AUSTRALIAN ETMENOPTEBA CHALCWOIDEA, ri.—GIBAVLT. 321 



Dark roneous green with purplish tiugcs, the wings hyaline, the legs reddish brown except 

 the coneolorous coxeb. Antennas honey yellow, the funicle joints wider than long but the 

 proximal ones a little longer than the distal ones; scape short, the pedicel barely longer than 

 wide; inner tooth of mandible truncate. Propodeum with a delicate median carina and no 

 others. Head and thorax finely, delicately polygonally scaly. Third club joint not as distinctly 

 separated as are the others. Lateral margins of scutellum subcariuate. Pronotum (dorsal 

 aspect) transverse. Propodeal spiracle separated from caudal part of propodeum by a 

 transverse, obtuse elevation of the surface (not a carina). 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from one female captured either by sweeping in the jungle or else from a 

 window in a jungle settlement, December 30, 1911. 



Hahitat: Yungaburra, Queensland. 



Type: No. My 346 J, Queensland Museuni, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag, the 

 head and a hind tibia on a slide. 



In UricUotnyia the axillaj are not advanced (the genotype examined). 



NEROPTROCERUS new gemis. 



Female: — Agreeing with the description of Eoplioccrus Ashmead but the club solid, 

 the antennae thus but 10-jointed. The postmarginal and marginal veins are longer but neither 

 long. 



MaJe : — Unknown. 



Type: The following species. 



1. NEROPTROCERUS SUBATER new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.80 mm. Stout, rather short. 



Black metallic green, the wings hyaline, the coxaj coneolorous, the legs yellowish brown, 

 the cephalic femur coneolorous. Scape coneolorous with the legs, the pedicel dusky-brown, rest 

 of antenna black. Funicle 1 longest, subequal to pedicel, somewhat longer than wide and 

 widest distad ; funicle 2 somewhat wider than long, 3 and following still wider. Funicle joints 

 subpetiolate. Club longer than the two preceding joints united. Head and thorax uniformly 

 densely shagreened (minute papillK crowded together). Cross-suture of scutellum and 

 parapsidal furrows well-defined, the latter complete. Propodeum subglabrous, the spiracle 

 rather large, round, cephalad. Median carina of propodeum narrow, not straight. Axillje not 

 advanced. Segment 2 of abdomen occupying a third of the surface, caudal margins of all 

 segments straight, 2 glabrous, the others scaly cephalad; segment 3 shortest, transverse. 



Described from one female captured in jungle, February, 11, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 

 Saliitai : Babinda, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 277S, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore 

 and hind legs on a slide w'ith type appendages of RetrciUoplius bifasciaiifrons Girault. 



Tribe MERISINI. 

 Genus AMICROMELUS Giraiilt. 



This genus belongs to the Metastenini of the MiscogasteridiE instead of the Trydymini 

 as formerly stated by mistake. 

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