AUSmAUAN HYMKKOPTKHA CHALCIDOIDEA, Xll.^OIUAlJLT. 2,sl 



(lark brownish. Thorax finely scaly retienlato. Ah(hinii>n suffused with l.rown, at distal two 

 thirds crossed by a rather narrow orange transverse stripe wliicli difTuses or broadens somewhat 

 in the lateral aspect. Extruded valves of ovipositor black. Pedicel a little longer than wide, 

 the funiele joints rather stent, all wider than l<,i,<j. enlarging distad, :, lartjest and as long 

 as tlie short pedicel. 



From one female captnre<l l)y sweeping in forest, Jlonnt Pyramid, li.dOO feet, .lune ?, 

 1913 {X. P. Dodd). 



Habilat: (lordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Ti/iw: No. llijSoOO, Queensland Mnseinn, P.risbane. the sjiecimim on a tag. the head 

 and a hind leg on a slide. 



DITROPINOTELLA new genus. 



Female: — In .T. ('. Crawford's (1907) table ui gimera running to Viliopinoliis Crawford 

 but differing from that genus and nearly all the allied genera in bearing 12-jointed antenna> 

 with one distinct ring-joint, the cluli only 'J joi[it,'<l. Hind femm-a compressed, unarmed, the 

 tibial sjinrs normal. Occipital impression ininiargiiied. Pro|ii)i|eum with a pair of median 

 carinjE close together and a line of fovea=^ running from the spiracle and around the caudal 

 margin. Postmarginal vein somewhat shorter than tin- marginal, much longer than the stigmal, 

 Seutellnm simple. Mandibles distinctly bidentate. the inner nuirgin of the second tooth 

 broadly, obliquely truncate. Abdomen sessile, greatly compressed (a mere line from above), 

 from lateral aspect broadly ovate, the ovipositor exserted for not nmre than a fourth of its 

 length; segments not visible in dorsal asjiect but as seen dorsolaterad all the caudal margins 

 straight. 



1. DITROPINOTELLA COMPRESSIVENTRIS new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, l.li.j mm. 



Bright inetallic green, the wings hyaline, the legs yellow-brown but the cox» washed 

 with metallic. Scape colored like the legs. First three or four funiele joints subquailrate. 

 shorter than the ))edicel, joints ."i to 7 wider than long. Scape blackish at dist.-il half. Head 

 and thorax densely finely scaly, the propodeuni glabrous, the sculiuu and pronotum with many 

 scattered thimble pium'tnres. 



From eight sjiecimens reared from galls with JUiieiiop, IhlUi iiiihilipettni.'t Girault. 

 which see. 



Eahitat : Melbourne, Victoria. 



Types: In the National Museum, Melbonrne, five females on a tag; (jue fore leg, 

 several hind ones and heads on a slide. 



IDAKXIX.'K. 

 1|1A1,'X().M()1;P11A neu genus. 



Female: — Like Iclanies Walker Imt the antemue are IMjointe.l \villi one ring joint, the 

 elub 4-jointed, the last joint minute, like a nipph' yet articulated. .Mandibles bidentate. 

 Extruded portion of the ovipositor alnnit three and a half times longer than the body. 

 Postmarginal vein nearly a half longer tli.-in the rather long stigmal, as hnig as the marginal 

 vein. Funiele joints barely longer than widi\ shorter (h;iii tlie pedicel. K'ingjoint large. 

 Abdomen depressed, longer than the thorax. .Mamliblcs trideiitate. Coxie not espec-ially long. 

 Seutellnm ilat, with two grooves, one on each side. 



Hale: — AntennEB 3-jointed, the last two joints forming a club. .Mandibles strongly 

 bidentate. Tarsi 5-jointed, the three intermediate joints transversely linear. Head with an 

 antenna! fovea, longer tlian wide. Wings entirely ( app.arently) absent. 



