AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTEEA CBALCIDOWEA, VIL—GIHAULT. 4.j 



each side about halt' its own wiijth from the eyes. Tip of club and a ioiigitudinal stripe up 

 the expansion of the scai>e. pale. Pedicel wholly whitish, somewhat shorter than funiele 1 

 which is longest, distinctly longer than wide, the distal fuuicle joints wider than long. Wings 

 hyaline. 



From one female caught in forest, Sejitember IL', 191-1. 



Habitat: Capeville (Pentland). Queensland. 



Type: No. IIyS919, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female in alcohol with tyi)e of 

 Atoposoma unguttatipes Girault and other eulophids. 



SUBFAMItA- APIIKLIXIN^i:. 



This group is related to the Taneostigmina\ The postniarginal vein is always absent, 

 the middle tibial spur is rarely stout though often elongate, the femoral furrow is frequently 

 present, the thoracic phragma never absent, the marginal vein most frequently as long as the 

 submargiual, never punctiform and the jiarapsidal furrows are always distinct and straight. 

 Also, the species are rarely metallic and the antennal funiele is never (jjointed. 



Tribe APIIELININr. 



Gen-US APHKLINl'^? Dalman. 



Synonym: Perissopttriis Howard. 



I have been unable to distinguish differences in the thorax of forms of either genus 

 and one of the species described below connects the two as far as wing pattern is concerned. 



In Aphelinus the club appears solid or 2-jointed according to the species. In the species 

 with the first two funiele joints transverse (e.g. fuscipcnnis Howard), the next joint seems 

 to belong to the club but in those species with the funiele joints (juadrate (more or less) the 

 third joint from the pedicel seems a part of the funiele. The difference seems graduate. 



1. APHELINUS HAECKELI Girault. 



A female, forest, Gordonvale, Queensland, April 15, 1914. The thorax is without a 

 median sulcus, scaly. The general color may be greenish yellow and the abdomen on distal 

 half bears obscure dusky cuneate marginal spots. The ovipositor is not shortly extruded as 

 in australiensis. Caudal wings with about six lines of discal cilia, aljout four lines in 

 australicnsis. Type re-examined. 



2. APHELINUS DIES tiirault. 

 Length, 1.30 mm. 

 The type is on a slide and was captured by sweeiiing in March. 



3. APHELINUS AUSTRALIENSIS Girault. 



Length, 0.80 mm. 



Thorax with a narrow median grooved line. Mamlibles tridentate. Marginal cilia at 

 apex of fore wing very short. Pedicel much longer than proximal club joint, the latter about 

 a third the length of distal one. Hind wings near tip with five lines of discal cilia. The type 

 is on a slide and was cajitured .Tune 14, 1912. 



4. APHELINUS FUSCIPENNIS Howard. 

 One female, October 30, 1911 at Mossuian, Queensland from foliage of a roadside plant. 

 Is this really fuscipennis or a parallel or chance Australian species similar to that species? 



