3O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '14 



A new Chalcidid Genus and Species of Hymenop- 



tera from Australia. 



By A. A. GIRAULT, Nelson (Cairns) North Queensland, 



Australia. 



This new genus was captured by sweeping foliage and grass 

 along the banks of the Cape River at Capeville, Queensland, 

 January 8, 1913. It is the second endemic genus of its tribe 

 from Australia. 



Family CHALCIDIDAE, Tribe CHALCITELLINI. 

 Chalcitelloides new genus. 



Female : Agreeing with the description of Chalcitclla 

 Westwood but the antennae only lo-jointed, without a ring- 

 joint, the club solid. The fore wings without post-marginal 

 or stigmal veins, the marginal long, slender and truncate at 

 apex. Posterior femur beneath with eight teeth, the distal two 

 small and equal ; scutellum ending in a minute tooth. Venter of 

 propodeum with a pair of stout teeth pointing ventrad. Petiole 

 of abdomen as long as the hind coxae. Posterior tibiae with 

 a small acute tooth outwardly near base (proximal third) ; 

 wings hyaline. Propodeum with a median carina. 



Male : Not known. 



Type : The following species. 



Chalcitelloides nigriscutum new species. 



Female. Length, 3.00 mm. 



Blood red, the wings hyaline, the mesoscutum and axillae black ; also 

 the venter of thorax, the lateral pieces of the scutellum and an oval 

 spot in center of posterior coxa outwardly; venation pale brown. Head 

 black, the antennae red except distal two-thirds of the club. Umbili- 

 cately punctate and with sparse white pubescence. Abdominal petiole 

 with longitudinal carinae far apart. Fore wings practically naked, 

 without marginal cilia. First funicle joint longest, the others more 

 or less subquadrate, the club long, conical. 



(From one specimen, 2-3-inch objective, i-inch optic, Bausch and 

 Lomb.) 



Male. Not known. 



Described from one female captured as above. 



Habitat: Australia Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimen on a tag plus a slide bearing the head and posterior 

 femur. 



