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NOTES ON THE HYMENOPTERA TRICHOGRAMMA- 

 TID/E AND MYMARfD^.* 



BY A. A. GIRAULT, NELSON, N. Q., AUSTRALIA. 



1. Trichogramma australicum Girault. 



Herr P. van der Goot of Pasoeroean, Java, sent me a large 

 number of both sexes of this species labelled "Pasoeroean, April 

 25, 1913. Aus Chilo infuscatellus Eiern." This is the first known 

 host of the species, though in Queensland it attacks native Lepi- 

 doptera. 



A female of this species was captured at Nelson, North Queens- 

 land, by sweeping jungle, June 16, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



In another lot sent by Van der Goot, reared from the eggs' 

 of "ocler djagoen," an unknown tortricid and dated "Pasoeroean, 

 2 May, 1913,'' one of the males bore a single cilium in the cephalic 

 line of the hind wings; no trace of this cephalic line could be found 

 in any of the others. The colour in these two lots varied con- 

 siderably. Thus in some specimens there were two broad bands 

 of black across the abdomen, one at the tip, the other at base. 

 In others the abdomen was wholly blackish, while in still others it 

 was wholly jet black, the usual bright golden yellow of the thorax 

 very dull and hardly contrasting. These variants were all females. 



2. Paranagrus optabilis Perkins. 



A single male of this species was included within the second 

 lot of the Trichogramma australicum noted above. It is probably 

 not from the Lepidopterous eggs. 



3. Trichogrammatoidea nana (Zehnter). 



Herr P. van der Goot also sent me a number of both sexes of 

 this species labelled " Pasoeroean, April 25, 1913. v Aus Diatrcca; 

 striatalis Eiern." All of these specimens were pale yellow, with a 

 dusky black band across the base of the abdomen and the extreme 

 tip of the abdomen dusky. 



4. Anagrus armatus (Ashmead). 



This cosmopolitan mymarid I have recently received from 

 Van Dine in Porto Rico through the continued kindness of Dr. 

 L. O. Howard. The two slides bore both sexes, labelled "208 — 



^Contribution No. 14, Entomological Laboratory, Bureau of Sugar Exp. 

 Stations, Bundabeig, Queensland. 

 September, 1914 



