AVSTI^AfJAX IIYMKSOI'TKUA (II AIJIDOIDEA. V 1 1 l.~(!l RAll.T. W:. 



Ndii iiictallii-. Eyes naked. ProiKitiiiri as seen trmii alidve, traiisviMsc linear. uiileMiii<; laterail. 

 normal. .Segment 2 of abdomen oeeiipyino about a fifth of the surface, nntclied at meson 

 eaudad; no petiole. Pronotuni well sejiarated. 



1. APIRENE LONGIFASCIATA (Jiraidl. F.^malr. (icnotype. 



Length, 2.0(1 mm. 



Blac-k, the abdomen honey yelloiv and with a lont; broad bhu'k stripe down ea(di side 

 from base t<i apex; i-oxa' Idark, the legs fuscons, tips of tibiic and most of the tarsi 

 paler, the cephalic femora darker, washed with more or less blackish. Wings hyaline. Head 

 and thorax densely liut not deeply punctate, the propodenni less rough, polygonally reticulated, 

 the abdomen all similarity reticulated but more ch'licately. Face with converging stria) above 

 tlie clypeus. .Second and third fnnicle joints snliecpial, the third, fourth and fifth each shortening. 

 Scape and pedicel fuscous; ring-joints yelhnvish, the fnnicle yellow, suffused witli dusky. 



Habitat: Uordonvale (Cairns'). (^)ueeuslaiid. Forest, Ilecember, l!n2. 



Not nnconnnon. 



Tyiies: Xo. II ii .<!', '.'. I^lueeushuul Museuui. Hiisliaiu'. two feniali's on tags (twi> pins); 

 head on a slide. 



KK()T()LEPS[ELL.\ new genus. 



Running to lirololciisin Howard but the stigrnal anil ]postuiargiiial veins extremely long, 

 subequal, each over three fourths the length of the marginal, the antennal pedicel somewhat 

 shorter than the solid club, the eyes naked or nearly so. There is a single ring-joint and the 

 first funicle joint is subquadrate and narrower than the others, the second and third joints 

 longest. Fore wings banded. Cephalic femur somewhat swollen but simple. Mandibles 

 tridentate. Parapsidal furrows comjdete, delicate. Abdomen jiointed conic-ovate, segment 2 

 longest liut occupying only about a third of the surface, its caudal margin entire, Propodenni 

 with .-1 neck but no carina?, rugose, the scutellum with a not very distinct cross-furrow before 

 apex. Abdomen with a short stout peticde. Antenna> U-jointed. With the habitus of the 

 Pteromalidie. 



1. EROTOLEPSIELLA BIFASCIATA new species. Female. Genotype. 



Length. l.Mi mm. 



Purjilish brown, the tip of abilomeu ringed narrowly with white, the distal part of 

 metathorax and the short abdominal petiole also wiiite. Legs c(uic(dorous, the tarsi yellowish 

 white, the antenna' eoncolorous. Fore wings with two ccuispicuous black-brown bands across 

 them, the first narrow and from the bend of the submarginal vein, the second very broad and 

 from the stignial vein. Th(uax punctate. 



Hahitat: Babinda, (Queensland. .Jungle. October 2S. I'Ml. 



Type: No. Hf/JlSO. Queensland ituseum. Brisbiine, a female on a tag, tlie head and 

 caudal tibia? on .a sliile. 



EROTOLEl'SKlPl'S new genus. 



Femali : — Form short. Head wider than long, the anteume inserted on a level with 

 the ventral ends of the eyes, capitate, the club short, obliquely trum-ate, :} jointed; eleven joints 

 with one ring joint, the funicle joints after the subquadrate first, wider than long and sub- 

 pedunculate. Mandibles slender, with three long teeth. Parajisidal furrows complete, deep. 

 Pronotum transverse. Scntellum with a imnctate cross-groove just before apex. Propodeum 

 polished, with a median carina only, the spiracle snmll, round. Axilla: large, widely separated. 

 Second abdominal segment occupying a little over a third of the surface, the others much shorter 

 than it. Marginal vein short, less than half the length of the subm.arginal, the stigmal not 

 long, two thirds the length of the marginal, the postmarginal somewhat longer than the stigmal. 

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