142 INSECUTOR INSCITI.1- MENSTRUUS 



NEW GENERA OF CHALCID FLIES FROM 

 AUSTRALIA 



(Hymenoptera) 

 By a. a. GIRAULT 



Family ENCYRTIDAE 



Paracladella, new genus. 



Like Neocladia, but mandibles long, acute; maxillary palpi 

 with 1, 2 equal, 3 shortest, 4 equal others together, pale with 

 long hairs along its mesal side. Scape thick, flagellum stout, 

 cylindric, club solid ; pedicel much smaller than f unicle 1, latter 

 a bit longer than wide. Scutellum rimmed at apex. Stigmal 

 long, curved, marginal a bit longer than wide, postmarginal 

 elongate, narrow, twice stigmal. Abdomen globose, ovipositor 

 not free. Palial palp 3-jointed. Robust. Pronotum very 

 short, 



Paracladella globosa, new species. 



Green, scape red at base ; first legs save coxa, femur at base 

 and tarsus, and the second legs, save same and tibia above, 

 reddish. Fore wing with a fuscous spot against stigmal vein. 

 Thorax scaly, with dense short pubescence. 



Forest, Nelson, March. 



Ecthrobaccmyia, new genus. 



Like Ecthrobacca, but postmarginal absent, three equal acute 

 mandibular teeth, marginal twice longer than wide, twice 

 stigmal. Frons moderate. 



Ecthrobacomyia niveipes, new species. 



Green, wings clear, veins yellow, legs save coxae and scape 

 white. Scaly. Funicles 1-4 equal, half wider than long, 5 

 and 6 quadrate, shorter than pedicel. Clubs subquadrate. 

 Hairless line open to venation and distad. Scutum with minute 

 punctures, scutellum rounded at apex. Wings rather slender, 

 hind, ten lines of discal cilia. 



Nelson, with type of Ufeus quadrifasciatus. 



