AUSTRALIAN nYMENOPTEBA CH ALCIDOIDEA. riL—GUiAl'LT. U3 



Described from one feiiuile c-aipturoil from a window in a wooMiousi- in tlip city, 

 October 3, 191]. 



Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 



Type: No. Bii^lOS?, Queensland Museum, lirisliaue, tin- s|ic'cini.Mi on a slide. 



Also one female, Towusville, .lauuary HI'., IDIIi. rompared uifh ty|jc. 



Genu.s E1"IDIN()CARSI8 Girault. 

 Head a little longer than uide (eeplmlii' as|iect), tlie antenna.' inserted near the clypeus, 

 12-jointed with a riufi-joint, tlie scape enormously dilated ventrad, the funicle filiform, the 

 joints all longer than wide, the first as long as the jjedicel which is elongate; club 3-jointed, 

 oylindrieal. Abdomen elongate, sharply pointed, distinctly longer than the head and thorax 

 combined, the ovii>ositor slightly exserted. Marginal and stigmal veins sulietiual, moderately 

 long, the stigmal curved, the postmarginal a half shorter; oblique naked line present. Vertex 

 punctate. No carina between the base of the antennip. Propodeum without a median carina, 

 transverse, widening distad. Frons moderately broad. Mandibles with two acute teeth. 

 Axillas meeting or separ:ited. Corrected description. 



1. EPIDINOCARSIS TRICOLOR Girault. Female. Genotj-pe. 

 Length, l.SU mm. Orange yellow, the legs pale yellow, the cox;i; nearly white, the fore 

 wings slightly stained jproximad under the submarginal vein; preraotnni (except laterad), 

 cephalic margin of scutum, a large egg-shaped spot filling the center of scutellnni from base 

 to apex, two large areas on metathorax. their lateral margins involving the spiracle and 

 separated broadly at meson and the distal luilf or more of the abdomen, purplish black. Head 

 black, also the antenure except distal fifth or more of tlie scape, a little less than distal half 

 of the pedicel, distal (sixth) funicle joint and the club which are white. Head and thorax 

 finely densely alutaceous; the vertex and scutum A\itli many pinjiuuctures. Distal funicle 

 joint a little over half tlie length of the first which is three .'ind a half times its own width, 

 Funicle 6 not twice longer than wide, subequal to club 1. 



IlaMtat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, ],.500 feet. May 30, 1913, 



Type: No. Ilii-!"SS, <^>iieeiisland Museum. Brisbane, the female on a tag; head on a slide. 



2. EPIDINOCARSIS SUBFLAVICEPS now species. 



Female: — Length. 2 mm., excluding the ovijiositor which is extruded for a lengtli equal 

 to a fifth that of the abdomen. 



Like Iricolor but the heail is (•(mcoloroiis with the biiily as are also tlie legs; the fore 

 wings are hyaline: all of the iiroiiotuin and srntuin immaculate but the face of pronotum is 

 black; scutelhim with a narrow black line down the meson or a central spot mesad. Otherwise 

 as in tricolor e.xcept that the funicle and club are orange yellow to brown-black, the second 

 funicle joint white, the third and fourth more or less blackish. The pedicel is a little shorter 

 than the first funicle joint while the distal joint of the funicle is longer than in tric-olor, over 

 twice longer than its width, over half the length of tlie chili while funicle 1 is subei]ual to the 

 pedicel. Cephalic margin of scutum sometimes blackish. 



From one female caught by sweeping in forest, September I'J, 191'-!. 



Haiitat : Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. UySOSi), Queensland Museuie Brisli-ue. the specimen on a tag; head on a 

 slide with type of tricolor. 



3. EPIDINOCARSIS MIRUS new species. 



Female: — Length, l.oO mm. 



Uniformly brownish yellow, the wings hyaline. From tricolor antenme, differing in that 

 all of the funicle joints are black except 2 and 3 which together with the club are pure white; 

 .and from iuhflaeiceps in liaving much shorter dislal funicle joints as in tricolor and in 



