ACSTEALIAN HYMENOPTEFA CHALCinolIiEA, VlI.—ailUriT. 37 



2. PAROODERELLA HEMIPTERA (Girault). Female. Genotype of Paramlindenla Girault. 



Length, 3.50 mm. 



Head and abdomen dark melallic- green, the thorax reddish, the legs concoloroiis with it; 

 a white band across base of abdomen; proximal half of antenna yellowish white (scape, 

 pedicel, ring-joint and first three funicle joints, 3 suffused with dusky), the rest black. Fore 

 wings fuscous and hispid from base of marginal vein to apex but interrupted more than half 

 way to the apex by a central, triangular naked and hyaline spot, which extends nearly to 

 margins from opposite sides. Funicle 1 longest but yet subcqual to 3, the following shortening, 

 the club shorter than scape. Head with a scaly sculpture and also the thorax and abdomen but 

 less rough. Posterior wings hyaline. Marginal vein long, rather broail, the stigmal very short, 

 the postmarginal nearly absent. Fore wing densely hispid excei>t in [jlai'ps. 



Uabiiai: Cairns, Queensland. 



Type: No. 1.1275. South Australian .Museum, Adelaide. 



3. PAROODERELLA MANCA new species. 



Female: — Length, '^..'iO nnn.. exclusive of ovipositor which is extrmled for a length equal 

 to a fourth that of the abdomen. 



Mahogany brown, wingless, the head and cephalic coxa.^ dark metallic purple, the abdomen 

 lustrous black, also the hind legs; legs otherwise brown (iiududing caudal tarsi) washed with 

 a little metallic purple. Scape brown; rest of antenna black. Valves of ovipositor brownish, 

 darker at base. Thorax washed here and there with metallic purplish. A broad silvery band 

 around abdomen just out from base. Wings scale like, not twice longer than wide, brownish, 

 distad truncate, without marginal cilia and only with a subniarginal vein which rvnis to apex; 

 wings not reaching abdomen, their discal eiliation coutiiied to apex. Funicle 1 like a ring-joint, 

 2 longest, nearly twice longer than wide, 3 somewhat shorter, a little longer than the pedicel; 

 others shortening and broadening, 5 and 6 sulxpiadrate, S distinctly wider than long. Hind 

 tibial sjjur single. Mesonotal ridges acute. Eyes nearly liarc. Scutum with a median carina. 

 Head and thorax subglabrous, the scutellum longitudinally lineolated. Segments 2 and 3 of 

 abdomen obtusely incised at meson caudad, the caudal margins of the other segments straight, 

 caudad of segment 3. the surface scaly. AxilUu distinctly sejiaratcd a short distance, longest 

 cephalo-caudad. 



From one female taken May in. 11114 by sweeping forest. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2SllO. Queensland ]Museum, Brisliane. the specimen on a tag; caudal leg, 

 antenna and a wing on a slide. 



4. PAROODERELLA SEMIPUTATA new species. 



Similar in all respects to maiiea but the valves of the ovi]iosifor are white, dark at 

 extreme tip and base, the thorax and legs are wholly metallic purple, the band over base of 

 abdomen is obscure or absent, the frous is broader (in iiiniiea moderately narrow), the pedicel 

 is somewhat longer, subequal to funicle 2 which is subequal to 3 and 4, the scutum lacks the 

 median carina (in both species the lateral ridges of scutum are sharp carinas), the head is 

 jdainly scaly, the mesopleurum more coarsely longitudinally lined. Wings apparently the same 

 but hyaline. Caudal margins of abdominal segments not seen. Tarsi white. Abdomen scaly. 

 Scape dusky at tip dorsad. 



From one female taken by sweeping jungle along a forest streandet, June 29, J 913. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy S900, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag with type 

 manea; jiortion of antenna on slide with type- »ifl/ic((. 



