AUSTRALIAN ETMENOFTEHA CHALCIDOIDEA. VUI.—GUIAVLT. 195 



rather short stigmal. Abdominal sogiiieiit 2 longest, togerher with 3 c)cru[)jinjr two thirds of 

 the surface. Parapsidal farrows eoiiiplotc The ring-joint in <,ni- antenna ajijicarcd to he 

 divided. 



Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the legs exi-ept liind coxa; whicli are more or les.s 

 eoncolorous, straw yellow; scape straw yellow, the flagelluni black. Pedicel wider than the 

 filiform funicle, tlie club still wider; joints 2 and 3 of funicle subeipial, each m^arly as long as 

 the pedicel, all tlie funicle joints longer than wide, the sixtli or last shortest, tlie first subequal 

 to the pedicel. Thorax reticulated. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland, .lungle, .Tune IG, lOi:! (.\. P. Ilodd). 



Type: No. BySlSJ, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, tin- head and 

 caudal tibial on a slide. 



TOXErM()RI'll.\ iHw genus. 



Like Toxcuma Walker but the scutelluni without a crossfurrow, the mandibles strongly 

 4-dentate. The three carina) of the rather long, imnetate jiropodenm are obtuse and much as in 

 I'achycrepoideus. Antennas IS-jointed with two ring-joints. Pronotum transverse. Segments 

 '2 and 3 of abdomen occupying four fifths of the surface, long, subequal. 



1. TOXEUMORPHA NIGRA new .species. Female. Geiiot\p.-. 

 Length, 1.05 mm. 



Black with a faint suffusion of green, the wings hyaline; legs and venation yellow-brown, 

 ;he coxa) jet black; postniarginal vein a little longer than the stigmal, shorter than the marginal. 

 Thorax finely punctate. Antenn;c black, the scape, pedicel and two ring-joints yellow-brown, 

 the funicle joints all much shorter than the pedicel, the distal three a little wider than long, 

 2 and 3 cpiadrate, 1 a little longiu- than wide and narrower than the others. 



Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. From a window in a wool-house, October 3, 1911. 



Type: No. By 31,^4. Queensland Museum. Brisbane, a female on a tag, the hind legs and 

 liead on a slide. 



Genus TOXEUMELLA Giraull. 

 1. TOXEUMELLA PULCHRIPES new species of Girault and .\. I'. I)..,l.l. 

 Length, 2.60 nun. Short and st(Hit. 



Agreeing with the generic description except that the pr(i|iiidriim hu-ks the median 

 carina. 



Bright metallic copiJCry green, the alidonien polished; coxa; concolorous, t'enmra and 

 tibiae bright yellowish reddish; the knees, distal half of posterior tibiae and the tarsi pale straw 

 yellow; antennal scape bright reddish; rest of antennse yellow suffused with dusky. Wings 

 hyaline; venation golden yellow, the marginal vein a half longer than the long stigmal, the 

 postniarginal nearly as long as the marginal. Head and thorax densely punctate, the propodeuni 

 slightly more finely so. Propodeuni short and broad, with lateral carina'. Parajisid.al furrows 

 complete. Head large, a little wider than the thorax. Abdomen compressed above, convex 

 beneath, no longer than the thorax, the petiole short and stunt ; second abdominal segment 

 occupying almost half the surface, remaining segments subequal. Mandibles 3- and 4-dentate. 

 AntennsE 13-jointed with three ring- and three club joints; funicle 1 distinctly longer than 

 pedicel, almost twice as long as wide, 2 subequal, 3-5 shortening. 5 almost cpiadrate; club 

 scarcely longer than funicle 1, its first joint as long as the other twd ccnnbineil. 



Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. .Jungle (1,100 feet), Septendjer 16, 19i:i (A. I'. Dodd). 



Type: No. HySlSS. Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the fenuile on a tag. the head and 

 hind legs on a slide. 



