AUSTRALIAN HTMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, IV.— GIRAULT. 183 



2. AMESTOCHARIS CARINISCUTUM new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.30 mm. 



Characterised by bearing on distal part of scutum a distinct median carina, the surround- 

 ing surface glabrous and sunk below the level of the rest. Also by having only the tibiae and 

 tarsi white or yellowish white. Dark metallic green, the abdomen blue, the wings hyaline. 

 Scape white; pedicel subequal to funicle 2 which is a little shorter than funicle 1 which is 

 cylindrical oval, somewhat longer than wide; club longer than the funicle, its first joint subequal 

 to funicle 1, its terminal joint with a long stout terminal spine or projection. Club well 

 defined. Hind tibial spur long and stout, single. Second segment of abdomen occupying two 

 thirds of the surface. Eyes occupying most of the cheeks, the antennae inserted on a level 

 with their ventral ends, near the mouth. Mandibles with two acute teeth. Vertex glabrous, 

 the face concave. Pronotum glabrous; scutum coarsely polygonally scaly, at distal third or 

 more abruptly glabrous and with a median carina; a large isolated seta on each side of this 

 carina about the center of the subquadrate glabrous area on each side (the area is between the 

 parapsidal furrows, extending to their cephalic ends, the furrows being abbreviated, not half 

 the length of the scutum). Scutellum with long, coarse polygons. Second abdominal segment 

 and propodeum glabrous. Eegular polygons on scutellum around mesal apex. 



Described from one female caught by sweeping a jungle-lined forest streamlet, June 14, 

 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2479, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, head on a 

 slide. 



3. AMESTOCHARIS GOONDIENSIS Girault. 



A female at Gordonvale, Queensland, April 16, 1913 from jungle. The cephalic femur 

 is subconeolorous. 



4. AMESTOCHARIS SULCATUS new species. 



Hind tibial spurs long and stout. Dorsal abdomen distad of segment 2 with very few 

 setae, these isolated. 



Similar to goondiensis with the type of which 1" have compared it but differing in being 

 rosaceous coppery; the abdomen very dark green, the abdominal petiole is distinctly shorter 

 and stouter, barely longer than wide (in the genotype a half longer than wide), the elongate 

 fovea or median sulcus at base of scutellum is somewhat longer (four times longer than wide) 

 and on the propodeum there is a distinct, short, oblique carina running from the carinated 

 caudal margin a short distance laterad of meson running meso-cephalad across the corner and 

 turning abruptly mesad to the nearer arm of the median carina. Cephalic femora all white. 

 Axillae glabrous in both species. Club with a stout curved terminal spine. Pedicel shorter 

 than either funicle joint, the latter narrowing cephalad, a half longer than wide, subequal, 

 longer than the club joints; the latter each somewhat longer than wide, the club slightly longer 

 than the funicle. Petiole shagreened. Meso-caudal end of parapside glabrous. Cephalic margin 

 of pronotum with rather long setae, each widely separated. 



From one female caught in jungle, May 4, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



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



Type: No. Hy 2480, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and 

 hind tibia on a slide. 



Genus ENTEDONELLA Girault, 

 1. ENTEDONELLA MAGNIFICA Girault and Dodd. 



Length, 3 mm. Brilliant metallic purple; coxae concolorous, antennae (except scape) 

 concolorous ; rest of legs and antennal scape bright golden yellow. Segment 2 of abdomen 

 equal to a fifth of the surface, the petiole quadrate, the abdomen short and stout. Funicle 1 

 distinctly longer than pedicel, nearly twice as long as wide; 2 and 3 subequal, shorter than 1, 



