AUSTRALIAN HTMENOPTEEA CHALCIDOIDEA, IL—GIBAULT. 165 



The genus Anagroidea is closely allied with Cleruclius Erioek but that genus has the 

 ■seutellum longer than wide, the male antennas are apparently 12- jointed, the sculpture is not 

 rough, the marginal vein is distinctly shorter, the fore wings are narrow and Avith very long 

 marginal cilia and the hind wings are not enlarged. Erytlnndus Enoek (= Enasius Enock) 

 is valid on thoracic structure. The phragma is present and the seutellum is preceded by a 

 single rectangular sclerite at the meson and between the axillae. In Anagrus, the seutellum 

 is followed by a pair of sclerites and the phragma is present. 



PAKANTHEMUS new genus. 



Male: — Characterised by the antenna? which are only 3-jointed, scape, pedicel and a 

 long unjointed club bearing three conspicuous whorls of long stout setae. Phragma present. 

 Fore wings as in Anthemus Howard. Mandibles edentate, obliquely truncate at apex, the 

 extreme apex acute. Pedicel long, stout but not half the length of the tapering club. 

 Seutellum hemispherical, apparently a solid piece. 



Female:- — Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. PARANTHEMUS SPENCERI new species. 



Male: — Length, 0.43 mm. 



Pale golden yellow and resembling the common species of Anagrus in general 

 appearance ; cephalic third or less of scutum dusky blackish on each side of meson there being 

 a short cuneate area; fore wing lightly infuseated under the marginal vein, margin to margin, 

 the longest marginal cilia about three fourths the greatest wing width. Discal cilia of the 

 fore wings arranged in about seven lines, distinct, not dense. Hind wings narrow, with a single 

 distinct line of discal cilia along the cephalic margin, the caudal marginal cilia much longer 

 than the greatest width of the blade. Tarsi not especially long. 



Female: — Not known. 



Described from one male captured in jungle, February 4, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Babinda, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy24Q8, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 



Dedicated to Herbert Spencer. 



Tribe MYMAEINI. 

 Genus POLYNEMA Haliday. 



1. POLYNEMA POINCAREI Girault. 



The distal band on fore wing covers the distal fourth of the wing rather than distal 

 lifth. 



A female was taken at Cooktown, Queensland, by sweeping in jungle, March 6, 1914 

 (A. P. Dodd). The head is polished. Pronotum as long as the scutum. Thorax smooth, the 

 propodeum nonearinate. Seutellum without a crossdine of punctures before apex. Compared 

 with type in balsam. 



Male: — Like the female. Antenna? black, the pedicel short, yellow, the funicle joints 

 3-4 times longer than wide except the last two which are shorter, the last only one and a half 

 times longer than wide, much shorter than the club joint which is subequal to the penultimate 

 funicle joint. Pedicel subglobate. 



Described from a male captured in a jungle pocket, April 2, 1914 at Gordon vale 

 (Cairns), Queensland. 



A. POLYNEMA POINCAREI NIGRITHORAX new variety. 

 Female: — Polished black; pronotum quadrate, subequal to scutum; seutellum longer 



