AUSTi;ALJ.t.\ JIYMENOl'TEBA CHALCIDOIDEA, VU.—GIRAULT. 87 



Head pale or ivurv wliito. tlir face \eiitr:iil nf the i\ves crossed Ijy a wavv cfark stripe whkli 

 passes through the base of the antennm. Si-aje veiitrad edgeii with bhu-k. Axiihe iiieetin}i 

 inwardly. Hairless line of fore wing with about fi\e lines proxiniad of it. 



Habitat: Gordouvale (Cairns), C^neenshuul. .lungle, .June .'>, 191:',, a female. 

 Type: No. HjlSHSB, Queensland Museujii. P.nshane. the above female on a sliile 

 One female, Knranda, jungle, September Hi. lili:! (.\. I'. Doildj and Deeember '.). 

 1913. 



Ckx't's CHKIl.oXKflM'S Westwood. 



1. CHEILONEURUS GONATOPODIS Perkins. Female. 



Length, 1 mm. 



Ferruginous or yellow, the club of the antenna- and usually the basal part of the hind 

 tibisB, blackish or infuseate. Ocelli on a subnu'tallie area and forming a triangle with a narrow- 

 base but the triangle hardly twice as high as wide at base. Eyes with a very few short, 

 indistinct hairs. Scape very slender, cylindrical. Senium with a caudal cross-band of blue 

 with a silvery lustre due to the pubescence; propodeum dark at the sides. Wings infuseate on 

 more than the basal half except that at the tijis and round the margins they are nearly 

 hyaline; a darker transverse mark bearing long black seta", near the base of the marginal vein. 

 Abdomen dark at tip and on each side at extreme base; distad of the dark at base on each 

 side there are some very long seta>. Scutum Avith silvery jmbcscence. 



Huhitdt : Cairns, Kuranda, Bundaberg and Childers, Quei'usland, 



Parasitic on PsciiiJogonatoinis, KcIithroilclpJui.r and so forth. 



Tiipc : Query. 



2. CHEILONEURUS CHLORODRYINI Perkins. Female. 



Tjcngtli. l.-')!! mm. 



^'ery like the preceding species and the Xcu'tli American .sHcrci/i in habitus but differs 

 from the former in lacking the caudal metallic cross baud nn the si ntum, which however has 

 the same silvery jiubescence. Scajie well roinnled on tlic vetitial siile aiul distinctly dilated. 

 From cephalic aspect, eyes strongly convergent cepliahid, the least sjiaee between them 

 excessively narrow, not very nmch wider than an ocellus. The ocelli are [ilaced in tlie form 

 of an excessively elongate triangle, the anterior one being extraordinarily remote from the 

 caudal ones. Hairs on the eyes excessively short but numerous. Scape yellowish, its ventral 

 mar'gin dark; pedicel and funiide white, the club black. Wings :is in jianatnpoiiis. 



Hdhildt: Kuranda, Queensland. In coccjons of ('Jiloroilrijiiuis. 



Tifl". : (^Uiery. 



3. CHEILONEURUS PURPUREIVENTRIS new species. 



Female: — Length, 1 mm. 



Orange yellow, the abdomen an.l caudal third "i snitnni m<talli,- purple (the latter 

 green) ; also the antennal club is black. Tuft of hairs at a[pex of scutellum black. Fore wings 

 deeply embrowned from the apical half of the benrl of the submarginal vein distad nearly to 

 tip; the latter and a small sjMit just distad of marginal vein hyaline. The three lines of distal 

 cilia proximad of the oblique hairless line rather long and C(jars>r, very much longer than the 

 cilia of the blade generally. Manilibles with tinei- small, mute teeth. Scape distinctly dil.ateci 

 ventrad hut not very greatly exjpanded; pedici'l not especially long, longer tli.an any of the 

 funicle joints of which all are wider than huig. 14 sube(pml, ."i atul 6 distinctly longer than 

 them. Thorax very linely longitudinally liueolate reticulated, .\xilke barely separated. Metallic 

 green caudal tliird of scutum hispid with sihciy white liaiis. \'ertex very n:irrow, nearly flat, 

 the face greatly inflexed, the frons snl)|ironiinent, o\ erli.anging the face, narrow. Legs palo 

 yellow. Vertex with a line of faint punctures ;ihmg i-acli eye ni.-irgin, the surface coriaceous 



