INSECUTOR INSCITI.^ MENSTRUUS 133 



NEW AUSTRALIAN CHALCID-FLIES 



{Hymenoptera, Chalcididar) 



By a. a. GIRAULT 

 (Continued from page 96) 



Copidosoma australia, new species. 



Female. — Length, 1.60 mm., excluding the ovipositor which 

 is somewhat shorter than the abdomen. Very similar to the 

 description of compressiventris Girault but differing as follows : 

 General color black green, the tarsi of the cephalic legs dusky, 

 the pedicel is twice longer than wide at apex, slightly longer 

 than funicle 2 which is plainly twice longer than wide and a 

 little the longest; club 1 subequal to funicle 6. Proximal tar- 

 sal joints long. Axillae very widely separated. Scutellum 

 longitudinally, finely striate, subglabrous at distal third. Pro- 

 podeum short, with a median carina. Hind tibiae with two 

 spurs, one very short. Frons broad. 



One female, October 24, 1914. From grass in a civic park. 

 Common. 



Habitat: Muswellbrook, New South Wales. 



Types: In the Queensland Museum, the specimen on a tag 

 with types of australis. 



Copidosoma australis, new species. , 



Female. — Differs from australia in having the frons mod- 

 erately narrow, about thrice the diameter of the cephalic 

 ocellus, and the axillae are joined. In the foregoing species 

 the frons is over six times the diameter of the cephalic ocellus. 

 Also, here, the thorax is distinctly more narrow, the scutellum 

 a little less distinctly striate. A very narrow species. 



Two females, October 26, 1914. From grass in a civic 

 park. Common. 



Habitat: Muswellbrook, New South Wales. 



Types: In the Queensland Museum, the females with type 

 australia. 



Copidosoma australica, new species. 



Female. — Like australis but the axillae are large and narrow. 



