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joints subquadrate and subequal, each about half the size of the 
pedicel, the club long-ovate, about equal to the scape, slightly 
longer than the funicle. Parapsidal furrows distinct, complete; 
seutellum with a narrow longitudinal groove on each side of the 
meson; abdomen equal to the length of the head and thorax com- 
bined, ovate, depressed, the ovipositor barely projecting beyond 
its tip. Wings ample, normally ciliate, the marginal fringes 
short, the marginal vein long, a fourth longer than the submar- 
ginal, the postmarginal a mere spur-like projection beyond the 
origin of the stigmal which is distinet, with a neck and uncus. 
Tarsi four-jointed, the tibial spurs single. Mandibles dentate. 
Male—Not known. 
Type—The following species. 
1. Selitrichodes fasciativentris new species 
Female—Length, 1.20 mm. 
Lemon yellow, the abdomen dorsad with two transverse black 
stripes across it, both bands interrupted at the meson; a third 
stripe indicated proximad (across the base) by a black spot at 
the edge on each side; the two stripes are across the distal half 
of the proximal half of the abdomen. Legs, antenne and vena- 
tion (more pallid) concolorous, the wings hyaline. A more or 
less obscure dusky spot near the tegula. Eyes and ocelli red, 
(From four specimens, the same magnification). 
Male—Not known. 
Described from four females remounted on a slide in xylol- 
balsam from a card, received from the Acting Government Ento- 
mologist of Victoria and labelled ‘‘Chalcids parasitic on unknown 
galls on Eucalyptus, N.S, W.”’ 
Habitat—Australia, New South Wales, 
Types—The above females on a single slide. No. Hy 1198, 
Queensland Museum, Brisbane. 
