AUSTRALIAN HYMEKOPTEEA CHALCIDOIDEA, IL—GIBAULT. 167 



From two females captured in jungle, February 4, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 

 Dedicated to A. E. Wallace. 

 Habitat: Babinda, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2470, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a slide with a 

 female of mendeli. 



8. POLYNEMA ALIGHERINI new species. 

 Female: — Length, 1 mm. 



In my table of Australian species runs to spenceri and allies (australiense and 

 pax) but differs from all of them in bearing distinctly shorter marginal fringes on the 

 fore wing, the longest of these cilia being not a half of the greatest wing width but between 

 a third and a half of that distance. Black, legs and antennas pale golden yellow; club black; 

 distal three funicle joints more or less dusky. Funicle 1 subelongate, distinctly longer than 

 the pedicel, 2 longest, a third longer than 1, 3 a little shorter than 2; next three funicle 

 joints each shortening, each widening distad, 6 a little shorter than 1 but longer than the 

 pedicel. Ciliation of fore wing not disappearing proximad. Funicle 2 five times longer than 

 wide. Joint 1 of hind tarsus somewhat longer than funicle 2, somewhat less than half the 

 length of the hind tarsus. Compared with types of pax, draperi, sangwilli, romanesi and 

 nordaui. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from one female captured in jungle, April 13, 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2471, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 



Dedicated to Dante Alighere. 



9. POLYNEMA THOREAUINI new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.50 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for somewhat more 

 than a fourth the length of the abdomen. 



In my table runs to australiense and pax but may be separated at once because of the 

 distinctly extruded ovipositor. The wings are more denselv ciliated than in australiense and 

 the funicle joints are longer. Closest to pax which has the ovipositor a little extruded but the 

 antennae are all black and also the legs (the tarsi and petiole of abdomen yellow) ; also the 

 fore wings are slightly different and the discal ciliation is continued to the venation only by 

 a single (sometimes paired) line of cilia. 



Pronotum large, with a narrow median carina; parapsidal furrows distinct. Scutellum 

 with a curved cross line of pin-punctures, the thorax with rather coarse longitudinal reticulation. 

 Segment 3 of abdomen large, occupying nearly a third of the surface, 2 a third shorter than it, 

 4 transverse. Propodeum and abdomen practically without sculpture, the former without 

 carinas. Compared with slide type of australiense and pax. 



From one female captured by sweeping forest uplands, May 28, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Maclean, Clarence Eiver, New South Wales. 



Type: No. Hy 2472, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide with type 

 of Gonatocerus luimboldti (Girault). 



Dedicated to Henry David Thoreau. 



10. POLYNEMA HEGELI new species. 

 Male: — Length, 1.80 mm. 



Shining; pronotum longer than the scutum, its lateral margin carinated, with a distinct 

 neck. Parapsidal furrows complete. Scutellum plane, flat, the axillae very small, the 



