AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTEBA CHALCIDOIDEA, HI.—GIBAULT. 17-3 



longer than wide, 2 a little shorter. Head punctate. Scutellnm nearly naked, scutum hispid, 

 postscutellum lemon yellow. Propodeum black. Wings wholly, lightly infuscated, clear 

 distad of postmarginal vein. Hind wings hyaline. Hind tibia 1 with the usual pattern. 



From one female caught by sweeping jungle (?), June 3, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Grafton, New South Wales. 



Type: Xo. Hy 2733, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 



19. ELASMUS FICTUS new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.75 mm. 



Like uniguttatus but at once differing in lacking the large black spot on mesopleurum, 

 the black on propodeum and the proximal (dorsal) fourth of caudal coxa is black except 

 caudad; from picturatus differs markedly in lacking the basal stripe across dorsal abdomen, 

 the black on pronotum and the large area on mesopleurum. Tip of abdomen, axillae, teguhe, 

 the round spot on abdomen near tip, ocellar area and a black area on occiput from the 

 eyes on each side (not forming a cross-stripe) are black or dark metallic green. These are 

 all the markings except the caudal coxa as noted. In uniguttatus the tip of the abdomen 

 is not black. Head with scattered rather small punctures. Hind tibia? with the usual 

 pattern. Wings subhyaline. Scape yellow, flagellum black. Funicle joints subequal to 

 each other and the pedicel, about a third longer than wide. Mandibles -3-dentate. Scutellnm 

 scaly, naked (except for the few large isolated setaa). 



From one female caught sweeping forest uplands. May ?,. 1014 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat : Maclean, Clarence Eiver, Xew South Wales. 



Type: Xo. Hy 2734, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type 

 uniguttatus. 



20. ELASMUS FLAVIOS new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.80 mm. 



Similar to ignorabil/is but at least two thirds of the caudal coxa? are metallic (only 

 about the dorsal third in that species), the two stripes across the abdomen are not so distinct, 

 darker orange and closer together, about across the middle, the metallic coloration of 

 dorsum of abdomen between the stripes does not invade the lateral aspect as distinctly so 

 in ignorabilis; there is a yellow dot just mesad of tegula and the oral area up to antennal 

 insertion is lemon yellow. Otherwise colored the same or nearly. Scutellnm finely reticulated. 

 Scutum hispid, head punctate as usual. Scape white, dusky dorsad; flagellum black. Pedicel 

 shorter than any funicle joint. Funicle joints subequal, each somewhat longer than wide, 

 1 slightly longer than the other two; all are stout. Mandibles 7-dentate. Wings hyaline 

 in both species. Compared with type of ignorabilis. 



From one female caught in forest, May 2, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed Eiver), New South Wales. 



Type: Xo. Hy273J, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type 

 of ignorabilis. 



Differs most notably from muscoides in having the yellow oral area and the yellow 

 dot just mesad of tegula. 



21. ELASMUS FASCIATIPES new species. 



Female: — Length, 2.10 mm. 



Dark metallic green, the abdomen orange yellow, a little over distal third of abdomen, 

 a broad stripe across base and three cross-stripes between them, equally distributed, very 

 da.rk metallic. Postscutellum lemon yellow. Coxa) dark metallic except distal third of last 

 two pairs. Legs otherwise white except dorsal edge of last two pairs of femora and a 



