170 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



AUSTRALIAN 

 HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA— III. 



SECOND SUPPLEMENT. 



By A. A- Girault. 



Family ELA8MID.E. 1 



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The same magnification. See these Memoirs, II. 



Genus ELASMUS Westwood. 



All the Australian species in this genus seen by me bear two ring-joints and a 3-jointed 

 club, the antennae 10-jointed. 



1. ELASMUS HISPIDISCUTUM new species. Female. 



Similar to Tcurandaensis except that the conical prolongation of the green of the scutum 

 does not reach the seutellum. Mandibles 5-dentate in both species. From caudal aspect, the 

 yellow of the vertex invades the metallic upper half of the occiput, appearing like a spot on 

 each side. The fore wings are infuscated in both species but no distinct pattern is formed; 

 however, the infuscation is longitudinal and under distal half or more of the marginal vein 

 in Tcurandaensis (and broader), in this species along distal third or less of the same vein. 

 In this species the lateral extremity of the green of scutum is obtuse or flat, in Tcurandae7isis 

 acute or subacute. Pronotum metallic at cephalic margin in both species. Flagellum brown 

 black; funicle 1 longest, somewhat over twice longer than wide, twice the length of the 

 pedicel; joints 2 and 3 subequal, somewhat shorter than ]; club 1 much the longest, slightly 

 shorter than funicle 3. Scutum hispid. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest. July. 



Tui" : No. ]{y 27W, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Tag and slide. 



2. ELASMUS PUNCTATICAPUT new species. Female. 



Length, 2.50 mm. Dark aeneous green, the head tinged with purplish, the postscutellum 

 lemon yellow, the Ieg9 pale except last two pairs of coxae and middle of intermediate and 

 caudal femora broadly which are dark metallic. Abdomen orange yellow, with a rather 

 broad metallic green stripe across base, the distal fifth darker metallic (dorsad) and this 

 portion immediately preceded by two transverse metallic stripes which are preceded by two 

 marginal spots (a total of four spots), the stripes and spots nearly filling the orange 

 portion of the abdomen. Fore wings distinctly infuscated but no pattern or distinct stripes, 

 Hie infumation longitudinally under the distal half of the venation. Seutellum finely scaly, 

 naked or only with several large setae, the scutum the same but densely hairy. Head with 

 rather dense thimble punctures above (vertex and dorsal face). Antennae brown, the second 

 ring-joint large; funicle joints all much longer than wide, 1 slightly the longest, twice longer 

 than wide, distinctly longer than the pedicel. Mandibles 8-dentate. A yellow marking 

 e< phalad of the tegula as in divinus. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle along forest streamlet. June. 



Type: No. Ey 2721, Queensland .Museum, Brisbane. Tag and slide. 



For additions, see Part XIV. 



