INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 37 



NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF CHALCID-FLIES 

 FROM AUSTRALIA 



(Hymenoptera) 



By a. a. GIRAULT 



The following are from Queensland unless otherwise stated. 



Euceratoneura, new genus. 



Female : Like Tetrastichus but with habitus of a eucharid, 

 the compressed abdomen with a stout, wider than long petiole, 

 the antennae inserted distinctly above the middle of the face 

 and with four distinct, subequal ring-joints. Mandible 3 ob- 

 tuse. Type, the following species. 



Euceratoneura shellyi, new species. 



1.25 mm. Black green, wings clear; clypeus, knees, tibiae 

 and scape yellowish brown. Funicles one-fourth longer than 

 wide, subequal pedicel, clubs a bit shorter, 3 merely pointed. 

 Head finely shagreened and with numerous scattered setigerous 

 punctures. Thorax with the usual sculpture, no setae, the pro- 

 podeum with but the median carina, longer laterad, its caudo- 

 lateral angle rounded. Abdomen 2 a fourth the surface, 

 sharply incised at caudal margin mesad, the others at least no 

 longer. Scutellum 4, submarginal vein, six or more setae. 

 Stigmal vein moderately long. Wings wide. 



Little Mulgrave River, sweeping banks, jungle, August. 



Closteromyiia, new genus. 



Like description Closteromophale but diflfering principally in 

 the form of the distal funicle joints which are bottle-shaped, 

 2-4 oval with a long neck distad, 1 oval, 3 and 4 each with a 

 whorl of not long, stiflf setae, 2 with one near base, one at 

 apex, the bristles weaker, 1 naked. Marginal vein very long. 

 Eyes bulging, round, head rounded, maxillary palpi with two 

 subequal points (its insertion not seen). Type, the following 

 species. 



Closteromyiia mirus, new species. 



Green, wings notably marked. A narrow two-thirds com- 



