L':u; MFMOIUfi OF THE QCEEXSLAXD ^irSEViL 



CaniGroii. Parapsidal furrows straight, meeting at apex. Head finely, i-in-iilarly striate, I lie 

 thorax f oveate-punctate. Antennae 12-jointed, no ring-joint ; scape very short, twice the 

 length of the very short pedicel which is longer than wide; no distinct club. Punicle 1 distinctly 

 the longest, the following joints all more or less erpial. gradually shortening, a little more than 

 half the length of 1 which is elongate. 



From one male captured in jungle, Janiiriry IS, 1!)14 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. HySSSS, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on 

 a slide. 



Genus CHALCURDIDES Girault. 



Agreeing with Clialcurella Girault but the scutellum terminating in a minute, upturned 

 spluelike plate nearly as in Epimctagea Girault and the antenna' bear paired branches after tlie 

 tifth funicle joint, the first five funicle joints with single branches from opposite sides 

 alternately. Joints 2-5 short, joint 1 as long as a third or more of the long club, the funicle 

 joints lengthening after the fifth; pedicel very short; twelve joints, no ring-joint. Scutellum 

 with a median groove. Maudlldes with one and two teetl; within, resjioctively. 



1. CHALCUROIDES VERSICOLOR Girault. Male. Genotype. 



Length, 3. 85 mm. 



Metallic green, the axilla' and rest of thorax distad of them, purple, the alidomen blue, 

 the long petiole greenish and roughened like the thorax; face bluish about the autenmo, striate; 

 antennae black (submetallie) ; wings hyaline, the venation brown. Legs dark, submetallic, 

 the knees, tijjs of tibiai and tarsi brownish. 



Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. Parasitic upon Myrmcihi species. 



Type: No. 1.1362, South Australian Museum, .Adelaide, tag and slide. 



Genus CHALCUKOIDKLLA Girault. 



Like Clialcnrella Girault but the antennai with paired branches after the third funicle 

 joint and thus like those of Clialciiroides but the third funicle joint bears a shortened second 

 branch which is a fifth or less the length of its ojiposite or any of the branches; twelve 

 antennal joints, no ring-joint, all the funicle joints w 1th branches. Mandibles as in Orasema. 



1. CHALCUROIDELLA ORIENTALIS (ilrault. Male. Genotype. 

 Length, 3.20 mm. 



Dark metallic pur]ile, the wings hyaline, the branches of the antenna dark chocolate 

 brown; coxii' and femora concolorous, the cephalic fenioni less concolorons, the rest of the 

 legs brown; abdomen except petiole and base, dark chocolate brown, venation black. Eugosely 

 punctate, the head striate weakly, glabrous ventral half of face. Projiodeum with a distinct 

 lateral grcjove, otherwise convex, the scutellum with a very obscure median groove. First 

 funicle joint as long as the next three combined, the club joint long, capitate, without branches, 

 .straight and longest. From lateral aspect scutellum with two upturned teeth in a longitudinal 

 line near or on the apex. Petiole .aeiculated, d.-irk gri'eulsh; posterior coxai shining, very dark. 

 Corrected description from lyiies. 



Iliihildl: Gonloiivalr ^Cairlls), (^leenslaud. l-'orcst. .\prll l."i. lUll". 



Types: No. HyJ^SH. Queensland MnsiMim, P.risbane. two males on tags (two jiins), a head 

 on a slide. 



