•Jllj MEiWIES OF THE QUEENSLAXD MUSEUM. 



Kemicireiilar, bounded by a small square on either side, tlie otlier area much larger transverse, its 

 apex broadly projecting in the middle; base bordered by a row of small area\ longer than 

 wide, and of equal width; sides broadly rounded. Abdomen smooth, shining, longer than 

 head and thorax combined, gradually narrowing from segment 2 to apex. 



' ' This is not a typical Chalcis ; the apex of seutellum is transverse and the abdomen 

 longer and more distinctly narrowed than e.g. in C. euplaew. Its precise generic location may 

 be left until the male has been discovered. The abdomen shows an approach to Conura and 

 Plidsgonophora." (Cameron, 1911.) 



Habildt : Glen Innes. Xew South Wales. 



13. CHALCIS TEGULARIS Cameron. Female. 

 Length, 5 mm. 



Black; hind femora excejrt the teeth black, the four anterior knees, fore tibiai in front 

 and at tlie base and apex behind, testaceous; middle tarsi exeej^t the apical joint, which is 

 fuscous, a band the length of the black basal part, near the base of the hind tibife and the 

 basal four joints of the hind tarsi, white; wings hyaline, venation black; the apical three 

 fourths of the tegulw grey, base with a semicircular black spot. Hind femora with at least 

 ten teeth, the basal small and closely pressed, the apical larger, more clearly separated and 

 rounded ; tie teeth are almost hidden by dense white pubescence. 



Head and tliorax densely, umbilicately punctate, metanotum widely reticulated. I'ro- 

 Xileurse coarsely aciculated, the lower part with two or three oblique strife, bordered below 

 by an oblique longitudinal one. Mesopleural furrow striated on the upper three fourths; 

 the lower basal part irregularly reticulated. Metaiileura; closely, regularly reticulated. Abdomen 

 Avith the third and following dorsal segments punctured and densely covered with silvery 

 pubescence. FlagelUuu of antenna> opaque, densely covered with a white pile. 



Uahifat : Sydney. New South A\'ales. 



14. CHALCIS KYPOl.YCm'STE new species. 

 Female: — Length, 5.5n nun. 



Differing from hercules in being mucli smaller, in having all of ceplialic femur golden 

 yellow and somewhat over distal half of middle femora, the plate at ajiex of seutellum is but 

 slightly emarginate, the tegula? are all golden yellow, the fore wings hyaline, funicle 1 is a 

 little longer than wide and the caudal femur beneath bears 10 teeth of which the first is acute 

 and distinctly longer than the others, 2 and 3 flattened, the last three minute, equal. Also the 

 <'ephalic narrow part of mesopleura is not densely punctate, the wider caudal jmrt not densely 

 longitudinally striate. Face below antenna; -with dense silvery pubescence. The upper apex 

 of caudal femur is more broadly golden yellow than with hercules. 



From one female specimen labelled "34. Parasite of Hypolycanu pliorhas. March (3, 

 111 14. G.F.H. •■ 



Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory, 



Type: No. Hy.3371, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen minutien-nuiunted. 



15. CHALCIS RUBRIVENTRIS new name. Female. 



Tiiinulico.ra ntprentris ((iiranlt). 



Length. .) nun. 



Opaque black, the abdomen rufous or orange re<l as are also the antennal flagellum, 

 tlie ]iosterior coxai, tibi* (except at tip) and femora (except at apex, laterad), the cei)halit 

 tibia; except at base and all the tarsi (somewhat diluted with yellowish) ; cephalic or inter- 

 mediate coxa; black or very dark, the proximal two thirds of the cephalic and intermediate 

 femora black, their distal third honey yellow. Scape dark fuscous, the pedicel somewhat 

 lighter. Tegulai, a rounded spot at apex of posterior femur laterad, a distinct long-oval spot 

 ;if tip of posterior tibife (nearly distal third dorsad) and the knees more or less, lemon 



