AUSTRALIAN HYMENOFTEEA CHALCIDOIDEA. I.—GIEAULT. 147 



Habitat: Gordouvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 3430, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 

 The female of subflava recorded elsewhere from Gordouvale, October 29, 1912 (window) 

 was really this species. 



BEACHYGEAMMATELLA new genus. 



Female: — Allied with and similar to Brachy gramma Girault but the antennae are 8-jointed 

 bearing two distinct ring-joints, the club rather long and conic-ovate. Also the scape is short, 

 the ovipositor much longer being inserted a little out from base, the antennae are inserted a 

 little dorsad of the ventral ends of the eyes, the marginal vein though broad or thick is thrice 

 longer than wide, the diseal ciliation of the fore wing is extraordinarily dense and fine, hence 

 normal, there is a short, stout hairless line on fore wing from (caudo-proximad) the end of 

 the minute stigmal vein and the caudal wings bear about seven lines of diseal cilia. The 

 marginal cilia of the fore wing are extraordinarily short and minute, barely visible. Thorax 

 apparently with a distinct median groove for its entire length. Tibial spurs single, absent on 

 cephalic legs. Caudal trochanters with a flattened or compressed dorsal lobe. 



Male: — Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. BRACHYGRAMMATELLA NEBULOSA new species. 



Female: — Length, 0.70 mm. 



Sooty black, the vertex and scutellum orange yellow, the fore wings rather lightly 

 infuscated out to apex of venation, the marginal vein black; infuseation of fore wing deeper 

 under marginal vein and more or less across from apex of venation. Knees, tips of tibia? and 

 the tarsi silvery white. Color of scape not seen. Fore wings with a more or less clear oblique 

 (caudo-distad) hairless line from end of venation forming with the true hairless line a short 

 inverted V. Marginal vein hispid. Hairless line of fore wing with about four short lines of 

 diseal cilia proximad of it, as coarse as the rest of the diseal cilia opposite the marginal vein, 

 the main part of the diseal ciliation much finer, none of it coarse or long. Hind femur 

 compressed, the tibial spurs short. Fore wings oblately rounded at apex, shaped somewhat 

 as in Ufens. Pedicel somewhat longer than wide at apex; funiele subquadrate, somewhat 

 shorter than the pedicel, both joints wider than long, the first a little shorter, the suture between 

 them oblique; club 1 longer than 2, longer than the pedicel, 2 conical, subequal to the pedicel, 

 without a terminal seta. Legs rather short. Fore wings naked (or nearly) under submarginal 

 vein. Mandibles with three minute teeth. Caudal marginal cilia of caudal wing distinctly 

 shorter than the width of those wings. Club about twice the length of the pedicel. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping grass in forest, April S, 1911. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Fly2^,M, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide with type 

 of Lathromerella unfasciata Girault and several other ehalcids. 



MIBUFENS new genus. 



Female: — Like Japania Girault but the ovipositor is inserted some distance out from 

 base; wings as in Ufens but the stigmal vein is distinctly much longer than the marginal. 

 Cephalic tibia armed outwardly (dorsad) with six small but distinct teeth-like projections 

 (placed from base to apex). Scutellum with a narrow but distinct median grooved line, a 

 similar line indicated at apex (caudad) of scutum. Mandibles 4-dentate. Caudal femur 

 somewhat swollen, the caudal tibiae serrulate dorsad. Scape much shorter than the club. 

 Marginal vein nearly thrice longer than wide. 



Male: — Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



