260 MEMOIBS OF THE QUEENSLANV Ml'SEVM. 



Head and thorax marked distinctly with yellow. 

 Head marked with yellow. 



Oral region, ventral aspect of scape, lower half of upjier inner orbits, malar space and 

 propleura, rufo-testaceous; legs, yellow except caudal femora which are black,, 

 other femora slightly blackish; marginal vein distinctly longer than the post- 

 marginal; funiele 1 twice longer than wide. Venter and ventral half of sides of 

 abdomen testaceous; scutellum with a median aciculated line . . 



(X(iiithosomu) ch'landi Camei'on. 



Abdomen reddish excejit above at i)roximal third (segments (2-4); face, cheeks and 

 propleurum lemon yellow, also occiput except dorsad; legs yellowish brown, the 

 caudal coxa blaak laterad except at tip and the abdominal ])etiole; scape lemon 

 yellow, black at tip; funiele 1 a half longer than broad. Petiole a little longer 

 than wide. Prepectus glabrous; mesopleurum cephalad punctate (the greater part), 

 caudad longitudinally striate. Median channel of propodeum with carinated sides, 

 and a distinct median ruga. Propodeum coarsely punctate 



qucenslandeiixis Girault ; see xoror and brevipetiolata Girault- 



The same but caudal coxa yellow . . . . . . patruelis Girault., 



The same but the yellow of inoi>knirnni advances on to the notum ; two orange yellow 

 dots mesad on upper occijuit and a dot on each side of propodeum between meson 

 and lateral margin . . . . . . qiiadr'u/uttatiis Girault; see rostaiicii Girault. 



Face beneath antenna' and cephalic margin of propleurum triangularly, lemon yellow; 

 ventum and middle of side of abdomen yellowish brown; caudal coxaj and scape 

 black. Prepectus finely scaly. Mesopleurum about as in ipieenslandensis, also 

 propodeum and other characters . . . . iiiynlla Girault, iiiocterliiiclfi Girault. 



Head all black. 

 Club solid. Abdomen mostly red, also the legs and scape . . a'bnormidav<i Girault. 



Genus CHROMEUKYTOMA Cameron. 



' ' Antcnnfe short, clavate, apparently* 13-jointed, placed over the mouth, the last .joints 

 forming a club. Apex of clypeus rounded. Face roundly convex, clearly separated laterally, 

 below separated from the clypeus by a furrow. Head distinctly wider than the thorax. Eyes, 

 large, widely separated above, not converging. Temples short. Prothorax large, quadrate, as 

 long as the mesothorax, which has distinct furrows; these are straight and converge toward 

 the apex. Scutellum large, longer than it is wide at apex; that is broadly rounded and 

 margined. Postscutellum large, narrowed gradually behind. Metauotum short, little developed, 

 the centre depressed narrowly, the sides broadly rounded, the slope oblique. There is an 

 oblique furrow across the mesopleura;. Abdomen shorter than thorax, longish oval, distinctly 

 narrowed at base and apex, not petiolatcd. Marginal nervure long, the postmarginal longer 

 than it ; stigmal fully one-half the length of the marginal. I-^egs stout, jiilose. Body metallic- 

 green ; its sculpture fine. 



I can refer this genus only to the Eurytominse, but it is certainly not typical of that 

 group. The marginal nervure, for example, is much longer, the sculpture much finer, and the 

 antenna? shorter and more clavate. I cannot place it in any other group. The metallic color 

 is not unique for the EurytominfB, for it iS found in Chryscida. In habits, the type of the 

 genus agrees with most I'^urytominas, the spe^aics of the tribe being mostly parasitic on gall- 

 insects. Probably the discovery of the male mjjy throw- light on the systematic position. ' " 



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♦This is a word which should be used as littl^""ns possible in such connections as this; it is. 

 obscure where it should be clear. 



