AUSTFALIAX nYMEXOPTEHA CnALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAVLT. U7 



■wing naked except at base where there are numerous cilia. The specimen agrees with the 

 original description except that the pedicel is black, the distal half of the club white. Scutellum 

 and axilliB densely shagreened. ' ' 



The added notes made from one female, caught on flowers of Bwckca, Brisbane, April 22, 

 1913 (H. Hacker). The specimen is in the collections of the Queensland Museum, a female 

 on a tag, appendages on a slide. 



Genus FULGORIDICIDA Perkins. 



Head very wide, the hairy eyes extremely large, so that the part between them is very 

 narrow, not more than a third as wide as one of these; ocelli in the form of an isosceles 

 triangle which is much less wide at base than high and the caudal ones are close to the eye 

 margins. Front dull, with dense, excessively minute sculjiture. Antennas slender, the scape 

 simple, the pedicel longer than the first funicle .ioint, the six funicle joints mostly longer than 

 wide, the club as long or longer than the last three funicle joints. Mandibles bidentate, the 

 teeth acute. Club 3-jointed, wider than the funicle. Thorax dull, sculptured like the front, the 

 axiUffl meeting inwardly. Wings hyaline, hairy, tlie iiiarginal fringes very short, the naked 

 oblique line thin, the nmrgiual vein short ar.il thick and IdUijcr lliari wide, longer than the 

 stigmal, the postmarginal acute and barely developed, shorter than the stigmal. Abdomen 

 subtriangular, wide, depressed, foveated on each side toward base, the fovea bearing short 

 bristles; ovipositor slightly exserted. 



In the male, the eyes are much more widely separated, the intervening space about as 

 wide as one eye; the funicle joints are elongate, mostly twice longer than their width, bearing 

 conspicuous, shortish hairs, the pedicel much shorter than the first funicle joint, the club about 

 equal to the two preceding. The head is more decidedl.y luenisciforni, the ocelli placed in the 

 portion of the angles of an almost equilateral triangle. 



1. FULGORIDICIDA DICHROMA P.rkiiis, Female; male. Genotj'pe. 



Length, 1.25 mm. 



Head dull black, the scape yellowish or brownish yellow, the rest of antenna sordid. 

 Thorax opaque, black with slight greenish or bluish tinge, the tip of the scutelhim more brightly 

 blue or green in some aspects; mesepisternum more or less brownish or piceous; legs yellow, 

 the cephalic femora darker. 



Abdomen of male very short and wide, blackish; that of the female yellow or brownish, 

 dark apieally and along the sides to near base. Anteunai of male sordid yellowish, the elongate 

 funicle joints subequal, the pedicel much shorter than the first of these and apparently darker 

 than the other joints. 



Habitat: Cairns, (Queensland. From eggs of I'lal iibrai-Itjis ur an allied geims. 



2. FULGORIDICIDA SAINTPIERREI (Uirault). 

 Anagums saint [tirrrel Girault. Female. 



Length, 2 mm. 



Differs from Aiiatii/nis pciiiii Girault in tliat the mandibles have the second tooth auute, 

 not broadly truncate at apex and it is only a third of the size of the first tooth. Dark metallic 

 bluish, the head and mesothorax rather bright green; legs metallic bluish, the tarsi brown. 

 Wings hyaline, the venation blackish, somewhat as in pciint. Antenna' the same b\it the scape 

 hardly at all dilated, the first and second funicle joints longest, each subequal to the pedicel, 

 longer than wide (distinctly), the following joints more or less subquadrate; antenniu blackish. 

 Ovipositor projecting slightly. 



Habitat: South Australia: Port Lincoln. 



Type: 1.1473, South Australian Museum, one siiecimen on a caid and the head on a 

 slide. 



