AUSTRALIAN HYUENOPTEBA CIIALCIBOIDEA, VII.—GIEAULT. 



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\e\n and is more distinct distad; the region sunouiicliiig ajiox of subniargiiial vein; a si>a<.-" 

 just distad of venation and irregularly joined to tlijs farther distad a large, obliqued hyaline 

 spot on margin; similar spot on .•ephali.- margin before apex; a small, inconspicuous clear 

 space at middle of apex; and two marginal sjuits caudad, opposite to the cephalic two but 

 smaller; the proximal of these two is round. Body finely transversely scaly-reticulate; a short 

 line of delicate punctures in the middle of the Hat vertex caudad; thorax with numerous 

 scattered sotigerous pin-punctures. Axillie a little sejiarated. Head triangular from lateral 

 aspect, the vertex long, the frons prominent; a line of minute punctures along lateral and 

 cephalic margin of vertex. Frons moderate (about S times the diameter of the small cephalic 

 ocellus). Mandibles with three short, eipial teeth. Fore wing narrcjw, the marginal fringes 

 somewhat longer than usual, the marginal vein about six times longer than wide, somewhat 

 over twice the length of the stignuil and rather tliick. tlie jiostmarginal absent. Hairless line 

 not well defined. Scape gi-eatly flattened; pedicel very small, flat; funicle joints all much 

 wider than long, the first three shortest, one eud curved and pointed; club .3-jointed, no wider 

 than the funicle and a little shorter. Hind tibi;c with one distinct tibial sp.ur. Legs slender. 

 Pronotum transverse-f|uadrate, a third the lengtli of the scutum. 



Prom one female taken in forest, April 24, 1914. 



Hahitut: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Ily3021, Queensland Museum, l'.risl)ane. the siie<dmeu mi a tag; head, hind 

 tibia and a fore wing on a slide. 



This species most iimbably lielongs here hut tiie descriptions of the genus are lacking 

 in numerous particulars. 



Dedicated to Kalph Waldo Emerson. 



Genus CHRYSOl'oIMl A(iUS ,\simiead. 

 1. CHRYSOPOPHAGUS MAZZININI new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.6.5 mm. 



Dark metallic purple, the scutellum at cephalic tivo thirds leuujn yellow, rest brown 

 yellow; mesopleurum, venter and sides of abdomen, cephalic ami niTddle femora, head, scape, 

 venter of thorax, cephalo-lateral angle of ]ironotum and face of the latter yellowish brown. 

 Frons washed with purplish; dorsum of abdomen exce]it across base, suffused with brownish. 

 Fore wing at extreme base and from origin of marginal vein not quite to extreme apex, deeply 

 embrowned. About four lines of black cilia proximad of hairless line, these twice coarser 

 than the main ciliation. Marginal vein elongate, four or more times the length of the short 

 stigmal. the pcstmarginal a little over half the length of the stigmal; a small, clearer spot at 

 apex of venation, a longer one nearly opposite at caudal ULargin. Fore wings narrow. Hind 

 tibise with one spur. Mandibles slender, with three ecjual acute teeth of which the middle is a 

 little the longest. Scape long, curved, very slender; [ledicel subequal to funicle 4 which is 

 somewhat longer than wide; funicle 1 longest, somewhat over twice longer than wide, cylindrical; 

 flagellum after funicle 2 compressed, funicle (i a little w iihu- than long; club distinctly less 

 than half the length of the funicle. Frons moderately broad; lateral ocellus over its own 

 diameter from the eye margins. Cheeks half the length of the eyes. .Scutellum with a tuft of 

 black bristles. Ring-joint present. Head sublenticular. Frons panctulate. A short carina 

 between the confluent axilhv, the latter yellowish brown laterad. Thorax densely, finely scaly. 

 Scutum with short, contrasting sihcry wliite hairs. Pronotum large, not nim-li shorter than 

 the scutum. Legs slender. 



From one female on a tag; head, fore wing and hind tibia on a, slide. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, August 4, 191.'i. 



Type: No. Hy 3023, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the sjiecimen on a tag; head, fore 

 wing and a hind tibia on a slide. 



Dedicated to Joseph Mazzini. 



