2 to " MEMOIBS OF TRK QVKENSLAND MUSEUM. 



ami the lateral iiiaisins caviiiateci, the surface of the segments coarsely scaly. Face inflexed, 

 the head much as in the Eupehnina', the antennjc ll-jointed without a ring-joint, the first 

 funiele joint small, like a large ring-joint, the club solid; pedicel much longer than any of 

 the funiele joints which widen distad, joints 3 and -t about longest, not much longer than 

 the others, barely wider than long; club ovate, not half the length of the funiele; serobes 

 forming a triangle. Hind femora simple but more swollen tlian the front ones which are also 

 simple (very finely serrulate) yet distinctly swolhu. Incisions of abdomen smooth. Plate 

 at apex of scutellum entire. Mandibles tridentate. 



Described linm one female caught by sweeping in forest, December 2, 1912 (A. P. 

 Dod<l ) . 



Ifiihitdt: Norttiern (Queensland ( t>ordon\alc near (Jnirns). 



Type: No. HySSll. Queensland iiuseuni. Brisbane, a fenuile on a tag; the head, hind 

 legs and a front leg on a slide. 



Subfamily C'HALCODECTIN^. 



(lEXU.'^ ("IIAT.CODECTI'S Walker. 



1. CHALCODECTUS CUPRESCENS (Westwuod). 

 PoljU'hnjiiKi ciipn-xriiis Westwood. Tliesanr. Knt. Oxon. p. 142 (1S74). Australia. 



Gexus AGAMERION Haliday. 



1. AGAMERION GELO (Walker). 

 Miscoyaster gclo Walker, lS3i», p. 27. Male. 



" Mas. Purinireii cyuiwa r<iriili-raii(i, iiiiUnnitr niiime, pedes nigro virides, tarsi picei, 

 iiUic suhfuseae. 



Purpureo-cyanea : caput cyaneo-viride; sulca quo insidet scapus laete cuprea: oculi et 

 ocelli obscure rufi: antennae nigrae: thoracis segmentorum suturae nonuullae virides: meso- 

 thoracis scutellum pur2>ureum: abdomen laete purpureum, basi viride micans, ajjice cyaueo- 

 varium: pedes virides, eyaneo et purpureo varii; trochanters ferruginei; genua ferruginea; 

 tibiae nigrae, spinae fulvae; tarsi picei; pro- et raesotarsis articulus lu.s fulvus: alae subfnseae; 

 sfjuamulae piceae; nervi picei. (Corp. long. lin. 2%; alar. lin. 3.) 



Sydney. New South Wales. 



2. AGAMERION METALLICA new species. 



Female: — Length, 2.60 mm. Propodeum pulygoually scaly. Occiput finely scaly. 



In Ashmead 's (1904) table of genera running to ('oniira Spinola in the Haltiehellini 

 but the body is metallic, the antenna} only ll-jointed with one large ring-joint, the elub 

 2-jointed. Marginal vein three fourths the length of the subniarginal, the postmarginal and 

 stigmal moderate in length, tlie latter the shorter. Hind tibia at apex normal, squarely trun- 

 cate, with two large, unequal, normal spurs. Second abdominal segment occupying about a 

 fourth of the surface, not much longer than 4 whicli is a little longer than I!. Serobes rather 

 deep. Propodeum with a distinct, thick median carina and no others. Pronotum subtransverse. 

 .Scutellum at ajiex with a short, entire [ilate. Hind femur beneath distinctly .srn-tited. with 

 no large teeth. 



Dark metallic lilue. the wings hyaline, the tarsi brown, tljc dorsal eilge of hind tiliia 

 white together with the first joint of hind tarsus, the rest of that tarsus blackish blue; tip 

 of hind tibia margined w'ith brown. Densely punctate (head and tliorax). Pubescence incon- 

 «|iicnous. Sca|i(' straight, cylindrical; pi'dircl long, distinctly lunger tliim any iif the funiele 



