318 MEMOIRS OF THE QrEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



18. CHALCIS REGINA (Girault). Male. 

 TamiiUcoxa rcgiiw Girault. 



Length, 4.9.5 mm. 



Like perfaxnpcs Imt more robust, tlie seutelluin terminating in a distinctly bidentate 

 plate and the postmarginal vein longer. The scape is also longer. Posterior femur armed with 

 twelve teeth, the first large, the next two very small, followed by seven larger ones (of which 

 numbers (i to are longest) and two sliorter ones, the last broad, its flat upper edge or apex 

 emarginate; thus e.xcluding the first tooth, numbers to 9 are largest. In perflavipcs, teeth 

 numbers 2 and .3 are not distinctly smaller than tlic ones immediately following (distad). 



Hdhitat : Brisbane, Queensland. 



Type: No. HyllSl, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. 



I have a female of this species from the collections of the Queensland Museum at 

 Brisbane labelled " Brisbane, May 24, 1911" and Mr. Edmund .Tarvis, Assistant Government 

 Entomologist, has sent me a female of the following new variety. The female of the typical 

 form is coloreil like the male. 



A. CHALCIS REGINA DENTATA new variety. 



Like tlie typical form but the teguhe dark, the postmarginal vein somewhat shorter, not 

 distinctly twice the length of the stigmal, the hind femur beneath armed with about nine teeth, 

 the first largest but not as large as in the typical form, subequal to teeth 4-7. Compared with 

 type of typical form. 



From the pupa of a moth (Pyraustinae) on banana. 



Habitat: Maria Creek, Northern Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy337S. Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the antennic 

 on a slide. 



19. CHALCIS RUBRIFEMUR (Giraidt). Female. 

 I'scudcpitclia rtihrifemiir Girault. 



Opaque black, the second alxlominal segment glabrous black, the posterior femur dark 

 reildisli, the venter of the abdomen at the meson more or less suffused with dark reddish or 

 yellowish; tegula> pallid, the wings hyaline, the venation black. Face and distal half of the 

 abdomen pubescent. Tarsi more or less brownish. Intermediate and cephalic knees and two 

 distinct elongate spots on each end dorsad of the posterior tibia, and not at tip, pale golden 

 yellowish. Antenna> wholly black, inserted nearly on a line with the ventral ends of the eyes; 

 the .scrobicular cavity reaching the cephalic ocellus, the lateral ocelli plainly more than their 

 own diameter from the eye margins. Cephalic tibia; with the entire cephalic aspect golden 

 yellow. 



Body moderately finely, densely punctate, the spaces between the punctures finely lined. 

 Third abdominal segment with very minute punctures which vary in siie, the following 

 segments ]>ubescent and transversely wrinkled, the penultimate segment rougher. Posterior 

 femur armed beneath with six moderately large, more or less subequal teeth but the first largest, 

 followed distad by four others which shorten in succession; densely punctulate, the punctures 

 very minute. Anteunie with the distal joint very short, truncate, only about twice the length 

 of the ring-joint; s /ape very long, narrowing distad; pedicel much longer than the ring-joint 

 but only half the length of the ]iroxinial funicle joint which is longest of the fuuicle, twice 

 the lengtli (or nearly) of the subquadrate distal funicle joint. Proximal two joints of the 

 <dub subequal, the distal joint flat, very short. Postmarginal vein about half the length of 

 marginal, >lender, the stigmal very short, yet with a distiui t neck. Moderate to large. 



Habitat: Cheltenham, Victoria. 



Type: No. i?^/ 7 /S0, Queensland Museum. Brisbane. 



