AVSTSALIAX TlYMKyoi'TKRA (11 .ILCIIIOIDEA, Xir.^aUlAIJLT. XJO 



All of my ouu descriptions wen- nv.uU' frinii tin- iKinmil position as licscrilicii by Coiiistock 

 aud they are from single speeinieiis unless otlieruise stated. 



Glossuriah — Certain terms need exjilaininf;. The term fun si lias Ijeen used to designate 

 the major floral uroui)ing of the Australian ContiiuMit usually termed hush and eharai-terizeil 

 by the opeu-spaeed arrangement of the trees and much grass; snch trees as the various gums 

 and wattles are characteristic. By jniuilc is meant an entirely different flora like that of tho 

 forests of the American continents, characteriied liy density and the presence of much moisture; 

 the various spec-ies of fig form I'xaniph's uf tliis tlnr:i. Forest streamlets are usually fringed 



with jungle and these fringes when limaile I form .iungle ]iockets. The chalcidoid fauna of 



the two flora is (piite distinct. 



Anatomically, my term puriipsUlcs means the tnn> sriiliim while my term siutum is 

 anatomically the true pra'sciiliim. My term propmlium means the entire dorsal region of the 

 thorax caudad of the mesopostscutellum. In counting the abdominal segments, the first body 

 segment is counted as segment L'. The ovipositor is said to be e.xserted only when its valves 

 are also. The term U(js includes the cox;e. liy the C(mii]arative terms d little, somewhat and 

 distini'thf, I express degrees in the ordei' gi\fMi. l-'uniide 1 is (/ little longtT than wide when it 

 is just peicejitibly so; it is suiinii-liiil lunger than wide when the fact is obvious and it is 

 ilistinrth/ longer when the obviousness is \ ei y |iateiit and distim-t. The liitirni cdrina on the 

 ]iropodeum is taken to mean a carina between the nieson and the spirai-le but always nearer 

 the latter than to the meson. 



Anomalous (icnera. — Attention is es|iecially ilireited to those genera whose relation- 

 ships are doubtful. The following should be noted: Eiiryiscliomyia Girault of the Elasmida;; 

 Vipanlloniijia and liitrcnlophus of the Eulophida': the gallmaking genera of the PerilampicUe. 



ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 



The indivi.lual collector of specimens has been acknowledged throughout. The Directors 

 of the following museums have very kindly loaned collections for study: The Queensland 

 Museum at Brisbane, the Naticm.-il Museum at Melbourne and the South Australian 

 Mviseum at Adelaide. Mr. A. 1'. Dodd ;ind myself have Tuade extensive collections for over a 

 pi'riod of two and a h.-ilf ye,-irs but these were lUM-essarily confined to certain sections of 

 (|)ueensland (udv; :!ll,l)Oo or moK speriniens were (dt.-iined. mostly by use of the sweei)ing net. 



To Dr. K. llamlyn-Harris, wh(^ editiMl the serii's, 1 owe very much, more especially fo'- 

 his personal eft'orts in having Parts Vlf to XIV printed. My greatest obligations, however, 

 are to my wife, who bore patiently and willingly the drudgery connected with co[)ying out the 

 rough desiriptiiiiis and arranging them in the form of legible manuscript. 



ADDITIOXS. 



After the m.-inuseripts had lie,-ii cui.ied out I h.-i\e hei'ii :ible to a<ld the following species. 



Family \I VMAIMH.E. 

 1. GONATOCERUS PACHYSCAPHA tk w species. 



Finialr: — Length, about 1' mm. li.dioigs to the rriiaiii group. 



-let, the following parts bright golden yellow: The slender bulla of the scape, pronotuni, 

 propleurum and proventer excepting a faint central, dusky, longitudinal line on the plcurum. 

 legs except the jet hind tibiip and last two jiairs of coxa>, the dark brown middle tibiiB aud 

 three distal joints of hind tarsi; ftice and margins of eyes all around; also nmre obscurely. 



• Also Cameron's eurytomid genera. Walker's specie:- need careful revision. 



