2 MEMOIh-S OF THE QVEEXSLAXD MUSEUM. 



Genus EUPELMUS Dalman. 



AVhere ring-joint is mentioned fnnicle 1 is intended, tills joint often ring-like. Tlie- 

 speeies may have one or two spurs on the caudal tibis. The axillaj are separated yet rather 

 idose together. 



1. EUPELMUS VARICOLOR (CUrault). Genotype of Episoliiidelia Girault. 



Length. 2.1U mm., excluding extruded part of ovipositor which is two thirds or more 

 the length of the abdomen. 



Bright metallic green, the conic-ovate abdomen golden yellowish and with a metallic- 

 een dorsolateral stripe down each side for proximal two thirds, its dorsal base also some- 

 what metallic. Antennie black, the ring-joint and tip of pedicel whiti.sh, the third funicle joint 

 longest, subequal in length to the pedicel. Legs lemon yellow, the eoxse black except at tip, 

 the intermediate tibia' ringed with black a short distance below the knees, the intermediate 

 femora with a lilaek spot above on one side, the same distance before the knees. Wings 

 hyaline. Ovipositor valves white, broadly black at base, narrowly brown at tip, the brown tip 

 about half the length of the black proximal portion. A yellow stripe down each side of the 

 thorax, broader cephalad. Head and thorax polygonally reticulated. Scape black. Ring-joint 

 somewhat wider than long; funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, 3 longest of the funicle. 

 Hind tibial spur single. Mandibles tridentate. Front femur stout. Type re-examined. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping miscellaneous vegetation in forest, 

 December 5, 19]2 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queen.sland. 



Type: Xo. ByS826, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the .specimen on a card j^oint plus 

 A slide bearing an antenna and one of each pair of legs. 



2. EUPELMUS VULGARELLUS new name. 

 IiJiihupilnius i-'iiJiioris Girault. 101.3, p. 94. 

 Eupelmns rnhjarxs (Girault), preoccupied. 



Female: — Length, 4..50 mm., excluding the extruded iiortion of the ovipositor which is 

 as long as the abdomen and yellow-ish white except broadly at base and tip. 



Bright a'neous green, the wings hyaline, the legs and tegulie lemon yellow (except the 

 coxa', a dusky brownish spot above before apex on hind femur, one just below knee and another 

 just ventrad of the first and a spot on same place on middle femur, a ring around middle 

 tibia just out from the knee). Sides and venter of abdomen yellow. Head and thorax very 

 finely shagreened. Antennsi 13-jointed, no ring-joint, the club 3-jointed; pedicel rimmed with 

 whitish at apex, the first funicle joint similarly rimmed at base. Postmarginal vein longer 

 than the stigmal. Prepectus golden yellow. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns'), Queensland. Forest, May 3, 1913. 



Type: No. HySSST. Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, tlie head and 

 hind legs on a slide. 



3. EUPELMUS AUSTRALIENSIS (Girault). Female. 

 hloJeiipilmus mtsiralicnsi.s Girault, I'.M."), [ip. 94-9.5. 



Length, 1.20 mm. Same as valfiaris but much smaller and the valves of the ovipositor 

 are wholly black, the hind legs lack the black spots. 



Anteunffl 13-jointed, inserted just below the ventral ends of the eyes, the first funicle- 

 joint minute, white, not a true ring-joint, 2 twice longer, 3 .still longer, quadrate, the following 

 joints longer, all much shorter than the pedicel. Mandibles tridentate. Middle tibite without 

 black teeth, with scattered light ones. Abdomen mostly yellowish above. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, April 4, 1913. 



Type: No. Hy 2SS8. Queensland Museum. Brisbane, two females on separate tags. 



