142 ilKUOIBS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



AUSTRALIAN 

 HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA— 1. 



SECOND SUPPLEMENT.' 



By a. a. Girault. 



Magnification as in previous descriptions. 



Family TRICHOGRAJVfflATIDiE. 



CHvETOSTEICHINI. 



Genus NEOBEACHISTA Girault. 

 Tliere are two funicle joints, ttie first transverse but -svider than the ring-joints. Tlie 

 scape of the male is dilated ventrad, sometimes enormously. 



1. NEOBEACHISTA TRIFASCIATA new species of A. P. Dodd and A. A. Girault. 



Female: — Length, 1.10 mm. 



Like novifasciata Girault but besides the three black stripes across the abdomen, there 

 is a spot on each side of meson just caudad of the first stripe and a smaller spot on each side 

 of meson farther caudad and more laterad: the second and third cross-stripes are very broad, 

 the second not interrupted at tlie meson ; the scutum is icithout the median sulcus which is 

 present on the scutellum only; the scape is distinctly more comjiressed. Compared with the 

 type of novifasciata. 



Male: — not known. 



Described from one female cajjturcd by sweeping in the jungle, .January 15, 1914 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy3419, Queensland Musemn, Brisbane, the above specimen on a slide. 



2. NEOBRACHISTA FASCIATA NIGRIVENTRIS Girault. 

 The male of this variety is probably that originally described with fasciata, the abdomen 

 black. The scape is distinctly dilated ventrad. luiiformly for its entire length. The male has 

 been re-examined. 



3. NEOBRACHISTA FASCIATA Girault. 

 The male of this species is probably rejiresented by a specimen caught April 4, 1914 

 at Gordonvale, Queensland, by sweeping grass in forest. It agrees in coloration as far as I 

 could see and in structure except that the scape is enormously dilated ventrad, very much more 

 so than in the male mentioned above, the rectangular, flat scape only somewhat longer than 

 wide. Scutellum with a median groove, tlie scutum simple. 



4. NEOBRACHISTA INCJMPERTA new species. 

 Neobrachista fasciata Girault, partim. 

 Female: — Colored like novifasciata, the abdomen with three distinct black cross-stripes, 

 one proxiniad, two distad but the second stripe is complete, not distinctly interrupted at the 



' See Memoirs Queensland Museum, n, pp. 191 to 106. 



