AVSTEALIAN ETMENOPTERA CHALCWOIDEA, n.—GISAVLT. 323 



Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline; the wii.le, thin, triangular head, the short, 

 ■flattened, rounded (dorsal aspect) abdomen and the legs (paler) deep golden, or orange, 

 yellow, the antennae pale yellow. Lateral ocelli far distant from the eye margins. Antennje 

 inserted at the mouth, 8-jointed, the club enlarged, solid; the scape slender, long; the pedicel 

 of usual length, much longer than any of the funicle joints all of which are wider than long, 

 5 largest, each enlarging in succession, 5 twice the length of 1 and much wider. Proximal 

 joint of hind tarsus abruptly longer than the others, the tibial spur normal. Mandibles slender, 

 tridentate, the teeth slender. Thorax finely reticulate scaly; the convex cross-suture of 

 scutellum delicate; propodeum subconical, coarsely foveate. Second segment of abdomen 

 occupying somewhat over a third of the surface; second and third combined, occupying nearly 

 two thirds. Pronotum large, transverse-quadrate, the scutum shorter than the scutellum; 

 parapsidal furrows complete. Postmarginal vein slightly longer than the stigmal, both slender 

 but of moderate length, the marginal distinctly longer tlian either. Thorax very sparsely 

 pubescent. No ring-joint. 



Described from one female caught in forest, Decomlier 20, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



'Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy'2781, Queensland Museum, Brisliane, the specimen on a tag, the head and 

 hind tibia; on a slide. 



PAKEUNOTUS new genus. 



Female : — lu Ashmead 's table running to Anysis Howard, the antenna being 10-jointed, 

 strongly clavate, the club solid; antennas inserted below the middle of the face. Mandibles 

 tridentate. Hind tibial spur normal, rather stout. Face inflexed. Postmarginal and stigmal 

 veins long and slender, the former a little the longer, the marginal a little shorter than the 

 stigmal, about three times longer than wide or somewhat more. Hind coxsb large. Axillae 

 widely separated. Parapsidal furrows deep. Propodeum transverse, the postscutellum over- 

 hanging it. A broad oblique hairless line from apex of submarginal vein. Hind femur 

 ■compressed. Scutellum with a faint cross-suture indicated before apex. Scutellum distinctly 



■ shorter than the scutum ; the postscutellum triangular, tolerably large. 



Male: — Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. PAKEUNOTUS FLAVICORPUS new species. 



Female: — Length, about 0.9S mm. 



Pale honey yellow and finely scaly. A stripe across cephalic margin of propodeum, the 

 indicated cross-suture of scutellum and cephalo-lateral ends of the axilla dark purplish black. 

 Wings hyaline. First three funicle joints like ring-joints but each enlarging, 3 not a third 



■ the length of 4 Tvhich with 5 and 6 are distinctly wider than long and subequal, subtransverse ; 

 funicle 7 is longer than 6, still much wider than long. Club short. 



Described from one female captured in forest, December 26, 1912. 



Habitat: Capcville (Pentland), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 378,3. Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 



What I thought was the abdomen of this specimen, which had become separated, bore 

 ■six distinct purplish black cross-stripes, the first at base and all intersected by a median 

 longitudinal stripe. Valves of ovipositor are black. Alidomen conicovate, none of the segments 

 greatly lengthened. 



MUSCIDEA new genus. 



Female: — In Ashmead 's table runs to this genus which was formerly without status, the 

 ■genotype being uudescribed. I adopt the name for the following species. Head wider than 

 long, the antenna 9-jointed with one very short ring-joint, the club solid and as long as the 

 funicle and much wider. Mandibles small, acute. Hind tibial spur normal for the family. 



