96 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN 

 MYMARID^ 



(Hymfinoptera) 



By a. a. GIRAULT 



The following were discovered while revising the members 

 of this family, and have been compared with the types, through 

 the kindness of the Queensland Museum. All from northern 

 Queensland except one or two. 



Polynema ara, new species. 



Fore wing with three equidistant, conspicuous cross-stripes, 

 distal two irregular, joined midlongitudinally and marginally; 

 hind wing fuscous distal half. Red-brown, antennae abdomen's 

 body black ; f unicles five times longer than wide, scape short, 

 dilated. Fringes third width of fore wing, 25 lines fine discal 

 cilia. Scaly. 



Forest, Nelson, July 34. 1918, male. 



Polynema signum, new species. 



Like sieboldi but jet, coxa 1 black, so antennae save scape 

 and pedicel. 



Ravenshoe, jungle, March 13, 1919. 



Polynema aequum, new species. 



Like nordaui, but colored like spenceri, save that tibiae 3 

 and 3 pale at basal half ; funicles 3 and 3 not elongate, equal 

 and longest, but 1 and 3 longest, twice longer than wide, 3-5 

 short-ovate; discal cilia reaching venation in two converging 

 lines from either side of middle, meeting against marginal. 



Nelson, February. 



Polynema filius, new species. 



Like aligherini, but fringes nearly two-thirds width, tibiae 3 

 somewhat darkened, f unicle 6 black, often 4 and 5 ; discal cilia 

 attaining venation in a point which continues as a single line 

 toward middle of submarginal. 



Nelson. 



