AUSTRALIAN ETMENOPTEBA CHALCIDOWEA. ri.—GIFAULT. 331 



Genus EITRYDINOTA Foorster. 

 1. EURYDINOTA PULCHRA new species of Giraulfc and A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, 1.60 mm. 



Dark metallic blue; coxa; eoncolorous; rest of legs bright golden yellow; scape yellow; 

 rest of antennae black. Wings hyaline. Antennio IS-jointed, with two ring-joints, the club 

 3-jointed; pedicel a little longer than first funicle joint; funiole joints gradually widening 

 toward the apex; first slightly shorter than second; second and third a little longer than wide; 

 4-6 somewhat wider than long; first and second club joints about subequal, each somewhat 

 wider than long. Marginal vein fully three times as long as postmarginal ; stigmal vein 

 shorter than postmarginal. Thorax densely polygonally reticulated, the reticulation in raised 

 lines; parapsidal furrows incomplete; scutellum simple. Abdomen no longer than the head 

 and thorax united; no wider than the thorax; petiole nearly as long as the hind coxae; 

 second segment the longest, occupying one third of the surface, a little more than twice as 

 long as third segment; the others all shorter than the third. Propodeum short and broad, 

 with short, distinct spiracular sulci, a short abbreviated median carina and a circular fovea on 

 each side of meson cephalad. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from one female caught by sweeping on edge of jungle. May 22, 1913 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: — Kuranda, Queensland. 



Tape: No. HyS795, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head 

 on a slide. 



Genus EUEYDINOTELOIDES Girault. 

 Synonym: Polycijstcloidcs Girault. 

 1. EURYDINOTELOIDES FLAVIBASALIS new species. 



Female: — Length, 2.50 mm. 



Agrees with the generic description excepting that the lateral eariuai of the propodeum 

 are entire and there is no cross-carina; there is also a narrow spiracular sulcus. 



Dark brassy green, the wings hyaline, the tegular, knees, tibiae, tarsi, scape and pedicel 

 yellowish brown, the posterior tibia) and tarsi pale; rest of antennce dusky. Base of abdomen 

 above broadly (somewhat over half of segment 2 dorsad) and the dorsal incisions very 

 narrowly and more or less obscurely, bright yellow. Whole of thorax rather finely, densely 

 jmnctate. Propodeal spiracle small, round. Funicle joint 1 a little longer than the pedicel ; 

 5 subqnadrate; 1 plainly longer than wide and longest of the funicle. Club ovate, without a 

 terminal seta. 



Compare Aplastomorplm flavohasaUs. 



Described from one female caught by Jlr. F. P. Dodd on flowers in Octolier. 



Baiitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 



Type: No. lIyST96, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head and 

 hind tibiai on a slide. 



Genus POLYCYSTELLA Girault. 

 1. POLYCYSTELLA ABDOMINALIS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, 1.9-3 mm. 



Differing from the generic description in lacking the sinus on the second abdominal 

 segment; the petiole is twice as long as the hind coxie; propodeum without a median carina 

 but with complete, delicate lateral carina;; the spiracle is small; at least one mandible 

 tridentate; and the postmarginal vein is over twice the length of the stigmal and one fourth 

 longer than the marginal. 



