204 MEMOISS OF THE QUEENSLANV MVSEVM. 



Genus DINOUKA Ashmead. 



1. DINOURA AURIVENTRIS Ashmead. Female; male. 



Length, 4.8 iiiiii.; to tip of ovijiositor nearly 7 mm. Head bluish or blue-green, with 

 a metallic green spot on vertex enclosing ocelli; thorax above metallic green, at sides and 

 beneath with metathorax, Ijlue or blue-green ; femora except tips, ajneous black, anterior pair 

 more or less bluish; rest of legs pale yellowish; liind tibia; obfuscated medially. Wings hyaline, 

 venation dark brown. Abdomen gold green and terminating in a prominent ovipositor which 

 is dilated into three broad leaf-like expansions, like a propeller in a naphtha launch. 



Male measures 3.60 mm. Antenna; 9-.iointed, flagellum filiform, clothed with a short 

 dense felt-like pubescence, the joints longer than thick; all legs teneous lilack with white tarsi; 

 -abdomen oblong-oval, bronzed black, metallic greenish above toward base. 



llahitat: Sydney, New South Wales. From galls of Brachyscelis pilratii. 



Type: No. 4S03, United States National Museum, Washington. D.C., U.S.A. 



2. DINOURA CYANEA A.sluaead. Female. 



Lengtli, .5 mm.; to tip of ovipositor, 10 mni. Head .and tliorax bhie witli a metallic 

 green tinge on thorax above; basal half of abdomen yellowish; anterior and middle tibia;, hind 

 tibise along outer face and all tarsi ivory white. Wings hyaline, as in the previous species. 



Habilat: Wellington. Now South Wales. From galls of B>-<icluiscelit^ ovicola Schr., 

 August 20, 1801. 



Tyiye: No. -^5.9,?. United States Xatiimal Museum, Washington. D.C. U.S.A. 



Genus SOHIZONOTUS Eatzeburg. 



1. SCHIZONOTUS DODDI new species. Female. 



Length, 2 mm. 



Dark metallic purjile, the scutellum and liase of abdomen green; the legs concolorous, 

 the knees and tarsi yellowish; wings liyaline, the venation dark; antenna; black, 12- jointed 

 with two ring-joints, the pedicel scarcely longer than the first funicle joint which is not much 

 longer than wide, the distal three funicle joints subequal, the 3-joiDted club not enlarged. 

 Stigmal vein somewhat shorter than the postmarginal. Scutellum with a cross-furrow near 

 apex, proximad of this with some scattered thimble ]nmctures. Thorax densely shagreened, 

 the propodeum with a sharp median carina, near its base crossed by a sharp transverse carina 

 near or at the caudal margin; parapsidal furrows sharp. Mandibles tridentate. Abdominal 

 segments more or less equal. Front femora only sliglitly swollen, not toothed. Antenna; 

 inserted near the middle of the face. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), (^ueerishind. Purest (2,.j00-3.000 feet), .Tune 3, 1913 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type: No. HySl:>5. Queenslaml Museum. Brisljane, the female on a tag, the Ijead on a 

 .slide. 



2. SCHIZONOTUS AMABILIS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Length, 2.10 mm. 



Bright metallic green, the mesonotuni eojijiery; coxa; and femora concolorous; tibia; and 

 liasal half of antennal seape golden yellow; tarsi white, the apical joint dusky, rest of antenna; 

 black. Scutum, scutellum and axilla* with fine scaly reticulation, the median lobe of scutum 

 with large deep punctures. Parapsidal furrows deep and distinct. Scutellum rather long with 

 a deep cross-sutui-e before ajiex. Propodeum short, broad, glabrous; with a distinct median 

 carina. Abdomen short, shorter tluin tlie thorax, segment 2 longest, occujjying about a third 

 of tlie surface, smooth, rest of alMloiueii witli \eiy fine reticulation. Wings hvaline, the venation 



