lateral ocelli separated from the eye margin, the three in a small triangle in the center of the vertex; eyes somewhat convergent above, long-ovate, naked. Bulbs separated by a long, acutely triangular raised area in the scrobicular cavity. Genw long; genal suture distinct. Pronotum incised at meson. Parap- sidal furrows complete, the axille rather widely separated. Scutellum simple, its caudal margin carinate and preceded by a line of deep punctures separated by narrow, short carine. Propodeum with a short, solid, acutely margined median carina which is V-shaped and mar- gined on each side by a broad suleus; the spiracle cephalad, large, elliptical. Abdomen sessile (the ovipositor not exserted) and no longer than the head and thorax combined, flat above, acutely conic-ovate, its second segment smooth, forming nearly half of the surface. Wings infuscated; marginal vein long, only slightly shorter than the submarginal, the stigmal and postmarginal veins also long, the former curved, only half the length of the postmarginal which is three fourths the length of the marginal. Metallic, large. 1. CALOSETROIDES AUSTRALICA Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 5.65 mm. Metallic purplish with eneous tinges, the face metallic green; legs reddish brown, the coxee und posterior femora (exteriorly only) concolorous, the intermediate tibie proximad and exteriorly and the cephalic tibiz exteriorly or along the outer margin, black. Wings with a distinct, large embrowned subsagittate cloud in its middle, longitudinally, the area appearing: as if hung by one of the lateral angles from the apex of the stigmal vein; also there is an elliptical spot suspended from the apex of the submarginal vein. Antenne black, the scape concolorous. Head and thorax granulately punctate. Habitat: Millbrook, Victoria. Type: No. Hy 1196, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag and a slide. AGAMERIONELLA new genus. 1. AGAMERIONELLA LOCUSTIFORMIS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 8 mm., excluding stylus and valves. With the form of a small locustid, the head and hind legs especially. Head longer than wide (cephalic aspect) and resembling that of a locustid; cheeks long; antenne inserted wide apart, much below the ventral ends of the eyes, the scrobes sharply defined, converging, reaching to the cephalic ocellus; eyes large like those of a locust, somewhat shorter than the cheeks which bear a long narrow genal suture. Antenne filiform, 11-jointed, no ring-joint, 220 “MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. the club solid or single, the pedicel and second funicle joint elongate, the scape very long, dilated slightly toward tip. Scutellum terminating in a bidentate plate. Abdomen conic-ovate, its body longer than the head and thorax combined, as in Epistenia but noncarinated and the last segment is produced into a slender stylus which is nearly as long as the body of the abdomen; also, the valves of the ovipositor are longly exserted, much beyond the stylus above them. Hind cox swollen, nearly as long as the femora, strongly flattened inwardly, the enlarged femora practically unarmed beneath. Front femora swollen but simple. Propodeum short, the spiracle reniform, no median carina, the posterior margins of each wing or ¢allus, hairy. Segments 2 and 6 of abdomen longest. Postmarginal vein elongate, subequal to marginal, the stigmal short. Metallic purplish, the fore wings irregularly stained; the legs blood red except the -concolorous coxw. Antenne black or nearly, the first funicle joint short, a little wider than long, the second abruptly much longer, the fifth subequal to the club; 7 and 8 subequal, longer than wide, shortest after 1 but distinctly longer than it. Thorax shagreened-punctate, also the head; a long, triangular mesal portion of each parapside, finely transversely striated. Ocelli in an equilateral triangle. Eyes naked. Joints 2-4 of funicle slightly reddish. Knees and tibiz more or less metallic. Described from one female, minutien-mounted, received from the National Museum, Melbourne, and labelled ‘‘ 46’’ and ‘‘ Gippld. 296.’ Habitat: West Australia. Type: In the National Museum, Melbourne, the above specimen, the antennz on a slide. This genus apparently differs from Agamerion Haliday in bearing a stylate abdomen and the exserted ovipositor; also in lacking the ring-joint; the club is solid. Differs from Calosetroides in bearing one more antennal joint, a stylate abdomen and so forth. The first funicle joint is often ring-like. 2. AGAMERIONELLA BREVISTYLUS new species. Female :—Length, 7.50 mm., excluding stylus and the ovipositor which is exserted for a little over a third the length of the abdomen. Brilliant metallic purple, the legs (except coxw and hind femur) blood red; also joints 2-6 of the funicle. Front femora swollen, deeply excised beneath at tip. Plate at apex of sceutellum entire. Stylus short, about a fourth the length of the abdomen. Fore wings with a large blotch appended from the stigmal vein and an oblique cross dash caudad from the bend of the submarginal vein, separated from an oblique, longitudinal dash caudad; postmarginal vein somewhat shorter than the marginal, elongate. Head and thorax (excluding propodeum) uniformly seulptured. First funicle joint wider, the distal two longer, than in locustiformis. Otherwise agreeing with the named species. Described from one female minutien-mounted, received from the National Museum at Melbourne and labelled ‘‘50. Cunbower.’’ Habitat: Victoria? Type: In the National Museum, Melbourne, the above specimen and a slide with the antenne. 3. AGAMERIONELLA SANGUINIPES new species. Female :—Length, 7.20 mm., excluding stylus and exserted portions of ovipositor. Almost exactly similar to locustiformis but distinctly smaller and the valves of the ovipositor are exserted for a length distinctly less than that of the abdomen (in the other species the exserted portion is a little longer than the abdomen) ; the stylus is also shorter but longer in proportion to the length of the exserted portion of the valves of the ovipositor. The spots at apex of stigmal and bend of submarginal veins are longer and more distinct AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, IX.—GIRAULT. 221 (faint in locustiformis). In one specimen (type) the short plate at apex of scutellum was entire. Funicles 2 and 3 dark reddish. Cephalic tibia black above; hind knees black. Described from one female, on a pin, labelled ‘‘ 42. Whittlesea. Coll. J.A.K. 11.11.08.’ Habitat: Victoria. Type: In the National Museum, Melbourne, the foregomg specimen. A second specimen was reared from a twig infested with a beetle and bore the label ‘¢ 45, F.P.S.’’ Since it differs from the type in having the fore wings as in locustiformis (but the two spots suffusely connected) and the plate at apex of scutellum slightly emarginate at the meson, I name it the variety scutellatus and designate the specimen as the. type of that variety. The first joint of hind tarsus is distinctly longer than in the typical form. Funicle all black. 4. AGAMERIONELLA PAVO new species. Femaie:—Length, 7.20 mm. Differs from brevistylus Girault in having only funicle joint 3, tip of 2 and base of 4, red; also in being dark green, the abdomen dark purple, in having the vertex between the eyes narrower, the wing pattern smaller but same in kind. From sanguwinipes differs in having the hind femur concolorous except proximad, the hind tibia all red, in having the pyramidal area from the stigmal vein larger, the vertex between the eyes much narrower, the postmarginal vein plainly not as long as the marginal and in having only the tip of funicle joint 2 red. Lateral ocelli not touching the eyes. Male :—Not known. From one specimen captured in jungle (F. P. Dodd). Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. a Type: No. Hy 3214, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 6. AGAMERIONELLA CURCULIONIS new species. Female :—Length, 8 mm. (total). Dark eneous green, the abdomen blue and purple, the fore wings slightly indefinitely stained under the marginal vein and centrally. Tegule, tibiz and tarsi blood red. Scutellum unarmed. Thorax (exclusive of metathorax) with a shallow median groove, densely, finely punctate, the propodeum regulose, short at the meson, there the carina formed by one of the ruge, the lateral carina also one of them, broadly looped around to the cephalic margin, mesad. Abdominal segments centrally densely shagreened, the incisions and the base of segment 2 polished. Valves of ovipositor distinctly but slightly exserted. (Head missing.) Stylus very short, half the length of the extruded part of ovipositor. Male :—Length, 6.75 mm. F Like the female except that the abdomen is not as long as the thorax yet conic, the propodeum is long at the meson and without definite carinw, rugose, the cephalic tibie are bluish on one side and the wings hyaline. Antenne 11-jointed with a large ring-joint, the club long, solid, the ring-joint red, the rest concolorous. Pedicel elongate, longer than funicle 1 which is longest, funicle 7 quadrate; club subequal to pedicel. Front femora more swollen but not as large as the hind ones. From one female labelled ‘‘ Darwin, 16.6.13, parasitic on wood-boring weevil.’’? And one male labelled ‘‘ Darwin. 2.7.13. G. F. Hill, No. 17.’’ Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. Host: Buthyrrhinus meditabundus Fabricius. Types: No. Hy 3215, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female and one male on two pins, the male antenna on a slide with broken antenna of an Luchrysia. 222 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 7. AGAMERIONELLA BRISBANENSIS new species. Female:—Like curculionis except that the fore wing is distinctly stained yellowish and the stylus is not tipped with white. Face with coarser punctures than the thorax, the vertex with finer ones (same with the male type of curculionis). Ring-joint and funicle 1 dark red, the antenne otherwise like those of the male type of cwrculionis yet the pedicel and club are each a little longer. Described from one female captured November 19, 1913 (H. Hacker). Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3216, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. SYSTOLOMORPHELLA new genus. Female:—Head somewhat wider than long (cephalic aspect), the antenne as in Aplatygerrhus Girault, inserted on a level with the ventral ends of the eyes. Hind femur swollen, with one large tooth ventrad toward apex and no others. Abdomen elliptical, depressed, somewhat longer than the rest of the body, segments 2, 5, 6 and 7 longest, more or less equal, 3 transverse; abdomen subpetiolate, the ovipositor not extruded. Scutellum simple. Propodeum with a median carina. Postmarginal and stigmal veins well developed, the former longer, somewhat over half the length of the moderately long marginal. Propodeal spiracle large, elliptical; no true lateral carine. 1. SYSTOLOMORPHELLA TRIFASCIATIPENNIS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 5.50 mm. Reddish purple, the abdomen blue, purple at base and with greenish reflections. Tarsi white, legs reddish purple, trochanters white. Antenne red, the single club joint black. Funicle 2 longest, 1 smaller than the pedicel, 2 somewhat longer than wide, a little longer than the pedicel; 3 and 4 subequal, a little shorter than 2; distal funicle joint a little wider than long, the lateral projection reaching nearly to base of the conical! termination of the club. Tip of abdomen above, broadly fuzzy. White pile dorso-laterad, on propodeum, scattered over the head, less noticeably on thorax (but thicker—hispid—on scutellum as on tip of abdomen). Propodeum shining but very finely scaly. Head and thorax densely, finely punctate. Third cross-stripe of fore wing at apex, narrow, the second very broad from all of postmarginal and distal half of marginal veins, its proximal margin convex; first stripe twice broader than the third, not half as broad as the second, from bend of submarginal vein. Of the two enclosed white stripes, the first is much narrower. Segment 2 of abdomen glabrous, others fairly sculptured. From one female captured, December 28, 1911 (H. Hacker). brepara Habitat: Mt. Tambourine, Queensland. oa Type: No. Hy 3217, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a pin; antenna on a slide with type appendages of Agamerionella brevistylus Girault and in the National Museum, Melbourne. 2. SYSTOLOMORPHELLA UNNOTIPENNIS new species. Female :—Like the genotype but the hind femur beneath armed with three large and one small teeth, the scape foliaceously dilated and shorter. The head in both is lenticular, the scrobes absent, the frons broad. In the genotype, the scape is slightly dilated toward tip. Length, 5 mm, Smaller than in the genotype, the thorax flattened. Dark metallic blue, the propodeum metallic green, the abdomen with purplish reflections; knees, tips 0} AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, [X.—GIRAULT. 223 tibie and tarsi distad of joint 1 (which is white), reddish brown. Hind tibiw armed dorsad with stout spines which, however, are much smaller than the tibial spurs, First four funicle joints wider at apex than at base, about as long as wide, the other four wider than long, of uniform width but 8 is shortest, rather much wider than long, its projection embracing about two thirds of one side of the club. Venation fuscous, the fore wings hyaline but with a distinct sooty, rounded area from distal half of marginal and all of stigmal veins, conically produced distad to a point opposite the apex of the postmarginal vein and reaching to middle of wing. The area surrounding this rather large, distinct spot is suffused with dusky caudad and proximad for a long distance. Pedicel a little larger than funicle 1. Lateral ocelli not touching the eyes. Sculptured as in the genotype. Head and thorax with a very short hispides- cence. Last three segments of abdomen dorsad densely, rugulosely scaly, the last two segments dorsad not as stiffly hairy as in the genotype. Propodeum coarsely scaly, the median carina bounded by a row of fovezw and there is a foveate spiracular sulcus meeting at apex the foveate lines along side the median carina which forks at apex. The propodeum of the genotype is the same but less distinctly sculptured. Antenne short. Front femur swollen somewhat but simple. From one female, miscellaneous sweeping, August 20, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3218, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; antenne, fore and hind leg on a slide. 8, SYSTOLOMORPHELLA UNFASCIATIPENNIS new species of A. P. Dodd and A. A. Girault. Female :—Length, 4 mm. Metallic green, the scutellum and axille coppery, the propodeum and abdomen, more or less, brilliant metallic blue; legs (except hind coxe) and antennz (except last two joints), bright golden yellow, the last two joints black. Head (cephalic aspect) much wider than long, the antennz inserted below ventral ends of eyes and wide apart, no antennal scrobes; pedicel somewhat longer than any of the funicle joints which are all wider than long; club with a long terminal spur. Parapsidal furrows incomplete. Propodeum smooth, shining, with a distinct median carina. Second abdominal segment smooth, the remainder scaly, the third very short. Fore wing with a broad, transverse band, involving stigmal and a part of mar- ginal veins; stigmal vein long, somewhat shorter than postmarginal, the latter nearly as long as the marginal. From one female labelled ‘‘ Brisbane, 19.xi.13. H. Hacker.’’ Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3219, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and fore and hind leg on a slide. GENUS AMOTURELLA Girault. Agreeing in general with Amotwra Cameron but the antenne only 8-jointed, the club solid, one ring-joint, the posterior femora swollen but only very minutely serrate (not denti- culate) beneath. Body short, pteromaliform, the cephalic femora swollen and with one minute tooth beneath. Pronotum long, rectangular (as in Hurytoma, but not as wide as the thorax), nearly as long as the seutum, which has complete, punctate, parapsidal furrows. Propodeum very coarsely punctate. Second abdominal segment very long, occupying two thirds of the surface, the following segments very short and subequal; abdomen sessile, broadly ovate, convex beneath, the ovipositor not exserted. Scutellum with a punctate eross furrow just before tip. Both wings infuscated, the stigmal vein short, without a knob, the postmarginal still shorter. Mandibles tridentate, the head triangular, the antenne inserted on the clypeus. 224 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 1. AMOTURELLA SAINTPIERREI Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 1.25 mm. Metallic coppery, the abdomen black, the sides of thorax green; legs rich, dark reddish- brown; posterior wings uniformly stained, fore wings stained out to the end of the venation, from thence hyaline, apparently without marginal fringes. Thorax scaly, also the head. Scape slender; pedicel long obconic, twice the length of the first funicle joint, which is somewhat wider than Jong, largest of the funicle, the ring-joint closely attached to it and as wide as its base; other funicle joints shortening; club as long as the funicle. Habitat: Hobart, Tasmania. Type: No. I. 1469, South Australian Museum. In those forms of this family with simple legs, it is difficult to distinguish them from forms of the Miscogasteridw. The lateral thoracic sclerites appear to be the only characteristics but I have not seen enough of them to form an adequate opinion as to the value of this difference. A careful study of the family may show that the Cleonymine and Chaleodectine are invalid because of gradual variations in the size of the caudal femora. The species are not often taken with the sweeping net but many more forms will doubtless be discovered when an attempt is made to collect by rearing from beetle-infested wood. The forms do not shrivel much. Nor are they numerous in the Australian fauna, from present indications. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, X—GIRAULT. 225 AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA—x.* The Family Eucharide with Descriptions of New Genera and Species. By A. A. GIRAULT. Famiry EUCHARIDA. Genus METAGEA Kirby. 1. METAGEA KIRBYI Ashmead. Female :—‘‘ Length, 4 mm. Asneous black, tinged with blue or purplish in certain lights. Head anu thorax, except dises of parapsides which are smooth and neous, coarsely rugose. Legs brownish yellow, femora except at tips dark brown; hind coxe black, hind tibie, except tips, fuscous. Wings hyaline; venation brown. Flagellar joints, except first, submoniliform, not or very little longer than thick; first joint of flagellum as long as 2 and 3 united. Abdomen eneous black, petiole about four times as long as thick, smooth and impunctate.’’ Habitat: Gosford, New South Wales. (A. Koebele, collector.) Type: No. 4886, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C. 2. METAGEA RUFIVENTRIS Ashmead. Female :—‘* Length, 9 mm. Head and thorax bright metallic green, coarsely rugose; mouth parts, scape, pedicel and legs except coxwe, yellow; abdomen, except petiole, second segment at base above and hypopygium wholly rufous; flagellum and second abdominal seg- ment at base above black, petiole purplish; wings subfuscous, hyaline at base. Flagellar joints 1 to 6 all longer than thick; terminal joints alone moniliform; first three or four joints elongate, but gradually shortening, 1 about five times as long as thick at apex, 4 less than two thirds the length of 1, the others still shorter, seventh and eighth submoniliform. Abdomen, except as noted, red; petiole about four times as long as thick, finely microscopically punctate above.’’ Habitat: Gosford, New South Wales. Type: No. 4887, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C. 38. METAGEA ZALATES (Walker). Male and female. Eucharis zalates Walker, 1839, pp. 13-14. 4. METAGEA TUBERCULATICORNIS new species. Female :—Length, 3.80 mm. Dark metallic purple with dark greenish reflections, the abdomen with its petiole and the femora (except cephalic ones) chocolate brown; cephalic femur light brown. Coxe con- colorous; tibize and tarsi straw yellow. Wings lightly yellowish, the venation pale. Antennz: * Contribution No. 33, Entomological Laboratory, Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, Bundaberg,,. Queensland. P 226 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. and mandibles reddish brown. Head circularly striate, the mandibles as in Orasema. Thorax uniformly rugoso-punctate, the scutellum obtuse at apex. Parapsidal furrows complete, punctate. Dorsum of thorax plane. Abdomen large, compressed, upturned, the petiole some- what longer than the hind coxa. Metatarsus slender. Scape somewhat shorter than funicle 1, distinctly longer than wide, the pedicel short, wider than long; funicle 1 longest of the antenne, widening distad, one and a half times longer than wide at apex, or that many times longer than funicle 2, which with the following joints are no longer than wide at apex, narrower at base, becoming smaller toward apex, the simple club joint a little longer than funicle 2 (in one antenna the distal funicle joint was fused with the club); funicle joints armed around apex with several short, nipple-like tubercles. Antenne 11-jointed, no ring-joint. From one female labelled ‘‘ No. 37. Darwin, N.T. 10-10-13. Sweeping in jungle. Aap pete? Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. Type: No. Hy 3282, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head on a slide. GENUS EPIMETAGEA Girault. Synonym: Astilbula Girault. The same as Metagea Kirby but the antennze not moniliform and only 10-jointed. Also agreeing somewhat with Pseudochalcura Ashmead but differing again in lacking one antennal joint. Head thin, triangular, the antennz inserted slightly below the middle of the face, the club solid and ovate, longer than any of the funicle joints but slightly shorter than the simple cylindrical scape; pedicel obconic, short, subequal to joint 4 of the funicle, bearing from one side of its apical margin a single, very long, slender but stiff bristle-like seta which reaches distad nearly to the apex of joint 3 of the funicle. Proximal funicle joint longest, nearly twice the length of the pedicel, all the funicle joints obconic, widening distinctly distad, all more or less prolonged obtusely from one apical corner, the distal joints more so. None of the joints petiolate or subpetiolate; no ring-joint. Mandibles long and falcate, acute at apex, the right with two large triangular teeth within, the left with one that is larger than either of those of the right; also exteriorly at base each with a large tooth. From beneath the clypeus there projects a flat, palmate (9-digitate) brownish plate, above and between the mandibles; clypeus convex along its distal margin, the latter with two teeth on each side of its end, the first very obtuse, the second more toothlike but not large. Ocelli nearly in a straight line across the short vertex, the cephalic one within and at the apex of the short scrobicular cavity. Parapsidal furrows complete, with deep punctures. Scutellum normal, terminating in a short plate whose distal margin is entire though convex. Thorax elevated convexly in places but the convexities obtuse. A rather large toothlike plate from the lateral aspect of the thorax some distance ventrad of the axilla. Thorax with large irregular reticulations or narrow carinate lines, but not punctate except the large punctures in sutures. Abdomen with a distinct petiole (which is moderate in length), depressed, diamond- shaped from dorsal aspect, opaque. Petiole somewhat over twice longer than wide. Proximal tarsal joints of all the legs long and slender but the first tarsal joints are not half the length of the tarsi. Venation obscure, the stigmal and postmarginal veins short, much shorter than the marginal, the stigmal the longer of the two, curved or bent like a boomerang. Wings hyaline, all ciliation nearly absent; a trace of marginal cilia disto-caudad. From lateral aspect, scutellum appearing as if terminating in a short acute tooth. The axille meet mesad. 1. EPIMETAGEA PURPUREA Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 3.5 mm. Metallic purple, the abdomen with green reflections; knees, tibiw, tarsi (except distal dark part of distal joint) and the antennae, brown, the latter suffused with purplish distad. Venation nearly invisible but the stigmal vein brownish. Head impunctate but with very AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, X.—GIRAULT. 227 fine circular strie, glabrous ventrad of the antenne; lateral ocelli very distant from the eye margins; scrobicular cavity with its lateral margins noncarinate; a tubercle at latero- cephalic aspect of pronotum. Scutellum between and behind the axille (at the meson) sunken. Abdominal petiole longitudinally striate. Cephalic part of thorax dorsad (cephalad of the middle of the seutum) coarsely reticulate as is also much of the scutelum. Base of propodeum with deep transverse fover, the region with lateral grooves. Caudal half of seutum practically smooth. Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. Reared from ants, July, 1902. Types: No. Hy 1195, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, three females on a card, a head on a Slide. 2. EPIMETAGEA MAGNIFICA (Girault). Female. Astilbula magnifica Girault. Length, 3.95 mm. Robust. Brilliant metallic wneous-green, the abdomen shining, the scutum transversely striate, the scutellum longitudinally so, both more or less irregularly; scutellum with a weak median carina. Wings hyaline. Petiole roughened. Venation brown. Legs straw yellow brown, the coxe and most of the femora concolorous; also antenne but the scape and pedicel brownish. Club joint next longest of the flagellum. Habitat: National Park, New South Wales. Type: No. I. 1287, South Australian Museum, a female on a card, the head on a slide. 3. EPIMETAGEA PURPUREICORPUS new name. Female. ° Astilbula purpura Girault. Length, 3.75 mm. Metallic purplish, the abdomen much darker; knees, tarsi and tibiw straw yellow, the first three antennal joints brownish; wings hyaline, the venation brown. Femora and coxe concolorous. Sculptured as in magnifica. Joints of funicle after the first cup-shaped or nearly, erected on thick peduncles; first funicle joint cylindrical, long. Abdomen ascending. Mandibles dentated as in the preceding (%.e., regarding number of teeth). Habitat: Cairns, Queensland. Type: No. I. 1288, South Australian Museum, the specimen on a tag, the head on a slide. 4, EPIMETAGEA ZENEA (Girault). Male. Astilbula enea Girault. Length, 4.75 mm. Dark eneous green, the head and scutum with purplish; abdomen beneath mesad and the legs, except coxee, yellowish brown, the scape and pedicel pale; petiole of abdomen and cox blackish. Fore wings with a sooty blotch under the stigmal vein (continued attenuatingly proximad) and another opposite to the first (continued proximad more distinctly). Thorax rugose and transversely lined, the scutellum with the lines longitudinal, the base of the prong-like process about twice longer than its least width, longitudinally striate. Hind outer angle of each parapside produced laterad into a platelike tooth. Head finely circularly striate, the lower half of the face glabrous. Propodeum with a lateral groove. Antenne 12-jointed, no ring-joints, eight long branches from joints 2-9, all from the same side; funicle 1 twice the length of the pedicel, 2 a little shorter than the pedicel, transverse, 3 a little wider than long, 4-9 gradually increasing in length, 9 being distinctly longer than 1; club very long, much over twice the length of the distal funicle joint. Petiole thrice the length of the hind COXe. * Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, May 9. Lype: No. ily 5283, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Tag and slide. The type has been re-examined. 228 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. we C 5. EPIMETAGEA POLITA new species. Female :—Length, 3.25 mm. Dark metallic purple, the wings hyaline, the knees, cephalic tibie, tips of other tibize and the tarsi yellowish brown, also the scape and pedicel. Head mostly smooth. Seutum at cephalic third with four transverse carinew not close together, otherwise polished; parapsides. polished, the furrows coarsely foveate. Axille glabrous, laterad with traces of longitudinal carine at cephalic margin; scutellum the same but with longer carine from _ base laterad, coarse and interlacing (parapsides laterad with scattered pin-punctures), the lateral and apical margin foveate and then strongly carinate; apical fourth of secutellum at meson with a median carina projecting cephalad from apex and terminating in a cross-carina (abbreviated laterad) at about distal two thirds. Propodeum with a line of fovew around cephalic margin, _dorsad with a few longitudinal carine (a long, complete, curved lateral carina is distinct), foveate toward the margins. Petiole rugulose, not quite twice the length of the hind coxe. Funicle joints only slightly produced from disto-lateral angle but the antenne as in the genotype: except that the pedicel lacks the long seta. From one female minutien-mounted captured by H. Hacker, April 24, 1912. Also another taken November 19, 1913. Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3284, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the first specimen and an antenna on a slide. 6. EPIMETAGEA BICOLORIVENTRIS new species. Female :—Length, 5 mm. Like polita but all tibizwe yellowish brown and the distal half (more ventrad) of abdomen is dull blood red. Head finely longitudinally striate along upper half of face, elsewhere smooth but with scattered fine punctures. Scutum coarsely, transversely striate; scutellum densely coarsely foveate. Caudal half of parapside glabrous, the other half like the scutum. Axille foveate. A more or less distinct, coarse, median line of transverse fover along the scutellum. Propodeum wholly rugose but not as coarse as the scutellum. Antenne as in polita but the scape is longer. Thoracic pleura rugulose, polished centrally ventrad of tegule (farther dorsad and ventrad in jpolita). Occiput with faint circular striation. Petiole somewhat longer than the hind coxe. From one female minutien-mounted labeiled ‘‘Hacker, Bribie Island, Moreton Bay near Brisbane, November 3, 1913.7’ Habitat: Bribie Island, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3285, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen and one antenna on a slide (with a pair of same of polita). GENUS TRICORYNA Kirby. 1. TRICORYNA ECTATOMMAE new species. Female :—Length, 2.85 mm. Dark metallic blue-green, the wings hyaline, the tarsi whitish (hind tarsi so distad of first joint which is about half the tarsus). Head circularly striate, the striz not dense. A median groove on thorax, coarser on the scutellum, faint on distal scutum. Scutellum unarmed, with. coarse longitudinal strie, the scutum with oblique striz cephalad but the caudal half together with all of the parapsides, glabrous. Axille like the scutellum. Surface between striz glabrous. Abdomen glabrous, blackish, with numerous but scattered, distinct, rather coarse pin punctures over the surface, the petiole finely longitudinally lined, a little over twice longer than wide. Antenne 9-jointed like those of subsalebrosa except that one joint is absent and the last one is no smaller than those immediately preceding it. Antenne thick, moniliform. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, X.—GIRAULT. 229 From one female on a eard labelled ‘‘Taken from nest of ant Eetatomma. Fern Tree Gully, 8-3-11. F. P. Spry.’’ Habitat: Melbourne, Victoria. Type: In the National Museum, Melbourne, the female on a card. 2. TRICORYNA SUBSALEBROSA new species. Male :—Length, 3.50 mm. Black, finely, densely rugulose except the caudal portion of each parapside which is glabrous. Cephalic tibia brown. Wings hyaline, the postmarginal vein long. Scutum and seutellum with a median groove, wider and coarser on the former. Abdomen finer in sculpture than the rest of the body. Legs thick, the front tibie slender but not long, the thick first tarsal joint in hind legs not quite half the length of the hind tarsus. Axille meeting inwardly. Quite as figured by Haliday. The scape and pedicel are so short that the long first funicle joint appears to be the scape. Antenne 10-jointed; scape very short, somewhat longer than wide, pedicel much wider than long; funicle 1 elongate, thrice the length of the scape, about twice the length of the next joint; joints following funicle 1 shortening in suecession, all the funicle joints narrower at base; club not differentiated, the last antennal joint smallest after the pedicel, subglobular. Flagelium hispid but not uniformly. Secutellum blunt at apex, slightly overhanging the propodeum. Petiole long, striate, about as long as in ectatomme. From one male captured by H. Hacker, January 17, 1913. Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 2286, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag, an antenna on a slide. 8. TRICORYNA IELLO (Walker). Male ; female. Eucharis iello Walker, 1839, pp. 12-13. GENUS EUCHAROMORPHA Girault. Somewhat like Psilogaster Blanchard but the antenne 11- to 12-jointed, with a true ring- joint, the funicle joints cylindrical to subquadrate; postmarginal vein distinct, also the venation; scutellum with a cross-furrow before apex. Abdomen subsessile, the petiole extremely short or absent. Parapsidal furrows deep, the parapsides somewhat gibbous, also the axille. Head not striated, the ocelli in a small triangle. Club solid. 1. EUCHAROMORPHA VIRIDIS Girault Female. Genotype. Length, 4 mm. Bright metallic eneous green, the cox concolorous, the legs straw-yellow, the antennae black but with the scape and ring-joint honey-yellow, the pedicel more or less so. Venation brown. Wings subhyaline. Antenne 12-jointed, the first funicle joint long, twice the length of the pedicel, the second a third shorter, the others subquadrate and more or less equal; club joint conical ovate, subequal to first funicle joint. Head and thorax rugulose, subpunctate, not rude. Abdomen robust, sessile. Habitat: Swansea, Tasmania. Type: No. I. 1283, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 2. EUCHAROMORPHA FUSCIPES Girault. Male. Length, 3.87 mm. The same as the preceding but more slender, the femora along proximal half fuscous and with more or less metallic green, the abdomen with a distinct but short petiole, the 230 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. antenne wholly black and differ structurally in that the third funicle joint is longer, also the club; ring-joint yellow brown. The abdomen is smaller. One specimen of this species was tinged with metallic blue while another was smaller and with a shorter scape. Habitat: Hobart, Tasmania. Type: No. I.1284, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 3. EUCHAROMORPHA DUBIA Girault. Male. Length, 3.80 mm. The same as fuscipes but the antenne only 11-jointed, the funicle 7-jointed; the femora are dark up to the tips and with more metallic coloration. The club is longer, distinctly much Jonger than the first funicle joint and the funicle joints are all longer than wide. Habitat: Hobart, Tasmania. Type: No. I. 1285, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 4. EUCHAROMORPHA TRIDENTATA new species. Female :—Length, 1.68 mm. Dark purple, the knees, tibiz and tarsi yellowish brown, also the scape which, however, is darker. Scutum and scutellum densely, finely punctate, the parapsides polished, also the axille, the scutellum with a polished central area just before the transverse groove, distad of the latter with more scattered punctures and a median groove. Propodeum long, finely punctate, with a distinct delicate median carina (lateral carine apparently absent); abdomen subsessile, globular. Mandibles with three distinct acute teeth, the outer the longer but not greatly longer, the teeth more equal than usual for the family. Antenne as in the male of the genus; funicle 1 distinctly the longest, one and a third times longer than wide, longer than the pedicel; funicle 2 a little longer than wide, 3 subquadrate, the rest subequal, a little wider than long; the solid club equal to more than the two preceding joints united. Pedicel a little longer than wide. Described from one female captured by sweeping lantana in a field, October 19, 1911. Habitat: Mackay, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3287, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the head on a slide. GENUS ORASKEMA Cameron. Orasema pheidolophaga Girault. Female; male. Length, 2.80 mm. Dark metallic green, sometimes with a bluish tinge; abdomen coppery; wings subhyaline, the venation brown; antenne dark metallic green throughout; coxz concolorous, the tarsi and tibiew straw-yellow, the femora metallic green, the cephalic femora less so. Thorax rugulose and punctate. Scutellum rimmed at apex. Head circularly striated. Antennz 15-jointed with a short ring-joint, the club 3-jointed, the first funicle joint longest, the others shortening, but all longer than wide, rectangular; club joints more or less coalesced, yet plainly indicated. Mandibles 2- and 3-dentate, as described for the genus, flavous, fuscous at tip. Habitat: Geelong, Victoria. From pup of Pheidole. Type: No. I.1286, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. GeNus CHALCURELLA Girault. The same as Chalcura Kirby but the antenne with paired branches, the funicle joints distad of the third, bearing a pair of branches from the apex of each joint, opposite and forming the two arms of a tuning fork; the second two joints of the funicle bearing but a single branch, the branches hairy; first funicle joint very long, widening distad; the second, AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, X—GIRAULT. 231 third, fourth and fifth short; the sixth and following lengthening, slender, becoming as long as the first; scutellum with a median groove. Scape short. Stigmal vein quadrate, the wings hyaline. Abdomen as in Eucharis. Propodeum with a broad, longitudinal suleus dorso- laterad. 1. CHALCURELLA NIGRICYANEA Girault. Male. Genotype. Length, 4.85 mm. Black with a bluish tinge, the coxw and antenne concolorous, the femora fuscous or brown-black, the knees, tibiee and tarsi yellowish-brown, also the tegulw and venation. Rudely punctate, the head striate. Thorax pilose. Pedicel chocolate. Posterior coxa and abdominal petiole irregularly and rather delicately roughened. Tegule brown. Habitat: Hobart, Tasmania. Type: No. I.1282, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. GENUS NEOKAPALA Girault. 1. NEOKAPALA FURCATELLA Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 3.25 mm. Dark metallic green, the propodeum, abdomen and head blue; legs fuscous, the antenne black with brownish club and scape, 11-jointed, no ring-joint. Fore wings infuscated distad of the distal end of the marginal vein (more proximad at caudal margin), the infusca- tion accented under the end of the marginal vein. Scutellum produced into a prong like the two arms of a tuning-fork, each prong about as long as the scutellum, brownish toward tip, flattened, the edges carinated; scutellum longitudinally striate. Head shining, thorax umbili- cately punctate. Abdominal petiole not as long as the arms of the scutellar process. Antenne with the funicle joints produced from one side at apex, flattened, the club solid, ovate, the pedicel small and cup-shaped, funicle joints 2 and 5 longest, subequal, the first funicle joint longer than the pedicel by far but cylindrical oval, not produced. Habitat: Cairns, Queensland. Type: No. I. 1278, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. This genus differs from Kapala Cameron by the scutellar processes which are short, blunt at end and forming a prong which is high up over the base of the abdomen. GENus STILBULA Spinola. 1. STILBULA PEDUNCULARIS Westwood, Thesaur. Ent. Oxon. p. 155, 9, ¢ (1874). 2. STILBULA BIDENTATA Girault. Female. Length, 3 mm. Very dark metallic green, the abdomen darker, the wings colourless, their wings very pale. Legs fuscous, the knees, posterior tibiz and tarsi fulvous. Secutellum bidentate, the head circularly striate, the thorax roughly punctate including the propodeum, the rather long abdominal petiole pitted. Antenna 12-jointed, of the flagellum (excluding pedicel) the first joint longest, thrice the length of the short pedicel, the club joint shortest; excluding the bulla, scape shorter than funicle 1; antenne brownish toward tip, otherwise black; funicle joints 3 and 4 subequal, each about somewhat over a half the length of joint 1. Habitat: Mount Tambourine, Queensland. Type: No. I. 1279, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 3. STILBULA AUSTRALIANA Girault. Female. Length, 3.10 mm. The same as the preceding but more greenish (dark green), the scutellum similarly slightly produced but not bidentate and with a more or less obscure median grooved line, 232 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. the axille divided by a more or less distinct foveate suture; distal halves of femora, the tibi and tarsi yellowish brown. Abdomen as in Eucharis. In the antenne, the second, third and fourth funicle joints are subequal, somewhat longer than wide, the first joint longest, narrowing proximad. Habitat: Mount Tambourine, Queensland. Type: No. I. 1280, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. GENUS PSILOGASTER Blanchard. 1. PSILOGASTER PULCHER Girault. Male. Length, 4.5 mm. : Metallic wneous green, the abdomen dark; scape and pedicel yellow, the wings slightly stained, the legs except coxw straw-yellow, the posterior femora washed with fuscous; venation brown, the postmarginal vein long. Scutellum with a median grooved line, otherwise simple and normal. Rugulosely punctate. Antenne 10-jointed, the joints long and cylindrical, the club shortest, the first funicle joints longer than the scape; distal funicle joint subequal to the club; pedicel cup-shaped, very short. Differs from Brullé’s pallipes, apparently, in having 10-jointed antennz, though it should be compared with that species. Habitat: Mount Wellington, Tasmania. Type: No. I.1281, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 2. PSILOGASTER PALLIPES Brullé, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym., IV, p. 574, 2, 3 (1846). Tasmania, Australia. 3. PSILOGASTER THEOCLES (Walker). Eucharis theocles Walker, 1839, pp. 11-12. PARAPSILOGASTER new name. Psilogasteroides Girault, preoccupied. Agreeing with Psilogaster Blanchard but having 12-jointed antenne; first funicle joint long, the others short. 1. PARAPSILOGASTER FAUSTA (Walker). Male. Genotype. Hucharis fausta Walker, 1839, pp. 10-11. Psilogasteroides fausta (Walker). ‘Mas. Viridis cupreo et cyaneo varia, pedes fulvi, femora viridia, ale limpide. Viridis, cupreo-varia: capitis frons cyaneo-viridis: oculi et ocelli obscure rufi: thorax subtus et postice eyaneo-viridis: abdomen cupreum: pedes fulvi; coxe virides; femora viridia, apice fulva; tarso apice fusci: ale limpide; squamule pice; nervi fulvi, apice obscuriores. (Corp. long. lin. 1%; alar. lin. 2%.) Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land. Mas.—Corpus convexum, parum nitens, rude punctatum, parece pubescens: caput sat magnum, breve, transversum, thorace latius; vertex latus, non impressus; frons abrupte declivis: oculi parvi, subrotundi, extantes: ocelli approximati, vertice triangulum fingentes: antenne 12-articulatw, filiformes, pubescentes, thorace paullo longiores; articulus lus longus, gracilis, sublinearis; 2us cyathiformis; 3us longus; 4us et sequentes breves, lineares, usque ad 9um curtantes; 10us Jlus et 12us arete applicati clavam fingentes fusiformem 90 duplo longiorem: thorax ovatus: segmentis suture bene determinatew: prothorax brevissimus, supra vix conspicuus: mesothoracis scutum longitudine latius; parapsides conspicue, extantes; AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, X.—GIRAULT. 233 scutellum ovatum, valde convexum: metathorax mediocris, declivis: petiolus perlongus, sat yalidus: abdomen ovatum, convexum, nitens, laeve, glabrum, thorace brevius, apice non trun- ecatum; segmentum lum magnum, dorsi plus dimidium occupans; 2um et sequentia brevia: ventralia vix conspicua: pedes simplices, subequales; cox mediocres; femora gracilia; tibize rect; tarsis articuli lo ad 4um curtantes, 5us 40 paullo longior; ungues et pulvilli minuti: ale ample; ulnaris humerali paullo brevior, radialis brevis, cubitalis brevissimus, stigma fingens punctiforme.’’ 2. PARAPSILOGASTER VALGIUS (Walker). Male and female. Eucharis valgius Walker, 1839, p. 11. Psilogasteroides valgius (Walker). ‘‘Mas.—Viridis, antenne nigre, abdomen nigro-viride, pedes fulvi, femora viridia, ale subfusce. Viridis: oculi et ocelli obscure rufi: antenne nigra; articuli lus et 2us virides: abdomen nigro-viride: pedes fulvi; coxe virides; femora viridia, apice fulva; metatibie pallide fusca, apice et basi fulve; tarsi flavi, apice fusci; protarsi obscuriores: ale subfusce; squamule virides; nervi fuseci. (Corp. long. lin. 114; alar. lin. 2%.) Sydney, New South Wales. , Fem.—Corpus convexum, nitens, rude punctatum, parce pubescens: caput sat magnum, breve, transversum, thorace latius; vertex latus, non impressus; frons abrupte declivis; oculi parvi, subrotundi, extantes: ocelli approximati, vertice in triangulum dispositi: antenne 12-articulatew, extrorsum crassiores, pubescentes, thorace fere breviores; articulus lus longus, gracilis, sublinearis; 2us cyathiformis; 3us et sequentes transversi, usque ad 9um curtantes; 10us 1lus et 12us arcte applicati, clavam fingentes fusiformem 90 duplo longiorum: thorax ovatus: segmentis suture bene determinate: prothorax brevissimus, supra vix conspicuus: mesothoracis scutum longitudine latius; parapsides conspicue, extantes; scutellum ovatum, valde convexum: metathorax mediocris, declivis: petiolus longus, sat validus: abdomen ovatum, convexum, nitens, leve, glabrum, thorace breyius, apice non truncatum; segmentum lum magnum, dorsi plus dimidium occupans; 2um et sequentia brevia; ventralia vix conspicua: pedes simplices, subeequales; coxe mediocres; femora gracilia; tibie rect; tarsis articuli lo ad 4um ecurtantes, 5us 40 paullo longior: ungues et pulvilli minuti: ale ample, ulnaris humerali paullo brevior, radialis brevis, cubitalis brevissimus stigma fingens punctiforme.’*’ GENUS EUCHARIS Latreille. 1. EUCHARIS DELICATULA Walker. Male. Eucharis delicatula, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., I, p. 377, (1862). Australia. 2. EUCHARIS IMPLEXA Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., I, p. 377, Q (1862). Tasmania, Australia. 3. EUCHARIS PICEICORNIS Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., I, p. 376, 3 (1862). 4. EUCHARIS RUFIVENTRIS Walker. Female. Eucharis rufiventris Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., I, p. 378, ¢ (1862). Australia. 5. EUCHARIS SMARAGDINA Walker. Male. Hucharis smaragdina Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., I, p. 376, 6. (1862). Australia. 6. EUCHARIS LARYMNA Walker. Female and male. Eucharis larymna Walker, List Hym. Brit. Mus., Chalcid., I, p. 86, Q g (1846). 234 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 7. EUCHARIS PYTTALIS Walker. Female; male. Eucharis pyttalis Walker, List Hym. Brit. Mus., Chalcid., I, p. 87, 2, ¢ (1846). 8. EUCHARIS ERIBOTES Walker. Male; female. Walker, 1839, pp. 14-15. 9. EUCHARIS XENIADES Walker. Male. Walker, 1839, p. 15. 10. EUCHARIS DEMOCLES Walker. Male. Walker, 1839, p. 15. GENUS RHIPIPALLUS Kirby. 1. RHIPIPALLUS CAMERONI Kirby. Rhipipallus cameroni Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. XX, p. 37, t. 1. ’ Australia (?). Celebes (?). 2. RHIPIPALLUS TURNERI Kirby. Ehipipallus turneri Kirby, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., XIV, p. 47 (1894). Australia. 3. RHIPIPALLUS VOLUSUS Walker. Male. Eucharis volusus Walker. 1839, pp. 9-10. 4. RHIPIPALLUS AFFINIS Bingham. Male; female. Male :—Length, 5 mm. Head lenticular; clypeus triangular, deeply incised anteriorly; front below the antenne slightly raised, smooth and shining; cheeks, face and vertex finely but somewhat obsoletely longitudinally striate; scape of antenne short, smooth and shining; flagellum finely granulose, pilose, the hairs very short, the basal two joints simple, the rest except the apical joint with long slightly clavate rami on each side, two to each joint, apex distinctly incrassate. Thorax densely and somewhat coarsely punctured; scutellum conically produced, the apex terminating in two short teeth; at base a transverse series of fovee or large shallow punctures; post- scutellum and median segment very coarsely cribate, the latter with two or three irregular more or less vertical carine; wings hyaline and iridescent; legs slender. Abdomen smooth and shining, its petiole opaque grannlose. Mandibles, tibia and tarsi pale yellowish-brown; coxe and femora dark blue or black; antenne dark reddish brown; head, thorax anteriorly, scutellum and median segment, metallic green with in certain lights a bronze tint; middle of thorax above entirely coppery bronze; petiole and abdomen dark metallic blue. The female differs from the male as follows: Clypeus not incised; antennz moniliform, the joints simple not provided with lateral rami; scutellum not bidentate at apex, at base a deep, broad transverse sulcation within which is situated the transverse series of fovex sv conspicuous in the male; petiole of abdomen much shorter. Abdomen as in the male. Antenna paler, head and thorax more bronze than green; abdomen a darker blue. Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. July 30, 1902. Also in March and October. Types: In the Hope Department; cotypes in British Museum of Natural History. Superficially this form closely resembles the type of the genus (R. volusus, Walker) but besides other points of difference it is easily separable by the sculpture of the thorax which in volusus has the humeral angles of the thorax conspicuously smooth and shining, not coarsely punctured and no carinew on the median segment. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, X.—GIRAULT. 235 F. P. Dodd (Transactions Entomological Society of London, May 29, 1906, p. 123) states: ‘‘These bright little Chalcidide I have bred frequently from the pupe# of the fine long-jawed ant Odontomachus sp., several sometimes coming from the one cocoon Bi 1 worker ant identified by Prof. Forel as Odontomachus ruficeps, Sm., subsp. coriarius Mayr saws? Genus SCHIZASPIDIA Westwood. 1. SCHIZASPIDIA MURRAYI Kirby. Male. Schizaspidia murrayi Kirby, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., IIT, p. 403, ¢ (1884). Australia. Tongatabu. 2. SCHIZASPIDIA RUDIS Westwood. Schizaspidia rudis Westwood, Thesaur. Ent. Oxon., p. 152 (1874). Australia. 8. SCHIZASPIDIA DODDI Bingham. Male. Length, 5 mm. Mandibles sickle-shaped with three teeth, apical tooth long acute, two small teeth on the inner margin; clypeus short quadrate with the cheeks and face below the base of the antenne transversely striate, the strie curving round upwards and becoming vertical behind and between the eyes, vertex longitudinally striate; scape of antenne smooth, flagellum finely granulose, first joint simple, rounded, remaining joints throwing outward comparatively short, slightly clavate rami. Thorax short and stout, densely and somewhat deeply ‘punctured; scutellum produced, elongate conical, overhanging the median segment and bearing a stout bifurcate process at apex, the points of the fork blunt, with a tooth on the inner side of each; postscutellum and median segment vertical and vertically striate the division between them well marked. Abdomen petiolate, petiole shorter than the rest of the abdomen which is subobconically depressed above and broadly and bluntly rounded posteriorly. Mandibles, scape of antenne and coxe, femora, tibi# and tarsi of the legs pale yellowish brown; flagellum darker brown; head and thorax rich golden bronze with in certain lights scattered green and purple points; wings hyaline iridescent; abdomen shining bronze-brown. Expanse, 12 mm. Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. January, 1903. Type: Hope Department. F. P. Dodd (place cited above) states: ‘‘. . . isa great rarity and the only specimen I have bred from several lots of pupe of a large ant, Camponotus sp.’’ 4. SCHIZASPIDIA QUINQUEGUTTATA new species. Male :—Length, 5.30 mm. Running to Schizaspidia Westwood but the antenne only 12-jointed, the petiole of the abdomen very long and slender, distinctly longer than the body of the abdomen. Scutellum armed with a short prong (or two short, stout teeth) whose base is quadrate and longer than the arms or teeth, the whole less than half the length of the scutellum. Head, propodeum except latero-cephalad, metapleurum, mesopleurum except dorsad, venter of meso- and meta- thorax; coxe (also venter of prothorax cephalad of cox), teeth (but not the base) of the scutellar prong; a large hive-shaped spot at cephalic margin of scutum at meson, reaching to middle (and proceeding ventrad a short distance on to face of the exceedingly short pronotum) ; an oblique, ovate spot a little caudad of the middle on each parapside and a transverse elliptical spot on each axilla, dark metallic purple with a bronze reflection. Petiole and legs white, the former broadly ringed with fuscous distad of middle. Rest of body yellow brown but the dorsum of abdomen jet black. Fore wing hyaline but with a distinct sooty spot appended from the end of the venation about the stigmal vein. Mandibles as in Orasema 236 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Cameron. Parapsidal furrows straight, meeting at apex. Head finely, circularly striate, the thorax foveate-punctate. Antenne 12-jointed, no ring-joint; scape very short, twice the length of the very short pedicel which is longer than wide; no distinct club. Funicle 1 distinctly the longest, the following joints all more or less equal, gradually shortening, a little more than half the length of 1 which is elongate. From one male captured in jungle, January 18, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3288, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on a slide. GENUS CHALCUROIDES Girault. Agreeing with Chalcurella Girault but the scutellum terminating in a minute, upturned spinelike plate nearly as in Lpimetagea Girault and the antenne bear paired branches after the fifth funicle joint, the first five funicle joints with single branches from opposite sides alternately. Joints 2-5 short, joint 1 as long as a third or more of the long club, the funicle joints lengthening after the fifth; pedicel very short; twelve joints, no ring-joint. Scutellum with a median groove. Mandibles with one and two teeth within, respectively. 1. CHALCUROIDES VERSICOLOR Girault. Male. Genotype. Length, 3.85 mm. Metallic green, the axille and rest of thorax distad of them, purple, the abdomen blue, the long petiole greenish and roughened like the thorax; face bluish about the antenna, striate; antenne black (submetallic); wings hyaline, the venation brown. Legs dark, submetallic, the knees, tips of tibiz and tarsi brownish. Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. Parasitic upon Myrmecia species. Type: No. 1.1352, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, tag and slide. GENUS CHALCUROIDELLA Girault. Like Chalcurella Girault but the antenna with paired branches after the third funicle joint and thus like those of Chalcuroides but the third funicle joint bears a shortened second branch which is a fifth or less the length of its opposite or any of the branches; twelve antennal joints, no ring-joint, all the funicle joints with branches. Mandibles as in Orasema. 1. CHALCUROIDELLA ORIENTALIS Girault. Male. Genotype. Length, 3.20 mm. Dark metallic purple, the wings hyaline, the branches of the antenna dark chocolate brown; coxe and femora concolorous, the cephalic femora less concolorous, the rest of the legs brown; abdomen except petiole and base, dark chocolate brown, venation black. Rugosely punctate, the head striate weakly, glabrous ventral half of face. Propodeum with a distinct lateral groove, otherwise convex, the scutellum with a very obscure median groove. First funicle joint as long as the next three combined, the club joint long, capitate, without branches, straight and longest. From laterdl aspect scutellam with two upturned teeth in a longitudinal line near or on the apex. Petiole aciculated, dark greenish; posterior coxee shining, very dark. Corrected description from types. Habitat: Gordonyale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, April 15, 1912. Types: No. Hy 3289, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two males on tags (two pins), a head on a slide. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, X—GIRAULT. 237 GENUS CHALCURELLOIDES Girault. Like Chalcurella Girault but the scutellum as seen from beneath is faintly bidentate (or with a short emarginate plate) and the antenne bear paired branches after the fourth segment, the first, second and fourth funicle joints with a single, rather long branch from the same side, the third joint with a very short branch; first funicle joint moderately long. Propodeum with a groove on each side, the median groove of scutellum subobsolete. Wings hyaline. Antenne 12-jointed. Also somewhat like Chalcuroides. No ring-joint. Mandibles as in Orasema. 1. CHALCURELLOIDES HYALINUS Girault. Male. Genotype. Length, 4 mm. 4Eneous or coppery green, the propodeum green, also the abdomen and its petiole, the latter alutaceous, the abdomen and the posterior cox shining and smooth. Legs dark brown, the coxe, posterior femora and proximal half of intermediate femora (more or less) concolorous with the body; cephalic femur subfuscous. Antenne concolorous, suffused lightly with brownish. Thorax rugosely punctate, the head finely striate. First single branch of antennze shorter than the other two long ones. Venation nearly black. Apex of abdomen yellowish brown. Seutellum rugoso-punectate. Petiole twice the length of the hind coxe. Type re-examined. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, April 16, 1913. Type: No. Hy 8290, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the male on a tag, the head on a slide. GENUS THORACANTHA Latreille. 1. THORACANTHA EMERSONI new species. Male. Length, 3.75 mm. Metallic darkish green with purplish reflections, the long abdominal petiole concolorous, the abdomen brick red; femora fuscous, the tibiw lighter, the tarsi still somewhat paler; antenne dark brown (chocolate), their branches the same color; face longitudinally striate but smooth below the antenne, on each side with a groove leading from each bulla to the mouth. Seutellum with an obscure median groove, thickly prolonged somewhat at end, then terminating in a prong like the two arms of a tuning-fork. Antenne 12-jointed, with nine branches on the nine joints of the funicle, the single club joint as long as the scape. Mandibles with one and two teeth within respectively. Mesoscutum with the hind angles subacute. Thorax rugulose and with short pilosity, the rugulosity transverse on scutum, longitudinal on scutellum. Petiole about twice the length of the hind coxe. The antenne of this species are 12-jointed while those of Thoracantha are 11-jointed; also the scutellar processes seem quite different but for the present the species is placed here. Described from three males captured by sweeping foliage and grass in a forest, April 13, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3291, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a male on a tag. The species is respectfully dedicated to R. W. Emerson. Rightly, a study of this family should be based upon large series of reared specimens, since general collecting yields but very few females. For this reason, a large number of forms have been left undescribed. A most unsatisfactory state of affairs. However, the family needs intensive study over a comparatively long period of time. All the species seem to be parasitic upon the larve or pupe of ants. 238 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA—XI.* The Family Eurytomide with Description of New Genera and Species. By A. A. GIRAULT. Famity EURYTOMID. Tuis is doubtless the most difficult family of the whole complex and the genera need eareful revision. EURYTOMINI. GENUS EURYTOMA lMlliger.+ Synonym: Bephratella Girault. 1. EURYTOMA PIDYTES Walker. Male and female. Walker, 1839, p. 2. “© Mas et Fem. Altra, antennae nigrae, pedes nigri fulvo cincti, alae limpidae. Mas et Fem.—Atra: oculi et ocelli rufi: antenne nigre: mari pedes fulvi; cox nigre; tarsi apice fusci; meso- et metapedum femora nigra, tibiae piceo-cinctae: fem. pedes obscuriores; tibiae plerumque nigrae: alae limpidae; squamulae piceae; nervi picei, basi pallidiores. (Corp. long. lin. %—%%4; alar. lin. 144—12). Hobart Town, Van Dieman’s Land; and in March at King George’s Sound, Australia. Fem.—Corpus convexum, longum, sublineare, fere cylindricum, obscurum, punctatum, paree hirtum: caput transversum, breve, thoracis latitudine: antennae clavatae, graciles, thorace paullo breviores; articulus lus gracilis, sublinearis: petiolus brevis: abdomen longiovatum, 3 subcompressum, nitens, laeve, fere glabrum, apice acuminatum, thorace vix brevius: segmenta subaequalia: alae mediocres.’’ 2. EURYTOMA TELLIS Walker. Female. Walker, 1839, p. 2. “Wem. Atra, antennae nigrae basi fulvae aut piceae, pedes nigri fulvo-cincti, tarsi flavi, alae sublimpidae. Atra, pilis albis vestita: oculi et ocelli rufi: antennae nigrae; articulus lus fulvus, apice piceus; 2us apice fulvus: oviductus fulvus: pedes nigri; trochanters fulvi, tibiae piceae, basi et apice fulvae; tarsi flavi, apice fusci; protarsi fulvi: alae sublimpidae; squamulae piceae; nervi picei, basi pallidores. (Corp. long. lin. 1; alar. lin. 1%.) Var. .—Antennis articulus lus piceus. Sydney, New South Wales. * Contribution No. 34, Entomological Laboratory, Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, Bundaberg, Queensland. } For additional descriptive details, see table of species. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI.—GIRAULT. 239 Fem.—Corpus convexum, sublineare, punctatum, obscurum, parce hirtum: caput thorace vix latius: antennae clavatae, robustae, pilosae, thorace breviores; articulus lus gracilis, sublinearis; 2us longicyathiformis; 3us et 4us brevissimi; 5us et sequentes breves, usque ad 9um latescentes; clava longiconica, articulo 90 latior et plus dulpo longior: petiolus brevis: abdomen ovatum, subcompressum, nitens, laeve, fere glabrum, thorace non longius; segmentum jum maximum, 2um et sequentia brevissima: alae mediocres.’’ 8. EURYTOMA ARETHEAS Walker. Male and female. Walker, 1839, p. 3. “‘Mas et Fem. Atra, antennae nigrae, pedes nigri, tarsi fulvi, alae limpidae. Atra: oculi et ocelli rufi: antennae nigrae: pedes nigri; trochanteres picei; genua fulva; tibiae apice fulvae; tarsi fulvi; propodeum tibiae fulvae, tarsi obscuriores: alae limpidae; squamulae piceae; nervi proalis picei, metalis fusci. (Corp. long. lin. %—1; alar. lin. 14—114). March, King George’s Sound, Australia. Mas.—Corpus convexum, sublineare, punctatum, obscurum, parce hirtum: caput thorace vix latius: antennae graciles, noniliformes, verticillato-pilose, thorace paullo longiores: petiolus sat longus: abdomen ovatum, compressum, nitens, laeve, fere glabrum, thorace brevius et angustius: alae latae.’’ 4. EURYTOMA ELEUTHER Walker. Male. Walker, 1839, pp. 3-4. “‘Mas. Atra, antennae nigrae apice piceae, pedes fulvi piceo et fusco cincti, alae limpidae. Mas.—Atra: oculi et ocelli rufi: antennae nigrae, apice piceae: pedes fulvi; coxae piceae; femora picea, apice fulva; meso- et metatibiae fusco cinetae; protarsi fusci: alae limpidae; squamulae piceae; proalis nervi picei, metalis fusci. (Corp. long. lin. 4/5; alar. lita WU) Hobart Town, Van Dieman’s Land; and in March at King George’s Sound, Australia. Fem.—Corpus longum, angustum, cylindricum, punctatum, parum nitens, parce hirtum: caput thorace paullo latius: antennae subclavatae, graciles, corpore breviores: petiolus brevis: abdomen fusiforme, nitens, laeve, fere glabrum, thorace vix brevius: alae angustae.’’ 5. EURYTOMA AUSTRALIENSIS Ashmead. Female. Length, 2.4 mm. . ‘*Black and similar in structure to HL. studiosa Say, clothed with a sparse white pubescence. Antenne wholly black; tegule, tips of femora, tibiw, except a subfuscous median blotch outwardly and all tarsi honey-yellow. Pedicel small, obconic, very little longer than thick and smaller than the first joint of funicle; funicle 5-jointed, the joints nearly equal in size, submoniliform; club 3-jointed, as long as last three joints of funicle united. Wings hyaline, venation brown, the subcostal vein yellowish toward base. Hind coxe out- wardly toward base shagreened. Abdomen conic-ovate, smooth and polished except the short petiole, which is rather coarsely shagreened; fifth dorsal segment longer than second and third united.’’ Habitat: Australia. Type: No. 48838, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 6. EURYTOMA EUCALYPTI Ashmead. Male and female. Length, 2.6 to 3 mm. Black; anterior angles of pronotum, as seen from side, with a yellowish spot, seen from above, invisible; antennz, except apex of scape and base of pedicel which are black; mandibles, tegule and legs, except hind coxe and middle of hind femora, ferrugineous or brownish yellow; 240 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. wings hyaline, costal vein yellow, marginal, stigmal and postmarginal veins brown-black, the latter subpetiolate, ending in a large rounded stigma with an uncus. Vertex of head and thorax above clothed with a rufous pubescence, that on the face, sides of thorax and metapleura white or silvery white. Funicle 5-jointed, the joints fluted and a little wider than long. Sides of thorax and parapsides broadly along sutures opaque and coriaceous. Marginal and postmarginal veins. about of an equal length but the former stout, the latter acuminate; stigmal vein very short, ending in a large rounded stigma as in Megastigmus, with an uncus. Abdomen ovate and except segments 6 and 7, smooth, highly polished; the petiole which is hardly longer than thick and segments 6 and 7 finely rugulose or shagreened; fourth body segment very long, occupying fully half the whole surface of the abdomen. The male measures from 2 to 2.4 mm. and agrees with the female except in its antennal - and abdominal characters; joints of funicle excised and petiolate at apex, the basal portion of the joints with whorled hairs; basal part of first joimt nearly twice as long as thick, basal part of the following being quadrate or nearly so; abdomen with petiole four times as long as thick, shagreened and with a grooved line down centre; body subglobose, segments subequal; hind cox opaque, coriaceous. Habitat: Uralla, New South Wales. From galls on Eucalyptus. Type: No. 4884, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 7. EURYTOMA BINOTATA Ashmead. Female. Length, 3.5 mm. to 5 mm. Black, clothed with a whitish pubescence; pronotum with two oblong oval yellow spots, one on each anterior angle and both distinctly visible from above; scape of antenna, pedicel at apex and legs except coxe and a blotch on the middle of femora above, pale ferruginous; rest of antenne and the coxe black. Wings hyaline, venation brown, the marginal vein a little longer than the postmarginal; stigmal vein normal, very nearly as long as the postmarginal. Head and thorax closely umbilicately punctate; funicle joints a little longer than thick; abdomen conic-ovate, subsessile, a little longer than head and thorax united, acutely pointed at apex, the sides of segments 4 to 7 ciliate with white hairs, the fourth segment and beyond very delicately shagreened at sides. Habitat: Sydney, New South Wales. From galls on the turpentine tree. Type: No. 4884, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 8. EURYTOMA BRACHYSCELIDIS Cameron. Male and female. ‘« Black, covered with whitish pubescence; trochanters, apex of femora, tibie and tarsi pale testaceous, oral region and almost the upper half of the propleure rufo-testaceous, under side of flagellum fuscous; the latter densely covered with a microscopic white pile; wings hyaline, nervures dark fuscous. The male has the face, clypeus, the lewer orbits and the malar Space testaceous. 9, Q, length, 1.5—2.5 mm. Stowell, Victoria; bred from coccid (apiomorpha) galls on Hucalyptus sp. (C. Daly). Antennz in female short, thick, the second joint twice longer than wide, becoming gradually widened towards the apex; scape distinctly narrower than it, the other joints wider than it is long, the last conical, the narrowed parts of the joints in the male testaceous; the hairs are stiff and longer than the joints. Marginal nervure as long as the postmarginal and thicker than it; stigmal shorter than the latter, the lower thickened part semicircular, emitting a branch from the apical basal part. Parapsidal furrows shallow but distinct. Abdomen smooth and shining, the apical segments fringed with white hair. This is probably a variable species. The face in the female may be broadly testaceous below. The fourth abdominal segment occupies the greater part of the abdomen. The testaceous mark on the pronotum varies in size; it is not visible from above. The tarsi may AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI.—GIRAULT. 24.1 be infuseated to a greater or less extent in the middle. There is no distinct club on the antennz in the female, all the joints being of equal width to the base of the last. The abdomen is distinctly shorter than the thorax; it is almost sessile, the petiole being very short.’’ 9. EURYTOMA CLELANDI Cameron. Female. Length, 2 mm. Black; oral region, underside of antennal scape, lower half of the upper inner orbits, the upper part gradually narrowed, malar space, mandibles, palpi and propleure entirely, rufo- testaceous; legs of a paler testaceous color, the four anterior femora slightly, posterior broadly, black above; wings hyaline, nervures black behind, testaceous in front; marginal vein distinctly longer and thicker than the postmarginal; the stigmal as long as the latter, its thickened apex obliquely narrowed from the base and apex to the centre, the two parts being of equal size; it has no projection. The second joint of the antenne is longer than wide and is distinctly narrower thar the third, which is almost twice its length and distinctly wider than it; it is twice longer than wide; the other joints shorter, wider than long. The pubescence is white and dense; it is much longer on the metanotum. Head and thorax coriaceous, the pro- and mesonotum more or less transversely striated; the mesopleure finely, closely, obliquely striated; the metapleure: much more closely striated. Parapsidal furrows straight, oblique, distinct. There is an aciculated line down the middle of the scutellum. The ventral surface of abdomen and the lower half of its side are testaceous. Habitat: West Australia. Type: Query. This species belongs properly to Xanthosoma. 10. EURYTOMA TASMANICA Cameron. Male and female. ‘* Black; flagellum of antenna, including the pedicel, testaceous; legs yellowish testaceous, paler than the antennze; coxw and hinder femora (more broadly in male than in female) black; wings hyaline, the nervures pale testaceous. Mandibles in both sexes rufo- testaceous, their teeth black; in the female there is a longish conical mark on either side of the clypeus; in the male this mark extends slightly obliquely up on either side of the centre of the face to near the antenne, the clypeus being entirely rufo-testaceous. The antenne in the male are black, except the pedicel and the narrowed parts of the flagellar joints are testaceous; the hairs are stiff, black and longer than the joints. Pubescence of head, thorax and legs white, moderately dense. Abdominal petiole in male as long as hind coxe. Male and female, length, 2 mm. Launceston, Tasmania (F. M. Littler). Head above opaque, the face more shining. Thorax aciculated, pronotum sparsely, umbilicately punctate. Basal third of mesonotum finely, closely, transversely striated; the rest strongly aciculated, sparsely punctured, the scutellum finely, closely punctured and with some scattered punctures. Pro- and base of mesopleure opaque, alutaceous; the apex of the latter finely, closely reticulated. Metapleure finely rugose, opaque. Pedicel of antennze in female twice longer than wide, the second joint roundly narrowed at base, as long as wide, the others to the club wider than long. Abdomen very smooth and polished, the petiole in female short; fifth segment much longer than the others, fully one-half the total length of the body. Stigmal branch with the knob longish, semicircular, projecting at the apex above.’’ 11. EURYTOMA XANTHERELLA new species. Female. Length, 2.20 mm. Honey yellow, the wings hyaline, the venation nearly black; the abdominal petiole, base of abdomen rather broadly along the meson for some distance and tip of ovipositor (valves) fuscous, the flagellum dusky yellowish; scape and legs concolorous. Marginal vein nearly twice Q 242 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. the length of the stigmal. Propodeum with a median channel. Mandibles tridentate; two tibial spurs on hind legs. First funicle joint longer than wide, the remaining four subglobate but still a little longer than wide. First club joint subquadrate. Abdomen glabrous, the petiole over twice longer than wide. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, June 16, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3220, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head and hind legs on a slide with type Atoposoma lanei. 12. EURYTOMA NELSONIA new species. Female. Length, 2.45 mm. Opaque black, the abdomen except the blackish median line at proximal third or more and extreme tip, brown; legs honey yellow, the tarsi paler; antennse dusky brown, the first three funicle joints cylindrical oval, subequal, the remaining two somewhat shorter; first club joint subquadrate, shorter than the second. Abdomen glabrous, the petiole long, the fifth segment longer than wide, from lateral aspect, the abdomen long ovate. Mandibles tridentate. The club is only 2-jointed. Scutum uniformly punctate, the punctures of thorax not deep. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, June 16, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3221, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a slide with slide type of Elasmus pallidicornis. 18. EURYTOMA FLAVITEGULA new species. Female. Length, 2.30 mm. Black and pubescent, the legs reddish brown including the cox, the tegule yellow, the fifth abdominal segment reddish, except at proximal third above (and also venter of 2-4); the tips of tibiz# and tarsi lemon yellow; wings hyaline, the venation pale yellow. Antenne yellow-brown, the distal two funicle joints wider than long, the first funicle joint quadrate, longer than the pedicel. Disk of propodeum concave. Segments 4-6 of abdomen delicately scaly cephalad and nearly all of segment 6. Pro- and mesopleura punctate, the latter longi- tudinally striate caudad. Posterior margin of pronotum straight, the parapsidal furrows complete, the antenne 10-jointed with one ring-joint, the funicle 5-jointed. Abdomen and venation as in Hurytoma except that the marginal vein is a little thickened and only slightly longer than the stigmal which is subequal to the postmarginal. Posterior tibia with two spurs. Vronotum nearly as long as the scutum. Umbilicately punctate uniformly, the punctures shallow. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Forest, December 27, 1912. Type: No. Hy 222, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head and a hind leg on a slide. 14. EURYTOMA LINCOLNI Girault. Female. Length, 2.50 mm. Black, punctate, the abdomen reddish except at proximal third dorsad, the wings hyaline, the flagellum (including pedicel) black, the scape brownish at extreme base; legs except coxe, red-brownish, paler at the tarsi; petiole of the abdomen black. Postmarginal vein slightly longer than the stigmal. Tegule brown. Funicle joints ovate, the first longest, much larger than the pedicel. Habitat: Port Lincoln, South Australia. Type: No. I.1262, South Australian Museum. Tag and slide. 15. EURYTOMA MAZZINII Girault. Female. Length, 1.80 mm. Robust. Black, the head and thorax with short, greyish pubescence; abdomen ventro- meso-proximad brownish; coxee and femora concolorous, tibie and tarsi reddish brown, also AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI—GIRAULT. 243 the knees, most of the distal half of intermediate femora and all of the scape. Antenne black, 11-jointed, the club 3-jointed, one ring-joint; joint 1 of funicle longest, ring-joint yellow. Wings hyaline, the postmarginal vein nearly as long as the marginal, slightly longer than the stigmal. Habitat: Mount Tambourine, Queensland. Type: No. I, 1350, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. Tag and slide. 16. EURYTOMA CARLYLEI new species. Female :—Length, 2.65 mm. Black, the wings hyaline, the tegulw, legs, segment 5 of abdomen (except along dorsum at meson), side of segment 6 and the scape, honey yellow. Abdominal petiole slender, distinctly much longer than wide. Marginal vein long for the genus, about one and three quarter times the length of the stigmal which is distinctly shorter than the postmarginal. Funicle 1 a little over half the length of the scape (excluding bulla). Propodeum with a median line of punctures which do not form a channel, the surface uniformly coarsely umbilicately punctate, or like the rest of the thorax and the head; abdomen polished, finely scaly near anterior margins dorsad of segment 5, segments 6 and 7 wholly scaly dorsad, the petiole densely shagreened. Scape black at tip above. Last funicle joint oval; club only 2-jointed, the antenne 10-jointed, five funicle joints; joint 1 of club a little wider than long, a little over half the length of the second. Abdomen greatly convexed above, segment 5 the longest. Described from one female captured by sweeping along edge of jungle, May 18, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Dedicated to Thomas Carlyle. Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3223, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag, an antenna and a fore leg on a slide. 17. EURYTOMA PICUS Girault. Female. Length, 2.85 mm. Robust. Black, the legs, tegule and scape rich reddish brown, the hind coxe black, the wings hyaline; flagellum brownish yellow; knees and tips of tibie yellow. Propodeum with a rather broad median groove. Venation pale; postmarginal and stigmal veins subequal. Scape obelavate; pedicel a little shorter than funicle 1 which is longest of the funicle, much longer than wide, about twice the length of funicle 5 which is somewhat wider than long, funicle 4 a little longer than wide, funicle 2 subequal to the pedicel. Club with three distinet apparent joints, the antenne 11-jointed. Mandibles tridentate. Hind tibi# with two spurs. Pronotum with a more or less distinct, obtuse median carina. Punctuation not quite as dense as usual, the cephalic part of scutum densely transversely lineolated. Prothorax marked as in acacie. Segment 5 of abdomen plainly longest; tip of valves of ovipositor brown. Abdomen glabrous but distal segment dorsad plainly scaly. Type re-examined. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Reared from Hucalyptus twigs, October 16, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3224, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Tag and slide. 18. EURYTOMA QUEENSLANDENSIS Girault. Female; male. Length, 2.50 mm. Black, the abdomen reddish except above at proximal third (segments 2 to 4); face, cheeks and mesal margin of eye on vertex lemon yellow (vertex and scrobes black) as is also the lateral aspect of the pronotum; tegule and legs fuscous, the tarsi paler. Wings hyaline, the venation blackish. Marginal vein distinctly longer than both the stigmal and postmarginal. Posterior coxe black laterad and the abdominal petiole. Scape lemon yellow, black at tip, the pedicel black, yellow at tip, the rest of the antenne black. Segment 5 of abdomen wider than long (cephalo-caudad), the abdominal segments polygonally reticulated. Pubescence 244 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. conspicuous only on the antennz. A more or less obscure brownish area in the disk of eaclr axilla. Caudal tibia with two. spurs. Antenne with one (yellow) ring-joint, five funicle joints, the first the longest but yet only somewhat longer than broad; 2 and 3 subequal, a little shorter, subglobose, as long as the pedicel but much larger; remaining two joints a little wider than long. The male is the same but the abdomen is nearly all black, reddish beneath and very small, ovate, its petiole longer. Joints of funicle petiolate and clothed with long hairs, the. distal club joint and the petioles of the funicle yellowish. Scape black. A round brown spot on each side of the meson just ventrad of the occipital margin of vertex; disk of propodeum reddish. Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Reared from galls. Type: No. Hy 3225, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Now reduced to two females on a tag. This is a somewhat variable species; the upper apex of the eye may be margined with brown. The males vary considerably: All of the venter and sides of abdomen may be yellowish, the two spots near the occipital margin of the head confluent, the lateral portions of the axille- reddish and the scape yellow; coxe concolorous with legs, sides of thorax yellow. The abdominal petiole in this sex may be wholly black or else reddish. 19. EURYTOMA NIGRELLA new species. Female. The same as queenslandensis but the abdomen and scape black, the middle of the sides: of the former and along the venter obscurely reddish brown; tip of pedicel and ring-joint lemon yellow, the face yellow only beneath the antennal bulbs. Pronotum with a triangular yellowish spot in the lateral aspect at cephalic’: margin. Legs pale yellowish except caudal coxe. Brisbane, Queensland. From galls with queenslandensis. Type: Lost. 20. EURYTOMA PATRUELIS new species. Female. Identical with queenslandensis but the hind coxe are all yellowish (instead of being black on each side) and in the pair of median grooves on the propodeum there are three fovew, the third (caudal) as long as the other two combined (in queenslandensis the third fovea is distinctly shorter than the other two combined). Also the sculpture on the propodeum, just Jaterad of the middle and caudo-laterad of the median grooves is finer in this species. The umbilicate punctures in all the forms are not confluent, the space between them scaly reticulate; also the axilla are all black, the margins of the eyes narrowly yellow. Data as. with quadriguttatus. The petiole is much longer than wide in H. wantherclla and LE. nelsonia but in patruelis: it is somewhat shorter. 21. EURYTOMA QUADRIGUTTATUS new species. Female. The same as the preceding but the lemon yellow on propleurum advances onto the pronotum and is plainly visible from above, there are two orange yellow dots in the upper occiput mesad and a more or less obscure yellowish spot on propodeum centrally on each wing. Propodeum at caudal half on each side of median channel somewhat more distinctly punctulate. The males of both species have the abdomen wholly black and the two dots on the upper occiput confluent. Compared with types of the allied form. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Reared from galls on forest trees, September, 1913 (E. J. Girault). Types: No. Hy 3226, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a pair on a tag with two female types of patruelis. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI.—GIRAULT. 245 22. EURYTOMA ACACIZ Girault. Female; male. Length, 3.10 mm. Black, punctate, the wings hyaline; a small pale yellowish area on the lateral aspect. of the prothorax, cephalad; legs black, the trochanters, knees, tibiz and tarsi dark brown, the posterior tibie black centrally. Distal funicle joint and club brownish. Pedicel globular, first funicle joint one and a third times longer than wide, the distal joint subquadrate. Head and thorax pubescent. Petiole of abdomen rugulose. Postmarginal and stigmal veins subequal. The male measures 3 mm. and is the same but the first joint of the antennal fnniele nearly as long as the scape, the pedicels of the joints brownish; antenne 10-jointed, the thick hairs brownish and shorter than the diameter of any of the joints. Habitat: Victoria. From eynipid galls on Acacia longifolia. Types: No. Hy 3227, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one male, two females on a ecard. 23. EURYTOMA SECUNDA new species. Female :—Length, 3 mm. In my table (if the pale yellow center of the cephalic margin of propleurum is ignored) runs to pyrrhocerus Crawford but the antenne are wholly black, the marginal vein distinctly somewhat longer than the postmarginal, funicle 5 is subquadrate, the median channel of propodeum is confused toward tip, the mesopleura densely punctulate along cephalic half, limited caudad by a line of larger punctures, between these and the punctulate portion with a small smooth central area and dorsad with short, oblique sulci, ventrad finely punctulate (the part caudad of the densely punctulate area—except the small triangular ventral portion which belongs to the caudal part—is the mesopleurum); thorax cephalad of the punctulate mesopleurum, umbilicately punctate but the propleurum densely scaly. Abdomen glabrous, segment 4 with a trace of sculpture cephalad, 6 and 7 finely scaly. Petiole of abdomen somewhat longer than wide. Mandibles tridentate. Tips of tibiz and tarsi white, the trochanters and tibia reddish brown. Hind tibiae with two spurs. Pedicel round; funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide. Thoracic punctures shallow. Postmarginal vein a little longer than the stigmal. The male has the caudal tibiew black except at tips broadly, the petiole over twice longer than wide; the male antennew are 10-jointed, the club distinctly 3-jointed, one ring-joint; distal three funicle joints quadrate, 1 longer, all foliaceously produced along one side, the scape also but suddenly narrowed at tip. Club at tip with a minute fourth joint but this is not articulated. In the table, this species will run to acaci@ from which it differs in having all the tibize reddish brown. Compared with type acacie. From many specimens of both sexes reared from a gall, May, 1914 (H. Hacker) and from the collections of the Queensland Museum. Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: None designated. 24. EURYTOMA NYMPHA (Girault). Female. Bephratella nympha Girault. Genotype. Length, 3.830 mm. Bright orange yellow, the dorsum of abdomen with four black stripes across it, the fourth stripe bow-shaped; caudad of it a very small cross dash of dusky at the meson. Median line of propodeum at base with a short smooth groove, the rest of the concave disk roughened nearly as much as the seutum. Ocellar area black. Tip of ovipositor, the base of the scrobes and the dorsal surface of the pedicel black. Wings hyaline. Legs pale yellow, the antennz orange yellow, joint 1 of funicle a little over two thirds the length of the scape (excluding bulla). Marginal vein thickened, about twice longer than broad, the stigmal less than half its length, a little shorter than the postmarginal. Habitat: Gordonvale (type) and Cooktown, Queensland. Jungle. Type: No. Hy 38229, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Tag and slide. 246 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 25. EURYTOMA PULCHRA (Girault.) Female. Bephratella pulchra Girault. Length, 3.15 mm. The same as the preceding but the head with the center of the vertex and upper occiput, median line of pronotum (faintly), a rectangular area at caudal margin mesad of pronotum, somewhat over the cephalic third of scutum (except laterad), median line of latter faintly and a triangular spot connecting with it at apex, the inner caudal corners of each parapside and a small spot at the inner cephalic corner of each, the axille, the caudal and cephalic margins of scutellum rather broadly, the scrobicular cavity and the median line of propodeum rather broadly, black. First two funicle joints reddish brown. Abdomen, venation and antenne about as in nympha. Habitat: Gordonvale (type) and Cooktown. Queensland. Jungle. Type: No. Hy 3230, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Tag and slide. A female of this species was captured with one of nympha when sweeping in jungle, March 6, 1914 at Cooktown. One of nympha, June 25, type habitat. 26. EURYTOMA SPECIOSA new species. Female. Like pulchra but no black on propodeum, the axille only partly black at mesal apex while the scutum is yellow with two obscure dark spots on it cephalad, one on each side of the meson; the median line of pronotum not obscurely dusky; the black margins of scutellum much shorter. Parapsides all yellow and pronotum except center of face and a spot at meson of caudal margin. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, August 1, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3231, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. 27. EURYTOMA DUMASI new species. Female. Length, 2.90 mm. Black, the antenne (except club and pedicel above) and femora reddish brown; rest of legs (except the concolorous cox) pallid yellowish. Wings hyaline, the marginal vein not thickened, only slightly longer than the slender stigmal. Propodeum with a median channel; funicle joints 2 and 3 subelongate, subequal, each only a fourth shorter than 1; club 2-jointed (though apparently three), the distal joint the longer; funicle 5-jointed. Segment 5 of abdomen occupying not quite half the surface. Funicle 5 a little longer than wide, 1 twice longer than wide. Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. Forest, January 29, 1913. Type: No. Hy 38232, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; a slide with appendages. 28. EURYTOMA RUBRIVENTRIS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Female. Length, 4.10 mm. Black and punctate, the fifth and sixth abdominal segments blood red (except meso- cephalo-dorsad on segment 5); antennal scape suffused with reddish, ring-joint yellow, rest of antenne black; tegule dusky yellow, cox black; trochanters, femora and tibie reddish brown; tarsi, tips of tibia and knees pale lemon yellow. Wings hyaline, the venation golden yellow- Marginal vein distinctly longer than stigmal, the postmarginal as long as the stigmal. Thorax with greyish pubescence. Pedicel no longer than wide; funicle joint 1 distinctly longer than the pedicel, one half longer than wide, 2-4 somewhat shorter, 5 as wide as long. Club as long as the two preceding joints combined. Propodeum with a broad ovate median impression whose interior is finely rugulose; rest of propodeum rugoso-punetate, the impression more or less distinctly earinated along its sides. Habitat: Gordonvale, Queensland, on foliage of Melaleuca, October 15, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3233, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a slide. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI—GIRAULT. 247 29. EURYTOMA NIGRIPES new species. Female. Length, 3.30 mm. Black; knees, tarsi, anterior tibia and antennal scape reddish brown. Wings hyaline, the venation blackish. Marginal vein not distinctly thickened, fully four times as long as wide; stigmal vein two thirds the length of the marginal; postmarginal slightly longer than stigmal. Abdomen pointed at apex, no longer than the thorax; fifth segment the longest, occupying nearly one third of the surface. Disk of propodeum concave. Antenne 10-jointed, one ring-joint, five funicle joints and a 2-jointed club. Funicle joint 1 about two thirds the length of scape (excluding bulla), over twice as long as wide, 2-5 gradually shortening, the fifth somewhat longer than wide; club as long as scape, the first club joint subequal to funicle 5, second club joint one half longer than the first. Posterior tibize with two spurs. Scape black toward tip. Habitat: Victoria. Labelled ‘‘ 34.’’ Types: In the National Museum, Victoria, two females on a tag; head and the hind legs on a slide. 30. EURYTOMA FUSCIPENNIS new species. Female :—2.50 mm. Black and coarsely punctate, the knees, most of cephalic tibiz and the tarsi reddish brown, the antennze wholly black. Fore wings smoky black except at base, the stigmal vein subequal to postmarginal and a little shorter than the marginal. Funicle joints cylindrical oval, the club 2-jointed, funicle 1 distinctly longer than wide, a little over half the length of the scape; pedicel small, globular, much smaller than distal funicle joint which is over a third shorter than funicle 1, subequal to 2, 3 and 4. Hind tibial spurs double. Cephalic margin of second segment of abdomen rimmed, the fifth segment much the longest. Propodeum rugose, at meson at base with a deep fovea limited laterad by a strong, oblique, short ruga and caudad by a coarse, long, transverse carina which is immediately followed by a deep declivous excavation. Secutum cephalad transversely striate. From one female captured by sweeping along the edges of jungle, November 1, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3234, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head and hind legs on a slide. 31. EURYTOMA SILVZ new species. Female :—Length, 2.75 mm. Like pulchra but the dorsal thorax black except the yellow lateral margins of sceutum and scutellum, base of the latter and two narrow oblique yellow streaks on pronotum, one on each side, obliqued in an opposite direction from the parapsidal furrows; lateral margin of parapside also yellow. Propodeum also excepted, being concolorous (yellow). The abdomen bears six cross-stripes of black (five in pulchra, the fifth small), the fourth broadest, the first three rather close together, the fifth arcuate (the fourth so in pulchra). Antenne with funicle 2 abruptly the shortest, scarcely longer than wide, funicle 1 longest, 3-5 subequal, cylindrical, distinctly longer than wide; pedicel shorter than funicle 2. Two hind tibial spurs; club 2-jointed. Pedicel, funicles 1-3 and side of club fuseous. Disk of propodeum coneave. In pulchra, funicle 2 is subequal to funicles 3-5 which are shorter than 1. The abdomen of nympha bears five stripes as in pulchra (types of pulchra and nympha re-examined). Described from one female captured January 16, 1914 by sweeping in jungle (A. P. Dodd.) Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3235, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. s - 248 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM 32. EURYTOMA SARCOPHAGA new species. Female :—Length, 3 mm. Very similar to nigripes Girault but may be distinguished at once by having funicle 1 shorter, only about half the length of the scape, the hind tibia is less broadly black between the ends, the wings are hyaline, not distinctly stained under the marginal vein, the latter is a little shorter and the coneaved basin filling the meson of the propodeum is different in sculpture having a more or less distinct median ruga running through the basin and paired cephalad. Segments 2-6 of abdomen in both species glabrous (except in nigripes 6 is very finely lined polygonally) and the head and thorax lightly downy. Hind tibiz with two spurs. Valves of ovipositor white at tip. Male:—The same except for the secondary characters, the long abdominal petiole and the lack of the median carina on the propodeal basin; also the distal half of the scape is black. Antenne 10-jointed, the scape swollen. Described from a number of specimens as follow: Thirteen females labelled ‘‘No. 22. Parasitic on psychid larve. Darwin, 10-9-13. G.F.H.’’; one female and two males labelled ‘*No. 20. Parasitic on small lepidop. larve. Darwin, 27-9-13.’’; three males and ten females labelled ‘‘No. 28. Darwin, N.T. 11-10-13. From psychid larve.’’; one male, two females labelled ‘‘No. 27. Darwin, N.T. 18-10-13,’’ and four females labelled ‘‘No. 21. Parasitic on psychid. Darwin, 1-9-13.’’ Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. Types: No. Hy 8236, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one male, three females on a tag; male and female antennz and female hind legs on a slide. 33. EURYTOMA SEMIFUSCICORNIS new species. Female :—Length, 4.10 mm. Black, the wings hyaline; knees, tibie, scape and antennae distad of funicle 1, reddish brown; distal half of tibiz and the tarsi whitish; tegule variable, reddish brown to nearly black. Venation brown yellowish, the postmarginal vein slightly longer than the stigmal, both somewhat shorter than the marginal. Hind tibial spurs double. Funicle 1 elongate, a little over half the length of the scape, 5 shortest, a little longer than wide, subequal to club 1 (which as usual is well-separated from the longer distal joint); club 2 subequal to funicle 2 or 3 both of which are distinctly shorter than 1. Pedicel smaller than any of the joints following. Propodeum punctate, with an ovate median channel which includes transverse fover; propodeum with white pubescence. Abdomen glabrous, the distal two segments finely reticulated. Thorax not noticeably pubescent. Hind coxa densely sealy. Male:—The same but smaller; antennez 10-jointed, the club 2-jointed, the two joints subequal; funicle and pedicel black, the latter very short. Funicle 5 longer than wide, shortest of the funicle. Funicle 1 about four fifths the length of the scape. Described from one male, five females labelled ‘‘37. Nat. Mus. Victoria. Out of pupa of Limacodes.’’ Habitat: Melbourne, Victoria. Types: In the National Museum, Melbourne, one male, four females minutien-mounted ; male and female antenne on a slide. 34. EURYTOMA EPICEPHALZ new species. Female :—Length, 2 mm. Jet black including the coxe and antenne; proximal half of scape or less and rest of all legs rich yellowish-brown. Wings hyaline, the marginal vein distinctly somewhat longer than the stigmal, the postmarginal a little longer than the stigmal. Tips of intermediate and caudal tibia and the tarsi of the same legs, white. Scape rather short; pedicel sub- globular, smaller than any of the funicle joints of which 1 is hardly longer than the following three or four, somewhat longer than wide, somewhat less than half the length of the scape. Hind tibial spurs double. Propodeum with a median concavity which is very finely, densely AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI.—GIRAULT. 249 punctate and surrounded by the coarse punctures of the rest of the thorax. Head and thorax with short white pubescence. Venter of abdomen reddish ventro-meso-proximad. Abdomen glabrous, finely reticulated after segment 5 dorsad, laterad scaly punctate from segment 3 (on segments 3 and 4 only along cephalic margin). Described from two females minutien-mounted, reared from Lpicephala frugicolor (Rt. E. Turner). Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3237, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimens minutien- mounted and a hind leg on a slide. 35. EURYTOMA SCULPTURA new species. Female :—Length, 2.80 mm. Like sarcophaga but segments 4 and 5 of abdomen are short, transverse, 4 a little the longer, the mesopleurum is uniformly punctulate (with longitudinal striz or ruge in sarcophaga divided centrally by a transverse—ventro-dorsad—narrow ruga); the sides of the abdominal ‘segments 3-5 are distinctly, nearly uniformly reticulate and with minute pin-punctures (fainter and only on most of cephalic part of segments 4 and 5 in sarcophaga) except along caudal margins. Differs from nigripes in having the wings hyaline, nigripes has the reticulated ‘sculpture faintly only on the side of segment 5, the latter in wigripes is distinctly much longer (nearly twice longer) than 4 but only moderately long; also in nigripes funicle 1 is longer, the mesopleurum caudad is rugulose, cephalad coarsely punctate (in one-of the type specimens of nigripes, segment 5 of abdomen dorsad is barely longer than 4). Abdomen above glabrous but segments 3-5 are sculptured as laterad but more faintly; 6 is also similarly sculptured. Propodeum with a deep median channel whose sides are carinated and which narrows distad and at base bears a short median carina. From the sides of this channel, the propodeum slopes and the sloping sides except at base are finely densely punctulate; rest of propodeum coarsely punctate. Scutum uniformly punctate. Thus the propodeum is also different from those of the other two species. From one female caught March 17, 1914 (H. Hacker). Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3238, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; antenna and caudal tibiz on a slide with type epicephale. 36. EURYTOMA GREGI new species. Female :—Length, 2.35 mm. In my table of species runs to nelsonia and allies but differs from all in having the middle and caudal femora plainly black above, their tibiz more plainly so. Coxe and rest of legs yellowish-brown. Marginal vein nearly twice the length of the stigmal which is sub- equal to the postmarginal. Scape yellow brown, blackish at tip above; rest of antenna black. Venation yellow brown, the wings hyaline. Funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, nearly half the length of the scape, 5 oval. Tegule, sides and venter of segment 5 of abdomen yellowish brown, segment 5 as long as half the surface, the petiole about twice longer than wide. Dorsal thorax uniformly shallowly punctate (exceptions given later). Mesopleurum punctulate at cephalic half, longitudinally striate caudal half, with a small yellow area just under tegula. Abdomen wholly glabrous (except the small segments 6 and 7 which are slightly scaly). Propodeum a little more coarsely punctured than the scutellum, with a distinct median channel whose sides are carinated and at proximal half a median ruga runs along its interior. Propleurum more finely punctured than the notum. From one female caught in October, 1911 (H. Hacker). Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3239, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; hind leg and an antenna on a slide with slide type of carlylei. Dedicated to W. H. Greg. 250 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 37. EURYTOMA QUINQUENOTATA new species. Female :—Length, 2.50 mm. Reddish yellow, the wings hyaline, the propleura, abdomen, legs and head yellowish brown; occiput just above center, pedicel, ocellar area and four marks on abdomen, black. Median line of abdomen from base to first mark also black. Abdomen marked somewhat as. in nympha but the marks do not form distinct cross-stripes (stripes which are much wider than thick) but short and broad stripes which are not more than twice wider than long (first two), the third longer than wide, conical, the narrow end proximad; the fourth marking is. much smaller, a small round spot not far fom tip. Funicle 1 nearly two thirds the length of the scape, longest, 2 and 3 subequal, a fourth shorter, 4 and 5 subequal, each a little shorter than 3, a little longer than the first club joint; distal club joint distinctly the longer. Pedicel a little smaller than funicle 5 which is a little longer than wide. Venation pale yellow, the: thick marginal vein a little over twice longer than wide, the short stigmal and postmarginal veins subequal. Hind tibiz with two spurs. Propodeum with a median channel. Pronotum with a cross-row of three obscure dusky spots, the smallest at meson; pedicel black above at base. From one female caught in jungle, April 12, 1914. Habitat: Mulgrave River (Gordonvale), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3240, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; antenna, fore: wing and a hind tibia on a slide. 38. EURYTOMA ABNORMICLAVA new species. Female :—Length, 2.80 mm. Abdomen long, subsessile, segment 5 occupying one third of the surface. Black, umbilicately punctate, the wings hyaline, the abdomen except segments 2, 3 and 7 dorsad and the short petiole, legs, tegule and scape reddish; knees, tips of tibiz and the tarsi yellowish. Venation pale brown. Cephalic margin of propleurum except ventral third lemon yellow. Head and thorax uniformly punctate. Marginal and postmarginal veins sub- equal, the stigmal somewhat shorter. Mesopleurum punctulate. Segments 2 and 3 of abdomen at cephalic two thirds and rest of dorsal abdomen distad of them, scaly reticulate. Propodeum with a median channel as in bicoloriventris but the median carina or ruga is more distinct and along each side of the channel at caudal two thirds there is a punctulate area; rest of propodeum very rudely punctate. Pedicel reddish yellow beneath. Funicle 1 distinctly longer than wide, not quite half the length of the scape, 2 a little shorter than 1, 5 subglobular. Club solid. Hind tibial spurs double. Ring-joint yellow. Runs in a group to itself after queenslandensis. From one female from the collections of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne ; ‘©No. 23, S. W. Fulton.’’ Habitat: Pamong (near Murray River), South Australia. Type: No. Hy 3241, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, minutien. 39. EURYTOMA ROSTANDI new species. Female: Length, 2.60 mm. Black, the wings hyaline, the venation black. Runs to queenslandensis but the head ventrad of insertion of antenne (higher dorsad on cheeks which are yellow half way up the eyes), cephalic margin of propleurum and proximal third of scape (including the bulla), bright lemon yellow. Abdomen colored as in queenslandensis, crimson. Tegule and legs: yellowish brown, the caudal coxe black. Petiole black, twice longer than wide. Postmarginal and stigmal veins subequal, each somewhat shorter than the marginal which is thrice longer than wide. Tips of tibie and the tarsi white. Funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, somewhat over half the length of the rather short scape (excluding bulla), 5 a little wider than long, subquadrate. Pro- and mesopleura mostly finely punctulate, the mesopleurum caudad with AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI.—GIRAULT. 251 short, longitudinal ruge. Thorax uniformly punctate (the punctures rather shallow) and with rather coarse transverse rugulosity on pronotum and scutum. Cephalic coxa with a black dot centrally laterad. Head punctures distinctly smaller, umbilicate. Segment 5 of abdomen as long as 2-4 united; sides of abdomen glabrous, the petiole at apex with ruge; dorsal abdomen also glabrous except segments 6 and 7 which are finely scaly. Propodeum nearly perpendicular, distinctly more densely and coarsely punctured than the thorax, with a shallow median channel which is obliterated near apex. The male has most of the mesopleurum yellow, the head so except upper occiput and the vertex, most of dorsal abdomen black; ventral aspect of caudal coxa yellow. From one female, three males from the collections of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, reared from galls, March 16, 1910 (F. P. Spry). Habitat: Melbourne, Victoria. Types: No. Hy 3242, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one male, one female on a tag; female antenne and a leg on a slide with type slide of fuscipennis. Dedicated to Edmond Rostand. 40. EURYTOMA NIGRINOTATA new species. Female :—Length, 3.20 mm. Like quinquenotata in general color and markings of the abdomen. The following parts black: Ocellar area, upper occiput, caudal margins of pronotum rather broadly across meson, median line of scutum moderately broadly, same of scutellum somewhat more broadly, apex of scutellum broadly, propodeum, petiole, caudal coxa dorsad and the whole of the dorsal meson of abdomen forming a short cross stripe at apex of segment 3, a longer (transversely) one at apex of segment 4, a shorter, arcuate one at apex of 5 and a bottle shaped area just before the short apical black portion, the neck of the bottle proximad. Marginal vein short and thick but about twice the length of the stigmal. Pedicel black above. Funicle 1 about half the length of the scape, somewhat longer than wide. Propodeum broadly concave, the concavity rugulose. Legs pale yellow. Cephalic margin of scutellum very narrowly black. Dorsad segments 5 and 6 of abdomen pin-punctured. Propodeum at apex with a transverse row of three fovez of which the middle is smallest. Fore wings a little stained under venation. From one female caught June 3, 1914 in jungle (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Grafton, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3243, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type of speciosa. 41. EURYTOMA SILVENSIS new species. Female :—3.25 mm. The same as the preceding but the black median line of scutum very narrow and obscure, that of scutellum narrower, cephalic margin of scutellum not black, the lateral margins of propodeum are broadly reddish except for a black spot at extreme cephalo-lateral angle, the caudal coxa is all pale yellowish, the black of meson of abdomen is narrowly broken just caudad of segment 5; the transverse row of three fovew at apex of propodeum preceded by a transverse fovea. Venation paler. From one female caught with the preceding. Habitat: Grafton, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3244, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type of preceding species. 42. EURYTOMA TRICOLORIPES new species. Female :—Length, 2.75 mm. Runs to bicoloriventris from which it differs in having the tibie all*reddish yellow, the body is stouter, the side and venter of segment 5 of abdomen reddish (except cephalad and caudad where the black descends half way ventrad) and venter of segment 6; the punctation 252 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. is somewhat ruder and segment 5 of abdomen shorter. Tips of tibize and the tarsi whitish. Otherwise the same. Mesopleurum cephalad punctulate, caudo-dorsad subglabrous, caudo- ventrad punctate. Compared with type of bicoloripes. Hind coxa sculptured in both species. From one female from the Queensland Museum collections, reared from a gall, July 4, 1911 (H. Hacker). Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3245, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 43. EURYTOMA CRESSONI new species. Female :—Length, 2.75 mm. Like the preceding but the proximal two thirds of scape (including the bulla) and all legs reddish brown (except last two pairs of coxe and apex and mesal aspect of cephalic cox); mesal aspect of middle tibie blackish and also the sides and venter of segments 2-4 of abdomen are reddish. The propodeum, however, differs in that there is no median channel or rather there is one shaped like that of tricoloripes but this is not a true channel, not excavated, the surface level or plane and from the center of this ‘‘channel’’ a rather large triangular area bounded by a narrow carina (apex laterad) is impunctate, coriaceous. In my table runs to lincolni Girault. Described from one specimen from same collection and labelled same as the preceding. Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3246, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 44. EURYTOMA DUBIELLA new species. Female :—Length, 2.75 mm. Abdomen from lateral] aspect rounded, only a little longer than wide, the petiole short. Agrees with the description of lincolni Girault but the abdomen and legs bright yellowish brown (except coxw#; dorsum and sides of segment 2 of abdomen black, dorsum of segments 3 and 4; a minute dot in middle of side of abdomen a little before tip, immediate tip above and sometimes meson of segments 7 and 8; a triangular black spot at proximal half of meson of segment 5, its base connected with the black of segment 4 but not always present). Marginal vein twice the length of the stigmal, the venation pale. The abdomen is not long as in nelsonia which has the coxe yellow. Segment 5 of abdomen as long as 2-4 united. Propodeum at meson with a broad trough-like channel. Abdomen dorsad glabrous but segment 5 cephalad obscurely scaly, the following segments more distinctly so. Pubescence silvery. Hind tibial spurs double. Head and thorax punctate, the punctures not deep. Hind coxa and cephalic half of mesopleura punctate; caudal half of mesopleura dorsad glabrous, ventrad subrugulose. From six females reared from miscellaneous galls from forest. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Types: No. Hy 3247, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on a tag. 45. EURYTOMA BICOLORIVENTRIS new species. Female :—Length, 1.75 mm. Abdomen from lateral aspect plainly longer than wide. Black, punctate, the wings hyaline; tegulw, knees, tips of tibie and ventral half of segments 2-5 of abdomen, yellowish brown; also cephalic tibize except below knee dorsad. Vena- tion black, the marginal vein twice the length of the stigmal, not thickened, the postmarginal a little longer than the stigmal. Pedicel small, round; funicle joints subequal, much larger than the pedicel, oval, shorter than club 2. Mandibles bidentate. Palpi white. Petiole of abdomen a little longer than wide. Punctures of thorax large, rather shallow, uniform on secutum. Propodeum punctured like the thorax, with a broad, ovate median channel whose AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI.—GIRAULT. 253 median line is a foveate grooved line which is divided at base into two by a longitudinal ruga and which narrows distad; sides of median channel wavy but carinated. Segment 5 of abdomen as long as half the surface, the latter polished. Hind tibiwe with two spurs. From one female taken June 25, 1914 in jungle. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3248, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type of nelsonia. 46. EURYTOMA INCONSPICUA new species. Female :—The same as the preceding but the legs and scape are yellowish brown, the fifth abdominal segment is wholly yellow brown in lateral aspect and the venation is paler, the marginal vein slightly shorter. First two femora slightly blackish dorsad centrally. The propodeum has a rather deep, cylindrical median channel and segments 6 and 7 of abdomen dorsad are more distinctly scaly, the hind coxe barely sculptured (densely punetulate in the preceding species). Hind tibial spurs double. Mandibles not seen. Segment 5 of abdomen occupying about a third of the surface. From one female caught in jungle, June 25, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3249, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag with type of bicoloriventris. 47. EURYTOMA MAETERLINCKI new species. Female :—Length, 2.50 mm. Runs close to nigra but the oral area of face is triangularly lemon yellow, the apex of the triangle reaching antennal insertion, the ventral half of the occipital margin of the eye is yellow, the proximal half of scape (including the bulla) is pale yellow and the apex of the pedicel; otherwise marked as in nigra except that all coxe and femora are blackish, the venation black. Marginal vein thickened, distinctly longer than the stigmal. Distal four funicle joints wider than long, 1 somewhat longer than wide. Median carina of median channel of propodeum very distinct. Punctures of thorax all very flat. Mesopleurum about as deseribed for queenslandensis but it is divided by a glabrous grooved line, its cephalic margin a carina. Petiole a half longer than wide. Segments 4 and 5 faintly sculptured dorsad. Cheeks black. From two females reared from gall Nos. 10 and 16, from Queensland Museum collections, April 7, 1911 (H. Hacker). Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3250, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one specimen on a tag. Dedicated to Maurice Maeterlinck. 48. EURYTOMA PUELLA new species. Female:—Length, 2.50 mm. The cephalic tibiw are very lightly blackish dorsad at middle. Flagellum black. Pro- aud mesepleurum punctulate. Runs to acacie Girault but differs in having the scape yellowish brown. Mesopleura glabrous dorso-caudad. Cephalic tibie yellowish brown, also the knees, tip of middle tibiw and distal half of caudal tibie. The spot on cephalic propleurum is very small. Segment 5 of abdomen not as long as 2-4 combined. Median channel of propodeum well defined its entire length; it consists of a single row of wider than long fovee. Abdomen glabrous except segment 7. Cephalic fifth of scutum finely transversely lineolated. From two females from the collections of the Queensland Museum, labelled ‘‘ Among herbage, April 16, 1913. H. Hacker.’’ Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3251, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag. 254 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 49. EURYTOMA LONGIPETIOLATA new species. Female :—Length, 2.50 mm. Runs to rubriventris. Scape (except at tip), legs except caudal coxe and ventral half of segments 4 and 5 of abdomen, reddish brown. Wings hyaline, the marginal vein somewhat over twice the length of the stigmal, the latter subequal to postmarginal, the venation pale yellowish brown. Funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, longest, a little less than half the length of the scape; funicle 5 subglobular. Abdominal petiole longer than usual, distinctly longer than the hind coxe, about four times longer than wide. Segment 5 of abdomen dorsad occupying over half the surface. Tegule very dark. Petiole longitudinally striate, with a spine dorsad at base. Abdomen glabrous except distad of segment 6. Propleurum scaly. Mesopleurum punctulate. Propodeum rugoso-punctate, with a distinct median channel with earinated lateral margin and interiorly consisting of wider than long fovex, the proximal -with indications of longitudinal divisions. Head and thorax uniformly umbilicately punctate. Pedicel wider than long by a little. From two females from the Queensland Museum collections, Brisbane, caught on flowers of Beckea, April 22, 1913 (H. Hacker). Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 252, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the two specimens on a tag. 50. EURYTOMA MORDAX new species. Female :—Length, 3.25 mm. Like quinquenotata but the ocellar area is black (transverse black line) and continued caudad at each end down to the occiput, thus the whole forming an inverted U. The venation is black, the marginal vein longer, plainly twice the length of the stigmal, the latter short, subequal to the postmarginal; the short petiole is black and the abdomen has a median black stripe from base to distal three fourths (to apex of segment 5), the stripe narrowing rapidly from base (never broad) forming nodes at apex of segments 3 and 4, very narrow on seg- ment 5; thus the abdomen has no isolated black areas along the meson. Fore wings very obscurely stained. No obscure spots on pronotum. Otherwise similar to quinquenotata (except that the pedicel is black only at base above and funicle 2-5 are longer, only a little shorter than 1, 5 shortest) with which it has been compared (types). Differs from Hurytoma szantherella in bearing a distinctly shorter petiole, shorter postmarginal vein and longer median stripe on abdomen. Hind tibial spurs double. Funicle 1 three fourths the length of the scape.* From one female caught May 4, 1914 in jungle (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3253, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; antenna and a hind leg on a slide with type quinquenotata. In this species segment 5 of abdomen is shorter being more distinctly deeper than long. 51. EURYTOMA SPES new species. Female :—Length, 3 mm. Runs to sarcophaga and nigripes but differs from both in having the scape black along distal two thirds (distal half if bulla is included); from sarcophaga in that the median basin of propodeum is not rugulose but punctulate and at immediate base of propodeum there is a pair of rounded foyer separated from each other by a narrow carina; directly laterad of each of these is a smaller fovea, less rounded. Also the cephalic half of the mesopleurum is punctulate, the caudal half subfoveate and with a glabrous area just dorsad of middle. From nigripes also in having the basin of propodeum punctulate. Venation black. Tegule and cephalic tibie dark brown. Cephalic halves of segments 4-6 laterad of abdomen sculptured * Excluding the bulla as always. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI.—GIRAULT. 255 as in sculptura, 7 very finely scaly, pubescent; tips of valves of ovipositor reddish brown; dorsad, segment 6 is nearly entirely scaly like its sides but 5 is so only at cephalic fourth. Propleurum scaly ventro-laterad. Funicle 1 about half the length of the scape. Wings hyaline. Otherwise about as in nigripes. From one female caught November 19, 1913 (H. Hacker). Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3254, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; antenna on a Slide with slide type of picus Girault. 52. EURYTOMA MULTIPUNCTUM new species. Like nympha but the distal margin of scutellum, three dots in a transverse line across caudal margin of scutum, one at the meson (the other two, one each at caudo-mesal angle of axilla), a dot at meson of caudal margin of pronotum and one on each side of meson, dorsal half of face of pronotum, reddish black; upper occiput centrally black. Funicle 1 darker but not as dark as the pedicel, the tegule very dark red. Mesopleurum longitudinally rugulose. From one female caught in jungle, June 25, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3255, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type nympha. 538. EURYTOMA HAWTHORNEI new species. Female :—Length, 2.70 mm. Robust. Runs in my table to epicephale from the description of which it differs as follows: More robust; all of scape except at tip above and the first two pairs of coxe are reddish brown; also the tegule; the marginal vein is nearly twice the length of the stigmal, the postmarginal barely longer than the stigmal; funicle 1 is hardly a third the length of the scape but distinctly longer than 5 which is subquadrate, hardly shorter than joints 2-4; abdomen wholly black. Median channel of propodeum obclavate, its sides carinated and the channel with a median carina from base nearly to apex. Mesopleurum finely, transversely striate except dorso-caudad. Petiole of abdomen twice longer than wide, nearly as long as the hind coxe, finely longitudinally striate. Segment 5 of abdomen occupying about half the surface, twice the length of 4. Noticeable grayish pubescence on face, cheeks, dorsal thorax and hind cox. Hind tibial spurs double. Venation fuscous. From one female caught in forest, September 30, 1914. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3256, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female in alcohol with type Atoposoma unguttatipes. Dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne. 54. EURYTOMA BREVIPETIOLATA new species. Female :—Length, about 1 mm. In my table of species, ignoring the head, runs to abnormiclava from which it differs in being smaller, the abdomen (except the short petiole, segments 2-4 dorsad and laterad, segment 5 dorsad at proximal third and the apex distad of segment 6), legs (except hind coxe and sides slightly of cephalic ones) and the very short scape except at tip above, yellow- brown. Runs in reality to queenslandensis and allies, the head bearing a linear spot of yellow on each side of meson of clypeus from mouth to base of antenne and the propleurum with a roundish yellow spot cephalad centrally. Flagellum blackish, short and thick, the very small pedicel smaller than the funicle joints of which 1 is cupshaped, the following all plainly wider than long. Tegule# yellowish brown. Venation black, the wings hyaline, the marginal vein a little thickened, somewhat over twice longer than wide, distinctly somewhat longer than the 256 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. stigmal, the latter slightly shorter than the postmarginal. Segment 5 of abdomen oceupying not quite half the surface, much longer than 4. Propodeum with a median channel. Meso- pleurum very finely sculptured. From one female caught in forest, September 30, 1914. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3257, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen in aleohol with type of B. hawthorne Girault. 55. EURYTOMA SOROR new species. Like queenslandensis but the abdomen black above at base only on segments 2 and 3, the venation is very pale yellow, the antenne are yellow except scape at tip above, pedicel and first two or three funicle joints; the hind coxe are all yellow-brown like the legs; axille black; lower half of occiput yellow. Funicle 1 a little wider than long, the following joints still shorter. Otherwise apparently the same. Marginal vein about twice longer than wide- Hind tibial spurs double. From one female caught in forest, September 27, 1914. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3258, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen in alcohol with type of preceding. My genus Bephratella was founded on the length of the first funicle joint in relation to the scape (two thirds or more the length of the scape), a character used in Ashmead’s table but I found later that the joint in question varies very much and is not a true generic differential. The original description of pyrrhocerus Crawford was inadvertently omitted but the place of the species is indicated in the table of species. The species clelandi Cameron should more properly be referred to Xanthosoma Ashmead but perhaps this is not a valid genus being founded on rather variable sculptural peculiarities. This genus is really an enormous one. TABLE TO THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF EURYTOMA ILLIGER. FEMALES. All the species described by me have a 2-jointed club, except picus which has three distinct apparent joints and abnormiclava which has a solid club. Most of my types have been re-examined. I. Yellowish species. Funicle 1 long (except xantherella), the marginal vein black and thickened. Uniformly punctate on dorsal thorax. Yellow; abdominal petiole, base of abdomen dorsad along meson for a short distance (proximal third) and tip of ovipositor valves dark fuscous; venation black, the marginal vein nearly twice the length of the stigmal. Propodeum with a median channel. Petiole of abdomen over twice longer than wide. The median stripe of abdomen forms two rather large triangular areas like nodes. Funicle 1 not quite half the length of the scape .. bug ae aE ae us .. xantherella Girault. Yellow orange; dorsum of abdomen with four conspicuous cross-stripes of black, the fourth bow-shaped and caudad of it a very short transverse black dash; ocellar area black. Propodeum concave, at base with a short groove, Pedicel black dorsad. Funicle 1 two thirds the length of the scape (excluding bulla). Abdomen dorsad not concave (lateral aspect ) is a mn mie Se nympha Girault; see multipunctum Girault. The same but the centre of vertex, upper occiput, median line of pronotum mesad, somewhat over cephalic third of scutum except lateral margins, the meso-caudal and meso- cephalic corners of each parapside, the axille, caudal and cephalic margins of seutellum rather broadly and the meson of propodeum broadly black. Otherwise as in nymph. The seutum with an inverted triangular spot at apex mesad connecting narrowly along meson with the black cephalad... a oe ae ie .. pulchra Girault. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI.—GIRAULT. 257 The same but propodeum and parapsides wholly yellow, the axilla only partly black and the scutellum is yellow and bears an obscure dark spot on each side of meson cephalad, the caudal and cephalic margins of scutellum more narrowly black. Pronotum with centre of face and a spot on meson of caudal margin black, rest yellow speciosa Girault. Like pulchra but the dorsal thorax all black except lateral margins of seutum and secutellum, base of scutellum and two narrow oblique yellow streaks on pronotum, one on each side; lateral margin of parapside also yellow and the propodeum. Abdomen with six cross-stripes. Funicle 2 abruptly the shortest. Fourth stripe of abdomen curved but broader. The abdomen is long in proportion to its depth .. .. silve Girault. Reddish yellow, the propleura, abdomen, legs and head yellowish brown; occiput just above centre, pedicel, ocellar area and four short, broad marks on abdomen, the fourth a round spot, black; median line ‘of abdomen from base to first mark also black. Pronotum with a cross-row of three obscure dusky spots, the smallest at the meson. Venation pale. Otherwise about as in pulchra but the propodeum with a more distinct median channel ee ap ae is <2 ote .. quinquenotata Girault. The same but the black ocellar area from each end is continued caudad and ventrad onto the occiput, the venation is black, the marginal vein longer and the meson of abdomen is black from base to the apex of segment 5, the stripe narrowing rapidly: Pronotum without spots. Abdominal petiole not twice longer than wide. Funicle 1 three fourths the length of scape .. .. mordax Girault; see nigrinotata Girault, silvensis Girault. See Hurytomocharis virginica Girault. II. Black species, the body marked with more or less yellow or reddish, the abdomen wholly black. Venation usually normal. Stigmal vein with an enlarged black knob, as in the Megastigmine. Black; cephalic angle of pronotum (lateral aspect) with a yellowish spot; antenna and legs brownish yellow except tip of scape, base of pedicel, caudal coxe and hind femora centrally. Segment 5 of abdomen occupying half the surface. Marginal vein thickened eucalypti Ashmead. Stigmal vein normal. Pronotum with an oblong oval yellow spot on cephalic angle (dorsal aspect); scape, apex of pedicel and legs except cox and a broad blotch on middle of hind femur, yellowish brown. Venation brown. Funicle joints a little longer than wide .. ae binotata Ashmead. Distal half of propodeum, oral region (sometimes broadly), trochanters, knees, tibize and tarsi, rufo-testaceous; flagellum without a distinct club, the pedicel twice longer than wide brachyscelidis Cameron. A longish conical mark on each side of clypeus, legs (except coxee and hind femur) and flagellum pale yellow; pronotum sparsely punctate; cephalic third of scutum finely transversely lined, the rest strongly aciculated, sparsely punctate tasmanica Cameron. A small pale yellow area on cephalic margin centrally of propleurum; distal funicle joint and the club brown; knees, tibia and tarsi dark brown, the caudal tibie black centrally. Funicle 1 a third longer than wide. Postmarginal and stigmal veins subequal .. ~ sea .. acacie Girault; see secunda Girault, puella Girault. Legs all reddish brown except hind coxa. Scape reddish brown and the tegula; flagellum brownish yellow; propodeum with a rather deep median groove; venation pale; funicle 1 much longer than wide, about half the length of the scape, much longer than 5. Club apparently 3-jointed. Cephalic margin of propleurum centrally pale yellow. Abdominal petiole as long as the caudal coxe picus Girault. 258 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. III. Black species, unmarked (excluding appendages). Wings distinctly smoky black except at base. Abdomen distinctly longer than deep. Knees, most of cephalic tibiz and all tarsi reddish brown; funicle joints cylindrical oval, 1 distinctly longer than the others which are subequal. Propodeum at base mesad with a deep fovea. Marginal vein a little longer than postmarginal, the latter and the stigmal moderately long. Dorsal abdomen glabrous except distad of segment 5 fuscipennis Girault. Wings hyaline or only slightly stained. Legs all reddish or yellowish except all coxw. Postmarginal vein a little longer than the stigmal. Thorax uniformly umbilicately punctate. Petiole of abdomen twice longer than wide, the abdomen glabrous. Antenne except pedicel above and the club reddish brown; tibizw and tarsi pale yellow; marginal vein only slightly longer than the stigmal; funicles 1-3 subelongate. Pro- podeum with a median channel, coarsely punctate dumasi Girault; see epicephale Giranlt, inane Giranlt. Tibizw yellowish brown or reddish brown. Antenne fulvous except club and pedicel; funicle 1 nearly twice the length of the pedicel, the others shorter; propodeum with a median channel, its sides carinated; marginal vein subequal to postmarginal; cephalic femur yellowish on one side. Segment 4 of abdomen slightly longer than 3... .. pyrrhocerus Crawford. Antenne distad of funicle 1 reddish brown, scape reddish brown; distal half of tibia whitish; scutum uniformly punctate. Propodeum with an ovate median channel. Funicle 1 a little over half the length of the scape, reddish at tip, over twice the length of the pedicel. Segment 5 nearly twice the length of 4; petiole a little longer than wide ae ae oe s 5 .. semifuscicornis Girault. Antenne black except scape = Rin ve $e Bes .. mazzini Girault. Cephalic tibia alone reddish brown. Abdominal petiole wider than long. Marginal vein a little longer than the stigmal. Funicle 5 quadrate, subequal in length to the pedicel. Caudal tibiz with a broad central black band; funicle 1 about half the length of the scape. Segments 2-6 of abdomen glabrous. me reddish brown. Thorax dorsad uniformly punctate ae ne ie : nts ae sarcophaga Girault. Seape black <2 .. Compare aretheas Walker, eleuther Walker, and spes Girault. The same but marginal vein a little longer; funicle 5 somewhat longer than wide. Scape pale, yellow or reddish. Fore wing a little stained under marginal vein. Cephalic femur reddish brown; marginal vein fully four times longer than wide, a third longer than the stigmal; propodeum concave. Funicle 1 about two thirds the length of the scape (excluding the bulla). Scape black at tip. Segment 6 of abdomen sculptured oe at 50 = cee .. Mgripes Girault. Similar to sarcophaga and nigripes but segments 4 and 5 of abdomen short, subequal, 4 a little longer and the sides of segments 3-5 are more uniformly reticulated sculptura Girault. Legs all black except articulations and tarsi. Scape pale... i a ie aa sa = .. Compare tellis Walker. Seape black. Tibizw only with a subfuseous central blotch laterad; funicle submoniliform. Segment 5 of abdomen as long as 2-4 united fs a .. australiensis Ashmead. About the same; segments of abdomen subequal... of .. pidytes Walker. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI.—GIRAULT. 259 iV. Black species, the abdomen partly or mostly reddish or yellowish, the body sometimes marked (species with abdomen a little yellowish ventrad at base, excluded). Head and thorax wholly black. Legs wholly yellowish or only very slightly infuscated on the femora alone or the tibie. Femora and tibiz practically all yellow or reddish. Abdomen all brown except extreme tip and dorsal meson at proximal third; antenne dusky brown, funicles 1-3 cylindrical oval, about half the length of the scape, the latter lemon yellow; abdomen long, segment 5 occupying half the surface; petiole nearly twice longer than wide, black; venation pale, the marginal vein nearly twice the length of the stigmal. Propodeum with a deep median channel with carinated isi Saale Ee deat cmaasibey caudal coxa scaly above .. me ss F : : : .. nelsonia Girault. Abdomen all black except segment 5 which is dark reddish, black at proximal third dorsad; marginal vein about twice longer than wide, the venation pale; funicles 4 and 5 wider than long. Segment 5 of abdomen plainly longest. Ventral part of segments 2-4 of abdomen red; petiole wider than long. Propodeum with the mesal aspect a shallow basin densely punctate, the rest rugoso-punctate flavitegula Girault. Abdomen black except segment 5 (which is black along dorsal meson) and sides of 6 which are bright honey yellow; scape lemon yellow except at tip above; petiole of abdomen thrice longer than wide; marginal vein nearly twice the length of the stigmal; funicle 1 a little over half the length of the scape, somewhat longer than wide. Mesopleurum with a glabrous area just ventro-caudad of tegula, cephalad of this a few fine punctures, ventrad of the latter weak longi- tudinal aciculations .. a a: Ae ae a3 .. carlylet Girault. The same but yellow of abdomen dark yellow and only at ventral half of side. Petiole of abdomen only a little longer than wide, the dorsum not greatly convexed. Funicle 1 oval, less than half the length of the.scape. Postmarginal vein barely longer than the stigmal. Propodeum with a distinct median channel, carinated cephalad along margins; thoracic punctures shallower. Marginal vein shorter inconspicua Girault. Femora and tibize plainly marked with black. Propodeum with a distinct median channel; abdominal petiole twice longer than wide; scape and segment 5 of abdomen laterad yellow-brown Ee aM EB $s sh Eye er .. gregi Girault. Legs yellow or reddish but all coxe black. Abdomen reddish except at proximal third dorsad, the scape brownish at extreme base; petiole of abdomen black dr lincolvi Girault, dubiella Girault, cressoni Girault. Abdomen with segments 5 and 6 blood red (except meso-cephalo-dorsad on segment 5) ; legs reddish brown, the scape suffused with yellow; funicle 1 over half longer than wide. Scutum uniformly punctate. Segments 3-5 of abdomen covered with very fine pin-punctures dorsad and laterad. Petiole very short. Pro- and mesopleurum deli- cately punctate; caudal half of mesopleurum with weak longitudinal ridges .. rubriventris Girault and Dodd; see longipetiolata Givom Legs yellow but coxe, femora and nearly all tibiz black. Tegule, knees, tips of tibiz (most of cephalic tibiw) and segments 2-5 of abdomen yellowish brown. Marginal vein twice the length of the stigmal; funicle joints oval. Mandibles tridentate. Propodeum with an ovate median channel * bicolorwentris Girault; see tricoloripes Girvan 260 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND: MUSEUM. Head and thorax marked distinctly with yellow. Head marked with yellow. Oral region, ventral aspect of scape, lower half of upper inner orbits, malar space and propleura, rufo-testaceous; legs yellow except caudal femora which are black, other femora slightly blackish; marginal vein distinctly longer than the post- marginal; funicle 1 twice longer than wide. Venter and ventral half of sides of abdomen testaceous; scutellum with a median aciculated line (Xanthosoma) sane Caneeam Abdomen reddish except above at proximal third (segments (2-4); face, cheeks and propleurum lemon yellow, also occiput except dorsad; legs yellowish brown, the caudal coxa black laterad except at tip and the abdominal petiole; scape lemon yellow, black at tip; funicle 1 a half longer than broad. Petiole a little longer than wide. Prepectus glabrous; mesopleurum cephalad punctate (the greater part), caudad longitudinally striate. Median channel of propodeum with carinated sides. and a distinct median ruga. Propodeum coarsely punctate queenslandensis Girault; see soror and predpenamae Girault. The same but caudal coxa yellow .. aa ae is ed .. patruelis Girault. The same but the yellow of propleurum advances on to the notum; two orange yellow dots mesad on upper occiput and a dot on each side of propodeum between meson and lateral margin .. sk .. quadriguttatus Girault; see rostandi Girault. Face beneath antenne and cephalic margin of propleurum triangularly, lemon yellow; ventum and middle of side of abdomen yellowish brown; caudal coxe and scape black. Prepectus finely scaly. Mesopleurum about as in queenslandensis, also propodeum and other characters... .. nigrella Girault, maeterlincki Girault. Head all black. Club solid. Abdomen mostly red, also the legs and scape .. abnormiclava Girault. GENUS CHROMEURYTOMA Cameron. ‘* Antenne short, clavate, apparently* 13-jointed, placed over the mouth, the last joints forming a club. Apex of clypeus rounded. Face roundly convex, clearly separated laterally, below separated from the clypeus by a furrow. Head distinctly wider than the thorax. Eyes. large, widely separated above, not converging. Temples short. Prothorax large, quadrate, as long as the mesothorax, which has distinct furrows; these are straight and converge toward the apex. Scutellum large, longer than it is wide at apex; that is broadly rounded and margined. Postscutellum large, narrowed gradually behind. Metanotum short, little developed, the centre depressed narrowly, the sides broadly rounded, the slope oblique. There is an oblique furrow across the mesopleure. Abdomen shorter than thorax, longish oval, distinctly narrowed at base and apex, not petiolated. Marginal nervure long, the postmarginal longer than it; stigmal fully one-half the length of the marginal. Legs stout, pilose. Body metallic- green; its sculpture fine. I can refer this genus only to the Eurytomine, but it is certainly not typical of that group. The marginal nervure, for example, is much longer, the sculpture much finer, and the antenne shorter and more clavate. I cannot place it in any other group. The metallic color is not unique for the Eurytomine, for it is found in Chryseida. In habits, the type of the genus agrees with most Eurytominw, the species of the tribe being mostly parasitic on gall- insects. Probably the discovery of the male may throw light on the systematic position.’’ * This is a word which should be used as little as possible in such connections as this; it is. obscure where it should be clear. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI.—GIRAULT. 261 1. CHROMEURYTOMA CLAVICORNIS Cameron. Female. Genotype. Length, 4.5 mm. ““ Dark green, largely tinted with blue, and to a less extent, with violaceous; antennz sind legs, except the cox, rufo-testaceous; mandibles and palpi testaceous; wings hyaline, nervures pale testaceous. Vertex below the ocelli finely, closely striated; apex of pronotum, mesonotum and scutellum finely, closely striated, the striation stronger on the scutellum, weaker on the base of mesonotum; postscutellum microscopically striated, the parts bordering it fiery-red. Metanotum smooth. Metapleure fiery-red. Abdomen smooth. Apex of pronotum narrowly fiery-red. There is a wide curved furrow on the malar space. Ventral surface of the abdomen Jargely violaceous. I am not sute but that the deep rufous tint of the legs may be caused by discoloration through the action of cyanide of potassium.’’ This is probably one of the gall-inhabiting Perilampide. GENUS XANTHEURYTOMA Cameron. ‘* Submarginal vein twice the length of the marginal, thickened toward apex, marginal thickened, postmarginal not one half the length of marginal, not longer than stigmal, which is triangularly thickened at base, at its junction with the marginal, the lower part of it narrowed, roundly curved. Antenne 11-jointed, short, thick, joints of flagellum wider than thick, not distinctly separated, at the most only pilose; the scape narrower than flagellum and does not extend much above the middle of the eyes; there is no clear club to the antenne; the front is not much depressed. Ocelli almost in a straight line, the central very little in front of the lateral. Parapsidal furrows clearly defined, rounded, meeting very shortly before base of scutellum. Scutellum large, longish-pyriform, the broad end at the apex; almost as long as the mesonotum. Metanotum short, steeply oblique; the centre with a keel on one side, the two parallel, not converging. Thorax not punctured, only very finely striated above. Abdomen sessile, distinctly shorter than thorax; its second segment much longer than the others; its apex bluntly rounded, broad; fifth segment shorter than fourth. Comes near to Xanthosoma Ashmead which may be known from it by the fifth abdominal segment in the female being nearly twice as long as the fourth, by the abdomen being longer than the thorax, and by the marginal vein being one and a half times, not twice longer than the stigmal. The parapsidal furrows are deeper, more clearly defined and more roundly curved than in Hurytoma; the seutellum is larger and much more narrowed at base than in that genus.’’ 7 1. XANTHEURYTOMA FLAVA Cameron. Male. Genotype. Length, 2 mm. ““Vellow; back of thorax deeper, more fulvous in tint; centre of the whole of basal slope of pronotum and the thoracie sutures more or less black, flagellum of antenne tinged with fulvous, legs a paler yellow than the body; wings hyaline, nervures testaceous, the dilated parts darker colored; stigmal vein triangularly dilated at base, the apical part a little longer than it, roundly curved. The metanotum and back of abdomen may be infuscated. Occiput transverse, infuseated, more or less obscurely striated. Hinder ocelli separated from each other by twice the distance they are from the eyes. Mesonotum and scutellum finely, closely, transversely striated. Parapsidal furrows distinct, roundly curved toward each other at apex, where they unite and are joined to the scutellar furrow by a short one. Scutellum large, ovate, twice longer than wide, obliquely narrowed to a point at the base, the apex broadly rounded. Probably a variable species, as regards the amount of black.’’ Probably a Taneostigmine. 262 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. GEeNus LISSEURYTOMA Cameron. ‘* Marginal vein thrice longer than the stigmal, postmarginal shorter than the latter, the stigmal branch as long as stigmal, its apex slightly thickened, oblique. Head and thorax not umbilicately punctate, smooth, parapsidal furrows distinct; scutellum large, narrowed toward base, the apex broadly rounded, margined by a keel. Abdomen with the basal segment sessile, longer than any of the others, the second to fifth of almost equal length. Metanotum flat, triangular, its sides stoutly keeled, the middle with two fine keels. Eyes ovate, the lower side more sharply pointed than the upper; malar space two thirds of their length. Antenne 12-jointed, stout, third joint conical, longer than wide, fourth and fifth as wide as long, the others wider than long. Legs stout, hinder tibize with one spur. The thorax is longer than usual, but not the pronotum; it is fully one-half longer than the abdomen; the flattened, only slightly sloped metanotum adds to its length. The head is transverse behind; the temples are very slightly developed. The ocelli are in a wide triangle, in almost a curve. A distinct genus. The single spur on the hind tibizw separates it from all the other described genera, except Phylloxeroxenus, but that has the thorax umbilicately punctate. The pronotum is not quite so largely developed as it is in Hurytoma, and is more distinctly narrowed at the base.’’ 1. LISSEURYTOMA VIOLACEITINCTA Cameron. Male. Genotype. Length, 4 mm. ‘*Black, abdomen distinctly violaceous, base and apex of tibizw obscurely, and tarsi, testaceous; wings hyaline, nervures black, an obscure cloud, of transversely oval shape before the stigmal branch. Pro- and mesothorax opaque, pro- and mesonotum very closely, finely, transversely striated in front. Metanotum smooth shining. The hair on the legs and metapleure is longer than elsewhere; that on the legs is long, white and sparse. Hind tibie flattened, broader than the others; metatarsus as long as second and third joints united, and a little shorter than the apical. The apex of the antennal scape does not reach much beyond the middle of front, nor do the antennal depressions. Habitat: Gosford, New South Wales.’’ GENUS SYSTOLE Walker. 1. SYSTOLE KOEBELEI Ashmead. ‘Female. Length, 2.5 mm. Robust, brownish yellow and sparsely pubescent; stemmaticum, occiput, pedicel of antenne, except narrowly at apex, anterior margin of mesonotum and sutures dividing sclerites of thorax, black. Wings hyaline, pubescent, the veins brown, the subcostal vein interrupted by a white bulla at its junction with the marginal vein; marginal and postmarginal veins about equal, longer than the stigmal. Head viewed from above subglobose, with scrobes deep and extending nearly to front ocellus; pedicel obconical, twice and one half longer than thick at apex; flagellum clavate, first three joints very small, together shorter than the pedicel and very much narrower, moniliform, the joints beyond widening and wider than long. Thorax rugulose, except the black anterior portion of mesonotum which is smoother but with delicate transverse aciculations. Abdomen oval, finely coriaceous and sparsely pubescent, the segments after the second subequal in length. Habitat: Australia. Type: No. 4882, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 2. SYSTOLE OPUS Girault. Female. Length, 1.10 mm. Black, the wings hyaline, the antenne concolorous, also the coxe and most of all femora the tibie and tarsi yellowish brown; third and fourth abdominal segments smooth, the next AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI.—GIRAULT. 263 segments scaly, the fifth (which is equal to the preceding) so only along proximal half; head and thorax scaly but there are large, shallow punctures scattered over the surface resembling pustules. Wings hyaline, the postmarginal vein slightly shorter than the others which are subequal. Antenne 11-jointed, the 3-jointed club obliquely truncate from apex of first joint, the pedicel longer than the first funicle joint, all joints of the latter about cup-shaped and subequal; one ring-joint. Posterior tibi# with two spurs. Parapisidal furrows complete. Habitat: Cairns, Queensland. Type: No. I. 13538, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. GENUS EURYSYSTOLE Girault. Agreeing with Systole Walker but the abdominal segments not subequal, the fourth over thrice the length of the third, longer than wide, very long, occupying more than a half of the surface. The thorax is scaly and with scattered shallow punctures as in Systole opus. Posterior tibiz with only one spur. Parapsidal furrows complete. The punctures on the thorax are rather numerous, shallow. 1. EURYSYSTOLE VULGARIS Girault. Female. Length, 1.45 mm. Black, the wings hyaline, the venation very pallid yellow, the postmarginal vein some- what shorter than the stigmal; the antenne pale yellow, the pedicel dusky; legs honey yellow. Eleven antennal joints, one ring-joint, the first funicle joint subequal to the pedicel, only slightly longer than wide, the others subequal to it or a little shorter; club 3-jointed, larger, obliquely truncate. Pronotum with a more or less obscure yellowish spot in the lateral aspect, cephalo-ventrad. Third and following abdominal segments more or less distinctly scaly. Cephalic ocellus not within the scrobicular cavity. Knees, tips of tibie and the tarsi white. Habitat: Cairns, Queensland. Type: No. I. 1351, South Australian Museum. 2. EURYSYSTOLE NIGER new species. Female. Length, 1.40 mm. at Like vulgaris but the legs darker except knees, tips of tibia and the tarsi. Segment 5 of abdomen not quite thrice the length of segment 4. Scutum with transverse lineolations, the scutellum very finely scaly. Otherwise the same. Mandibles tridentate. Coxe black. Hind tibize with one spur. Clypeus yellow. Legs yellowish brown. Marginal vein somewhat longer than the stigmal, the latter a little shorter than the postmarginal. Distal half of segment 5 of abdomen scaly dorsad. Meson of propodeum with two large areas along it bounded by carine. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Forest, January 8, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3260, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. GENUS XANTHOSOMA Ashmead.* 1. XANTHOSOMA JUSTITIA new species. Female. Length, 1.10 mm. Club 2-jointed, the distal joint much the longest. Black, the wings hyaline, the legs pale yellow except the coxe and proximal parts of the femora (all of hind femur and base of hind tibia); antenne dusky pale yellow, the scape and pedicel black, the first funicle joint longest, slightly longer than wide and slightly shorter than the pedicel, the distal or fifth funicle joint wider than long. The two posterior * See remarks under Hurytoma. 264 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. tibial spurs slender, nearly colorless. Mandibles tridentate, the inner tooth shorter and rather broadly truncate. Thorax densely, finely scaly. Propodeum without a distinct median impres- sion, scaly and finely rugulose, brown. Propleurum suffused with yellowish. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Reared from galls, December 12, 1912 (A. P. Dodd). Forest. Type: No. Hy 3261, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. 2. XANTHOSOMA PULCHRICORPUS new species. Female. Length, 2.20 mm. Honey yellow, the dorsum of the abdomen with broad nearly confluent black stripes across it, the scutellum and propodeum black, also the area bounded by the ocelli and a large rounded spot at base of scutum centrally. Wings hyaline. Antenne and legs honey-yellow. ~ First funicle joint subequal to the pedicel which is fuscous; club only 2-jointed, apparently 3-jointed. Marginal vein stout; fifth segment of abdomen a half or less longer than the fourth. Propodeum with a distinct median channel with carinated sides. Hind tibie with two spurs. Margins of scutellum yellow, also segment 2 of abdomen, the latter glabrous. Funicles 2-5 wider than long. Habitat: Magnetic Island, Townsville. Forest, January. Type: No. Hy 3262, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, a caudal tibia and portion of an antenna on a slide. 8. XANTHOSOMA HAECKELI new species. Female. Length, 1.60 mm. Black, the wings hyaline; legs and petiole straw yellow; abdomen at base above (most of segment 2), beneath and along sides at proximal half, sides and venter of thorax (except the last region), parapsides and axillze (both the latter darker), reddish yellow. Thorax rather densely finely reticulately lined, the propodeum with a broad, scaly, longitudinal mesial path, not impressed, limited laterad by a distinct carina; rest with several irregular ruge. Face and cheeks lemon yellow; antennz black, the scape yellow, funicle joints all somewhat wider than long, except the first which is subquadrate, subequal to the pedicel. Second tooth of mandible broadly, concavely truncate, nearly forming two teeth. One spur of hind tibia much shorter. Antenne 9-jointed, the club not truly divided in the usual place; one ring- joint. Propodeum sparsely rugulose. Fifth abdominal segment somewhat the longest. Post- marginal vein a little shorter than the stigmal which is a half shorter than the somewhat thickened marginal. Petiole somewhat longer than wide. Seutum and scutellum with a aumber of obscure pustule-like punctures. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, June 5, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3263, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag and a slide bearing the head and a hind leg. GENUS AXANTHOSOMA Girault. Like Xanthosoma Ashmead but the abdomen plainly twice the length of the head and thorax combined. Allied with Aximogastra Ashmead but abdominal segments less equal, the abdomen beyond the seventh segment produced into a thin setiform process as long as the head and thorax combined; segments 5 and 6 are about equal, long, each about twice the length of 4. Head and thorax not umbilicately punctate only finely transversely wrinkled. Stigmal and postmarginal veins unequal. Segment 6 of abdomen a little longer than segment 5. Hind tibize with two spurs. First funicle joint longer than the pedicel, only about two thirds the length of the scape; a few scattered thimble punctures on the propodeum. Antenne 10-jointed. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI.—GIRAULT. 265° 1. AXANTHOSOMA NIGRA Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 4.78 mm. Shining black, the wings hyaline, the head and thorax more or less opaque. Legs yellow-brown, the coxe mostly, the posterior femora and their tibiz below the knees, black; also the antenne. Abdomen except at base above densely microscopically scaly, the thorax more roughly so. Propodeum rugose and with a large median, triangular excavation for its whole length. Distal funicle joint oval. Club 2-jointed, the distal or second suture really non-existent. Propodeum with a distinct median channel whose margins are not distinetly earinated. Abdomen subsessile. Tfabitat: Kuranda (type) and Gordonvale, Queensland. Type: No. 1y 2264, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag and a slide bearing the antenne and legs. 2. AXANTHOSOMA IO new species. Female. Length, 3.50 mm. Like nigra but the legs black except knees, tips of tibie and the tarsi. Also shorter and more robust, the produced part of the abdomen shorter than the head and thorax combined. . Abdomen a little reddish at sides near base. Sides of thorax uniformly scaly. Median channel of propodeum narrower. Habitat: Magnetic Island (Townsville), Queensland. Forest, January. Type: No. Hy 3265, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag and a slide bearing the head and hind legs. EXANTHOSOMA new genus. Female :—Like Xanthosoma Ashmead but the antenne only 9=jointed, the club solid. Fifth abdominal segment much shorter than wide yet longest, twice longer than 4 which is much shorter than segment 2. Postmarginal vein a little longer than the stigmal. Propodeum with a narrow median channel. Hind tibie with two spurs. 1. EXANTHOSOMA FUNERALIS new species. Female :—Length, 2.75 mm. Black, the wings hyaline; trochanters, knees, distal third of cephalic femora, all tibiae except the subfuscous middle and the tarsi, reddish brown. Scape yellowish brown, the anteune otherwise black; ring-joint longer than wide, narrow, the first funicle joint somewhat less than half the length of the scape (excluding bulla), the distal funicle joint globular, about as long as the pedicel. Mandibles irregular. Thorax densely reticulated, the propodeum rugulose, the median channel a single line of fovere and its margins carinated. Scutum and scutellum with scattered obscure punctures. rom one female captured by sweeping jungle along a forest streamlet, July 31, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3266, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and a hind leg on a slide. The abdomen has segments 4, 5 and 6 at about cephalic half dorsad, scaly reticulate; the petiole is subobsolete. As seen from above the scutellum is just about as long as the propodeum. | GENuS EURYTOMOCHARIS Ashmead. 1. EURYTOMOCHARIS VIRGINICA new species. Female. Length, 2.80 mm. Red, the wings slightly stained throughout. Ocellar area, occiput, segments 2-4 of abdomen at caudal margins, cephalic margin, median channel and apex of propodeum, petiole 266 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. of abdomen, cephalic margin of scutum, venter of meson and metathorax, black. Venation pale yellowish, the marginal and stigmal veins subequal, the postmarginal nearly as long as the stigmal. Propodeum coarsely punctate, with a median channel of a paired row of fovee. Abdominal petiole somewhat longer than wide, the abdomen dorsad finely reticulated (except segment 2 and caudal halves of 3 and 4), the segments nearly as in Eurytoma. Hind tibial spurs double. Antenne inserted about the middle of the face, 10-jointed, the club 2-jointed, the distal joint larger, one ring-joint; first funicle joint longest, a little less than half the length of the body of the seape, the fifth or last joint a little wider than long. Mandibles. tridentate. Scape (except at tiy above), pedicel (except above) and legs reddish yellow, the funicle and club dark brownish; knees, tips of tibie and four proximal tarsal joints pallid. Cephalic half or more of mesopleurum black, the region punctulate cephalad. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, October 10, 1912. Type: No. Hy 3267, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag and the head, caudal tibiz and a fore wing on a slide. The species is very close to Hurytoma and differs from the original description of that genus in haying the fifth abdominal segment as viewed from the side distinctly higher than -long. GENUS PHYLLOXEROXENUS Ashmead. 1. PHYLLOXEROXENUS FUSCIPENNIS Girault. Male. Length, 3.75 mm. t Reddish yellow, the antenne, the legs (including coxe) and the face honey yellow; propodeum, the abdomen with its long petiole, cephalic margin of mesonotum, the center of the occiput, dorsad and the area containing the ocelli black, the marginal vein fuscous; sub- marginal vein mostly pallid. Fore wing smoky out to beyond the end of the stigmal vein from base, the area accented under the marginal vein and interrupted by several longitudinal false veins. Umbilicately punctate. Mesopleurum more or less black. Marginal vein thickened, nearly twice the length of either the stigmal or postmarginal, which are short and subequal. Antenne 10-jointed, one large ring-joint, the joints following long and cylindrical, sub- pedunculate, the distal funicle joint only about two thirds the length of the proximal, shortest of the funicle, shorter than the club joint. Posterior tibia with one spur. Habitat: Cairns, Queensland. Type: No. I.1260, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. GENUS PHYLLOXEROXENOIDES Girault. Differing from Phylloxeroxenus Ashmead, in having the funicle joints of the antenna: transverse after the first; antennz 11-jointed. Posterior tibiz with one spur. 1. PHYLLOXEROXENOIDES NIGER Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 2.50 mm. Black, the abdomen shining, the wings hyaline, the postmarginal and stigmal veins nearly equal; pronotum with a yellowish spot on each side, cephalad; venation pallid. Abdominal petiole short but distinct. Legs, except the coxw proximad, and the scape, except toward the tip, reddish brown, the flagellum reddish brown distad of the third funicle joint, clavate; first. funicle joint subquadrate, not quite as long as the pedicel; other funicle joints subequal in length but widening. Club ovate, wider than the funicle, its first joint over twice wider than long. Posterior femur nearly all black. Habitat: Mount Tambourine, Queensland. Type: No. I. 1263, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI.—GIRAULT. 267 GENUS BRUCHOPHAGUS Ashmead. 1. BRUCHOPHAGUS NIGER Girault. Female. Length, 2.85 mm. Black, the wings hyaline, the venation pallid; abdomen smooth and shining, the fourth and fifth segments longest, the fifth somewhat longer than the fourth, either much longer than any of the others, the sixth transverse. Antenne 11-jointed, the club enlarged, black, the scape fulvous, the first funicle joint twice the length of the pedicel and longest, the funicle joints bevelled off at each end along one side. Knees, tips of tibiw and tarsi pallid yellow. Habitat: Mount Tambourine, Queensland. Type: No. I. 1261, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 2. BRUCHOPHAGUS INCONSPICUUS new species. Female:—Length, 2 mm. Stigmal vein slightly shorter than the marginal, the latter subequal to the postmarginal. Black, the knees, tips of tibiz and tarsi white; base of scape reddish brown; wings hyaline, the venation pallid; club suffused with yellowish. Maxillary palpi blackish, its distal, fourth joint pallid, nearly as long as the others combined. Mandibles tridentate. Funicle moniliform, the first joint slightly longer than wide, the others subequal, rounded, subequal in length to the pedicel. Club 2-jointed, the distal joint much the longest. Hind tibial spurs double. Umbilicately punctate, the propodeum rugose, with a distinct median channel (rather shallow) with carinated margins and an irregular median longitudinal ruga down it; on each side of the median channel the propodeum is scaly, especially centrally. Hind coxa coarsely scaly. Abdomen glabrous; from lateral aspect, distinctly longer than wide, segments 4 and 5 unequal, 5 somewhat longer but distinctly shorter than 2-4 united; cephalic margins of 4 and 5 with scaly reticulation, 6 (transverse-linear) and 7 (large) nearly entirely so (dorsad). Pubescence silvery, not conspicuous. Scape over twice the length of funicle 1. From one female caught June 25, 1914 in forest. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3268, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. TrIsBE DECATOMINI. GENUS EUDECATOMA Ashmead. 1. EUDECATOMA JUSTITIA new species. Male. Length, 1.75 mm. Reddish yellow, the legs and antennz honey yellow, the antennw paler. Propodeum, all of abdomen except segment 4 which is suffused with yellowish and the caudal coxe and femora, black, the venation also black. Secutellum dark brown. Thorax impunctate, finely reticulated. Antenne with long sete, more or less whorled. Habitat: Magnetic Island, Townsville. Forest, January. Type: No. Hy 3269, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the male on a tag. 2. EUDECATOMA FERALIS new species. Female. Length, 1.10 mm. Yellowish brown, impunctate, the marginal vein concealed by a stigmated spot; legs , concolorous, the flagellum dusky black; mandibles tridentate; scape yellow-brown. Antenne 1l-jointed with one ring-joint, the club 3-jointed, the pedicel somewhat swollen, the first funicle joint longest, obconical, not as long as the pedicel, the others more or less quadrate. (Abdomen lost.) Habitat: Meerawa (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, July 26, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3270, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. 268 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 3. EUDECATOMA PAUCIPUNCTATA new species. Female :—Length, 3 mm. Honey yellow, the wings hyaline, the pronotum latero-cephalad yellow. Abdomen with about four cross-stripes, each slightly darker than the ground color, shaped as in Hurytoma. Thorax finely polygonally reticulated, the pronotum, caudal two thirds of scutum, scutellum except mesad and inner margin and lateral half of parapsides with thimble punctures, more numerous on seutum; cephalic third of scutum very finely transversely lined and caudad (just caudad of the punctures) with an ocellus-like pimple. Propodeum with a uniform median channel with cross-carine within; also a median carina which forks at base (cephalad), each arm running latero-caudad about half way to lateral margin, then abruptly changing angle, running caudo-mesad to caudal margin, thus inclosing a large peltate area through whose center runs the median channel. Propodeum rugulose. Abdomen glabrous, near apex with slight reticulation. Closest to feralis Girault but that species is impunctate and has a 3-jointed club; also in this new species funicle 1 is longer than the pedicel (the club plainly 2-jointed). Differs from justitia in color and also in having the evident punctures on the thorax, justitia having but very obscure ones on caudal scutum and its propodeum bears a broader median channel with less distinct cross-carine and there is no median carina (the channel’s lateral margins are carinated and there is a longitudinal carina just laterad). Antenne 10-jointed, the club 2-jointed, one ring-joint. Funicle 5 quadrate, 1 longest, less than half the length of the slender scape. Tibial spurs double (hind legs). Petiole twice longer than wide. Described from one female taken from a window, February 4, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3271, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag, the head and a hind leg on a slide. 4. EUDECATOMA DECATOMOIDES new species. Female. Length, 2.20 mm. This species differs from the preceding in being umbilicately punctate as in Hurytoma. The propodeum is foveate-punctate and with a median channel as in paucipunctata except that there is a paired row of wider than long fovez within it. The carine in the meson are less obvious. There are two small eye-spots of yellow on base of abdomen dorsad. Abdomen glabrous, its petiole black, about twice longer than wide. Honey yellow, the wings hyaline; face of pronotum slightly, an obscure round spot on secutum at meson of cephalic margin, apex of scutellum, median channel of propodeum, petiole and dorsal aspect of abdomen except just before tip, black. Marginal vein barely longer than wide, stigmated as normal for this tribe, the postmarginal no longer than the stigmal, both shorter than the marginal. Two spurs on caudal tibiw. Club 2-jointed, the antenne 10-jointed; distal club joint the longer, subequal to funicle 1. Pedicel much shorter than the funicle joints of which 2-5 are cylindrical oval and subequal, a third or less shorter than 1. Mandibles stout, tridentate. Habitat: Harvey’s Creek (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, November 15, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3272, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head and hind legs on a slide. 5. EUDECATOMA TRINOTATA new species. Female:—Length, 2.60 mm. The same as circumnotata but the whole mesothorax black, the occiput mostly black, also the cephalic femora and most of propodeum while on the pronotum there are three roundish black spots, one on each side in the dorso-lateral aspect centrally, the other mesal at AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI.—GIRAULT. 269 cephalic margin and quadrate (yet obscurely connected or barely separated from an opposite transverse spot at caudal margin). Otherwise quite the same. From two females caught by sweeping jungle growth along the Mulgrave River, April 12, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3273, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two specimens on a tag, the antenna and hind tibia on a slide. 6. EUDECATOMA RUFIPRONOTUM new species. Female:—Length, 2.67 mm. The same as trinotata but the pronotum wholly reddish, also the latero-caudal part of each parapside, the latero-distal margins of scutellum narrowly and the propodeum rather narrowly along each side of the median channel. The hind cox are also reddish above as in circumnotata. Form one female captured with the preceding. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3274, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with the preceding; antenne and fore wing with type slide of trinotata. 7. EUDECATOMA CIRCUMNOTATA new species. Female :—Length, 2.75 mm. Reddish brown, the head, legs and abdomen yellowish brown, the antenne yellow. Vertex centrally and upper occiput, dorsal pedicel, tip of club, cephalic margin of scutum, caudal margin of pronotum narrowly, an obscure spot center of scutum at caudal margin, meson and cephalic third of propodeum, caudal coxa laterad, middle and hind femora (cephalic femur near base), lateral axille, center of immediate base of abdomen (dorsad) and four stripes across abdomen, black. First two abdominal stripes semicircular and rather widely separated along the meson, the second larger, the third nearly straight, the fourth abbreviated (composed of two closely applied cross-stripes). Head and thorax umbilicately punctate. Venation reddish brown, the marginal vein a little longer than wide, the postmarginal vein absent, the stigmal longer than marginal, usual. Antenne 9-jointed, the club solid. Propodeum with a median channel with acute margins. Submarginal vein white at apex. Funicle 1 not half the ‘length of the scape, longer than the pedicel, somewhat longer than wide, subequal to the next three joints, 5 a little shorter. Ring-joint distinct. Hind tibiz with two spurs. Antenne inserted in the middle of the face. From one female caught by sweeping jungle growth along the Mulgrave River, April 12, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 8275, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; hind tibia, antenna and a fore wing on a slide. In a second female, the second, curved abdominal stripe did not quite meet the first stripe laterad. GENUS CRATODECATOMA Cameron. ‘* Antenne apparently 11-jointed, placed in the middle of the head, malar space two thirds of the length of the eyes; seape not reaching the ocelli; antennal depression shallow, not clearly defined, narrowed above. — Ocelli in a curve. Occiput not margined. Pronotum moderately large, roundly narrowed from the apex to the base, the apex broadly rounded, margined. Metanotum triangular, with a rounded slope, the sides and center keeled and with three or four strie on either side. Abdomen shorter than thorax, the back flat, with the 270 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. sides rounded; the first segment is the largest, not quite as long as the following three united, the fourth and fifth longer than the preceding two; the ovipositor short, broad, projecting upwards. Wings with a large cloud in front shortly beyond the middle; marginal vein twice the length of the postmarginal, which is not quite as long as the stigmal branch; the latter cleft at the apex; the lower division the larger, it is thicker and triangular. Legs stout, the hinder longer and thicker than the others; middle tibiz with one spur, the hinder apparently without any. Pronotum and base of mesonotum finely punctured, the rest of the latter finely, closely transversely striated. Hind tibizw with some bristles behind, very indistinct and confused with hair. Antenne thickened toward apex, pedicel narrowed toward base, twice longer than wide at apex; funicle 3 longer than wide, 4 and 5 as wide as long, the others wider than long. Number of joints in club uncertain, counted as two and no ring-joint; therefore antenna 11-jointed. The pronotum is shorter and narrowed in front as compared with Decatoma, it also differs in the mesonotum and scutellum not being umbilicately punctate, in the marginal vein being longer and not thickened, and the abdomen sessile, not with a distinct peduncle as in Decatoma. When the male has been discovered, the species may be removed from the Decatomini, of which it has hardly the facies.’’ 1. CRATODECATOMA RUFICEPS Cameron. Female. Genotype. Length, 5 mm. ‘‘Black; head, apex of pronotum, almost the basal half of mesonotum, basal abdominal segment entirely and the sides of the second and third, red; antennal scape and the following two joints of a paler red; legs black, tarsi rufo-testaceous, their last joint black; wings hyaline, a large fuscous cloud at the middle, extending from the base of the marginal to the end of the postmarginal vein and enclosing the stigmal vein; narrowed at the costa, becoming roundly widened to apex, i.e., posteriorly, which is roundly transverse and extends shortly beyond the middle. Head closely, finely punctured, occiput more finely punctured than the rest. Pronotum finely, closely, transversely punctured, mesonotum more strongly transversely striated, the center more strongly than the sides. Basal half of scutellum finely, closely striated, the striz broadly rounded; the apical more strongly transversely striated, except extreme apex which is smooth. The raised broadly rounded, central part of the metanotum smooth, the basal lateral part aciculated. Propleure distinctly closely striated, the striwa roundly curved. Meso and metapleure smooth, or faintly aciculated, and shining. Basal half of abdomen smooth, the apical aciculated. Pubscence short and very sparse, longer and denser on tibiz. Ovipositor broad, obliquely directed upwards from the ventral to dorsal surface, its apex projecting shortly above the back. Habitat: Gosford, New South Wales.’’ This is certainly a most peculiar form for this family. It is most probably misplaced. Trine ISOSOMINI. Genus ISOSOMA Walker. 1. ISOSOMA RAVOLA Walker. Male ; female. Walker, 1839, pp. 4-5. ‘‘Mas. Atrum, antennae nigrae, frons flava, prothoracis latera antica flavo maculata, pedes nigro-picei, tarsi fulvi, alae limpidae. Atrum: capitis frons flava: oculi et ocelli rufi: antennae nigrae: prothoracis latera antica flavo maculata: pedes nigri; trochanteres picei; genua fulva; tibia picew, apice AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI.—GIRAULT. 271 fulvae; protarsi fulvi, apice fusci; protibiae fulvae, fusco semicinctae: alae limpidae; squamule pices; proalis nervi picei, metalis fusci. (Corp. long. lin. 4/5; alar. lin. 114.) Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land. Fem.—Corpus convexum, rude punctatum, obscurum, parae hirtum: caput transversum, breve, thorace vix latius; vertex latus; frons excavata, abrupte declivis: oculi mediocres, non extantes; ocelli vertice triangulum fingentes, medius perparum antepositus: antennae clavatae, 11-articulatae, pubescentes, corporis dimidio breviores; articulus lus longifusiformis; 2us et 3us subrotundi; 4us longi-cyathiformis; 5us et sequentes transversi, discreti, usque ad 8um eurtantes et latescentes; clava longiconica, articulo 8° plus duplo longior: thorax longi-ovatus: prothorax magnus, transversus, subquadratus: meso-thoracis scutum longitudine multo latius; parapsidum suturae optime determinatae; scutellum subrotundum: metathorax parvus, trans- versus: pedes validi, simplices, subaequales; tarsi breves: alae mediocres; nervus humeralis ulnari plus duplo longior, radialis ulnari brevior, cubitalis radiali vix brevior; stigma sat magnum. ’’ 2. ISOSOMA ORITIAS Walker. Female. Walker, 1839, p. 5. “‘Fem. Nigro-aeneum, antennae nigrae, prothoracis latera fulvo maculata, pedes fulvi, femora aenea, alae limpidae. Nigrae-aeneum: oculi et ocelli rufi: antennae nigrae; articuli lus et 2us nigro-aenei: prothorax utrinque fulvo maculatus: pedes fulvi; coxae aeneae; femora aenea, apice fulva; tarsi flavi, apice fusci; metatibiae fusco cinctae: alae limpidae; squamulae piceae; nervi proalis fusci, metalis fulvi. (Corp. long. lin. 1144; alar. lin. 21%.) March; King George’s Sound, Australia. ’’ 8. ISOSOMA VOLUX (Walker). Female; male. Eurytoma volua Walker, 1839, p. 3. ‘‘Mem. Atra, antennae nigrae apice piceae, pedes nigri fulwo-cincti, alae limpidae. Atra: oculi et ocelli rufi: antennae nigrae, apice piceae: pedes nigri; trochanteres picei; genua fulva; tibiae apice fulvae; tarsi pallide fulvi, apice fusci; propedum tibiae fulvae, tarsi fusci: alae limpidae; squamulae piceae; nervi proalis picei, metalis fusci. (Corp. long. lin. 14; alar. lin. 2.) Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land; and in March at King George’s Sound, Australia. Mas.—Corpus convexum, breve, punctatum, obscurum, parce hirtum: caput thorace paullo latius: antennae nodosae, verticillato-pilosae, thorace paullo longiores: petiolus longus: abdomen ovatum, compressum, nitens, laeve, fere glabrum, thorace multo brevius et angustius: alae latae. Fem.—Caput thoracis latitudine: antennae clavatae, pilosae, thorace breviores: abdomen longiovatum, subcompressum, apice acuminatum, thorace non brevius.’’ 4. ISOSOMA OLBUS (Walker). Female. Eurytoma olbus Walker, 1839, p. 4. ‘“‘Rem. Atra, antennae, piceae basi fulvae, pedes fulvi, femora piceo cincta, alae limpidae. Atra: oculi et ocelli rufi: antennae piceae; articulus lus fulvus: pedes fulvi; coxae piceae; femora piceo cincta; tarsi apice fusci: alae limpidae; squamulae fulvae; nervi fulvi. (Corp. long. 1; alar. lin. 14%.) Sydney, New South Wales. ’’ bo ~I bo MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 5. ISOSOMA AUSTRALIENSIS Girault. Male. Length, 2.85 mm. Black, the antenne and legs concolorous except most of cephalic legs, which are brownish and the knees, tips of tibize and the tarsi of the others; wings hyaline, the venation very pale, the stigmal and postmarginal veins about equal; scape very short; abdomen long and cylindrical, the third segment a little the longest, the whole surface of the abdomen with a very fine, scaly sculpture; propodeum with a median sulcus which has two longitudinal lines of fover down it, rugose, the mesothorax uniformly opaque, finely scaly. Antenne 10-jointed with one ring-joint, the club 2-jointed, the first funicle joint longest, longer than the scape, the other four joints of the funicle each a little shorter than the one preceding; the whorls of long hairs white. Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Jungle, December 18, 1912. Type: No. Hy 3276, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the male on a tag, the head on a slide. 6. ISOSOMA WORDSWORTHI new species. Female :—Length, 2.60 mm. Black, the wings hyaline, the knees, tips of tibiz and tarsi brownish, also the scape, the flagellum black. Venation pallid, the postmarginal vein somewhat shorter than the stigmal, the latter very slightly shorter than the marginal. Hind tibial spurs unequal. Ring-joint longer than wide; funicle 1 not elongate, somewhat longer than wide, somewhat longer than the short pedicel; funicles 2 and 3 subequal, a little shorter than 1, 5 globular. Club solid, ovate, longer than the two preceding joints united. Propleurum with an oval lemon yellow spot cephalad. Segment 3 of abdomen transverse-linear, shortest, a third the length of 4; other segments subequal, all with a scaly sculpture except 2 and 3, this sculpture on the cephalic half of each segment. Thorax densely scaly, the propodeum subrugulose, without a distinct median channel or impression but one is indicated by a pair of separated, more or less obscure, median carine. A few shallow umbilicate punctures on axille and caudal scutum and also on seutellum. Parapsidal furrows ending laterad before the pronotum. Axille a little separated. From one female caught by sweeping secondary forest growth, May 23, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3277, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. Dedicated to Wiliam Wordsworth. TrisE RILEYINI. NEORILEYELLA new genus. Female :—Like Neorileya Ashmead but the parapsidal furrows complete, the axille large, nearly meeting inwardly, the marginal vein long, over one and a half times longer than the stigmal which is slightly longer than the postmarginal, the fore wings with a pattern. The abdomen is compressed, subsessile. Scutellum without a transverse suture but with at least more than the distal third differentiated. Otherwise the same. Hind tibia with two unequal spurs. Stigmal vein curved. Abdomen above more or less depressed. 1. NEORILEYELLA FASCIATA new species. Genotype, Female :—Length, 2 mm. Orange yellow, the proximal part of the scutellum lemon yellow; legs and antenne concolorous. Fore wing with a narrow black stripe across it at the bend of the submarginal vein and distad with a large, conspicuous, rounded stigma-like spot from the base of the stigmal vein and reaching nearly across the blade. Distal half of abdomen black, the antennal AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI.—GIRAULT. 273 club contrasting with the funicle being pinkish. Axillz smoother, with longitudinal stria, the distal part of the scutellum with transverse, semicircular striz. Thorax, besides the umbilicate punctures, more or less rugose. All funicle joints shorter than the pedicel. Pro- podeum with a complete lateral carina and an inverted V-shaped one at meson but not quite complete caudad. Described from two females captured by sweeping in a jungle pocket, May 15, 1913 and May 26, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Types: No. Hy 3278, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimens on tags, the heads in xylol-balsam. 2. NEORILEYELLA HYALINA new species. Female. Length, 3.90 mm. Reddish, the head, antennze and legs honey-yellow, also the venation but the curved stigmal vein inclined to be fuscous; center of occiput above black. Wings hyaline. Abdomen honey-yellow, striped transversely with brownish black. Hind femur compressed. Secutellum uniformly sculptured, there being no transverse suture, not distinct as a suture in the type species. One female from a gall on the currajong tree, February 20, 1913 (No. 2 of G. F. Hill). Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. Type: No. Hy 3279, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a card, the hind leg and an antenna on a slide. 3. NEORILEYELLA ALBICLAVA new species. Female :—Length, 2.10 mm. Dark red, the abdomen reddish brown, the antennz and legs also but the club pure white, the tarsi pale and the tips of the first two pairs of tibie. Fore wings with a pattern somewhat as with the genotype but the pattern is black and the narrow line across from the bend of the submarginal vein is more oblique, distinctly joined near caudal margin with the large black area; the latter differs in extending much nearer to the apex. in being distinctly broken by a comet-shaped hyaline dash with its longer end (tail) against the side of the stigmal vein; disto-caudad, the infumation extends about the length of the stigmal vein beyond the apex of that vein (in the genotype it extends just to the apex of stigmal vein, sloping from thence a little convexly). Mandibles with two acute teeth, a third tooth not distinctly formed. Pedicel distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints of which 1 is longest, only slightly longer than wide, the rest wider than long, wider distad. Club short, its joints not very distinct. Hind tibie with two stout, unequal spurs and armed dorsad with a row of short, stout teeth which are not close together. Segments of abdomen equal. Antennz inserted on a level with the ventral ends of the eyes. Stigmal vein curved. Propodeum with a pair of distinctly separated median carine and a carina on each side of these a short distance laterad, making four carine about the meson. Segments 2-4 of abdomen incised deeply but very narrowly at meson of caudal margin, glabrous; other segments dorsad finely sculptured. Thorax (excluding propodeum) punctate. Hind femur stout. Abdomen sessile. Axille separated by a short carina. Abdomen shaped as in the Eurytomini; finely scaly distad. Parapsidal furrows very slightly indicated cephalo-laterad only and thus differing from the genotype. Described from one female captured by sweeping in the forest, April 15, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3280, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. This species is the type of Pseudorileya new subgenus. 274 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. PARARILEYA new genus. Female :—Like Neorileyella except that the abdomen has segment 5 much lengthened, longer than half of the surface, the others short, transverse. Postmarginal vein a little longer than the stigmal. The axille are distinctly separated. Stigmal vein straight. The umbilicate punctures are shallow and not dense, the thorax finely reticulate. Caudal margin of pronotum straight, the pronotum as long as the scutum. The parapsidal furrows are present, delicate. Abdomen distinctly scaly dorsad except segment 3 and apex of segment 2 broadly. Abdomen with a short petiole, shaped as in the Eurytomini. 1. PARARILEYA SPADIX new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 2.15 mm. Reddish brown, the wings hyaline, the legs and scape yellowish brown, the flagellum dusky. Funicle 1 longest, subquadrate, the others gradually shortening, the pedicel a little longer than funicle 1. Distal joint of funicle distinctly wider than long. Mandibles 4-dentate. Hind tibia with two spurs.. Propodeum with a somewhat W-shaped carina across. it running down each side like a lateral carina, curving along the caudal margin and then cephalad to cephalic margin of propodeum at the meson where it makes an obtuse turn and repeats on the opposite side; it is shaped like a W with the apex of the middle arm obtuse instead of being acute. Axille rather widely separated. Abdomen finely scaly reticulated like the thorax. Parapsidal furrows very delicate. From three females reared from cecidomyiid galls on a wild grape vine, April, 1913. (Aemb Dodd): Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 8281, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimens on a tag. Species in this family as a rule do not shrivel. The present arrangement of the tribes. may break down by the too great instability of their characteristics. The Eurytomini and TIsosomini may, perhaps, have to be joined. The differences in their thoracic structure are certainly not great and the habits of the two seem to be identical. It is, therefore, a question as to the value of tribal groupings based upon secondary sexual characters. My knowledge of the family, however, is not extensive and for the present I do not like to interfere with the present arrangement other than to suggest its probable unnaturalness, more especially as regards genera. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII—GIRAULT. 275 AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA—XII* The Family Callimomide with Descriptions of New Genera and Species. By A. A. GIRAULT. SUBFAMILY CALLIMOMINAE. GEeNus TORYMUS Dalman. 1. TORYMUS EUCALYPTI Ashmead. Female; male. Length, 2.8 to 3 mm.; ovipositor as long as the body. Gold green with cupreous reflections; head in front and mesopleura blue-green; mandibles rufous; palpi white; antenne brown-black, scape and pedicel eneous; tegule and legs except coxe and the hind femora which are metallic green, pale yellowish, tibial spurs and tarsi white; wings hyaline, stigmal and marginal veins brown. Head shagreened and punctate, ocelli red; thorax above transversely wrinkled or striate, with some sparse punctures scattered over its surface; metathorax smooth, with some short lineations at extreme base just back of scutellum; mesopleura smooth, impunctate except some delicate lines on anterior margin; hind coxe large, coarsely reticulated. The male measures from 2 to 2.25 mm. and agrees well with the female except in the usual sexual differences, and in having sometimes a brownish or metallic band on the anterior and middle femora, the extreme base of the scape being yellowish, while the flagellum is stouter, with the joints a little wider than long. Habitat: Sydney, New South Wales. From a soft red gall on Lucalyptus. Type: No. 4877, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. GENUS CALLIMOME Thomson. 1. CALLIMOME ACACIZ Cameron. “« Green; thorax tinged with blue, face and malar space tinged with golden, antennal scape green, flagellum black; trochanters, base and apex of femora narrowly and tibie and tarsi yellow, almost white; wings hyaline, nervures black. | 5 Q. Length, 2mm. ; terebra 1.5 mm. Erina, N.S.W., bred from small berry-like galls on the foliage of Acacia sp.; 28 August (W. W. Froggatt). ; Face strongly punctured, more weakly above than below, and more sparsely in the middle above; a keel runs down its middle from the antennz, it becoming widened below. Vertex and front sparsely punctured, their sides transversely striated, the latter more strongly than the former; the space below the ocelli aciculated only. Mesonotum finely, closely transversely striated. Base of scutellum transversely, the sides finely and closely longi- * Contribution No. 35, Entomological Laboratory, Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, Bundaberg, Queensland. 276 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. tudinally striated, the apex in the middle more finely transversely striated. Base of meta- notum with a crenulated furrow, centre almost smooth, sides with some oblique stria. The top of propleure with a few oblique stout striw ru.ming from the base to the apex, the rest more finely and closely striated, the striw more or less curved. Metapleure smooth, the lower half depressed, rounded above, the sides margined. Abdomen smooth above, the sides finely, closely, obliquely striated. Legs closely covered with white pubescence; hinder cox closely, finely reticulated; hinder femora finely punctured.’’ 2. CALLIMOME GRAMINIS Cameron. ‘“ Green with blue and brassy tints, flagellum of antenne black; the four anterior knees, tibiw and tarsi and the base and apex of hind tibie and hind tarsi, pale straw- yellow; palpi of a paler yellow; wings hyaline, their apex ciliated, nervures black. 6: Length, nearly 2 mm. Boggabri, N.S.W.; in January; bred from seeds of the grass Panicum sp. (W. W. Froggatt). Flagellum of antenne fuscous on the apex and under side closely covered with a microscopic pile; its second joint twice longer than wide, clearly longer than the third. Head minutely punctured and with scattered punctures. Middle lobe of mesonotum closely, distinctly punctured and with some indications of minute strie#; parapsidal furrows distinctly curved; the lateral lobes almost smooth, the puncturation much finer than it is on the middle lobe. Scutellum finely, closely regularly punctured, more so than the mesonotum. Central part of metanotum finely, closely punctured, somewhat more strongly so than the seutellum; the sides are smooth and are bounded by a distinct, clearly detined, oblique furrow, which makes the sides triangular. Upper part of mesopleure smooth, this smooth part forming an irregular curve; the centre is depressed, closely finely striated; this striated part is roundly curved above; below bounded by an oblique straight margin. In the wings the stigmal vein is of the same length as the postmarginal, while with some, at least, of the Huropean species, it is shorter. I do not know that any of the species of Callimome, like some, at least, of Megastigmus, have been shown to be phytophagous. (See my paper in ‘‘ The Ento- mologist,’’ April, 1910, pp. 114-115.) The present species fits in better with Callimome than with Torymus, but I am unable to examine the mandibles properly.’’ 3. CALLIMOME RETICULATUS Cameron. ‘* Green, abdomen largely tipped with blue, probably almost entirely so. in some specimens, antennal scape and pedicel green, flagellum bronzy brown, covered with a micro- scopic pile. Head aciculated, sparsely punctured. Mesonotum finely, closely reticulated, the lateral lobes more finely and closely than the central; the furrows distinct, curved, not very deep; a shallow furrow down the middle of the basal half. Scutellum more finely and closely reticulated than the mesonotum, its apex broadly rounded. Center of metanotum finely, closely reticulated, the sides smooth. Pleura smooth, apex of mesopleure with a steep slope, which forms almost a furrow. Legs dark green, tinged with blue, apex of femora and tibie and the greater part of the tarsi yellow. Wings hyaline, nervures black, postmarginal branch distinctly longer than the stigmal, the knob of the latter with the apex broadly rounded, the base triangular. ae Length, 2 mm. Boggabri, N.S.W; in January; bred from seeds of Panicum. This species was gummed on the same card with C. graminis, both species represented by males only. They are, I consider, good species; C. reticulatus should be known by the closely reticulated mesonotum of which the lateral lobes are not smooth, as in C. graminis, but reticulated; the mesopleural furrow is narrower and more clearly defined; C. graminis has no furrow on the center of the mesonotum. Its abdomen is longer, compared with the thorax; and the flagellum of the antennz has a more distinctly metallic tinge. ’’ AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII.—GIRAULT. 277 SusBraAmMiIny MONODONTOMERIN A. GENUS DIMEROMICRUS Crawford. 1. DIMEROMICRUS AUSTRALIENSIS Girault. Female. Length, 2 mm., excluding ovipositor which is longer than the abdomen. Brilliant shining metallic eneous green with a bluish tinge, the legs concolorous excepting the knees, tibiee and tarsi, which are lemon yellow. Antenne and valves of ovipositor black; wings hyaline. Scape metallic; club verging to brown. First funicle joint variable, usually smallest, all shorter than the pedicel. Second ring-joint largest. Sculpture as in type species. Mandibles tridentate. Habitat: Lawson and Forest Reefs, New South Wales. Type: I.1291, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 2. DIMEROMICRUS BREVIVENTRIS Girault. Female. Length, 1.25 mm. Like australiensis but the tibie also concolorous, the ovipositor somewhat shorter, sub- equal to the abdomen in length; also the first funicle joint is subequal to the others, all sub- transverse. Hind femur beneath excised at apex the excision forming a false tooth or small obtuse triangular piece at its proximal edge (not an isolated or true tooth). Thorax reticulately scaly. Propodeum with a median carina, together with the abdomen reticulated. Seutellum with a trace of a transverse suture at extreme apex at meson but this appears to be due to pressure, the specimens have been in balsam on a slide. Otherwise agreeing with australiensis. Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Forest, April 16, 1913 (H. Hacker). Type: No. Hy 3292, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag and a slide bearing the appendages. GENUS AMONODONTOMERUS Girault. Agreeing with Monodontomerus Westwood but the abdomen petiolate, the eyes naked, the posterior femora simple, not swollen nor with teeth. Scutellum with a cross-furrow; ovipositor not half the length of the abdomen; abdominal segments with their posterior margins straight. Antenne 12-joimted with one long ring-joint, the club stout, 4-jointed. Stigmal vein with a distinct neck, the postmarginal vein longer than the marginal. Antenne short and clavate, the funicle joints transverse. 1. AMONODONTOMERUS VIRIDIS Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 2.50 mm. Brilliant metallic green, the antennz, the ovipositor and the legs (excepting coxz) reddish brown, the middle of the posterior femora sometimes metallic greenish; valves of ovipositor black. Wings hyaline; the venation dusky. Head and thorax finely transversely lined and with scattered pin-punctures, the latter arranged in about two transverse lines on the pronotum. Abdomen smooth and shining but also with the punctures across the cephalie portions of the segments. Petiole roughened. Club sunken and obliquely truncate along one side. The measurement is exclusive of the ovipositor. Habitat: Port Lincoln, South Australia. Type: No. I. 1291, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. GENUS MACRODONTOMERUS Girault. Like Plesiostigmodes Ashmead but the pronotum normal, not by far as long as the mesonotum; scutellum without a cross-furrow; abdomen produced ventrad at middle, triangular from lateral aspect. Otherwise the same. 278 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 1. MACRODONTOMERUS TRIANGULARIS Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 2.40 mm., exclusive of ovipositor which is somewhat shorter than the body. Brilliant metallic wneous green, the knees, tibize and tarsi straw-yellow, the rest of the legs concolorous. Wings hyaline, the stigmal vein very short, only half the length of the short postmarginal. Cephalic femora short, swollen, the posterior femora slightly enlarged aud with a small tooth beneath before apex (also a slight indication of a second one farther proximad) and very minutely subserrulate. Antenne with two ring-joints, the first funicle joint jlongest, slightly longer than wide, shorter than the pedicel; antenne black. Thorax finely transversely lined and scaly. Habitat: Mittagong, New South Wales. Type: No. I.1335, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 2. MACRODONTOMERUS JUSTITIA new species. Female. Length, 2 mm., excluding the exserted valves of the ovipositor which are somewhat louger than the globular abdomen. Bright metallic green, the wings hyaline, the legs and antennz pale straw yellow; hind coxe concolorous. Abdomen pale straw, crossed above by two or three widely separated dusky stripes. Mandibles tridentate, the antennz 13-jointed with two ring-joints, the first two funicle joints equal, longest, a little wider than long, the following joints shortening gradually, the pedicel somewhat longer than the first funicle joint. Hind tibial spurs double. Secutellum simple; propodeum with an obscure pair of short median carinew. Head and all of the thorax finely scaly and transversely lineolated, the propodeum slightly smoother. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. From galls on forest trees, December 12, 1912 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3293, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the appendages on a slide. 3. MACRODONTOMERUS UNIMACULATUS Girault. Female. Length, 2.43 mm., excluding ovipositor which is a little longer than the abdomen. Dark metallic coppery green, the abdomen brown, black above, the ovipositor valves black, the scape and pedicel brown, rest of antenna black. Second segment of abdomen incised at meson of caudal margin. Legs yellowish including the coxa. Fore wings with a large, conspicuous, ovate, brownish spot in the middle, its long axis obliqued, its blunter end just caudad of the stigmal vein. Head and thorax densely punctate, the propodeum smooth except along cephalic margin, brilliant coppery and with a median carina. All funicle joints longer than wide, the first longest, subequal to the pedicel, the sixth « third shorter, only slightly longer than wide. Mandibles tridentate. Habitat: Ingham, Queensland. February 16, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3294, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag and a slide bearing the appendages. 4. MACRODONTOMERUS ATRICORNIS new species. Female :—Length, 2.50 mm., excluding ovipositor. Agrees with triangularis but the exserted portion of the ovipositor is only slightly longer than the abdomen, about half the length of the body and the first funicle joint though only somewhat longer than wide is as long as or somewhat longer than the short pedicel. The yellow portions of the legs are lemon yellow. Mandibles tridentate. Hind margin of second segment of abdomen with an acute notch at meson. Propodeum with a thin median carina, sculptured like the rest of the thorax or nearly but the scutum, scutellum, axilla and parapsides bear many scattered thimble punctures. Male:—The same but the ring-joints somewhat shorter, the abdomen depressed. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII.—GIRAULT. 279 Described from two pairs of each sex on a card labelled ‘‘5. Galls on Wattle. Govt. Domain, Melb., Nov. 708. Emerged Feb. ’09.’’ ‘Habitat: Melbourne, Victoria. Types: In the National Museum, Melbourne, the above specimens and a slide with male and female head and female antennae and fore and hind legs. 5. MACRODONTOMERUS IOLE new species. Female. Length, 1.35 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is about a third shorter than the abdomen. Metallic zneous green, the abdomen coppery, the wings hyaline, the legs pale but with a yellowish tinge (hind coxe concolorous with body, the others more or less so); venation lemon yellow, also the antenne of which the pedicel is longer than the first funicle joint. Thorax transversely finely lined, the propodeum with a median carina and fine reticulation. Postmarginal vein a little longer than the stigmal which is not sessile. Mandibles tridentate. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, October 24, 1911. Type: No. Hy 3295, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head and hind legs on a slide. 6. MACRODONTOMERUS CINCTIVENTRIS new species. Female :—Length, 1.60 mm., exclusive of ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal to that of the abdomen. Dark metallic purple, the wings hyaline. Closely resembling capricornis but the ovipositor is distinctly shorter, the proximal yellow of the abdomen is more distinctly delimited forming a distinct, broad band; the coxw and femora are concolorous (not white or nearly as in the other species, the hind coxa somewhat colored only). Proximad, somewhat over a third of the abdomen is golden yellow (segment 2). Caudal margin of abdominal segments straight. Propodeum without a median carina but with oblique striae from cephalad. The postmarginal vein is distinctly longer than the stigmal. Vertex punctate; thorax subpunectate, scaly and somewhat roughened. Hind coxa coarsely reticulated, the lines forming raised polygons. Hind femur beneath finely denticulate, not excised but with a distinct, complete tooth before apex, this tooth obtuse at apex. Seape yellow. Funicles 1-4 quadrate, a little or barely shorter than the pedicel; funicle 6 a little wider than long. Mandibles tridentate. Immediate base of abdomen dorsad purple. From one female captured in jungle, May 19, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3296, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head, hind legs and a fore leg on a slide. A second female April 10, 1914 by sweeping jungle. 7. MACRODONTOMERUS CAPRICORNIS new species. Female:—Length, 1.80 mm., excluding ovipositor which is somewhat longer than the slobular abdomen. Like justitia but dark wneous green, the pronotum, head and scutum dark purplish, the abdomen pale yellowish along proximal third, the distal half or more dark purplish. Also, the legs are more yellowish. The suture on face of mesepimeron is more triangular, the oblique suleus on the episternum immargined and less distinct. There are no scattered thimble punctures on scutellum as with justitia. Propodeum plane, scaly. Described from one female captured by sweeping in forest, August 2, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3297, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag, the head and hind legs on a slide. 280 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 8. MACRODONTOMERUS UNGUTTATIPENNIS new species. Female :—Length, 2.50 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is about as long as the abdomen. Rather dark metallic green with coppery tinges, the abdomen coppery; tarsi, tips of tibia (more of cephalic tibia) and scape straw yellow. Fore wing with a moderate-sized round fuscous spot in the center of the blade (somewhat caudad of center) opposite about apex of proximal third of marginal vein. Head with a very fine sculpture, thickly beaded with pin-punectures; thorax similarly sculptured. Propodeum subglabrous, delicately scaly, non- carinate but with short rug at cephalic margin between the spiracles. Segment 2 of abdomen slightly incised at meson of caudal margin, glabrous, the rest of the abdomen with polygonally sealy sculpture, segments 3, 4 and 5 also with the caudal incision (apparently obsolete, _ indicated in outline on 3 and 4, distinct on 5). Hind femur with two distinet yet small, obtuse pimple-like teeth, the ‘distal larger, on the distal half yet not near apex. Funicle 1 longest, subequal to pedicel, a little longer than wide; 2 quadrate, 6 distinctly wider than long. Mesepimeron glabrous, with a semicircular suture dorsad of middle. From one female captured September 28, 1913 (H. Hacker). Habitat: Caloundra (Brisbane), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3298, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag; a fore and hind leg and the antenne on a slide. 9. MACRODONTOMERUS SEMISANGUINEUS new species. Female :—Length, 2.10 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal to a little more than that of the abdomen. Dark metallic zneous green, the wings hyaline, the propodeum blue, the tegule and legs Jemon yellow; hind femur orange yellow; caudal two pairs of cox metallic green. Valves of ovipositor black, whitish at extreme tip. Abdomen blood red. Antennz black, the scape lemon yellow. Propodeum finely scaly; rest of thorax scaly and transversely lineolated. First two or three segments of abdomen excised caudad at meson but not greatly so. Mandibles tridentate. Funicle 1 longest, somewhat longer than wide, subequal to the pedicel, 6 somewhat wider than long. Pubescence not conspicuous. Abdomen scaly, laterad more or less longitudinally reticulated. i From one female caught April 18, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Forest. Habitat: Cloneurry, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3299, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. PROPLESIOSTIGMA new genus. Female :—Characterized by the antennee which are inserted near the clypeus and are 12-jointed with two short ring-joints, the club 3-jointed. Hind tibiz with two spurs, the hind femora compressed but unarmed. Scutellum convex, simple. Stigmal vein not sessile, moderately long. Mesepimeron not incised caudad. Extruded part of the ovipositor short, not more than a third the length of the abdomen. Mandibles with four distinct teeth. Post- marginal vein a little shorter than the stigmal, not more than a fifth or sixth the length of the marginal which is shorter than the submarginal. Marginal fringes of fore wing very short. Propodeum at the meson transverse-linear, without a median carina. Abdomen normal. 1. PROPLESIOSTIGMA UNFASCIATUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.80 mm., excluding ovipositor. Dark metallic blue green, the wings hyaline, the scape and legs pale straw yellow except intermediate and hind cox and proximal half or less of hind femur. Rest of antennae AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII—GIRAULT. 281 dark brownish. Thorax finely scaly reticulate. Abdomen suffused with brown, at distal two thirds crossed by a rather narrow orange transverse stripe which diffuses or broadens somewhat in the lateral aspect. Extruded valves of ovipositor black. Pedicel a little longer than wide, the funicle joints rather stout, all wider than long, enlarging distad, 5 largest and as long as the short pedicel. From one female captured by sweeping in forest, Mount Pyramid, 2,000 feet, June 3, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 8300, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head and a hind leg on a slide. DITROPINOTELLA new genus. Female:—In J. ©. Crawford’s (1907) table of genera running to Ditropinotus Crawford but differing from that genus and nearly all the allied genera in bearing 12-jointed antennae with one distinct ring-joint, the club only 2-jointed. Hind femora compressed, unarmed, the tibial spurs normal. Occipital impression immargined. Propodeum with a pair of median carine close together and a line of fovew running from the spiracle and around the caudal margin. Postmarginal vein somewhat shorter than the marginal, much longer than the stigmal. Seutellum simple. Mandibles distinctly bidentate, the inner margin of the second tooth broadly, obliquely truncate. Abdomen sessile, greatly compressed (a mere line from above), from lateral aspect broadly ovate, the ovipositor exserted for not more than a fourth of its length; segments not visible in dorsal aspect but as seen dorso-laterad all the caudal margins straight. 1. DITROPINOTELLA COMPRESSIVENTRIS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.65 mm. Bright metallic green, the wings hyaline, the legs yellow-brown but the coxee washed with metallic. Seape colored like the legs. First three or four funicle joints subquadrate, shorter than the pedicel, joints 5 to 7 wider than long. Scape blackish at distal half. Head and thorax densely finely scaly, the propodeum glabrous, the scutum and pronotum with many scattered thimble punctures. From eight specimens reared from galls with Rhicnopeltella nubilipennis Girault, which see. Habitat: Melbourne, Victoria. Types: In the National Museum, Melbourne, five females on a tag; one fore leg, several hind ones and heads on a slide. IDARNIN. IDARNOMORPHA new genus. Female :—Like Idarnes Walker but the antenne are 13-jointed with one rimg-joint, the club 4-jointed, the last joint minute, like a nipple yet articulated. Mandibles bidentate. Extruded portion of the ovipositor about three and a half times longer than the body. Postmarginal vein nearly a half longer than the rather long stigmal, as long as the marginal vein. Funicle joints barely longer than wide, shorter than the pedicel. Ring-joint large. Abdomen depressed, longer than the thorax. Mandibles tridentate. Coxe not especially long. Seutellum flat, with two grooves, one on each side. Male :—Antennx 3-jointed, the last two joints forming a club. Mandibles strongly bidentate. Tarsi 5-jointed, the three intermediate joints transversely linear. Head with an antennal fovea, longer than wide. Wings entirely (apparently) absent. 282 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 1. IDARNOMORPHA SUBZENEA new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.75 mm. Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the lateral part of pronotum yellowish, the scutellum and axille brown, the propodeum and abdomen darker. Legs lemon yellow, including the cox. Antenne brown. Vertex and thorax densely scaly, the propodeum glabrous. Venter of pronotum yellowish. Valves of ovipositor black. Most segments of abdomen at caudal margin with a mesal notch. Propodeum scaly laterad of spiracle and at caudal margin caudad of it; noncarinate. Male :—Length, 2.80 mm. Head, pronotum and upper parts of the rest of the thorax chestnut brown, the under parts and sides of last two thoracic regions, the abdomen and legs (except the tibie) lemon yellow. Distal antennal joint lemon yellow, the others brown, the first as long as the distal two combined, the distal one shorter than the intermediate joint. Tibiz brown, encircled at apex by strong, short spines. Two males, one female reared from figs with Ceratosolensia ficophaga Girault. Habitat: Gordonyale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, September 18, 1912. Types: No. Hy 3301, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, its head and two males on a slide. GONIOGASTRELLA new genus of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Differs from Goniogaster Mayr in that the hypopygium is not prominent, the mandibles bear two acute teeth, the pronotum is quite normal, transverse linear and convex as seen from above, by far not as large as either the meso- or metanotum. The antenne bear an additional club joint, the fourth joint distinct but small; antennze 13-jointed with two ring-joints. Segments of the depressed abdomen produced ventrad and widening. Coxe long, conical, the tibiz not quite as long as their respective femora, the caudal coxa very long, as long as the cephalic femur which is one and two thirds the length of the cephalic coxa. Mesepimeron not incised. Seutellum subconvex, simple. Parapsidal furrows complete, distinct. Postmarginal vein nearly as long as the marginal, the shorter stigmal curved. Ovipositor extruded for nearly twice the length of the body. Caudal tibial spurs double, slender. Axille widely separated. First tarsal joint short in cephalic legs, long in the others. 1. GONIOGASTRELLA CAUDATUS new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 2.50 mm., excluding ovipositor. : AMneous green, the wings hyaline; proximal half of abdomen ventrad and _ slightly dorsad, legs and scape pale yellow; rest of antenna black. Thorax densely reticulated, the lines not raised, the propodeum smoother, noncarinate. Pedicel a little longer than any of the funicle joints which are subequal, each a little longer than wide; scape slender. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland (type) and Bachelor, Northern Territory. Jungle. Associated in figs with Idarnomorpha subenea Girault. November. Types: No. Hy 3302, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. A common species in the jungle at Gordonvale, mid-November. GreNuS PHILOTRYPESIS Foerster. 1. PHILOTRYPESIS LONGIVENTRIS new species. Female. Length, 2.75 mm., excluding the ovipositor and extended part of abdomen. Brownish black, the legs yellowish brown, the wings hyaline; sides and venter of abdomen yellowish brown. Seape concolorous with legs, the flagellum black, the black pedicel subequal to the first funicle joint, the next two funicle joints (2 and 3) subequal, each a little shorter than 1; AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII—GIRAULT. 283 distal funicle joint a little longer than each of the three club joints. Clypeal area yellow. Mandibles bidentate. Body, including propodeum and abdomen, finely scaly, the propodeum without a median carina. Postmarginal vein twice the length of stigmal; ovipositor twice the length of the tubular part of abdomen, as long as the body. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, June 4, 1913. Lype: No. Hy 8303, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a slide. A second female March 29, 1914, jungle at Halifax (Ingham), Queensland and one at Gordonvale, April, 1913. The propodeal spiracle is minute and far caudad; ventral half of the face yellowish. 2. PHILOTRYPESIS SILVENSIS new species. Female :—Length, 2.50 mm., excluding segment 7 of abdomen and ovipositor. Golden yellow; abdomen with a broad median stripe of black, commencing out from base and running to about the middle where a complete narrow cross-stripe terminates it; about its middle it projects laterad; a little farther distad another cross-stripe, twice broader than the other and obtusely conically prolonged distad at the distal meson. An elongate spot at meson. Also the meson of the tube which is somewhat longer than the rest of the abdomen, the portion of the ovipositor beyond it a little longer than the body. Scape four times the length of the pedicel, yellow, dusky toward tip; rest of antennew black; funicle 1 longest, a little longer than the pedicel, the distal joint longer than wide. Mandibles bidentate. The first funicle joint is distinctly longer than wide (in angela it is quadrate). Like the other species. Seven females from a fig, in jungle, January 21, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3304, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the head on a slide, 3. PHILOTRYPESIS ANGELA new species. Female. Length, 2.26 mm., excluding the black ovipositor which is nearly as long as the body. Deep pinkish orange, the wings hyaline, the legs and scape concolorous, the flagellum dusky. Three transverse black spots across meson of abdomen, the first (proximal) smallest, all more or less triangular; also a black dot at meson, apex of fifth segment and which is nearly joined to the narrow, black dorsal surface of the (following) two produced or tubular segments of which the apparent second is shorter. Postmarginal vein longer than the stigmal. Propodeum with three (apparent) delicate and obscure sulci at meson, separate; scutellum simple but together with the scutum with a median longitudinal impression. Thorax finely reticulated. Antenne 13-jointed, three ring and club joints, the funicle joints only slightly longer than wide and more or less equal. Mandibles bidentate. Habitat: Ayr, Queensland. Forest, November 6, 1912. Type: No. Hy 3305, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a shde. 4. PHILOTRYPESIS LONGICAUDA new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Female. Almost exactly similar to angela but funicle 1 is plainly longer than wide, the club joints are less distinctly separated but the sutures distinct, the three ring-joints are concolorous with the scape while the three marks on abdomen along the meson are not transverse spots but round dots; the fourth (distal) one is V-shaped and then attenuate caudad along the meson to segment 7. The delicate sulci on the propodeum are obscure in both species. Habitat: Gordonyale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, December 4, 1915. Type: No. Hy 3306, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a slide. 284 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 5. PHILOTYPESIS IMMACULATA new species. Female :—Length, 3.80 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal to that of the body. Deep golden yellow, unmarked except the black median line of the tubular part of the abdomen; funicle and club black; funicle 1 subequal to the pedicel, a little longer than wide, the following segments but very little shorter. Mandibles with a weak, minute third tooth. Segment 2 of abdomen longer than 3, its caudal margin with a slight incision at meson. Allied with angela. From one female caught by sweeping bushes, October 10, 1915 (G. F. Hill). Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. Type: No. Hy 3307, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on a slide. The species agree with Ashmead’s diagnosis but in longicauda it was noticed that the long tubular segment of the abdomen is single and segment 7 apparently, segment 6 not tubular and black along the meson only, the V-shaped black marking at base of segment 5. Segment 7 is also black along the meson and is tumid toward tip, thus giving an appearance of two segments at the tumid place but there is no articulation there, seemingly. PARACOLYSTICHUS new genus. Female:—In Ashmead’s table of genera (Ashmead, 1904) running to Colystichus Mayr but the antennze are inserted in the middle of the face, the joints normal, the abdomen is. greatly compressed, seen from the side much convexed above, from dorsal aspect forming a line or nearly, the valves of the ovipositor distinctly extruded but barely for more than a sixth or seventh of the length of the abdomen which is longer than the rest of the body. Propodeum very short at the meson. Mandibles tridentate. Parapsidal furrows delicate, curved laterad. Postmarginal and stigmal veins well developed the former distinctly the longer, only about a fourth shorter than the marginal. _ Hind tibial spur single, long and slender, as long as the first tarsal joint (only one hind leg seen). 1. PARACOLYSTICHUS COMPRESSIVENTRIS new species. Genotype. Female :—lLength, 1.20 mm. Dark reddish coppery, the sides of the abdomen dark eneous green, the wings hyaline; tibie and tarsi pale yellow except the former dorsad. Antennz wholly black, also the valves: of the ovipositor. Thorax finely reticulated. Scape cylindrical, pedicel oval, somewhat longer than any of the funicle joints all of which are a little wider than long and subequal. Club without a terminal spine, conic ovate, not much enlarged. Abdomen sculptured like the thorax, the segments not greatly lengthened, 2, 6 and 7 longest. Described from one female captured on a window in a forest clearing, April, 1912. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3308, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag, the head and a hind leg on a Slide. 2. PARACOLYSTICHUS AMPLIPENNIS new species. Female :—ULength, 1.30 mm. Very similar to compressiventris Girault but a little larger, the scutellum bears scattered thimble punctures (only one or two on compressiventris), the antennal joints are a little stouter, the scape is yellow at proximal three fourths and the fore and hind wings are very much broader, being the characteristic of the species. Thus, the fore wings bear about thirty lines. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII.—GIRAULT. 285 of fine, indistinct discal cilia (only about eighteen in compressiventris). Also, the postmarginal vein is as long as the marginal. Hind tibial spur single, long and slender. From one female captured on the window of a wool warehouse, October 30, 1911. Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. : Type: No. Hy 3309, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above female on a slide. EPICOLYSTICHUS new genus. Female :—Exactly similar to the preceding but there are three ring-joints instead of two, the antenne 13-jointed; also the abdomen is somewhat less compressed, the propodeum is somewhat longer and with delicate median and lateral carinew, the isolated small round spiracle central (apparently the same in the preceding but the spiracle larger and in its usual position cephalad but I could not be certain). The hind tibizw bears two spurs of which one is long and slender as in Paracolystichus, twice the length of the other. Otherwise, the two agree. 1. EPICOLYSTICHUS HREICORPUS new species. Female :—ULength, 1.25 mm. Like the preceding species but the thorax less coppery or brown, the tibiz and tarsi reddish brown and the scape yellowish except at distal third. The antennew very similar. Lateral ocellus distinctly not touching the eye margins. Abdomen sculptured much like the thorax. From six specimens found on flowers of a forest tree, January 4, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Types: No. Hy 3310, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, three specimens on a tag, a head and hind leg on a slide. GENUS TRICHAULUS Mayr. 1. TRICHAULUS AENEICORPUS new species. Female :—Length, 1.33 mm., excluding ovipositor. Dark neous, the wings hyaline; knees, tibiz and tarsi pale and distal portion of femora. Antenne and ovipositor black. Thorax and abdomen uniformly scaly reticulate. Flagellum clavate; funicle 1 twice the size of either ring-joint, increasing in size, 5 longest, shorter than the pedicel. With the habitus of Hupelmus; slender. Antenne 13-jointed with three ring- joints, the funicle joints wider than long, the club 3-jointed. Parapsidal furrows complete. Secutellum convex, simple. Mandibles weakly tridentate. Stigmal vein with a short neck, a fourth the length of the marginal, a little shorter than the postmarginal. Abdomen sessile, — elliptical oval (dorsal aspect), segments 2 and 6 together occupying three fourths of the surface, 2 longest, their caudal margins incised at meson; ovipositor not quite as long as the body; segment 2 occupying a third of the surface, 6 not much shorter than it. Propodeum noncarinate, plane, the spiracle round, cephalad. Mesepimeron not incised. Hind tibial spur single, small. Hind femur simple. Parapsidal furrows ending laterad before the pronotum. Front femur somewhat distinctly swollen but unarmed. From one female captured in forest, December 24, 1911. Habitat: Double Island (mainland) Cairns, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3311, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and hind legs on a slide. KOEBELEA new genus.* 1. KOEBELEA FUSCA Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 1.60 mm., excluding the ovipositor. Yellowish brown, the abdomen transversely striped with black except at base and tip; legs concolorous, the flagellum dusky, the wings hyaline; valves of ovipositor black; ocelli * Named by Ashmead but the type species was not described. For diagnosis, see Ashmead (1904). 286 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. in a distinctly curved line. Subpunctate, the propodeum weakly longitudinally striate centrally,. laterad with weak scaly sculpture; scutellum with a grooved line near each lateral margin. Antenne 13-jointed with two ring-joints, the club 3-jointed, terminating in a spur which has the appearance’ of being a true joint (if so a fourteenth joint); pedicel somewhat longer than any of the following joints, 3 of the funicle being subquadrate. Mandibles tridentate. Ovipositor very slender, curled. Postmarginal vein longer than the stigmal, which is subequal to the marginal. Axille with an ovate black spot in the cephalo-lateral angle. Ovipositor twice longer than the body. Habitat: Cairns, Queensland. Type: No. I. 1334, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 2. KOEBELEA CONCISIVENTRIS new species. Female:—Length, 1.70 mm., excluding ovipositor. Very similar to fusca Girault but at once differing in the length of the ovipositor which is only a third longer than the body, in the type species over twice the length of the body. Also, the head is wider, the abdomen flatter and broader, the antennz concolorous (not dusky black as in fusca) and the five black abdominal stripes are more distinct. The head and thorax in both species are scaly, the propodeum is noncarinate, glabrous medially and on each side of meson with the appearance of weak oblique strie (really streaks of lighter yellow). From several females reared with several of fusca from the same fig, jungle, January 16, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3312, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag with a female of fusca; head on a slide with a head of fusca. Idarnomorpha and Goniogastrella were also present in the fig with the two species of this genus. GeNusS IDARNOIDES Girault. Like Idarnes Walker but the scutellum without grooves, the antennze 12-joimted. with two ring-joints, the funicle joints mostly subquadrate but the first distinctly longer than wide. Mandibles bidentate. Marginal vein twice or more the length of the stigmal, the postmarginal long, nearly twice longer than the stigmal. Parapsidal furrows complete. Ovipositor longer than the body. Scutellum flat. 1. IDARNOIDES CHANNINGI Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 1.65 mm. ~ Deep metallic blue-green, finely polygonally reticulated; wings hyaline; scape and legs straw yellow, the pedicel brown; valves of ovipositor and flagellum black. Scape long and slender. Habitat: Cairns, Queensland. Types: No. I. 1336, South Australian Museum. PODAGRIONIN Zt. PODOGRIONELLA new genus. This genus differs from Podagrion Spinola in having the club solid and a transverse suture across the scutellum. The postmarginal vein is over twice the length of the stigmal. 1. PODAGRIONELLA FASCIATIPENNIS new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 5 mm., excluding the ovipositor. Dark eneous green, shagreened. Fore wings hyaline to subhyaline but with a deep purplish black, nearly straight fascia nearly across them, its distal margin taking in the short AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII.—GIRAULT. 287 stigmal vein. Antenne black, the distal third of the club whitish, the funicle brown. Caudal cox bluish. Proximad on the fore wing, at middle of submarginal vein, is an irregular cross-stripe of smoky brown; this may be absent. Funicle 1 longest, subequal to the pedicel, the two distal] joints barely longer than wide. Mandibles tridentate, the inner tooth much shorter and truncate, the outer two subequal, acute. Scutellum glabrous caudad of the trans- verse suture. Exserted portion of the ovipositor not as long as the body. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, December 2, 1912. Not abundant. Types: No. Hy 3313, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on tags, a head on a slide. ' 2. PODAGRIONELLA BELLA Girault. Female. Length, 2.25 mm., excluding the extruded ovipositor which is a little longer than the abdomen. Like Podagrion hyalina Girault but the legs all yellow-brown, the trochanters, tarsi, distal fifth of hind coxa and proximal half of hind femur, white. In the hind femur, a dusky spot at upper edge near distal third, the teeth black; prolongation of hind tibie somewhat longer and more curved than usual. Abdomen wholly purplish black, tegule yellow-brown; abdomen without a petiole but stalked. Funicle black-brown, the club black, the pedicel and scape yellow-brown. Posterior femora beneath with nine teeth, the last tooth yellow, the eighth tooth a mere tubercle, teeth 1, 3 and 4 longest of the black teeth, the ninth as large as 1 or nearly; teeth 5-8 a descending series of heights. First funicle joint longest, nearly as long as the pedicel, the last three joints plainly wider than long, joint 4 (funicle) quadrate; club plainly not as long as the funicle. Propodeum with irregular fovew, rugose, no median carina, the apex of the scutellum smooth and shining distad of the transverse suture, the head and thorax otherwise scaly and usual. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, May 11, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3314, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; an antenna and a caudal leg on a slide. 8. PODAGRIONELLA PENTLANDENSIS Girault. Female. Length, 5.10 mm., exclusive of ovipositor. Very similar to the type of the genus but the antennal club darkens at tip, the flagellum reddish brown, the pedicel darker. The abdominal petiole is shorter, very short, wider than long; the distal two funicle joints are slightly wider than long; the cross dash on the fore wing is the only fuseation present in these wings. The whole body is more robust, the abdomen stouter and longer. Otherwise, structurally, like fasciatipennis with which I have compared it but the postmarginal vein is plainly not twice the length of the stigmal.* Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Forest, January 6, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3315, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag and a slide bearing the caudal femur and the head. GENUS PROPODAGRION Girault. Differs from Podagrionella Girault in having the club 3-jointed and from Podagrion in bearing a cross-suture on the scutellum; the postmarginal vein is twice the length of the stigmal and the propodeum is concave and lacks a median earina. 1. PROPODAGRION WORCESTERI (Girault). Female. Genotype. Podagrion worcesterit Girault. Length, 2.75 mm., excluding ovipositor which is about the same length. Agreeing somewhat with washingtoni Girault in coloration but the legs are yellow- brown, the tarsi white while the yellow on the abdomen is dull and at sides and venter of base; * The femoral teeth appear to have been overlooked. 288 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. the fore wings have a distinct dusky, curved dash from the knob of the stigmal vein which extends about half way across the wing; it is not black, merely dusky. Posterior femora beneath with eleven teeth, all distinct, the first largest, then 5 and 7, 3 and 9; 2 and 11 smallest, then 4, then 6, 8 and 10 which are subequal, each not more than half the length of 1. Coxe green, the tibie dark except at tip, at base broadly ringed with yellow-white. First funicle joint much longer than the pedicel, the distal one somewhat wider than long; joints 2 to 4 rather long, 1 longest. Disk of propodeum without a median carina, shallowly concaved, the concavity punctate, without it the surface rugose and sulcate, the middle of the dorso- lateral aspect with a conspicuous oval and deep fovea whose long axis is longitudinal; punctures of propodeal disk about the same as those of the rest of the thorax. Scutellum smooth and shining distad of the transverse line or suture. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, May 11, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3316, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag and a slide with the caudal femora and the head. GENUS PODAGRION Spinola. 1. PODAGRION OBSCURUM (Westwood). Female. Palmon obscurum Westwood. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., IV, pt. 4, p. 260 (1847). Australia. 2. PODAGRION OLENUS (Walker). Palmon olenus Walker, 1839, pp. 7-8. ‘‘Fem.—Corpus longum, angustum, convexum, scitissime squameum, parum nitens, parce hirtum: caput transversum, breve, thorace paullo latius; vertex sat latus; frons excavata, abrupte declivis: oculi mediocres, non extantes: ocelli vertice triangulum fingentes: antenne clavate, crasse, apice quasi truncate, thorace non longiores; articulus 1% sublinearis; 2us longicyathiformis; 3us et 4us brevissimi; 5us et sequentes breves, transversi, usque ad clavam latescentes: thorax sublinearis: prothorax transversus, subquadratus, sat magnus: mesothoracis parapsidum suture non bene determinate: petiolus brevis: abdomen compressum, lve, nitens, thorace multo brevius et angustius: oviductus vagine pubescentes, corpore longiores: metapedum coxe magne, femora maxima ovata subtus dentata, tibie arcuate: ale medioeres. Sp. 1. Pal. Olenus. Fem. Aneo-viridis, antennae fulvae, abdomen subtus fulvum, pedes fusco-fulvi, femora viridia, alae limpidae. AMneo-viridis: oculi et ocelli rufi: antennae fulvae: abdomen cyaneo et cupreo-varium, subtus fulvum; oviductus rufus; vaginae nigrae: pedes fulvi; coxae virides; femora viridia; tibiae fuscae: alae limpidae. (Corp. long. lin. 2; alar. lin. 2%.) Sydney, New South Wales.’’ 3. PODAGRION SPILOPTERION Cameron. Female; male. Length, 3 mm.; ovipositor, 2 mm. Dark blue; abdomen dark violaceous, hind tibiz and femora black, tarsi testaceous, antennal scape fulvous; wings hyaline, nervures black, a large blackish-violaceous cloud on the marginal nervure, commencing near its base and reaching to near the apex, enclosing the stigmal nervure, becoming slightly, gradually widened to shortly beyond the middle, then roundly narrowed, the sides at the apex rounded, the centre transverse; it extends to the top of the apical third. Face closely, finely punctured; the punctures close and regular. Man- dibles darker red, brighter in tint at the base. Pro- and mesonotum and scutellum closely punctured; the scutellum with more distinct brassy tints; upper part of basal mesopleure strongly, obliquely striated, it forming a triangle, bordered below by a keel; the rest of it AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII—GIRAULT. 289 closely, finely reticulated. Propleure closely, finely punctured, more or less striated. Metapleure finely, closely punctured; there are, on the last femur, about six irregular teeth, the basal three larger and more widely separated; they are as long as the coxe, which are closely and more finely punctured than the femora. The male is similar. As is usual with metallic species, the amount of the brassy and _ rufous tints varies. The fore tibia may be testaceous at the base and apex, as well as below. Probably the femoral teeth vary in size and number, as | have noticed to be the case with other species. The apical joints of the antenne form a not very clearly defined club. The sides of the mesonotum are bounded by a smooth furrow, inside of which is a flatter one, double its width, which again is bordered on the inner side by an irregularly crenulated furrow. The central part is finely rugose, divided into two almost equal parts by a narrow smooth furrow; the apical part is depressed in the middle. Except for the large alar cloud, this species does not differ from typical Podagrion, which have long been known to live in the egg-cases of Mantis. 4. POCAGRION BENEFICIUM Girault. Female; male. Length, 2.5 mm.; with ovipositor, 5.25 mm. Dark bright metallic green with eneous and bright bluish tinges, the face brighter green; exserted portion of ovipositor black; antenne black, excepting the dark metallic scape which is rufous laterad and ventrad but sometimes wholly black or metallic; trochanters, knees, tibiz and tarsi rufous, the coxe and femora concolorous with the body, the caudal tibie blackish for distal four fifths; distal tarsal joint black, the posterior tarsi often pallid yellowish. Oral area black. Wings hyaline, the venation dusky. Teeth of posterior femora black; immediate base of abdomen more or less slightly rufous especially ventrad at proximal half. Eyes and ocelli concolorous, garnet. Mandibles black at tip. Bright metallie blue especially on the abdomen and legs. Lateral ocelli their own diameter from the eye margins. Head all over and. dorsal thorax densely polygonally sculptured or punctate, the punctures moderate to fine, the abdomen, coxe and femora polygonally reticulated, the sides of the pro- and mesothorax more roughly so. General suture fine but distinct. Head, antenne and thorax bearing short, greyish, moderate pubescence; also on the posterior segments of the abdomen and the legs. Posterior femora with six large teeth and a seventh minute one just proximad of the fiith tooth. Metathorax with a conspicuous V-shaped median carina whose apex is at the meson cephalad; the large area cephalo-laterad of each branch of the carina is densely punctate nearly like the scutellum while the mesal area included by the two branches of the carina is the same but also traversed by an irregular, narrow median carina which sends off oblique shoots making the area rugose. Laterad, there are no carinw excepting a thin longitudinal one a slight distance laterad of the spiracle. The metathoracic spiracle is elliptical and slightly curved at one end, thus subreniform. A fovea is just caudad of it. Marginal vein of fore wing long but shorter than the submarginal, the postmarginal vein short but longer than the stigmal. Antenne 13-jointed, with one ring-joint which is distinet; funicle joints shortening distad, the distal two distinctly wider than long, the first two subequal, a fourth longer than wide, each slightly longer than the pedicel; joint 3 quadrate; joints 4 and 5 subequal, slightly wider than long while joints 6 and 7 are subequal, each slightly shorter than joint 5; club long, ovate, much wider than the funicle, its. three joints subequal in length and as long as the proximal joint of the funicle. Mandibles dentate. The male is the same but the funicle joints are all distinctly longer, the club not wider than the funicle or hardly so, its distal joint short; antenna lighter distad and the abdomen differs as it should for this sex in this genus. The proximal funicle joint is nearly twice longer than wide, longer than the second joint and none of the joints of the funicle are wider than long. T 290 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Mantid eggs in forest, July 4, 1912. Types: No. Hy 1170, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two pairs on separate tags. Eleven females of beneficiwm reared from a mantid egg case found on an Eucalyptus tree in forest at Gordonvale, Queensland, April 12, 1913. Examined from them 21 femora and 20 antennee. The femoral teeth were six in number 18 times when the formula was from proximaa —long, short, long, short, long, long; tooth 4 always distinctly shorter than 5, tooth 2 shortest. Five teeth occurred in one case (asymmetry), the small second tooth absent. Seven teeth occurred in the remaining two cases and were asymmetrical—in one the formula was long, short, long, short, short, long, long (with 2 longer than 5, here extra); in the other the formula was long, short, short, long, short, long, long (with 2 shorter than 5). In this species six teeth seem usual; the distal two teeth usually about equal in length but the last distinctly broader at base. The twenty antenne showed no marked variation, the distal two funicle joints always distinctly wider than long, the proximal two longer than wide. Thus, in this genus, the antennal characters seem to be a better specific character than the form and number of femoral teeth, though in the latter the range of variation, perhaps, is not great and a deviation of three or four (as regards number) in either direction from a known formula would be indicative of specific distinctness. A twelfth female of beneficiwm captured December 2, 1912 by sweeping in forest at Gordonvale showed no antennal variation but asymmetrical development of the femoral teeth, there being six teeth on one of the usual formula and seven on the other, the formula of the latter similar to one of the previous formule of this number of teeth. 5. PODAGRION WASHINGTONI new species. Female. Length, 5. mm., excluding ovipositor. At once distinguished from beneficium Girault by the fact that the posterior femora beneath bear more than seven teeth, the antenne are reddish brown, the median carina of the propodeum divides at a point at about half way to the middle from base, the rufous femora of the first two pairs of legs, in the distal two funicle joints being slightly longer than wide and in general coloration. Differs from olenus Walker in having the first two pairs of femora rufous, Brassy metallic green, the abdomen (dorsal aspect) with a broad orange yellowish band encircling it just out from (not immediately at) base, ventrad yellow along proximal half or more, the petiole very short, the ovipositor long and brown, the valves black; coxee dark, fuscous toward tip, the rest of the legs except posterior femora, reddish brown. Venation dusky, the’ wings hyaline. Antenne dusky brown, the flagellum uniformly colored, the funicle joints all slightly longer than wide but shortening slightly toward apex in succession, the club joints unequal, the club slightly enlarged. Densely punctate, including the propodeum; the branches of the median carina run nearly laterad ending in the lateral margin and joining it which is carinated (dorsal aspect); several obscure, irregular carine from cephalic margin running short distances caudo-laterad, one apparently going into the branch of the median carina. Metallic part of abdomen shining, with a polygonal or scaly sculpture. Knees and tarsi whitish, the posterior tibie darker centrally. Posterior femora beneath with nine teeth, the first large and acute, the third, fifth, sixth and seventh smaller, moderate, more or less equal, teeth 2 and 4 smallest, 4 only half the size, or less, of 2; teeth 8 and 9 together forming a large mound-like projection, incised along its tip to form the two teeth, the base of the two more than twice the length of the base of the tooth and proximad near base of the proximal side are two minute pimple-like teeth or projections, rather obscure and not enumerated as distinct teeth. Habitat: Pentland, Queensland. Forest. January, 1912. Type: No. Hy 3317, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Respectfully dedicated to Booker T. Washington, AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CH ALCIDOIDEA, XII—GIRAULT. 291 6. PODAGRION PAX Girault. Female. Length, 3.10 mm., exclusive of ovipositor, which is longer. Like beneficium Girault but the seven teeth of the posterior femora different; thus teeth 4 and 5 are nearly equal, 4 a little longer, tooth 2 is smallest, while 1, 3, 6 and 7 are longest, 1 acutely, 3 obtusely, conical; all of the teeth distinct. And the segmentation of the antenna is different, the penultimate funicle joint longer than wide, the ultimate subquadrate, the first two funicle joints distinctly more than a fourth longer than wide, nearly twice longer than wide, while joint 3 is subequal to them. The club is large as in species of Polynema. Type re-examined. Corrected description. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. From mantid eggs, forest, April 27, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3318, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head and a caudal leg on a slide. 7. PODAGRION PAVO new species. Female :—Length, 3.20 mm., excluding the exserted part of the ovipositor which is about the same length. Dark metallic green, the propodeum, hind cox and abdomen bluish, the wings hyaline; seape, middle of funicle, venter of abdomen, tibiz, tarsi, trochanters and knees brownish yellow; rest of antenne black or nearly. Propodeum with a distinct V-shaped carina whose apex is at base and a carina laterad of the spiracle. Club somewhat enlarged; joints 1 and 2 of funicle subequal, each shorter than the pedicel, a little longer than wide; distal funicle joint over twice wider than long; ring-joint distinct. Hind femur with six teeth—large, small, large, large, large, small from proximad; teeth 3 and 4 longest, subequal. Body with the usual sculpture, the seutellum and axille smoother, scaly, the scutellum smooth at apex. Hind femur, mesal aspect, reddish yellow. Male:—Length about the same. Totally different in color, very brilliant. Bright metallic green, the antenne, legs and abdomen (orange) bright yellow; a large oval spot at base of hind coxa laterad and distal fourth or more of abdomen above metallic green. Hind tibizw reddish brown, black centrally. Hind femur with three large teeth. Antenne 13-jointed, slenderer, the funicle joints all subquadrate after the first two which are as in the female. Described from two males, four females on a card labelled ‘‘ 22. Bred from eggease of Mantis, Tinodera australiana Leach. 22 9, 2 g, 15-38-1903. J.A.K.”’ Habitat: Melbourne, Victoria. Types: The above specimens; male and female antennz and a female hind leg on a slide. In the National Museum, Melbourne. The species derives its name from the gaudy colours of the male. The host is the common Tenodera australasie of Leach. Later, four females were found on a ecard in the same collection labelled ‘‘ 88. March 19, 1903, Melb.’’ and reared from the same host. The four hind femora of the males showed no variation in the number of teeth and none was found in the female specimens except slight differences in size. 8. PODAGRION GROTII new species. Female :—Length, 3.50 mm., excluding the very long ovipositor which is over twice the length of the body. - Distinguished from the other Australian species by the extremely long ovipositor. From beneficium, which it resembles in color, it differs in having the seventh tooth of the hind femur large, 6 and 7 shortest and subequal, confluent broadly at base; also the median carina of the propodeum does not branch until near the apex of that region (or caudad); the distal two funicle joints are distinctly longer than wide and the first funicle joint is very much longer than the pedicel, joints 1-5 subequal, longest. Distal club joint distinctly shorter than the proximal. From washingtoni, it may be distinguished by the forking of the median carina 292 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. of propodeum farther caudad in this species, the lesser number of femoral teeth and the different coloration. From pax it differs in having the femoral teeth very different and the club not noticeably enlarged. Male:—The same but the second femoral tooth is very small. Described from one pair taken from a mantid eggmass on the foliage of Careya in forest, near jungle, June 15, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3319, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above female on a tag, the head and a hind leg on a slide. Dedicated to Hugo Grotius. 9. PODAGRION BATESI new species. Female :—Length, 2.50 mm. excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal to that of the body or nearly. Colored like beneficium Girault nearly. Teeth on caudal femur six in number, from proximad, large, small, large, large, large, small; teeth 2 and 6 shortest, subequal, 3 and 4 longest. subequal. Pedicel somewhat longer than funicle 1; funicles 1-3 quadrate, subequal, 4 wider than long, a little longer than 5, 6 or 7 which are subequal, distinctly wider than long- Club two thirds the length of the funicle. Differs from beneficiwm Girault in bearing but six teeth on hind femur, in having the scutellum smoother at apex, the propodeum uniformly punctate, the distal four funicle joints wider than long, the wholly brown antenna. Median carina of propodeum V-shaped, diverging widely from base (cephalad). Differs from pavo in the different color of the male, in not having the mesal surface of hind femur reddish brown, in having the antennee wholly brownish and so on. From pax in lacking a minute tooth dorsad at proximal third of hind tibia, in not having the seutellum uniformly sculptured to apex, in having the propodeum between the arms of the median carina sculptured with dense punctures not rugulose; also in the shorter distal funicle joints. The single specimen of the male was lost just before describing it but the male is colored much like the female except that the abdomen bears much rufous dorsad. The teeth on the hind femur were not seen. From a single specimen taken from a mantid eggcase, April 19, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3320, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. Dedicated to Henry Bates. 10. PODAGRION HYALINA (Girault). Female. Podagrionella hyalina Girault. Length, 2.20 mm., excluding ovipositor which is black and longer than the body. Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline. Venter of abdomen and the legs, excepting coxe- and the posterior femora, reddish brown, the coxe concolorous, the caudal femora with more or less metallic green. Antenne fuscous, the scape metallic toward tip. Posterior femora with eight teeth, fae third one minute, barely indicated, the others distinct, the first longest. Distal funicle joints wider than long, the club enlarged, deep black. Petiole of abdomen very short. Propodeum without lateral carine, the median carina V-shaped from base, each arm running meso-caudad. Stigmal vein very short. Postmarginal vein only somewhat longer than the stigmal. Scutellum glabrous at apex. Type re-examined. Habitat: Longreach, Queensland. Type: I.1256, South Australian Museum. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII.—GIRAULT. 293 GeNuS PACHYTOMOIDELLA Girault. This genus differs from Podagrion Spinola in having the club solid and enlarged, the distal four funicle joints transverse, the club as long as the funicle. The scutellum lacks the cross-suture before apex and the postmarginal vein is only a little longer than the stigmal. Corrected description. 1. PACHYTOMOIDELLA MAGNICLAVUS Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 3 mm., exclusive of ovipositor which is not quite as long as the body, Metallic wneous green, the venter of abdomen, the tibiw, the scape, pedicel and funicle, brown; club and valves of ovipositor black. Wings hyaline, the postmarginal vein short but nearly twice longer than the stigmal. Posterior femora beneath with seven large teeth. Polygonally sculptured. Median carina of metathorax and propodeum divided just out from origin, then diverging. Scutum rougher, punctured. Antenne 11-jointed, the club large and ovate as in Polynema, as long as the funicle whose first joint is longest, subquadrate, the distal four funicle joints more than twice wider than long. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, April 5, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3321, Queensland Museum, Erisbane, the female on a tag. GENUS PACHYTOMOIDES Girault. Differs from Podagrion Spinola in lacking a ring-joint in the antenne; the sculpture of the scutellum at apex is abruptly smoother indicating the cross-suture. 1. PACHYTOMOIDES MIRUS Girault. Female. Genotype. Length, 5 mm., excluding the long, slender aud curved ovipositor which is fully 7 mm. long. (See the third species. ) Bright metallic green, the propodeum and head metallic bluish, the abdomen red except broadly at base above, the fore and intermediate legs brown including their coxe, the posterior legs reddish brown at the knees, tarsi, tips of tibix, proximal two thirds of the swollen femur and distal third of the long subtriquetrous posterior coxa. Ovipositor very thin, fuscous, its valves black. Fore wings irregularly, lightly stained with brownish, the venation black. Eyes red, the ocelli darker red. Antennw with the scape and pedicel brown, the remaining joints black. Head and thorax very finely reticulately punctate; abdomen tapering at base but not petiolate, strongly compressed. Ocelli distant from the eyes. Pro- podeum with larger reticulate punctures, its dorsum rounded, without a median carina. Post- marginal vein twice the length of the stigmal, the marginal very long, not much shorter than the submarginal. Distal fourth of scutellum and the mesopostscutellum smooth but finely closely polygonally reticulated. Proximal abdominal segments with very minute pin-punc- tures, the distal segments glabrous. Posterior coxa seulptured like the postscutellum, the posterior femur beneath armed with nine large, black, unequal teeth, the first (proximal), eighth and ninth largest, the latter stoutest, triangular, tooth 8 longest, columnar, the seventh next to the shortest, paired, that is a bidentate erect plate, the two dentations here counted as separate teeth though united at base, the two teeth equal; teeth 4 and 5 unequal, also more or less united at base, tooth 2 shortest, obtuse, nipple-like. Antenne inserted in the middle of the face, 13-jointed, the funicle filiform but its distal joint widening somewhat, becoming wider than long; scape simple, not as long as the club; pedicel somewhat longer than the first funicle joint; joint 2 of funicle longest, joint 3 next, the distal joint shortest; joint 5 subequal in length to the pedicel, the following funicle joints all shorter; club joints nearly equal, the distal one slightly the longest. Propodeum at apex carinated (a semicircle). Stigmal vein with a very short neck. Joints 2 and 3 of tarsi slender. Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. May 20, 1911 (H. Hacker). Type: No. Hy 1191, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female minutien-mounted, the antenne and a hind femur on a slide. 294 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 2. PACHYTOMOIDES QUEENSLANDICA Girault. Female. Length, 4 mm., not including the ovipositor which is fully as long as the body. At once differing from mirus in bearing eight teeth along the posterior femur of which the first, fourth, sixth and seventh are largest, the eighth with a very broad base, its distal side a long incline; teeth 2 and 5 subequal, 3 a little shorter, all distinct. Antenne yellow- brown, the club dark. Propodeum concolorous; first two legs wholly honey yellow, the posterior one purplish black, except tarsi, tips of tibia and the knees. Abdomen honey yellow except above just at base and along distal half; thus in general encircled by a broad band of yellow; valves of ovipositor black. Propodeum umbilico-rugoso-punctate, without carine dorsad, much rougher than the dense, fine punctation of the rest of the thorax. Teeth of mandibles fine, three of them distinct. Distal three funicle joints wider than long, the club as _long as the funicle. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, May 8, 1913. Type: No. Hy 3322, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag and a slide with the head and a hind femur. 38. PACHYTOMOIDES FRATER new species. Female :—Length, 3.85 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is a little longer than the body. Very similar to mirus but at once distinguished from that species by bearing on the abdomen at apex of proximal two thirds a distinct black, rather narrow encircling band (except across venter; in mirus there is a large crescent-shaped spot of black in the lateral - aspect at about the same distance from base). Also, the caudal femur bears but seven teeth, the first, sixth and seventh largest, 6 longest, columnar, 3 smallest, 2 next so, none paired. The distal two funicle joints are wider than long, joints 2 and 3 longest, subequal, 4 only a little shorter than 3; flagellum brown suffused with dusky, the club jet black. Otherwise about as in mirus. Compared with type of latter. From one female caught in forest on sand-ridges near coast, May 8, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3323, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; flagellum and a caudal femur on a slide. MEGASTIGMIN 2. There is an undescribed genus in this group like Megastigmus but the male antennz are very slender and with whorls of hairs. I was unable to obtain the female with certainty. Most of the genera bear, perhaps, two ring-joints, the first very short. GENUS NEOMEGASTIGMUS Girault. This genus is like Spilomegastigmus Cameron but the mandibles tridentate, the antenne 13-jointed, the club distinctly “3-jointed; one large ring-joint. Fore wings usually with a black spot appended from the stigmal vein. Secutellum simple, uniformly sculptured. 1. NEOMEGASTIGMUS LIVIDUS new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 2 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length somewhat over that of the abdomen. Black-blue, the legs (except the concolorous coxe) and the tegule yellowish white, the antenne similarly colored. Wings hyaline, the stigma darker than the spot beneath it. Thorax scaly but the lines more or less transverse. Valves of ovipositor brown-black. Propodeum rugulose, without a median carina. Posterior cox sculptured like the thorax, AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII—GIRAULT. 295 bearing also sparse, long, yellow-white hairs, the upper sides of the propodeum also thus clothed. Scape subobclavate, the pedicel longer than any of the funicle joints of which the first three are longest and subequal, the distal one plainly wider than long. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Associated with a cecidomyiid gall on Careya australis. Type: No. Hy 3324, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. 2. NEOMEGASTIGMUS COLLARIS new species. Female. Length, 1.35 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a length about equal to that of the abdomen. Like lividus but the ovipositor is extruded for a shorter distance and the pronotum is pale orange; also the legs are whiter. Head dark orange yellow. Abdomen subsessile. Habitat: Thursday Island, Torres Strait. Forest in March. Type: No. Hy 3325, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag and a slide. 38. NEOMEGASTIGMUS PETIOLATUS new species. Female. Length, 1.95 mm., excluding the black extruded valves of the ovipositor which are about two thirds the length of the abdomen. Orange yellow, the abdomen (its short, distinct petiole pallid), propodeum and distal third of seutellum lightly purplish black. Fuscous spot from stigma large, nearly a band across the wing. Caudal margins of segments 2-4 of abdomen incised at meson, the incision large, wide on segment 2, minute on segment 4. Cephalic legs (femur and distad) pale, the others concolorous with the abdomen but all tarsi pale, the antenne straw yellow. Funicle joints all shorter than the pedicel. Thorax densely reticulated and transversely lineolated. Habitat: Mackay, Queensland. Open fields in October. Type: No. Hy 3326, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. A second female from the foliage of Tristania, September 3, 1913 at Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland (E. J. Girault). 4. NEOMEGASTIGMUS FILIUS new species. Female. Length, 2.50 mm., excluding extruded part of ovipositor which is a little longer than the abdomen. Like collaris but much more robust, the ovipositor longer than the abdomen and the legs differ in that the coxw and the hind femora are brown. The nearly black dash from the stigma is longer and somewhat curved. The proximal funicle joint in this species is plainly longer than wide, 1-3 subequal, the others shortening somewhat, the distal funicle joint a little longer than wide. Pedicel slightly longer than the distal funicle joint. In collaris all the distal funicle joints are subquadrate, barely longer than wide and distinetly shorter than the pedicel, the distal funicle joint a little wider than long. The caudal margin of the pronotum in both species is concolorous with the scutum. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. December 19, 1911. Type: No. Hy 3327, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head with the slide type of collaris. 5. NEOMEGASTIGMUS SALTENSIS new species. Female. Length, 1.50 mm., excluding ovipositor. Like lividus Girault but the femora also concolorous and the extruded portion of the valves of the ovipositor are slightly shorter than the abdomen. Funicle joints 1-4 subequal, each barely longer than wide, the remaining widening and shortening a little in succession, joint 7 a little wider than long. Scutellum simple as with the other species. Propodeum not plainly seen. Pedicel distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints. 296 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. From one female captured in a forest pocket, September 12, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3328, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a slide. 6. NEOMEGASTIGMUS VARIUS new species. Female :—Length, 1.60 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal to a little over half the abdomen. Like petiolatus but the propodeum, head and first pair of legs are orange yellow, the cephalic tibia and all tarsi white. Thorax wholly orange yellow. Scape pallid. Pedicel longer than any funicle joint. Funicle 1 quadrate, smallest, 3 longest, somewhat longer than wide, 7 somewhat wider than long. Caudal margin of segment 2 of abdomen naked and with a very narrow incision at meson, the others entire. Propodeum about as in petiolatus and . rufithorax. Fore wing marked as in rufithoraz but the marking not as large and not so deep in color. From one female caught in forest, December 1, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3329, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on a slide. 7. NEOMEGASTIGMUS RUFITHORAX new species. A little more robust than petiolatus; distal half of scutellum, distal half of axille and the cephalic legs (except the white tibia) purplish black and sides and venter of thorax. Caudal edge of segment 3 of abdomen naked, not armed with minute sete as in petiolatus. Segment 4 of abdomen not incised. Occiput and venter black. In both species the propodeum bears numerous ruge from cephalic margin and there are no distinct median nor lateral carine but a half complete lateral carina from caudal apex. A small, dark spot between caudal margin of fore wing and the caudal end of the stigmal stripe. From one female caught in forest on sand ridges near coast, May 13, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3330, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. The black color in this species is very deep. A. NEOMEGASTIGMUS RUFITHORAX NELSONENSIS new variety. The same but scutellum wholly orange yellow, the caudal edge of segment 2 of abdomen is armed with short sete, the body a little less robust. From one female caught in forest. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3331, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type of the type form. 8. NEOMEGASTIGMUS HYALINUS new species. Female :—Length, 1.75 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a length nearly equal to that of the abdomen. Metallic blue green, the thorax transversely lined, the wings hyaline; knees, tibiw and tarsi pale lemon yellow; abdomen black blue except at base. Antenne black blue, the pedicel and funicle 1 subequai, distinctly longer than wide; funicles 2 and 3 subequal, a little longer than wide; funicles 6-7 subequal, a little wider than long. Propodeum and head densely scaly, the former noncarinate. Abdomen delicately scaly except segment 2 which is incised caudad at meson (segment 3 slightly so). Secutellum densely polygonally scaly. Otherwise as in the other species. From one female, May 12, 1914 caught in forest (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Chindera, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3332, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII.—GIRAULT. . 297 9. NEOMEGASTIGMUS AURITIBIZ new species. Female :—Length, 2.30 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal to three fourths that of the abdomen. E Agrees with the description of hyalinus but the scape is reddish brown at ventral half and funicle 1 is distinctly longer than the short pedicel which is no longer than wide; funicle 1 distinetly longer than wide, the following joints a little longer than wide, shortening slightly in succession distad. Propodeum dorso-laterad, about ventral half of the face, sides of abdomen {distal half) and upper hind cox, with rather coarse silvery pubescence. From one female caught in forest, September 2, 1914. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3333, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen in alcohol with type Atoposoma unguttatipes Girault. TABLE TO THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF NEOMEGASTIGMUS GIRAULT. Fore wings without a substigmal spot oS i .. The species hyalinus and auritibie. Fore wings with a substigmal spot. Wholly black-blue. Legs (except cox) and antennz white or nearly (caudal femur a little dusky) A lividus Girault.* The same but femora and cox concolorous a es aa .. saltensis Girault. Black-blue, the pronotum (except caudal margin) and head orange-yellow. Funicle joints subquadrate. Ovipositor extruded for a length equal to that of abdomen; legs pale .. collaris Girault. Ovipositor extruded for a length longer than that of the abdomen; cox and the hind femora brown ae Ate ahs me 35 Si: an .. filius Girault. Orange-yellow. Abdomen, propodeum and distal third of scutellum purplisk black; hind legs blackish petiolatus Girault; see varius Girault and rufithorax Girault. GENUS MEGASTIGMUS Dalman. Synonym: Xanthosomoides Girault. Subgenera: Megastigmus Dalman, Bootanomyia novum, Paramegastigmus noyum and Epimegastiqmus novum. SuspceNus MEGASTIGMUS Dalman. 1. MEGASTIGMUS DRANCES Walker. Female. Walker, 1839, p. 5. ‘¢ Sp. 1. Meg. Drances. Fem. Fulvus nigro-varius, antennae nigrae basi fulvae, oviductus vaginae abdomine multo longiores, pedes fulvi, alae limpidae. Fulvus, sub-nitens, scite punctatus, fere glaber: capitis vertex niger: os flavum: oculi et ocelli rufi: antennae nigrae; articulus 1"8 fulvus: thorax nigro per medium vittatus; meta- * badius new variety. Female :—Length, 1°50 mm., excluding ovipositor. Smaller than the type form and chocolate brown, the legs white except the brown cox and the slightly embrowned hind femur (the latter some- what blackish in the type form). Also, the substigmal spot is distinctly smaller, barely larger than the stigmal knob. Tegule white. In the type form the substigmal marking is conspicuous and distinctly larger than the stigmal knob. Reared at Gordonvale, Queensland, with the type form from cecidomyiid galls on tea-tree leaves, September 1,1912. Notype. The galls were pustular, reddish, subsetiform, solitary or in irregular groups on the surface of the foliage. 208) MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. thorax niger: abdomen laeve nitens: segmenta basi nigra: oviductus fulvus: vaginae nigrae, hirtae, abdomine multo longiores: pedes fulvi; coxae piceae; tarsi apice fusci; metafemora subtus piceo maculata: alae limpidae; squamulae fulvae; nervi fusci, basi pallidiores; stigma. piceum, rotundum, sat magnum. (Corp. long. lin. 13; lin. 23.) ’’ Habitat: Hobart, Tasmania. Type: Probably in the Natural History Museum, London. 2. MEGASTIGMUS BORUS Walker. Female. Walker, 1839, pp. 5-6. “< Sp. 2. Meg. Borus. Fem. Flavus fulvo et piceo varius, antennae piceae basi fulvae,. metathoran niger, oviductus vaginae abdomine non longiores, pedes flavi, alae limpidae. Flavus, sub-nitens, scite punctatus, fere glaber: caput postice nigrum; vertex fulvus: oculi et ocelli rufi: antennae piceae; articulus 1" fulvus: thoracis segmentorum disci fulvi; suturae piceae: metathorax niger: abdomen laeve, nitens; discus piceus, fulvo-fasciatus: oviductus fulvus; vaginae nigrae, hirtae, abdomine non longiores: pedes flavi; tarsi apice fusci: alae limpidae; squamulae flavae; nervi fusci, basi pallidiores; stigma piceum, rotundum, sat. magnum. (Corp. long. lin. 14; alar. lin. 23.) ’’ Habitat: Hobart, Tasmania. Tupe: Probably in the Natural History Museum, London. 3. MEGASTIGMUS IAMENUS Walker. Female. Walker, 1839, p. 6. “« Sp. 3. Meg. Iamenus. Fem. Fulvus piceo varius, antennae piceae basi fulwae, oviductus: vaginae corporis longitudine, pedes fulvi, alae limpidae. Fulvus, subnitens, scite punctatus, fere glaber: oculi et ocelli rufi: antenne piceae, basi fulvae: thoracis segmentorum suturae piceae: abdominis discus piceo fasciatus: oviductus. fulvus; vaginae nigrae, hirtae, corporis longitudine: pedes fulvi; tarsi apice fusci: alae limpidae; squamulae fulvae; nervi fulvi; stigma piceum, rotundum, magnum. (Corp. long.. tine ealars limes) i22 Habitat: Hobart, Tasmania. Type: Probably in the Natural History Museum, London. Ashmead (1900) makes the following statement concerning this species: ‘‘ Hab.— Sydney, N.S.W. Of this species Mr. Froggatt has sent one Q, bred from galls of Brachyscelis pileata and 4 Q specimens from a globular gall on Eucalyptus. The latter are considerably larger than the dimensions of the species as given by Walker but otherwise seem to agree well with his description and with the smaller form bred from B. pileata.’’ 4. MEGASTIGMUS ASTERI Ashmead. Female; male. Length, 3-4 mm.; ovipositor as long as the body, brownish yellow; smooth and shining except some delicate transverse striae on vertex, mesonotum and within the femoral impression on the mesopleurum; body clothed with some sparse black and white hairs. Metapleura with long white hairs; sutures of scutellum and metathorax, anterior margin of scutum, mesosternum,,. bands on dorsum of abdomen and ovipositor valves black or brown black. Antennae brown black; scape and pedicel brownish yellow; first five joints of funicle about twice as long as wide; seventh joint very little longer than wide. The males measure from 1.8 to 2 mm. and are like the females in color but there is. a dusky spot on the vertex inclosing the ocelli; the occiput, a band on anterior margin of mesonotum and metathorax black; flagellum light, the funicle joints scarcely one and a half times longer than wide. Habitat: Sydney, New South Wales. Associated with a dipterous gall on Aster ramulosus. Type: Cat. No. 4878, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Ne) =) AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CH ALCIDOIDEA, XII.—GIRAULT. 2 5. MEGASTIGMUS BRACHYSCELIDIS Ashmead. Female; male. Length, 2 mm. Black or dark brown; ovipositor a little shorter than the body; orbits broadly, lower part of face, pronotum, parapsides and sometimes the scutum, axille, a transverse line back of scutellum, mouth parts except teeth of mandibles and legs (except hind coxe), pale yellowish. Abdomen paler beneath and at apex. Antenne brown, scape pale beneath, flagellum subclavate, first joint of funicle about one and a half times longer than wide, the following joints gradually shortening, joint 7 a little wider than long. Stigma and venation brown; wings hyaline. Vertex and mesonotum delicately transversely striate, the scutellum and metanotum delicately shagreened. The male measures 1.80 mm. Black, shining; orbits and face ventrad of antenna, a transverse band on hind margin of pronotum, parapsides caudad, mesal suture of axille, extreme tip of abdomen and the legs (except the hind coxa), yellowish. Antenna brown, the funicle joints scarcely longer than wide. Wings hyaline, stigma and venation brown-black. Habitat: Sydney, New South Wales. Associated with Brachyscelis erista Olliff. Type: Cat No. 4879, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 6. MEGASTIGMUS SULCICOLLIS Cameron. Female. Length, 1-2.50 mm. Yellow; mesonotum, scutellum and abdomen tinged with fulvous, legs paler; flagellum darker, more fulvous, the apices of the joints narrowly black; wings hyaline, venation testaceous, the stigma long-conical. Tips of mandibles and ovipositor valves black. Extruded portion of ovipositor as long as the body. Smooth; thorax finely, closely transversely striated; a narrow, transverse furrow before the middle of pronotum and a shorter, wider, more distinct one at the apex. Thorax (except propodeum) sparsely clothed with longish, black hairs; propodeum more coarsely striated than the thorax. Base of mesonotum, base and sides of scutellum and of propodeum, the sides of the latter more broadly, base of the parapsidal furrows and the depressions at the sides of the mesonotum, black. Habitat: Richmond, New South Wales. Associated with galls on kurrajong. Type: Query. 7. MEGASTIGMUS MACULATIPENNIS (Girault). Female. Genotype ot XANTHOSOMOIDES. Length, variable but about 2.50 mm. excluding ovipositor, the exserted portion of which is about three fourths the length of the body. Pale cadmium yellow, the head, pronotum, legs and a transverse spot laterad of the mesopostscutellum (the spot cephalad of the propodeal spiracle) contrasting, lighter lemon- yellow; also more or less, the produced part of the ventral abdomen. Lateral suture of seutellum, the visible (dorsal, lateral) portions of the occiput and the cephalic margin of the propodeum, black. Dorsal aspect of abdomen suffused irregularly with brown. Venation black. Fore wings hyaline, the globe-like stigmal spot black. Discal ciliation normal and dense, the marginal cilia very short. Antennae yellow suffused with much black. Ovipositor brown, the valves black. Thorax delicately, transversely wrinkled. Funicle 1 widening distad, nearly twice longer than wide at apex. Scape yellow, black above. Lateral ocelli distant from the eye margins. Face subquadrate, wide. Propodeal spiracle elliptical. Funicle joints not much longer than wide, a little longer than the pedicel. Postmarginal vein nearly as long as the marginal. Abdomen sessile. Club 3-jointed. Propodeum noncarinate. Corrected description. Type re-examined. : Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Reared from galls. Type: No. Hy 1192, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a card. 8. MEGASTIGMUS TASMANIENSIS Girault. Female. ‘“ A Tasmanian species, black with a yellow collar, was labelled ‘ Reared from larvae of flies attacking Helichrysum scorpioides. R. A. Black.’ They were accidentally destroyed. 300 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. lfewever, the collar and the legs (except cox) and the lower third of the face, lemon-yellow. Antenne brownish, the first funicle joint only a third longer than broad.’’ Type: I. 1257, South Australian Museum, one slide with posterior legs, antenna and two heads. 9. MEGASTIGMUS LONGICAUDA Girault. Female. Length, 2.85 mm., excluding ovipositor. Like ELpimegastigmus fulvipes but much less robust, the ovipositor greatly lengthened, distinctly much longer than the whole body. The first funicle joint twice longer than broad, subequal to the pedicel, the second somewhat shorter. Pedicel long. Habitat: Port Lincoln, South Australia. Type: I. 1258, South Australian Muesum. 10. MEGASTIGMUS FUSCICORNIS Girault. Length, 2.40 mm., exclusive of ovipositor, which is distinctly shorter than the body. Like maculatipennis but the propodeum black, the pedicel of the antenna short and equal to the first funicle joint, which is about a fourth longer than wide at apex, subequal to funicle 2; also the ovipositor is shorter. Habitat: Burnie, Tasmania. Type: TI. 1259, South Australian Museum. 11. MEGASTIGMUS SPECIOSUS new species. Female. Length, 2 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a length somewhat longer than that of the abdomen. Variegated; valves of ovipositor black. Head all black except the orange vertex and upper half of face; pronotum lemon-yellow; mesonotum orange-yellow; sides and venter of thorax, the whole of the propodeum, cephalic margin of scutum and three dorsal, rather broad cross-stripes on abdomen (not including a little black across base) black, the abdominal stripes central, occupying the surface except at either end. Legs pale yellow, the wings hyaline, the antenne missing. Mandibles tridentate, the scutellum with a cross-furrow. Proximal stripe of abdomen longest, closer to base than the distal stripe is to apex. Otherwise yellow. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, July 24, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3335, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag. 12. MEGASTIGMUS FLAVIVARIEGATUS new species. Female. Length, 1.35 mm., excluding ovipositor which is exserted for a length somewhat over that of the abdomen. Pale lemon-yellow, the vertex suffused with orange, the mesonotum deep orange; a little less than the basal half of the abdomen washed with dusky. Wings hyaline. Thorax along side of each axilla and the seutellum deep black. Cephalic and caudal margins of propodeum black. Antenne with the pedicel distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints, all of the latter a little wider than long and subequal in length, the distal joints a little wider. Prepectus and the sutures of lateral thorax black. Described from a female captured by sweeping in the jungle, June 7, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3336, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag and a slide with the head. 13. MEGASTIGMUS EUCALYPTI new species. Female :—Length, 2.25 mm., exclusive of ovipositor which is extruded for a length somewhat over half that of the body. Very similar to Epimegastigmus fulvipes but much less robust and there is a transverse orange-yellow spot on each side of meson of propodeum near cephalic margin; the pronotum, AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII.—GIRAULT. 301 moreover, is lemon-yellow, the dorsum of abdomen bears several more or less suffused black stripes on proximal half. Sutures of mesonotum narrowly black. Seutellum without longitudinal grooves or these are very faint. Mesothoracie venter black. Flagellum black; funicle 1 a little shorter than the pedicel, 1 somewhat longer than wide. Distal funicle joint a little wider than long. Sometimes, the propodeum is wholly black. Head lemon-yellow. From three females reared from galls on young Hucalyptus, November 21, 1910 (F. P. Spry) and labelled Nos. 1 and 2. From the National Museum at Melbourne. Habitat: Melbourne, Victoria. Types: In the National Museum, Melbourne, Victoria. Three females on a card. 14. MEGASTIGMUS FIELDINGI new species. Female :—Length, 1.46 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is three fourths the length of the abdomen. Runs to asteri Ashmead but the ovipositor is somewhat shorter, funicle J is quadrate or only slightly longer than wide, longest, while the general body color is orange yellow with the head, pronotum, margins of scutum and scutellum lemon yellow. Sutures of scutellum, cephalic margin of scutum and of propodeum (both narrowly) and the valves of the ovipositor, black; also a spot in the suture just cephalad of hind coxa. Four or five dusky cross-stripes dorsad on abdomen. Antenne yellow. What appears to be the male is much more heavily marked with black but with the same pattern except that the parapsidal furrows are also black. From many females reared from miscellaneous galls, forest, Gordonvale, October 15, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. g Type: No. Hy 3337, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on a tag. 15. MEGASTIGMUS ADELAIDENSIS new species. Female:—Like maculatipennis Girault but the propodeum wholly concolorous, the abdomen with about two black cross-stripes. Habitat: Adelaide, South Australia. Reared from a gall. Type: Lost. 16. MEGASTIGMUS MELLEUS new species. Compared with types of maculatipennis and flavivariegatus. Female :—Length, 1.65 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal to that of the abdomen. Runs to maculatipennis Girault but the body is smaller, the abdomen more rounded, the extruded part of valves of ovipositor much shorter, the body is uniformly honey yellow only the scutum and scutellum slightly tinged with orange. The abdomen is marked with four distinct black dashes across and along meson and the proximal two thirds of abdomen dorsad and. the extruded valves of ovipositor are black. The fore wing is characterized by bearing a subfuscous, round spot of rather small size from apex of the black stigma. Scape and pedicel orange, rest of antenne dusky yellow. Funicle joints shorter than the pedicel, 3 or 4 longest, each a little longer than wide and nearly as long as the pedicel, the others barely longer than wide. Scape obclavate. Scutellum with a line of three long sete along each side. From one female caught in jungle, July 11, 1914. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. : Type: No. Hy 3338, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type of jlavivariegatus Girault. 17. MEGASTIGMUS PERGRACILIS new species. Female :—Length, about 1.90 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a length nearly equal to that of the abdomen. Pale greenish yellow, the wings hyaline, the following black markings: Suture between pronotum and scutum, that between scutum and seutellum, that between scutellum and axille. 302 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. that between postscutellum and propodeum, a small area just mesad of wing insertions, cephalic margin of propodeum rather narrowly but more broadly than the suture just preceding it, apex of propodeum dorsad centrally; a narrow line down propodeum in the usual position of a lateral carina and a still narrower one farther laterad (dorso-lateral) ; neck of pronotum at apex above; a spot just dorso-cephalad of caudal coxa and a dot just dorsad of middle coxa; and four rather stout stripes across dorsum of abdomen, all confluent along the meson, a fifth stripe represented by a mesal round area just distad of the fourth; and valves of ovipositor. Funicle joints very gradually shortening distad, the first a little the longest, slightly or barely longer than wide, subequal to the pedicel. Funicle and club dusky yellow. Scutum, parapsides, axille and scutellum suffused with orange. From one female caught in forest, September 28, 1914. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3339, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen in alcohol with type Atoposoma unguttatipes Girault. 18. MEGASTIGMUS QUADRIFASCIATIVENTRIS new species. Female. Length, 1.70 mm., excluding ovipositor which is somewhat longer than the abdomen. Greenish yellow, the mesonotum orange yellow. The following black markings: A loop over center of occiput, cephalic margin of scutum, meson of propodeum very broadly and a very narrow line along in the position of a lateral carina, suture between pro- and mesopleurum and four distinct stripes across the abdomen, the first two rather close together at proximal fourth, 3 a little proximad of middle, 4 somewhat distad of middle. Flagellum dusky, the pedicel longer than any of the funicle joints of which the longest (joint 1) is subquadrate. Wings hyaline. Described from one female captured with pergracilis. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3340, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female in alcohol with type pergracilis. TABLE TO THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF MEGASTIGMUS DALMAN AND OF EPIMEGASTIGMUS GIRAULT.* FEMALES. (Ovipositor meaus extruded portion. ) I. Black or brown-black species. Ovipositor a little shorter than the body; orbits broadly, lower face, pronotum, parapsides, secutum (sometimes), axillaw, a transverse line back of scutellum, mouth parts and legs (except hind cox), pale yellowish. Funicle 1 about one and a half times longer than its width ~ a ie = Le bid ie .. brachyscelidis Ashmead. Black; pronotum, lower face and legs except cox, lemon yellow; antenna brownish; funicle 1 only a third longer than wide .. a = se .. tasmaniensis Girault. II. Yellow species. 1. Ovipositor distinctly longer than the body. Like fulvipes but less robust; funicle 1 twice longer than wide, subequal to the rather - lone spedicele a. -5 ate 2% oh ie A re .. longicauda Girault. 2. Ovipositor no longer than the body usually shorter. Head yellow. Propodeum wholly black or nearly so. Deep orange yellow; pronotum with the caudal margin narrowly lemon yellow followed by a narrow stripe of jet black across cephalic margin of scutum; meson of * Excluding two species of the latter which see. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII—GIRAULT. “303 thoracic venter black; face lemon yellow. Funicle 1 more than twice longer than wide. Abdomen not at all or but obscurely marked. Robust. Sutures of mesonotum not black. Scutellum with a narrow median and lateral era groove. Ovipositor distinctly longer than the abdomen (Epimegastigmus ) fuloi pes Gira The same but much less robust and there is a transverse yellow spot on each side of meson of propodeum cephalad; pronotum lemon yellow; dorsum of abdomen with several suffused blackish stripes across proximal half; scutellum without noticeable longitudinal grooves; sutures of mesonotum narrowly black. Funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide. Flagellum black st .. eucalypti Girault. Yellow; occiput, antenne except scape, sutures of thorax and disk of abdomen black or piceous. Vertex and disk of thoracic segments orange yellow (fulvous) ; ovipositor no longer than the abdomen - i ie .. borus Walker. Orange yellow (fulvous) ; vertex, flagellum, stripes on middle of thorax and proximal abdomen black or piceous. Ovipositor much longer than the abdomen. Mouth yellow. Middle femora feebly spotted with black ae .. drances Walker. Orange yellow, the head lemon yellow; caudal margin of pronotum narrowly lemon yellow. Pedicel subequal to funicle 1, the latter only about a fourth longer than wide at apex. Ovipositor distinctly shorter than the body. Like maculatipennis fuscicornis Girault. Propodeum mostly concolorous. Sutures of thoracic dorsum black. Orange yellow. Antenne piceous; scape orange yellow; abdomen with black cross- stripes. Ovipositor as long as the body. All thoracic sutures black : pergracilis Girault; see jamenus Walker, fieldingi Gicaelt, Brownish yellow; sutures of scutellum and propodeum, cephalic margin of scutum, mesosternum and cross-stripes on dorsum of abdomen, black. Funicle and club brownish yellow. Funicles 1-5 about twice as long as wide. Ovipositor as long as the body .. se a a Se AH .. astert Ashmead. Yellow; ‘‘mesonotum’’, scutellum and abdomen tinged with fulvous. ‘‘Base’’ of ‘“mesonotum’’, base and sides of scutellum and propodeum, the sides of the latter more broadly, ‘‘base’’ of the parapsidal furrows and the depressions at the sides of the ‘‘mesonotum’’, black. Ovipositor as long as the body suleicollis Cameron. Sutures of thoracic dorsum not black; orange yellow. Propodeum with a black stripe across cephalic margin which continues up to the tegula on each side of scutellum; pronotum paler, its caudal margin narrowly lemon yellow; abdomen with about three cross-stripes of black, more or less suffused. Head lemon yellow. Ovipositor distinctly longer than the abdomen .. maculatipennis Girault. See flavivariegatus Girault, adelaidensis Girault, melleus Girault. quadrifasciativentris Girault. Orange yellow, immaculate; scutellum with a median grooved line. Funicle joints longer than the pedicel, 1 over twice longer than wide. Ovipositor valves black. Robust a sis ¥: .. (Hpimegastigmus) grotiusi Girault. Head partly black. Orange yellow; pronotum and legs lemon yellow; valves of ovipositor, head except vertex and dorsal half of face, sides and venter of thorax, propodeum, cephalic margin of scutum and three dorsal, rather broad cross-stripes on abdomen, black. Ovipositor somewhat longer than the abdomen a oe .. speciosus Girault. 304 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. BOOTANOMYTA new subgenus. Like Megastigmus Dalman but the body partly or wholly metallic, frequently with thimble punctures. 1. BOOTANOMYIA SMARAGDUS new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 1.50 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length distinctly longer than that of the abdomen. Similar to viridiscutellum Girault but the scutum is almost wholly metallic green, the extreme cephalo-lateral angle showing a trace of yellow (in the species named, the cephalo-lateral angles of scutum are yellow, the green on scutum rectangular, longer than wide, its margins nearly straight cephalo-caudad); the thimble punctures on scutum are more numerous and the abdomen above wholly brownish. The thorax in both species is finely, transversely lineolated; the scutellum distad of the transverse line is glabrous in both and the ocellar area is metallic green with a cephalic projection from each side, forming a erude U on the vertex. Scape and pedicel in both colored above. The antenne are alike but smaragdus apparently bears two ring-joints, while viridiscutellum bears but one. Compared with type of the named species. Habitat: Roma, Queensland. October 6, 1911. Type: No. Hy 3341, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a slide. 2. BOOTANOMYIA PAX new species. Female. Length, 1.33 mm., excluding ovipositor which is a little longer than the abdomen. Dark metallic coppery green, the wings hyaline, the abdomen dark brown, the valves of the ovipositor nearly black; cephalic and intermediate legs pale yellow; the caudal coxe and the femora concolorous, the former diluted with brownish. Scutellum glabrous ecaudad of the transverse suture. Antenne with the pedicel longer than any of the funicle joints, dusky; first two funicle joints subequal, the distal three each a little wider than long. Thorax transversely lineolated, impunctate or nearly. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest (1,500 feet), May 26, 1912. Type: No. Hy 3342, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a slide. 8. BOOTANOMYIA VIRIDISCUTELLUM new species. Female. Length, 1.65 mm., excluding ovipositor whose exserted portion is slightly longer than the abdomen. Orange yellow, the pronotum and legs lemon yellow, the wings hyaline. Meson of pronotum triangularly (apex caudad), scutum, scutellum and propodeum bright metallic green, the abdomen at base above with two short, dusky greenish, cross-stripes. Scutum with sparse thimble punctures. Vertex with U-shaped green marking, the arms pointing cephalad. Thorax finely, transversely lineolated, the scutellum distad of the transverse line, polished. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, August 9, 1912. Type: No. Hy 3343, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a slide. 4. BOOTANOMYIA PERGRATUS new species. Female. Length, 1.80 mm., excluding ovipositor which is about as long as the abdomen. Like paz but all the legs conccolorous, the thorax with metallic green and purple reflections, the abdomen as dark as the thorax and the antenne concolorous and with the first two funicle joints a little longer than the pedicel. Moreover, distad of the transverse suture,. the scutellum is not glabrous but finely longitudinally striate like the rest of the sclerite. Antenne 13-jointed, the club 3-jointed, one ring-joint. Pronotum transversely striate, scutum variously striate. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, August 2, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3344, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a. slide. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII.—GIRAULT. 305 5. BOOTANOMYIA LONGIFASCIATA new species. Female :—Length, 1.36 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length slightly longer than that of the abdomen. Pale lemon yellow, the wings hyaline; a rather narrow metallic green line down thorax from neck to cross-suture on seutellum caudad of which it enlarges and becomes subtriangular ; propodeum with a large triangular metallic green area centrally, the base against its cephalic margin. Funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, somewhat shorter than the pedicel; distal two funicle joints distinctly wider than long; club distinctly jointed. Ocelli in a transverse metallic area. Abdomen with two short, metallic green cross-stripes at proximal half, the first somewhat prolonged at its caudal meson. Thorax transversely wrinkled, the scutellum caudad of the transverse suture polished. The thoracic median stripe is a little narrower on the scutellum cephalad of suture than on the scutum. It runs to apex of scutellum. From one female captured by sweeping in forest, August 28, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. ; Type: No. Hy 3345, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on a slide. 6. BOOTANOMYIA ASHMEADI new species. Female :—Length, 1.25 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal to that of the abdomen. : 1 cer Runs to longifasciata but somewhat smaller, the color darker yellow and differing principally in having the metallic green line down meson of thorax darker and broader, less uniform; in longifasciata this line is narrower on the scutellum (cephalad of cross-suture ) than on scutum but its width is uniform within the bounds of each sclerite; but in this new species, it distinctly widens caudad both on scutum and scutellum; on the latter its broadening thus leaves only the lateral margins of that region concolorous with the body; its (the line’s) broadening on the scutum makes that region entirely metallic green across the caudal part. In longifasciata the scutellum distad of the cross-suture is not wholly green, only broadly so along meson, in this species all that part of the seutellum is metallic green. The abdomen bears at least two cross-stripes but may be one or two more than that. Funicle 1 a little wider than long, distinctly shorter than the usual pedicel, the others gradually shortening and widening distad. Antenne pale yellow. From one female caught in forest, December 23, 1912. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3346, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. Dedicated to William Harris Ashmead. 7. BOOTANOMYIA AEREA new species. Female :—The same as pax but all coxe metallic green, the first two pairs of femora dusky, the last pair black and the hind tibia is black just below knees; the abdomen is black. In pax, the propodeum is brownish, metallic green in this species (also here the row of oval fovee along cephalic margin is deeper; both species bear a pair of converging median carine which curve off cephalad to form the caudal boundary of the line of spl Abdomen glabrous. Funicles 1-2 quadrate, much shorter than the pedicel. A second specimen had the propodeum on each side of median carina finely scaly, the body more robust and the abdomen humped or at the highest dorso-proximal part distinctly elevated triangularly. The specimen probably represents another species. From two females reared from galls ‘‘Gall No. 28, May, 1914, H. Hacker.’’ Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. ; Type: No. Hy 3347, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on ‘a tag, the body of the first and its head on a slide. Vv 306 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 8. BOOTANOMYIA SANGUINIVENTRIS new species. Female:—Length, 3.30 mm. excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal to that of the abdomen. Dark eneous green, the abdomen immaculate, blood red, the head golden yellow except the center of vertex which is eneous nearly to the eyes on each side. Legs honey yellow; antenne concolorous with the head, the pedicel and funicle dusky; scape triquetrous (prism- shaped, the three corners acute, the sides flat), reaching to the ocelli; pedicel subequal to funicle 1 which is a little longer than wide; joints 2 and 3 of funicle a little longer than 1, longest; distal funicle joint (7) a little wider than long; one ring-joint distinct, other not seen. Thorax rather coarsely transversely lineolated; scutellum glabrous distad of the cross-suture; one or two thimble punctures on caudal part of scutum. Thorax with soft whitish pubescence. Valves of ovipositor black; wings hyaline. Valves of ovipositor and hind tibie hispid. From one female labelled ‘‘ No. 38,’’ captured in jungle, October 10, 1913, G. F. Hill. Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. Type: No. Hy 3348, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on a slide. TABLE TO THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF BOOTANOMYIA GIRAULT. Wholly metallic. Dark coppery green, the cephalic and intermediate legs pale yellow; pedicel longer than any of the funicle joints, the first two of the latter subequal. Scutellum distad of ‘transverse suture, glabrous 5 3 .. pax Girault; see aerea Girault. The same but with greenish and purple petioctions, the legs concolorous, the pedicel a little shorter than funicle 1; scutellum distad of the transverse suture scluptured as densely as the rest of the sclerite .. = We By2 Be is .. pergrotus Girault. Partly metallic; yellow. Seutum with obvious scattered thimble punctures; scutellum distad of suture glabrous. Scutellum bright metallic green. Thimble punctures rather numerous; metallic green of scutum without straight lateral margins, broader cephalad; abdomen dusky above aie .. smaragdus Girault. Thimble punctures few; metallic green of scutum with straight lateral margins leaving more of the cephalo-lateral angle yellow. Abdomen with two metallic green cross- stripes oe xs ne 5 ee py ee sae .. vtridiscutellum Girault. Scutum without obvious thimble punctures. Thorax with a bright metallic green median stripe from neck to abdomen, this stripe dilating on the scutellum distad of the suture and on propodeum; abdomen with two green cross-stripes on proximal half. Scutellum polished distad of suture .. longifasciata Girault; see ashmeadi Girault, sanguinea Girne PARAMEGASTIGMUS new subgenus. Female :—Differs from Megastigmus Dalman in having the abdomen shortly petiolate and the club subsolid, the sutures nearly obsolete. Type: Spilomegastigmus flavus Girault. i. PARAMEGASTIGMUS FLAVUS (Girault). Female. Genotype. Spilomegastigmus flavus Girault. Length, 2 mm. excluding ovipositor which is slightly longer than the abdomen, the valves black. Wings hyaline excepting the stigma; abdomen with a distinct petiole, which, however, is not very much longer than wide. Honey yellow, the abdomen with about four transverse * AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII.—GIRAULT. 307 short stripes of black; legs and scape pale yellow, the flagellum dusky. Mesoscutum and scutellum transversely reticulated in polygons, the latter with a cross-furrow. Mandibles tridentate. Antenne slender, 11-jointed, the club solid, one ring-joint; all funicle joints longer than wide, the first three subequal, longest, much longer than the pedicel. Head smooth. Type ye-examined. 1 Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest. Type: No. Hy 3349, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. 2. PARAMEGASTIGMUS IMMACULATICORPUS new species. Female:—The same as the genotype but immaculate, somewhat more robust and the proximal two-thirds of ovipositor valves are brown, the rest black. Propodeum in both species with several cross-carine. Legs whitish in both species. Funicle 7 somewhat longer than wide. From one female taken in forest, November 30, 1913. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3350, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. EPIMEGASTIGMUS new subgenus. Female :—Differs from Megastigmus in bearing a median and usually a lateral grooved line on the scutellum all more or less abbreviated caudad. Type, the first of the following species. 1. EPIMEGASTIGMUS FULVIPES (Girault). Female. Genotype. Xanthosomoides fulvipes Girault. Length, 4.20 mm., excluding the ovipositor, the latter exserted for a length nearly equal to that of the body. Similar to Megastigmus maculatipennis but much more robust; also the pronotum is nearly as dark as the scutum, its caudal margin contrasting lemon yellow followed by a narrow black stripe running across the cephalic margin of the scutum; the propodeum is very dark, the meson of thoracic venter is black and in the preventer there is a distinct triangular black marking like the Greek letter delta of the capital case. The postmarginal vein is slightly longer than in maculatipennis, the apparent petiole of the stigma slightly longer. Vertex dark ochreous, the face lemon yellow. Wings large. Funicle 1 longer, cylindrical, more than twice longer than wide. The abdomen bears three dusky cross-stripes equally distributed. Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3351, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a ecard. 2. EPIMEGASTIGMUS GROTIUSI new species. Female. Length, 3.90 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is three fourths the length of the body or a little over. Orange yellow, immaculate, the valves of the ovipositor black; wings hyaline. Seutum with a narrow median groove, the propodeum with a median sulcus. Funicle joints all longer than the pedicel, the first over twice longer, the seventh but slightly longer, not much longer than wide; joints 2 and 3 of funicle subequal, only slightly shorter than 1 which is longest. Tre lateral groove on scutellum is most obscure or else absent. The male is very much smaller, the abdomen sordid, blackened at base above but otherwise the same. Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. Type: No. Hy 3352, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. 308 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 38. EPIMEGASTIGMUS QUINQUEFASCIATUS new species. Female:—Length, 3 mm., excluding ovipositor whose valves are extruded for a length equal to that of the abdomen. Honey yellow, the thorax dorsad orange yellow; the wings hyaline, the body marked with black as follows: Antenneze except proximal two thirds of scape, a few lateral and ventral thoracic sutures, lateral margins of propodeum, margins of abdomen from base not quite to apex, extruded valves of ovipositor (jet) and five cross-stripes on abdomen, evenly distributed,. the first two narrowly divided along the meson, the last two joined along the meson, the last across just within the ends of the marginal stripes, all moderately broad. Postmarginal vein about as long as the marginal. Only the median groove of scutellum is present. Funicle joints. all distinctly longer than wide, 1 somewhat the longest, nearly twice longer than wide, subequal. to the pedicel. Dorsal thorax with scattered black hairs. From one female caught July 11, 1914 in jungle. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3353, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 4. EPIMEGASTIGMUS TRISULCATUS new species. Female :—Length, 1.70 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length somewhat more than that of the abdomen. Dark red, the propodeum, caudal coxe, caudal margin of pronotum (the black preceded by a narrow band of lemon yellow), occiput, thorax on each side of scutellum caudad of axilla and most of mesopleurum, jet black; also ovipositor valves and stigma. Abdomen with two broad dusky cross-stripes, the second at middle, both rather broadly interrupted at meson. Legs brownish yellow. Flagellum black, the funicle joints as long as the pedicel, one and a half times longer than wide, the distal three shortening, a little longer than wide. Scutellum with three grooves, one median, all disappearing before apex. Propodeum with a long narrow median earina, finely rugulosely punctate. Postscutellum lemon yellow. Much smaller than. fulvipes, the hind coxe black. From one female labelled ‘‘Bred from gall No. 27, May, 1914, H. Hacker.’’ Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3364, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on. a slide. : BOOTANELLEUS new genus. Like Bootania Dalla Torre but the scutum and the rest of the thorax are metallic and with a scaly sculpture, the axille advanced. Mandibles tridentate. Abdomen sessile. Antenne 12-jointed, two ring-joints, the club solid. Propodeum without a median carina. Form small. 1. BOOTANELLEUS VIRIDISCUTELLUM new species. Female. Genotype. Length, 0.65 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length equal to that of the abdomen. Dull honey yellow, the scutum metallic green, the scutellum caudad of the transverse line metallic cyaneus, also the propodeum, the parapsides honey yellow; abdomen dull yellow; legs and antenne# honey yellow, the wings hyaline. Valves of ovipositor black. The seven funicle joints all smaller than the pedicel, the first a little the longest. Axille- metallic green. Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Forest, December 27, 1912. Type: No. Hy.3355, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a slide. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII—GIRAULT. 309 ORMYRIN 2. GENUS ORMYRUS Westwood. 1. ORMYRUS AUSTRALIENSIS new species. Female. Female :—Length, 1.60 mm. Short and compact. Dark metallic eneous green, the wings hyaline; tegule, tibi# and tarsi straw yellow, also the knees, the rest of the legs concolorous; segments of abdomen densely scaly, the first row of large punctures double, the second triple, the third or last quadruple. Antenne 13-jointed with two ring-joints, the club 3-jointed but not very distinctly divided. Mesonotum hairy, with very fine scaly reticulation. Antenne black, the pedicel longer than any of the transverse funicle joints. Propodeum very short, finely alutaceous, no median carina. Abdomen ‘suffused with brownish. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, April 3, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3556, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a slide. 2. ORMYRUS BICARINATUS new species. Female. Length, 1.50 mm. Differs from australiensis in bearing on the short propodeum a pair of median carine which are separated and the hind tibia are as dark as the femora, the other tibia washed more or less with metallic centrally. The general coloration is darker. The pedicel and funicle joints are longer. Both species bear a median carina along the distal half or more of the abdomen -and also fine oblique striz on the propodeum laterad of the meson. « Habitat: Harvey’s Creek (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, November 15, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). Type: No. Hy 3357, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on -a slide. 3. ORMYRUS CARINATIVENTRIS new species. Female :—Length, 1.50 mm. The same as bicarinatus but the femora and tibie are yellowish brown, the abdomen brown, metallic purple at base with cross-stripes of purple at the cephalic margin of each segment somewhat as in australiensis. The scutellum is purplish blue. One hind tibial spur stout and curved as in bicarinatus. Scape yellow; funicle 1 shorter than 6, both wider than long. From one female captured in jungle, March 6, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Cooktown, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3358, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on a slide. 4. ORMYRUS BICOLORIPES new species. Female :—Length, 1.65 mm. Like australiensis but the propodeum bears the two ecarine at the meson and only the cox and caudal femur are concolorous, the legs and scape reddish brown. Funicle joints a little shorter than the pedicel, all subequal and subquadrate. Tarsi white. From one female caught April 2, 1914 on jungle edge. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3359, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. Members of this group rarely shrivel except as regards the abdomen. The thoracic sructure of the Callimominze, Monodontomerine and Idarnine need careful comparison and it seems doubtful if Ashmead’s characters are universal or even usual. His groupings, however, are acceptable. Walker has described the following species: Torymus daonus, osinius and vibidia. 310 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA—xXIIL.* The Family Agaonide with Descriptions of Four New Genera, Six New Species, and One New Variety. By A. A. GIRAULT: Famiry AGAONID A. SuspraMity AGAONINA. Genus BLASTOPHAGA Gravenhorst. 1. BLASTOPHAGA INSULARIS new species. Female. Length, 1.40 mm., exclusive of ovipositor. This species runs to Idarnes Walker of the Idarninz but the scutellum without grooved lines, subquadrate and flat but the lateral margins carinated, concave and the others concave to some extent; axille very widely separated. Parapsidal furrows complete, narrow. Post- marginal vein about the length of the long and slender stigmal which runs nearly directly caudad. Exserted part of the ovipositor a little longer than the abdomen. Mandibles. bidentate; antenne 11-jointed, without a ring-joint, the third joint prolonged into a submem- braneous sheath, acute at tip, which surrounds the second funicle joint which is shortest yet longer than wide and subequal to the first which appears to be membraneous. Seape dilated, beneath with a tubercle-like tooth at proximal third. Joints of antennze beyond the second with numerous, flattened glume-like setee which project beyond the apex of each. Fore and hind legs swollen. Head quadrate. Middle club joint shortest, much wider than long, club 3 longest, somewhat longer than wide, with a minute terminal nipple. Brown, the wings hyaline, the legs concolorous except the tarsi which are yellow; funicle and club black, the scape (also pedicel) yellowish brown. Fore and hind tibize very short, much shorter than their femora or tarsi. Habitat: Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Queensland. Forest, March 12, 1912. Type: No. Hy 8361, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. GeNus PLEISTODONTES Saunders. This genus is characterised by the very long head which is two and a half times longer than wide. Head oblong, or very long, from two and a half to three times as long as wide, the facial channel narrow; mandibles at apex bidentate; antenne 11-jointed; the first funicle joint with a distinet process; marginal, stigmal and postmarginal veins fully developed. In the male the thorax is trapezoidal in outline; the antenne 6-jointed with three ring- joints; the cephalie tarsi 5-jointed. Body somewhat narrow. The cephalic tarsus not reposing in a suleus at the tip of the front tibia. Basal part of antenne not enclosed in a canal. * Contribution No. 36, Entomological Laboratory, Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, Bundaberg, Queensland. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XIII.—GIRAULT. 311 1. PLEISTODONTES IMPERIALIS Saunders. Genotype. Habitat: Australia. Fruit of Ficus macrophylla. 2. PLEISTODONTES NIGRIVENTRIS new species. Female. Length, 2.20 mm., excluding ovipositor which is exserted for a length about equal to that of the abdomen. Head not quite twice longer than wide. Postmarginal vein longer than the stigmal, the latter long. Orange yellow, the posterior margin of the head, flagellum, all of abdomen except at base, an hourglass-shaped marking down meson of pronotum and cephalic part of scutum (a smaller end cephalad; shaped like an inverted eggcup), a stripe across apex of thorax (about apex of scutellum), the tegule and a dot in a line longitudinally with them, cephalad (opposite the apex of the eggcup-shaped marking), jet black; also the valves of the ovipositor. Mandibles bidentate at apex (but 5-dentate), the antenne 11-jointed without a ring-joint, the scape hemispherically dilated (foliaceously). Third and fourth funicle joints subequal, longest, Jonger than the pedicel which is subequal to the distal funicle joint. Postmarginal vein longer than either marginal or stigmal, the latter shortest. Wings hyaline. Body glabrous. Pedicel wider than long; funicle 1 with the process which encloses 2, the latter longer than wide. Habitat: Mount Tambourine (type), Queensland and Tweed River, New South Wales. Type: No. Hy 3360, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a slide. CERATOSOLENSIA new genus. Female :—Agreeing with Ceratosolens Mayr but the antenne are only 10-jointed, the club 2-jointed, the last two funicle joints wider than long, no ring-joints; first funicle joint with a sheath-like process. Mandibles bidentate, the appendage serrate. Marginal, stigmal and postmarginal veins subequal. Spiracular fovea long, gougelike. Head somewhat longer than wide, without a tuberele. Ovipositor as long as the thorax and abdomen together. Male :—Differing from Ceratosolens in that the antenne are only 4-jointed. Mandibles strongly bidentate. Type: The following species. 1. CERATOSOLENSIA FICOPHAGA new species. Female :—Length, 1.60 mm. Fore wings very broad. Shining black, the distal third of the abdomen and the head suffused with brown. Wings hyaline. Legs yellow, the antenne brownish, the scape and pedicel darker. Fourth funicle joint longest. Body glabrous. Parapsidal furrows subobsolete caudad. Vertex and center of face yellowish. Pronotum pubescent. Intermediate femur dusky centrally. Male :—Length, about-3 mm. Apterous and normal for the subfamily. Rich yellow, the head chestnut brown, the pronotum brownish. Antenne and legs con- colorous with the head and body respectively but the former with extreme tip pale yellow; the antennz lie for nearly their entire length in what appears to be a closed canal; the first joint is stout, the second shortest, subequal in width to the two following, the third longest but not much longer than the fourth and last which is somewhat longer than the first; the second joint is only about two thirds the length of the first. Types re-examined. Described from several dozen specimens of each sex taken from a partly ripe fig, jungle, September 18, 1912. Also in January. 312 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. A number of male Sycophagines were also present and both sexes of the Jdarnomorpha described elsewhere. Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Types: No. Hy 3362, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two of the above females tag- mounted (two pins). PARACERATOSOLEN new genus. Female:—lLike Ceratosolensia Girault but the ovipositor not exserted, the scutellum with two grooved lines, the parapsidal furrows complete, distinct. Stigmal vein subequal to the marginal, the postmarginal somewhat longer than either, all well developed. Abdominal spiracle gougelike. Otherwise agreeing in detail but the antennz with one more joint. 1. PERACERATOSOLEN LATIPENNIS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 1.30 mm. Shining black, the wings hyaline, the venation black; legs, scape and pedicel (except at base) golden yellow; club rather whitish. Scutellum and base of abdomen dorsad, suffused with orange. Under sides and venter of thorax more or less golden yellow. Body glabrous. Antenne 11-jointed, the club distinctly 2-jointed, no ring-joint; joints 5 and 6 of funicle longest, 1 and 2 shortest, 1 with the appendage, 3 twice the length of 2, 7 much longer than wide, nearly as long as 6. Scape swollen, subacutely emarginate along central edge near apex. Pedicel rather thick, subequal to funicle 5. From two specimens from the same fig with Philotrypesis silvensis, taken in jungle, January 21, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). . Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3363, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag, the head on a slide. A. PARACERATOSOLEN LATIPENNIS LONGICLAVUS new variety. Female :—Length, 1.30 mm. The same as the preceding but the scutellum is concolorous, the venter of abdomen distad golden yellow, the club black like the rest of the antenne; characterised by the antennal club which is somewhat longer, more or less equal to the distal two funicle joints united (shorter in latipennis) and the two club joints are subequal (whereas in latipennis, the distal joint is short, distinctly shorter than the proximal). Described from one female, taken in jungle, April 27, 1913. One antenna on this female had the distal club joint short as in latipennis type yet the club was as long as that of the other antenna. Locality same as the typical form. NEOCERATOSOLENS new genus. Female:—Antennex 10-jointed, the club 3-jointed; first funicle joint with a sheath-like process; scape greatly flattened. Head much longer than wide, one and a half times longer than wide, with a deep median channel. Postmarginal vein subequal to marginal, each a little longer than the stigmal. Ovipositor extruded for two thirds the length of the abdomen. Head, thorax and abdomen subequal in length. Pronotum quadrate, somewhat longer than the scutum which is subequal to the seutellum. Parapsidal furrows absent. Hind tibiz wider than long, smaller than the hind coxa, the single spur stout and with a distinct notch (fork) at tip; the whole resembling somewhat a wrench. Body highly polished but with very minute punctures here and there. No ring-joint. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XIII.—GIRAULT. 313 1. NEOCERATOSOLENS NITENS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 3.75 mm., excluding ovipositor. Black, the ventral surface, legs, scape, pedicel and funicle 1 rich yellowish brown; wings hyaline. Pedicel quadrate, funicle 1 smallest, joints 2-5 subequal, each obeonic, each somewhat longer than the club joints and about one and a third times longer than wide at apex. Flagellum gradually thickening distad. From one specimen taken in the jungle, February 14, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Habitat: Babinda, Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3364, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag, the head on a slide. KRADIBIELLA new genus. Female:—Apterous. Head somewhat longer than wide, the antennz inserted at the mouth, 10-jointed, the scape greatly flattened and dilated, the first funicle joint with a horn- like process from its base, which also resembles somewhat a thumb bent backward, the club 3-jointed, no ring-joints. Mandibles bidentate, the outer tooth much the larger. Head with a deep, long median groove. Form short and stout, the abdomen short, the ovipositor extruded for less than its length. Middle legs slender but not long. Scutellum longer than wide, flattened. Parapsidal furrows absent; propodeum not very definite. Front tibiz very short like an elbow between the thick femur and the much longer tarsi. 1. KRADIBIELLA NIGRICORPUS new species. Genotype. Female :—Length, 0.65 mm. Polished black, the knees, tibiw and tarsi whitish. Pedicel longer than wide, a little longer than any funicle joint of which the first is shortest but a little longer than wide; funicle 1 narrower than the others, 5 next shortest, 2-4 subequal; club conical, not as long as the funicle. From one female captured in jungle, July 13, 1913. Habitat: Harvey’s Creek (Cairns), Queensland. Type: No. Hy 3365, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag, the head on a slide. 314 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA—xIV.* The Family Chalcidide with Descriptions of New Genera and Species. By A. A. GIRAULT. Faminry CHALCIDID. SUBFAMILY CHALCIDIN A. Trise CHALCIDINI. GENUS CHALCIS Fabricius. Synonyms: Brachepitelia Girault, Pseudepitelia Girault and Tumidicoxa Girault. 1. CHALCIS ATRATA Kirby. “