172 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAMI MVSEVM. 



Scape dusky. Distal three fuuicle joints longest, each somewhat longer than wiile, the proximal 

 three slightly longer than wide. Pedicel somewhat longer than funicle -t. Obliqne hairless line 

 of fore wing with about half a dozen lines of coarser cilia proximad of it. Hind wings short 

 and broad, with about twenty-three lines of fine diseal ciliation where broadest. Ring-joint 

 present. AxilliE finely scaly, narrow, just joining at meson, with an obscure carina between 

 them ; scutellum longitudinally lined ; scutum and the transverse pronotum densely scaly, the 

 former with very many minute setigerous pin-punctures, the pubescence not silvery. Abdomen 

 shorter than the thorax, iiuely scaly, bright green at base. Hind tibial spur single. 



From one female taken May 29, 1914, forest uplands (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Maclean (Clarence River), Xew South Wales. 



Type: No. HyUli", Queensland Museum, Brisbane, with type of Eiiilclrachcmus 

 scxfiuttatipcnnis Girault. tag and slide. 



Genus ERJCYDNUS Walker. 



1. ERICYDNUS CHRYSCUS Walker. Male. 

 " Pteromalns :' (7i)-i/.sr».v Wnlkn. M..n, Ch.'ilcid. II, p. 34 J. Australia." 



2, ERICYDNUS MEGALARUS Walker. Female. 



•• Eulophns imnalanif: Walker, Eat. Mag. V, p. 477. (^ , Australia.'' 



3. ERICYDNUS HEMIPTERUS new species 



Female: — Length, 1.15 mm. Sliort and rolnist, resembling a Hadioiioliix. 



Brilliant metallic dark green, the mesoplenrum and abdomen purple; dist.al fourtli of 

 fore wing sooty; legs pur])le except tarsi and distal two thirds of middle tibia' which are 

 brownish yellow, also the knees and more or less of tips of tibia\ Antenna; jiurplish, the club 

 ]ialer; scape slender, cylindrical; pedicel subelongate, longer than any of the funicle joints, 

 all of the latter longer than wide, 4 somewhat the longest, (3 somewhat the shortest. Club 

 slightly wider than the iunicle, its three joints a little shorter than the funicle joints; pedicel 

 not quite a third the length of the funicle; antennas 12-jointed, one short ring-joint. Middle 

 tibisB armed with black teeth beneath as in many Eupelmina;. Head densely scaly punctate, the 

 thorax polygonally scaly; axillje widely separated, the scutellum convex, sublenticular but 

 nearly as long as wide, rounded at apex. Wings very small, reaching to proximal fifth of 

 abdomen, the latter short. Front femur compressed, middle tibia somewhat dilated at apex, 

 the spur with hairs ventrad. Lateral ocelli somewhat sejiarated from the eyes, the ocelli minute. 

 Mesoplenrum finelv, longitudinally lineolated. Abdomen finely scaly, green at base. Scrobes 

 not long. Vertex moderate in width, the frons moderately narrow. Ovipositor not exserted. 

 Hind tibial spurs apparently double. Pronotum transverse-linear. Second tooth of mandible 

 liroad, truncate, the first small. 



Described at first from eight fenmles reared from a nuiss of pentatomid eggs on a bush 

 in the forest. The hosts were obtained May 7, the parasites emerging May 30, 1912. Later two 

 females were seen in the collections of the Queensland Museum labelled "Sweeping under- 

 growth, mostly eucalypts, Brisbane, A]n-\\ 4 and Ki, 191:5 (H. Hacker)." Also, what appears 

 to be a male was captured by sweejiing in the dry lied of the Proserpine River, at Proserpine, 

 Queensland, November 3, 1912. It is similar to the female except -that the middle tibiae are 

 wholly yellow, the club is solid, the pedicel shorter, the funicle joints longer; jieditel nuich 

 shorter than funicle 1 ; f uniclcs 2 and 3 slightly the longest, two and a half times 

 longer than wide. The antennal pubescence though not long is longer than in the female. 

 I>iscal cilia of fore wing confined to the small distal sooty area, the venation running to apex. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Proserpine and Brisbane, Queensland. Forest. 



Types: No. Hy3148, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, four females on a tag; two female 

 heads and three legs on a slide. 



Type locality, Gordonvale. 



