60 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEEXSLAXD MCSECM. 



Gencs ENCARSIA Foerster. 

 1. ENCARSIA CYBELE Girault 



Antra, p. ISO. line 7 of descriiitii.ii, pUnnhi ii'.id obscurely. 



2. ENCARSIA WHITTIERI new species. 



Female: — Lenytli, 0.70 nun. 



Golden yellow, the head. ]iiouotnni and (.■eiihalie scutum obscurely, dusky; meso- and 

 inetapleura, propodeuni except at uieson and somewhat less than jiroximal half of abdomen, 

 lilack, the distal margin of the black abdomen prolonged at meson in tlie shape of a round 

 spot. Legs white, antenna; pale yellow, filifonn. Fore wings broad, uniformly, densely eiliate 

 diseally (about 25 lines), the marginal cilia short; dusky across triangularly from the base 

 of the marginal vein. Proximal tarsal joint elongate. Funicle .3 longest of the flagellmn, 

 thriee longer than wide, 1, 2 and 3 subequal, each a little longer than the pedicel; both club 

 joints longer than wide, a little shorter than funicle 3. Mandibles weakly tridentate. 



From one female taken May 2, 1914, by sweeping in jungle (A. P. Dodd). 



Eabitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed Kiver), New South Wales. 



Type: No. 'Sy?9.')0. Queensland iluseum. Brisbane, the sjiecimen on a slide with the 

 type of CoccophafiHH tliorrauini Girault. 



Gexus ASPIDIOTIPHAGUS Howard. 

 1. ASPIDIOTIPHAGUS CITRINUS (Craw.). 

 One female from a wiuclnw. iughain. Queensland. February 17. 



'' Female. — Length, iL.'iS nnn. ; expanse, 1.16 mm.; greatest width of fore wing, 0.09 

 nun. AntenuiE light yellow brown; eyes black, ocelli bright red; head yellow; occiput dark 

 brown; pronotum dark brown; mesonotum yellow; metanotum yellow brown; abdomen brown; 

 legs uniformly dusky yellow; wings with marginal vein dark fuscous, and a broad fuscous baud 

 extending directly across wing from marginal vein as a base. Spiracular hairs on preaual 

 abdominal joint very long. Thorax somewhat wider than head or abdouu^n, these being sub- 

 equal in width. ' ' 



2. ASPIDIOTIPHAGUS AUSTRALIENSIS Girault. 

 Length. 0.00 nun. The type is on a slide and was cajitured at 1.500 feet. May 29, 1913. 



Gexus ABLERfS Howard. 

 1. ABLERUS SPECIOSUS Girault.* 



Length, 0.60 mm., excluding ovijjositor. The tyjie locality is Gordonvale. The parap- 

 sides are probably white, rapidly fading after deatli. Funicle 1 subequal to pedicel which is 

 dusky at base. Ovipositor extruded for about a fifth the length of the abdomen. A iiatcli 

 of about four short lines of coarser cilia under end of marginal vein. Funicles 2 and 4 each 

 a little longer than 1. The type was reared from lecaniuni scales on a forest bush, December 

 4, 1912. A second female was obtained on the 17th following from cockatoo apple infested 

 with a Chionaspis, Gordonvale. Also, a fenuile from Port Darwin, Northern Territory, 

 November 10, 1913, forest (G. F. Hill). 



A ni.ale reared with two females from the coccid on cockatoo apple in November, 1913 

 «t Gordonvale, bore slenderer antenna} than in the female, the club longer, apparently 2-jointed 

 Mit no articulation is i)resent. The antennal segments are as in tlie female but there are two 

 minute ring-joints; funicle 3 is smaller .•uid black wliile the others are longer. 



• The head is white with a silvery band across just under the eyes followed by a narrow 

 metallic greenish stripe. 



