THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 65 



A NEW SPECIES OF THE MYMARID GENUS CAMPTOP- 

 TERA FOERSTER FROM AUSTRALIA. 



BY A. A. GIRAULT, NELSON (CAIRNS), N. Q., AUSTRALIA. 



Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea. 



Family Mymarida?. 

 Genus Camptoptera Foerster. 



Camptoptera j^regi, new species. 



Normal position. 



Female. — Length 0.40 mm. Minute. 



Ashy black, the abdomen greyish, except toward tip; legs 

 pallid yellowish, the antenn;Te ashy black, the scape and pedicel 

 somewhat paler; both wings obscu.rely fumated throughout. 

 Differing at once from the North American pidla and the European 

 papaveris, the only other members of the genus, in having the first 

 funicle joint abruptly shorter than the second, not long and nearly 

 equal to it as in those species, but less than half the length of the: 

 second joint and distinctly shorter than the pedicel; also, i^regi 

 is smaller than pulla and has the abdomen paler; the first funicle 

 joint is distinctly the shortest of the antennae. Otherwise as in 

 pidla or nearly. 



(From one specimen, 2-3 inch objective, 1 incli optic, Bausch 

 and Lomb.) 



Male. — Not known. 



Described from a single female specimen captured from the 

 window of a residence at Nelson (Cairns), North Queensland, 

 December 27, 1912 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat. — Australia — Nelson, Queensland. 



Type. — No. Hy ISaS, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the 

 foregoing specimen on a slide. 



On February 12, 1913, 9 females were captured in the same 

 place. 



Respectfully dedicated to Mr. G. R. Greg for his "The Creed 

 of Christendom." 



