OF WASHINGTON, VOLU.MK XVI, 1914. Ill 



somewhat distad of the mid-distance bet ween apex of \eiiaihm and apex 

 of wing. Antennae with the proximal funiclar joints more or less cylindrical, 

 joint 1 short, barely longer than wide, somewhat shorter ili:m funirlar joint 

 3; joint 2 nearly longest, twice longer than wide hut suhc,|ua! to joint- 1 

 and 5 which are cylindrical ovate; club long, slender.- conic-ovate, sub- 

 equal in length to the funicle. Pedicel somewhat longer than any of the 

 funiclar joints. 



Of the Australian species, closes! to newtoni < lira nil , from which it may he 

 distinguished by its darker body coloration, the pale antennal funicle 

 contrasting with the dark club and the comparatively great length of the 

 latter. 



Xot known. 



Described from two females captured on windows in ;i private 

 residence at Nelson, North Queensland, November '2'2. ! ( .H 2. 

 I6th-inch objective, 1-inch optic, Bausch & Lomb. 



Habitat: Australia, Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 



Types: No. Hy. 1289, Queensland Mu-euin. Brisbane, the fore- 

 going specimen on a slide in xyiol-balsam. 



Alaptus maccabei new species. 



Ahi/iliis immaturus Perkins, ]><>/-tim. 



Fondle: Length, 0.33 mm. Black suffused with some brown, the legs 

 either pallid or dusky, the scape and pedicel pale yellowish. Like imi 

 turns Perkins, as identified in the paper on Australian Mymarida- !( iirault, 

 1912) l but the body much darker and the line of ciliation in the disc of the 

 wing is much longer, extending from apex to the venation. The thorax is 

 somewhat paler. 



Male: Not known. 



Described from the two females from Nelson and Herbert on, 

 Queensland, identified as immaturus Perkins in my paper on 

 Australian Mymaridse (Part II, Australian Hymenoptera Chal- 

 cidoidea). 1 The species may be merely a variety of immufuriix; 

 the specimen of the latter, as identified by myself, had the he:id 

 and abdomen dark brown, the thorax pale lemon yellow. 



Habitat: Australia, Nelson and Herberton, North Queensland. 



Tfipe: No. Hy. 1290, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one fe- 

 male in balsam (Herberton, Q., 28 Dec., 1911) mounted with tin- 

 type female of Litus schleideni Girault. 



Respectfully dedicated to Joseph McCabe, the former Roman 

 Catholic priest, now writer on the philosophical questions of the 

 time. 



1 Memoirs Queensland .Museum. Brisbane, I. 



