ArSTBALFAN IIYMENOrTEHA CHAT.CIDOJDEA. VIJ .—CISAULT. <?3 



3. CERCHYSIELLA UMBILICATA now species. 

 FiiiKiJe: Lengtli, 2 mm. 



Dark xiictuUic green, the ubilomeii inir|)le excejit at extreme base; legs and antenna! 

 recWisli brown except club, coxa? and proximal lialf of femora ; jiedicel a little dusky. Wings 

 A-ery slightly stained. Mandibles long, slender, with two strong, acute outer teeth and a third 

 nuich shorter inner one. Axillas a little separated. Head and thorax densely scaly, the vertex 

 with scattered umbilieate imnctures and a row of same along the eyes; scutum and scutellum 

 umbilicately punctate, the ]>unctures moderately (■(jarse. not i-ontlueut, absent along the meson 

 of scutellum. Abdomen very finely scaly, as long as the rest of the body, the ovipositor a little 

 extruded. Propodeum subglabrous, with three narrow carina' at the meson, the three well 

 separated. Hind tibial spurs doiihlt. uneipial. Scape ilistiin-tly compressed, (excluding bulla) 

 stouter than the funicle; jiediccl not much longer than wiile at apex, longer than funicle 1 

 which is longest yet barely longer than wide; following joints gradually shortening and 

 widening; club no more than half the length of the funicle whose distal three .joints are 

 subpetiolate. Thorax clothed with short black hairs. Cheeks nearly half the length of the 

 eyes. Frons moderately broad. Scrobes deeji, forming a semicircle. Hind wings curved. 

 Marginal vein about twice longer than wide, the stigmal long, eurved, a half longer than the 

 marginal; postmarginal vein not half the length of the marginal. I'ronotuni transverse. Costal 

 cell of hind wings extending to the liooklets. 



From one female taken in jungle. May •"<. 1911) {\. 1'. Doddj. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), t|jueens!,'ind. 



Type: Xo. HirJ'.'Si.'. Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the specinuMi on a tag; a fore wing, 

 head and hind tibia on a slide. 



GENI-.S (.'KKCHYSIUS Westwood. 

 1. CERCHYSIUS AUSTRALIENSIS Ashmead. Female. 

 Length. 2.6 mm. 



^■Eneous-black. the head blueblack, the face N'entrad of scrobes metallic bluish green, 

 the mesopleura, scutellum and abdomen decidedly metallic greenish; antenn;ti black; legs except 

 coxa-, distal half of himl femora and proximal two thirds of hind tibiae Ijrownisli yellow. Wings 

 fuscous, the proximal one third hyaline. Venation brown. Stignud and postmarginal veins 

 longer than the nuirginal. ()vi|iositor about the lengtli of the first joint of liind tarsi, their 

 valves broad. 



lldtiitiil: Australia. 

 Til [It: Cat. A'o. -IS:i.',. United .states National Museum. Washington, D.C,, r.S,.\. 



2. CERCHYSIUS HISPIDISCUTUM new species. 



Fiinale: Length, 2 nun.. e.\rhhlMig n\ ipusihu-. 



Similar to Shaiiali iiciirlouli a clan pi itiiis liut .-it oiii-e distinguished spei-itically by the 

 distinct whitish pubescence cm tlie srutum (present in that sjiei-ies but not conspicuous), the 

 whitish knees and tarsi, the wholly conecjjorous middle tibia-, the dark a'neons green colour, the 

 legs and abdomen (exce[it at basiM very ilaik purph', by the sliorter nuirgiiml vein which is 

 punctiforni or nearly, slightly longer than wide, the somewliat shorter jiosfmarginal (in relation 

 to the stigmal), by the slender scape, tlie slender pedicel and the longer first two joints of tlu' 

 funicle wliich are longest, subequal, each a little over twice longer than wide and sonu-what 

 longer than tlie pedicel «iiicii is subequal to funicle 4. The oviiiositor is extruded for a 

 distinctly greater length (about two thirds the length of abdomen). Scnl]iture similar in both, 

 or nearlv but in the fore wing the discal ciliaticui is absent proxiiimd \intil near the tip of the 



