AUSTEALIAN EYMENOPTEEA CHALCIDOIDEA, ril.—OlEACLT. 51 



of each axilla, a transverse spot on abdoiiieii at base aud a rather large rouud spot in center 

 of abdomen, black or dusky black. Ditfers from Eiicarsia justitia in having the black mark- 

 ings and shorter marginal fringes on the fore wings which here are not more than a sixth of 

 the greatest wing width. Prom aureola in having funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, the 

 coneolorous abdomen and the black markings. From hir/ttltatus in the somewhat narrower 

 more coarsely ciliated fore wings, the longer stigmal vein and the markings. Closely allied 

 \vith aureola. Caudal marginal fringes of hind wings a little longer than the greatest width 

 of those wings, funicle 1 a little shorter than the others; a minute ring-joint. Club .joints 

 longer than wide. Discal cilia of fore wing uniform, five lines of it on caudal wings where 

 ■widest. 



From one female taken along the Tweed River, May .3. 19] -i (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Tweed Heads, New South Wales. 



Ti/pc: Xo. Hij3931, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the sjiecimen on a slide. 



This species is dedicated to Henry David Thcn-eau. 



12. COCCOPHAGUS CLARISCUTELLUM new .species. 



Female: — Length, 0.7.5 mm. 



Reminds one of alhiseiitellum, the scutellum brilliant, contrasting silvery white but the 

 ovipositor is not as in Ahlenis. the scutum is honey yellow, blackish at cephalic third, the 

 hind coxa and femur black, rest of legs wliite; face silvery and with a black cross-stripe at 

 the clypeus, the vertex and rest of head orange yellow; fore wings with a dusky cross-stripe 

 across from whole of marginal vein. Antennae and the small parapside orange; club joint 3 

 black. Funicle 1 subglobular, smaller than the small pedicel, not quite half the length of 

 funicle 2 which is distinctly longer than wide, longer than the peilicel, subequal to 3; club 

 joints subequal to distal funicle joint or a little shorter, the club not well defined; a minute 

 ring-joint. Distal part of club 2 dusky. Fore wings uniformly but not densely ciliate, their 

 marginal cilia short, not a fourth the greatest wing wiilth. shorter than the longest marginal 

 cilia of hind wings, the latter with about four rows of distal cilia proximad, their caudal 

 marginal eilia a little longer than their greatest width. Thorax without a median sulcus. 



From one female taken by sweeping jungle along the Mulgrave River, April 12, 1914. 



Habitat: (lordonvale (Cairns). Queensland. 



Tiii>e: No. Hi/ 3033. Queensland Museum. P.risljani'. the specimen on a slide. 



13. COCCOPHAGUS BIGUTTATUS new species. 

 Female: — Length, 0.72 mm. 



Pale honey yellow, the wings hyaline; jironotum at middle rather widely and a diamond- 

 shaped spot on each side of thorax in the vicinity of the axilla; black. Stigmal vein very short, 

 nearly sessile, the fore wing very densely, finely ciliate discally. Funicle joints not long, 3 

 quadrate, the other two a little longer than wide. subei|ual to pedicel, the club well-defined. 

 Ovipositor and valves distinctly extruded for a length equal to nearly a fourth that of the 

 abdomen, the valves dusky blackish. Scutum simple, scaly. Middle tibial spur long and 

 slender. Abdomen distad with faintly indicated, narrow cross-stripes (just befcjre apex). 

 Marginal fringes of fore wing short. The two spots seem to be on leiilmlic two thirds of 

 each axilla. 



From two s[iecimens taken by sweeping iantnna. October 2ii. 1911. 



Habitat: Mackay, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy3i)3.3, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a sliile. 



