AUSTEALIAN HYMENOPTEEA CHALCIDOIDEA, IV.— GIRAULT. 191 



1. B7E0ENTED0N PECULICORNIS new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, 0.80 mm. 



Dark metallic purple, the wings hyaline, the abdomen pale honey yellow, darker along 

 distal half, there with several faintly indicated still darker and narrow cross-stripes. Distal 

 half of tibiae, the antennae, the tarsi and hind legs beyond proximal half of femora white or 

 yellowish white. Thorax coarsely polygonally reticulated, the lines not raised. Club conically 

 produced at apex into a spine, conic-ovate, longer than the long pedicel, the funicle joint 

 urnshaped, a little longer than wide, distinctly shorter than the pedicel. Scape slender. Ring- 

 ,-joints large and distinct, purple; pedicel purple at base. 



Described from one female captured in jungle, December 31, 1911. 



Habitat: Malanda, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2493, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on 

 a slide with the type appendages of Pseudacrias quadricarinatux Girault. 



Tribe TETRACAMPINI. 



Genus TETRACAMPE Foerster. 



1. TETRACAMPE AUSTRALIENSIS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, 1.50 mm. 



Dark metallic green, the abdominal petiole, legs and antennal scape bright golden 

 yellow, rest of antenna? black. Fore wings hyaline; discal cilia not arranged in regular lines; 

 marginal cilia not long; submarginal vein somewhat broken; marginal vein as long as 

 submarginal, twice as long as postmarginal ; stigmal vein with a small knob, short, one fifth 

 as long as the marginal. Antennae inserted below middle of face; 12-jointed, 1 ring-joint, 

 G funiele joints and a 3-jointed club; scape slender; pedicel larger than first funicle joint; 

 funicle joints filiform, first a little the longest, two thirds longer than wide; club scarcely 

 wider than funiele, as long as last two funicle joints united, the joints about subequal. 

 Posterior tibiae Avith one apical spur; tarsi 5-jointed. Mesopleura without sutures. Pronotum 

 rather large. Scutum with distinct parapsidal furrows. Scutellum with a rather faint 

 cross-suture. Pronotum, scutum and scutellum with very fine polygonal scaly sculpture. 

 Propodeum rather short, glabrous, with a median carina and several irregular lateral carinae. 

 Abdominal petiole as long as the hind coxa?; abdominal segments not excised at meson of 

 caudal margin; suture between second and third segments deep; second segment longest, equal 

 to one fifth of surface. Mandibles bi dentate. 



From one female caught by sweeping in forest, August 7, 1913 (A.A.G.). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy S494, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head and 

 posterior legs on a slide. 



TETEACAMPOIDES new genus of A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Head normal; antennae inserted near the mouth border, 12-jointed with one 

 ring-joint and a 3-jointed club; funicle joints wider than long. Pronotum distinctly separated; 

 scutum with deep complete parapsidal furrows; scutellum simple; propodeum with a tooth 

 laterad at the middle, not short, with a distinct median and fainter lateral carinae. Axilla? 

 not advanced. Marginal vein as long as the submarginal, many times length of stigmal, the 

 postmarginal twice as long as the stigmal, the latter of moderate length. Hind tibiae with 

 two apical spurs. Mandibles bidentate. Abdomen sessile, gently convex above and beneath, 

 second segment occupying over half of surface. Eesembling the Entedonini in many respects. 2 



M ale: — Not known. 



2 The number of tarsal joints is not stated, but there are doubtless five. 



