AVSTSALIAX llYilKXOPTEEA CHALCIDOIVEA, IV.—GISAULT. 2o9 



6. CHRYSOCHAROMYIA VARINOTATA new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.60 mm. Allied with inwrca. 



Pale honey or golden yellow, the mesothorax orange yellow, the wings hyaline. Occipital 

 margin of vertex, median line of seutellum broadly and elavately (the narrow end caudad), 

 apex of abdomen and valves of ovipositor, jironotum except a golden round spot at caudal 

 margin at lateral margin, jiarapsidal furrows and cephalic margin of scutum, axilla^ median 

 line of scutum narrowly and propodeum except at caudal margin near lateral margin, blue- 

 black. Abdomen with live complete cross-stripes of black between base and apex and at the 

 interval of a stripe a short transverse dash across meson between stri]}es 3 and 4. Propodeum 

 with a short, complete median carina. Mandibles strongly tridentate. Scape pale yellow, 

 dusky black above at proximal two thirds and at tip; rest of antenna black. Vertex subdusky. 

 Funicle 1 thickened and a little longer than li or .'.. tlie latter nearly twice longer than wide, 

 somewhat longer than the jiedicel. Distal club joint shortest of the flagellimi. its terminal 

 spine short, stout, distinct. Thorax scaly. Abdomen slender, conic-ovate. 



From one female caught at 1,000 feet, forest, Upper Tweed River, JMay 17, 1914 (A. P. 

 Dodd). 



Habitat: Tweed River, New South Wales. 



Type: No. Ey i?ioS, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type of 

 incerea, head on slide with type AchrtjsoehareUa laritiava Girault. 



7. CHRYSOCHAROMYIA BICOLORITHORAX new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.10 mm. 



Agrees with the description of eloitiiata Girault, but tlie face below the antenna and 

 sides and venter of thorax also golden yellow, the abdomen is shorter, the postmarginal vein 

 shorter, only slightly longer than the stigmal; also funicle 2 is slightly the longest joint of 

 the funicle and the tei-minal spine of the club is decidedly longer, distinctly over half the 

 length of distal club joint (less than that in elonflata). The mandibles are smaller. Caudal 

 wings acute, with about five lines of sparse cilia where broadest. Thorax reticulated, the 

 parapsidal furrows complete. Longest marginal fringes of fore wing somewhat less than a 

 fourth of the greatest width, a little shorter than the caudal fringes of the hind wing. 

 Pedicel subequal to funicle 3, which is distinctly longer than wide and a little shorter than 

 either of the first two club joints. Differs from Achrysocharclla quinquefasciala in bearing 

 distinctly longer marginal fringes on the fore wing, the mandibles, colour of head and thorax, 

 longer terminal spine of club, sliorter funicle 1, and so on. Compared with types of the two 

 species mentioned. 



From one female captured by sweeping in forest, Ajiril 24. 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy35:i.-i, Qnceuslaud Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a sUde. 



PSEUDOSECODES new genus of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Agreeing with Secodella Girault but the propodeum has a short median carina 

 and the antennas are different. Antennis 11-joiuted, two ring-joints, five distinct funicle 

 joints and a 2-jointed club, the apical joint with a terminal spur. Posterior tibiae with one 

 spur. 



1. PSEUDOSECODES SPLENDIDUS new species. Genotj^^e. 



Female: — Length, 3.10 mm. 



Dark metallic blue-green, the legs (excei>t the three |iroximaI joints of all the tarsi 

 which are pale straw yellow) concolorous; anteuniB concolorous but the scape is reddish. 



Propodeimi short, scaly. Wings hyaline, the discal ciliation arranged as in Secodella. 

 Marginal vein nearly as long as the submarginal. stigmal short, postmarginal two and a half 

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