AUSTSALIAN HYMEXOrTEHA CnALCIDOIDEA, TH.—GIEAVLT. 35 



3. MESEUSANDALUM COMPRESSISCAPUS new species. 



Female: — Length, 3.1(1 mm. ineUiding ovipositor. 



Differs from cyancivintris in being somewhat smaller, the ovipositor e.xtruded somewhat 

 less (the stylus as long as it in both si)ecies), the scape is distinctly compressed (uniformly 

 expanded ventrad its entire length, the expansion straight, not convex) ; the ring-joint is wider, 

 the flagellum more slender, the club less differentiated, the jiedicel somewhat shorter; the post- 

 marginal vein is somewhat longer, the venation very pale, the scutelhim a little more finely lined 

 longitudinally. Jlind tibial spur single. 



Described from one female. 



Hahitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. HyJSOti, Queensland Museum, Jirisbaiie, the specimen on a tag witli tyjie 

 cyaiieieentris and an antenna and hind tibia on a slide with an antenna of a female cyaiuifenlris. 



This genus is perhaps Eusaitdiilum but the exceptional antenna; are not mentioned in 

 the various descriptions of that genus and it is ncit the business of systematic Ijiology to gues.s. 



Genus SOLINDINELLEI'S Girault. 



Head normal, from cephalic aspect rounded, the genal sulcus distinct, the eyes rounded 

 and bearing short, scattered, inconspicuous hairs; the antenna^ inserted slightly below ventr.al 

 ends of eyes, their scrobes short but distinct. Antenna; lU- jointed, subclavate, one ring-joint, 

 the scape short, the pedicel small, not half the size of the first funiele joint which is longest of 

 the funiele; cluli 2-jointed. ovate. Lateral ocelli not touching the eye margins. Scutelhim 

 very short, triangular, simple but with a median sulcus, the axilla; very small, very widely 

 separated, obscure. Abdomen sessile, so much compressed as tn be merely a line from dorsal 

 aspect, as long as the thorax, the ovipositor not exserted. 8cutum impressed, the furrows 

 complete. Jtiddle tibial spur long and stout, two thirds the length of the middle tarsus, the 

 proximal joint of the latter ventrad with dense black teeth; these teeth are also on succeeding 

 joints and around the base of the tibial spur but less dense. Cephalic femur lightly swollen, 

 unarmed but with a line of solitary, stiff hairs. Hind legs normal, the spur single. Wings 

 hyaline, the j)Ostmarginal vein long, suliequal to the marginal and four or more times longer 

 than the stigmal which is well developeil. Marginal fringes sliort. Hody mi'tallic, sculptured, 

 varicolored. Corrected descrijition. 



Like Neaiutstatiis excluding the shape of the abdomen. 



1. SOLINDINELLEUS PULCHRICORPUS Girault. Female. Genotype. 



Length, '2.79 mm. Dark metallic greenish, the long scutal impression and the scutelluni 

 distad coppery. Marked with bright lemon yellow as follows: TIi head except center of vertex 

 between the lateral ocelli and a broad stripe frdm side to side (eye to eye) of the occiimt; 

 the legs except proximal half of caudal coxje, ]iroximal two thirds of caudal femora, all of 

 caudal tibiae (except at each end), the dusky distal tarsal joint and the tip of the middle tibial 

 spur; proximal third of tegute; and a whitish band around most of the caudal margin of 

 jironotum (dorsal aspect). An orange yellow, transverse-elliptical s|iot on jiropodenm, each 

 side of meson, as seen from dorsal aspect just on each side of the apex of scutelluni. The 

 latter bears a tlun clump of long white hairs on each side before apex. Antenna; brownish, the 

 scape yellow ventrad, the pedicel the same at tip. Head and scutum with irregular, more or 

 less obscnre punctures, the mesonotum densely shagreened or reticulated. Venation dusky. 

 A more or less obscure yellowish stripe near base of abdmnen, lateral aspect. The =!pecies 

 resembles Neaitastatus maximicorpus. There is also a rather large, triangular lemon yellow 

 spot just eephalad of mesopleurum. Type re-examined. 



Babitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Associated with galls. July. 



Type: No. Hy2S9~, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag. 



