AUSTSALIAX HTJUJiNOPTKL'A CHALCIDUIDEA, VI.—GISAULT. 329 



Gexus POIA'CYSTOIDES Giraiilt. 

 1. POLYCYSTOIDES TENNYSONI Girault. 



A female May li, 1914 by sweeping in forest, Gordonvale. General color black. The 

 fore wings are a little stained proxiiuad. The suture across scutellum is really a ridge and 

 has the appearance of being the apical margin. Type re-examined. The latter is a female 

 on a tag, the head and hind legs on a slide. It measures 2. -50 mm. and was taken April 13, 

 1913. 



Genus HYPOPTEROMALUS Ashmead. 



1. HYPOPTEROMALUS VIRIDESCENS (Walsh). 



In the detailed description of this North American species given in the Bulletin of the 

 "Wisconsin (U.S.A.) Natural History Society, x (1912), on page 25, second line from bottom, 

 Cephalic asfcct should read Dorsal asjtcct. 



2. HYPOPTEROMALUS DUBIUS new species of Girault and A. P. Bodd. 



Female: — Length, 1.25 mm. 



Ditfering from the detailed generic description {see Bulletin of Wisconsin (U.S.A.) 

 Natural History Society, vol. x, 1-2, June, 1912) in lacking the median carina of the propodeum 

 and the obscure cross-suture on the scutellum; the first funicle joint is small, like a ring-joint 

 and much smaller than the second; and the abdomen, viewed from lateral aspect, is not almost 

 triangular, its ventral margin being but gently convex. 



Very dark metallic green, almost black; the propodeum (except at meson) and the 

 abdomen much brighter green, the latter suffused with brown; coxa) and femora brown; 

 tibisB, tarsi and antennal scape golden yellow; rest of antenna^ fuscous. Wings hyaline, 

 venation as in Hypopteromalus viridescens (Walsh). Mandibles 3 and 4-dentate, the teeth 

 acute. Head somewhat wider tlian thorax; thorax rather short and broad, not much longer 

 than wide; scutum fuUy twice as wide as long, the parapsidal furrows only indicated 

 anteriorly; scutellum, viewed from lateral aspect, distinctly convex. Propodeum rather short 

 and broad ; lateral cariuse inconspicuous ; spiracles not large, with rather delicate spiraeular 

 sulci. Thorax rather finely reticulated, the reticulation in raised lines. Abdomen somewhat 

 shorter and narrower t!ian thorax; petiole short; second segment occupying one third of the 

 surface; remaining segments about subecjual. Pedicel distinctly longer than any of the 

 funicle joints; first funicle joint small; second distinctly larger; 2-(3 subquadrate, wider than 

 long; club barely twice as long as wide, the three club joints about subequal. 



Described from one female caught by sweeping in forest, August 13, 1913 (A. A. Girault). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. UySlSS, Queensland JIuseum. Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head 

 and a hind leg on a slide. 



SPIIEGIPTEROSEMA new genus. 



For diagnosis, see antea (these Memoirs, II), p. 323. The genotype is a new species. 

 It measures 1.90 mm. and was taken in May, 1913. Its type is on a tag, the head and hind 

 legs on a slide. 



1. SPHEGIPTEROSEMA AUSTRALIENSIS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Female : — Length, 2.50 mm. 



Head and thorax very dark nietallic green, almost black, the coxaj concolorous; rest of 

 legs bright golden yellow; abdomen nietallic purplish, its i)etiole yellow; antennal scape and 

 pedicel yellow, rest of antennas black. Antenna; 13-jointed, with two ring and three club 



