AUSTHALIJX HYMKNOPTEHA CHALCIDOIDEA, X.—GIHAULT. 235 



F. p. Dodil (Transactions EntunioluHical SoiMety of Luiiflon. May 29, lOOC. p. 123) 

 states: "These briglit little Clialciditla:' I liare bred freiiviently fioia the iiii|ia> of llie fine 

 long-jawed ant Odoittoiiuichiis sp.. several sometimes coming from tlu> one coeooii 

 1 worker ant identified by Prof. Forel as Otlontomarhus riificcps, Sm., snbsp. coriarius 

 Jlayr " 



f4F,Nr'S SClIlZASl'tPTA Westivood. 

 1. SCHIZASPIDIA MURRAYI Kirby. Male. 

 Schi-d.-^pUlid mi(rrti!ii Kirby, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., lit, p. 4ii.3. J (1884). 

 Australia. Tongatabu. 



2. SCHIZASPIDIA RUDIS Westwood. 

 Sclii-asiiiiJia nidix Westwood, Thosanr. Knt. f)xon.. ]i. 132 (1S74). .Australia. 



3. SCHIZASPIDIA DODDI Bingham. Male. 



Length, o mm. Mandibles sickle-shaped with tliree teeth, a|)ical tootli long acnte, two 

 small teeth on the inner margin; clypeus sliort quadrate with tlie cheeks and face below the 

 base of the antennse transversely striate, the stria> curving round ujiwanls and becoming 

 vertical behind and between the eyes, verte.x longitudinally striate; scape of antennie smooth, 

 flagellum finely grannlose, first joint simjile, rounded, remaining joints throwing outward 

 comparatively short, slightly clavate rami. Thorax short and stout, densely and somewhat 

 deeply punctured; scutellum produced, elongate conical, overhanging the median segment and 

 bearing a stout bifurcate process at apex, the points of the fork Idunt, with a tooth on the 

 inner side of each; postscutellum and nu'dian segment vertical and vertically striate the 

 division between them well marked. Abdomen petiolate, petiole shorter tlian the rest of the 

 abdomen which is subobconically depressed above and broadly and bluntly ro\inded posteriorly. 

 Mandibles, scape of antennas and coxse, femora, tibia; and t.-irsi of the legs )iale yellowish 

 brown; fiagellum darker brown; head and thorax rich giddeu bronze with in certain lights 

 scattered green and pnrjde points; wings liyalim^ iridescent; alidfunen sliining bronze brown. 

 Expanse, 12 ram. 



Hcihiliit: Townsville, (^)ueensland. .laiuuiry, l!)li:'.. 



Type: Hope Department. 



F. P. Dodd (place cited above) states: ". . . is ;i great rarity and the only specimen 

 I have bred from several lots of impa." of a large ant, Cumpoiioliis sp. " 



4. SCHIZASPIDIA QUINQUEGUTTATA new species. 



MdU : — Length, 5.30 nun. 



Knnning to Sclii^iiapiilia Westwood but the antenna ly 12 jointed, the jiet iole of the 



abdomen very long and slender, distim-tly lon.ger tli;iH the bo.ly of Uu' ;d)domcn. Scutellum 

 armed with a shcn-t prong {ov two slant, stmit teeth) whose base is quadrate and longer than 

 the arms or teeth, the whole less than half the length of llie scutellum. Head, propodeum 

 except latero-cephalad, metapleuruni, uu'soplciirNni excei.t dorsad, \ enter of nieso- and meta- 

 thorax; coxa' (also venter of prothorax ce]dialad of co.x;u), teeth (but not the base) of the 

 scutellar prong; a large hive-shapeil sjiot at cephalic margin of scutum at nu'son, reaching to 

 middle (and proceeding ventrad a short distance on to face cd' the exceedingly short pronotum) ; 

 an oblique, ovate spot a little caudad of the middle on e.ich parapside ami a transverse 

 elliptical spot on each axilla, d.irk metallic purple with a. bron/e reflection. Petiole and legs 

 white, the former broadly ringed with fuscous dist:ul of mid.lle. Rest of body yellow brown 

 but the dorsum of abd.nnen jet black. Fore wing liyaliue but with a .listinct sooty spot 

 appended from the end of the venation about th,' stignuil vein. Man.libles as in Ora.srnu, 



