216 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



A SECOND ADDITION TO THE AUSTRALIAN 

 HYMENOPTERA MYMARID^. 



BY A. A. GIRAULT, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA. 



The following species have recently been captured by Mr. 

 Alan P. Dodd and very kindly given to me. They are the 

 eighteenth and nineteenth species of Gonatocerus and the sixth, 

 seventh and eighth of Polynema. All in normal position. 



1. Gonatocerus hicolor, new species. 



Female. — Length 1.65 mm. Large for the genus. 



Black, the abdomen contrasting orange reddish, dorsad with 

 faint duskiness, the scape and pedicel lemon yellow, as are also the 

 legs and coxae; tibiae fuscous. Ovipositor not exserted. Fore wings 

 of the narrower type, yet moderately broad, bearing about thirty 

 longitudinal lines of very fine discal cilia, lightly fumated through- 

 out, the marginal cilia short, the longest not more than a fifth of 

 the greatest wing width. Proximal tarsal joints very long. First 

 funicle joint longer than either the pedicel or the second joint of 

 the funicle, subequal to funicle joint 3, joints 4 and 5 each some- 

 what shorter than 3, joint 5 shorter than 4, 6 still shorter than 5, 

 while 7 lengthens slightly, subequal to 2; distal funicle joint shortest, 

 subequal in length to the pedicel. Of the general habitus and 

 structure of spinozai Girault and belonging to the group of species 

 with graceful fore wings and usually golden bodies {e.g., comptei, 

 cingiilatus) . Marginal vein very long. Caudal wings with an 

 incomplete, more or less variable, paired line of midlongitudinal 

 discal ciliation. Club long. 



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

 and Lomb). 



Male. — Not known. 



Described from a single female captured by sweeping jungle 

 growths along forest streamlet, near Nelson, North Queensland, 

 December 6, 1912 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Australia — Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 1293, Queensland Museum, Brisbane; the 

 above specimen on a slide of xylol-balsam. 



This beautifully coloured species may be distinguished with 

 ease by the great contrast between the black of the thorax and the 



July, 1913 



