AVSTHALIAX BYMESurTKUA CIIAUIIXIIDKA. I.—dllLllLr. l.",3 



iiloiiy iiu'sdii of ubilomeii in u liTie fioiu liase. dusky lihick. Tlius niiieli like the species niicip:^ 

 but iMoie volnist, the iiiiteiiiial oliilj J:u'ks the piouiiiieut tenuiiial spine and the mesothorax has 

 a complete niediiui "julcus. Tlie legs in\) dusky. 



I'^'oni one male taken by sweepiiiK secuudary fcnost giovvtii, ifay 23, 1911. 



I[ahitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No, Uy 2iif, Queensland Jruseuni, Brisbane, tlie male sj)e(imen on a slidi'. 



Tribe TKlL'HUdRAMMATi X f. 

 (lEXUS TRICHOGR.^MM.V Westwood. 



1. TRICHOGRAMMA AUSTRALICUM Girault, 



In Java (I'asoeroeo) this species )iaiasitize.^ the e^^ys ut (7///o iiifuscdtdbix. an unknown 

 tortricid associated with cane, Giapliolcla xrliislacriina and Dliilrrii x1 riiiUilis. In specimens 

 of this species reared from Cliilo my attentiiui was called by 1'. van der Goot to the presence on 

 the male and female antenna of the minute bladder-like a|iiienilaiies resembling conidial spores 

 (and thought characteristic of TricltOi/rummutoUhii)- In the specimens sent me I observed 

 these on the female funicle. Sometimes the female alidomen bears two broad black liands one 

 at base, one at tip; it maj- be wholly blackish to jet black, 



I have a female from moth eggs, Chindera, Tweed Ri\er, New South Wales, May 13, 

 1914 (A. J', IJodd) and many specimens from a nuiss of noctuid eggs on Melaleuca, forest, 

 Gordonvale, June 1, 1914. 



This jiaper taken with I'ait 1 and tlie first sii|iiileiueut n.mpletes our present knowledge 

 of the Australian Trichogrammat idie. Students of the grmiii should consult my rather full 

 treatment of the world's genera now in i-cnirse of ]iublic;ition in tlie Bulletin of the Wisconsin 

 (U.S.A.) Natural History Society. 



Students of this group must always be thorongi! and careful since the minute forms 

 contained therein have proved hitrs iioircs to many of the most acute H™ienopterologists and 

 in studying them we must be certain to forsake our usual confidence and be content to feel the 

 way with Caution and Diffidence as constant comjianions.- 



The following members of the family are common in their several habitats: Neobrachisla 

 fasdata; Ufens fiaripes; OUgosita pulchra. OVujosita iniiiiina, OUiinsita sacra; Tumidiclava 

 ciliata; Trichoyrumma ausiralii'iun and AhbrUa ioihtltira. 



^ Methods of collecting and de.scribmg members oi this family are given in the second supplement of Part II. 



