78 MEUOISS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



EUSEMIOXELLA now genus. 



See table of genera. Scutellum with a tuft of black hairs at apex; the head is longer 

 than wide, the eyes convergent above, face not noticeably inflexed, the serobes short, incomplete; 

 head without large punctures. Marginal vein long, over a third the length of the submarginal, 

 over twice the length of the moderate stigmal which is nearly twice the length of the short 

 postmarginal. Oblique hairless line present. Mandibles with three short, subequal teeth. One 

 hind tibial sjiur. Antenna; 11-jointed, slender, the distal funicle joints a little wider than 

 long; funicle partly white. 



1. EUSEMIONELLA CRISTATA new species. Female. Cienotype. 



Length. 1 nun. 



Orange yellow, the legs pallid, the hind legs yellowish; scape dusky yellowish, the 

 pedicel afnd first four funicle joints white, fifth funicle joint whitish at base, rest of antennit 

 black. Abdomen silvery white at proximal third, the rest jiurplish, conic-ovate, short. Thorax 

 densely shagreened, the scutum subhisjiid and with obscure thimble punctures. Fore wings with 

 a distinct black sjjot at the base of the marginal vein, the ciliation denser and coarser over the 

 spot; also with a large, suboval, brownish black area filling center of bhule nearly to each 

 margin and about midway between apex of blade and apex of venation. 



Habitat : Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, June 5, 1913. 



Type: No. II'i)S'J74, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 



Genus OOENCYRTUS Ashmead. 



1. OOENCYRTUS METALLICUS CiJrault. Female. 



Length, 1.10 mm. 



Short, compact. Metallic purjile with greenish tinges, the scutum with conspicuous 

 thimble punctures and very finely densely piolygonally scal_v, the scutellum and face similarly 

 sculjitured ; vertex and head densely reticulated, the former without thimble punctures. 

 Pronotuni very short but wide. Lateral ocelli not quite touching the eyes. Eyes at vertex 

 margined obscurely with ochreous. Venation smoky brown, the fore wings subhyaline but 

 near the middle with a large subhemispherieal chocolate brown cloud extending from margin 

 to margin from the marginal vein, its apex much distad of the end of the stigmal vein and 

 caudad before reaching the caudal margin interrupted by a clear line jirojected into it; its 

 proximal margin is nearly confluent with the olilique hairless line. Marginal vein punctiform, 

 the postmarginal developed, half the length of the stigmal. Marginal cilia of fore wing 

 extremely short, the discal very dense and fine. Sides of thorax sometimes yellowish. Axilla; 

 meeting in an acute point, the stutellum diamond-shaped, caudad with two of the sides 

 forming a hemisphere. Legs yellowish, washed with dusky. Abdomen very short, subtriangular, 

 wider than long. Antennie yellowish white witli the distal funicle joints blackish and the 

 scape and pedicel washed with the same color; club not enlarged, the flagellum slightly enlarging 

 distad, the pedicel as long as the combined lengths of the first two funicle joints, the distal 

 two joints longest and widest of funicle, not much longer than wide. Antenna; 11-jointed. no 

 ring-joint. 



Habitat: Roma, Queensland. Eggs of Tani Icphi-osia, October G, 1911. 



Types: No. H\j 3i)75, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, three females on a slide. 



A single specimen to a host. 



2. OOENCYRTUS BICOLOR new species. 



Female: — Length, 0.50 unn. Small; valves of ovipositor a little extruded. 



Dark metallic blue, the abdomen coppery; sides and venter of tlun.'i.N .-uid alidomen 

 orange yellow; legs pale, washed with dnsky; the antenna; whitish, the scai>e a little dusky, 

 the pedicel and funicle 6 blackish. Head orange yellow, the face golden yellow. Fore wings 



