AUSTHALIAK HYMENUPTEEA CHALCIDOIDEA, XI.—dlFALLT. 



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cephalie margin and qiia.lrato (yet obscurely coniuH-ted „r l,arely separated tr.,ni an opposite 

 transverse spot at caudal margin). Otherwise quite the same. 



From two females caught by sweeping jungle growth along the Mulgrave River \Mril 

 12, 3914. ' 



Habitat: Gordoiivale (Cairns), yueenslaud. 



Type: No. HyS273. (Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two specimens on a tag, the antenna 

 and liiud tibia on a slide. 



6. EUDECATOMA RUFIPRONOTUM n.w species. 

 Female: — Length, 2.(57 mm. 



The same as trinotata but the pronotum wholly reddish, also the latcro-caudal jjart ol" 

 each parapside, the laterodistal margins of scutellum narrowly and the propodeum rather 

 narrowly along each side of the median channel. The hind co.\a> are also reddish above as in 

 circumnotata. 



Form one female captured with the preceding. 

 Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy3374, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with the 

 preceding; antennse and fore wing with type slide of triiiolala. 



7. EUDECATOMA CIRCUMNOTATA new species. 



Female: — Length, 2.7.') nini. 



Reddish brown, the head, legs and abclomen yellowisli brown, the antennie yellow. 

 Vertex centrally and ui)per oecijiut, dorsal pedicel, tip nf club, cephalic margin of scutum, 

 caudal margin of pronotum narrowly, an obscure spot center of scutum at caudal margin, 

 meson and cephalic third of propodeum, caudal co.\a latorad, middle and hind femora (cephalic 

 femur near base), lateral a.xilla>, center of immediate base of abdomen (dorsad) and four strijies 

 across abdomen, black. J''irst two abdominal stripes semicircular and rather widely separated 

 along the meson, the second larger, the third nearly straight, the fourth abbreviated (composed 

 of two closely ,-ii)plied cross stripes). Head and thora.x umbilicately punctate. A'enation 

 reddish brown, the marginal vein a little longer than wide, the jiostmarginal vein absent, the 

 stigmal longer than marginal, usual. Antenna; 9-,iointed, the club solid. Propodeum with a 

 median channel with acute margins. Snbmarginal vein white at ape.x. Funiele 1 not half the 

 length of the scape, longer than the pedicel, somewhat longer than wide, subequal to the next 

 three .joints, .5 a little shorter. Ring-joint distinct. Ilinil tibiie with two spurs. Antenna- 

 inserted in the middle of the fiice. 



From one female caught by svveejiing jungle gro\vth ahuig the Mulgra\'e River, Aj)ril 12. 

 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. HyS275. Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specinu'ii on a tag; hind tibia, 

 antenna and a fore wing on a slide. 



In a second female, tlie second, curved abdominal slripe did not (piite meet the first 

 stripe laterad. 



Gknus CRATOUECATOMA Cariiernn. 



" Antenme ap]>arently Ujointed. jilaced in the middle of the head, malar space two 

 thirds of the length of the eyes; scape not reaching the oi-clli; antcnnal depression shallow, 

 not clearly defined, narrowed above. Ocelli in a curve. Occiput not margined. Pronotum 

 moderately large, roundly narrowed from the apex to the base, the a])ex broadly rounded, 

 margined. Metanotum triangular, with a rounded slri|ie. the sides and center keeled and with 

 three or four stria; on either side. .•\bd(nnen shorter than thorax, lh<' back that, with the 



