AUSTRALIAN EYMENOPTEBA CHALCIDOIDEA, IV.—GIEAULT. 193 



" Fein. — Corpus longuni, angustum, nitens, scitissime squameum, parce hirtum: thorax 

 fusiformis, parum convexus: prothorax bene determinatus, transversus, antiee angustus: 

 mesothoracis scutum longitudine paullo latius; parapsidum suturae vix conspicuae; scutellum 

 breviovatum : metathorax sat magmas, transversus, laevis: petiolus brevissiinus : abdomen 

 longiovatum, laeve, supra depressum, subtus basi carinatum, apice acuminatum, thorace paullo 

 latius vixlongius: pedes simpliees, subaequales. " 



Genus SECODES Girault. 



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1. SECODES CAPENSIS new species. 



Female: — Length, 0.85 mm., excluding ovipositor. 



Propodeum longer laterad. Postmarginal vein a little longer than the stigmal. Funicle 

 joints wider than long. Abdomen ovate, a little longer than the thorax. See antea, p. 160. 

 Taken in forest, December 27, 1912. Antea, p. 160, line 3, tibia should read tarsi 



Gentjs OMPHALOMOEPHA Girault. 



1. OMPHALOMORPHA FRATER new species. 

 Female: — Length, 1.25 mm. 



Similar to viridis but the ovipositor and valves exserted for a third the length of the 

 abdomen; the propodeum is as in repercussa. 

 From one female captured in forest. 

 Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 

 Type': No. Ey 2497, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, head on a slide. 



2. OMPHALOMORPHA REPERCUSSA Girault. 



The scutellum (from laterad) overhangs the propodeum, the latter shortening at the 

 meson but the median carina is distinct and of some length. 



Genus RHICNOPELTELLA Girault. 

 The abdomen is not depressed. Synonym: ElachertetrasticJius Girault. 



1. RHICNOPELTELLA ACUMINATA new species. 



Female: — Length, 1 mm. 



Like consobriims Girault but slender, the abdomen conic-ovate, longer than the rest of 

 the body. Tibia? yellow. Antennae wholly concolorous, the pedicel as long as the funicle, 

 about four times longer than funicle 3; ring-joints equal, each about half the length of funicle 

 1 which is about half the length of funicle 2 which is nearly as long as 3. Postmarginal vein 

 shorter than the stigmal. Third tooth of mandible distinctly shorter than the other two which 

 are subequal. 



From one female captured in forest, February 17, 1913. 



Habitat: Seymour (Ingham), Queensland. 



Type: No. Ey2498, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, hind 

 tibia and fore wing on a slide. 



2. RHICNOPELTELLA FLAVIPES Girault. 

 The scape is concolorous at distal third only, the pedicel wholly concolorous; rest of 

 antenna more or less yellowish white. Type re-examined. The following new variety was 

 reared from galls on Eucalyptus, October, 1913 at Gordonvale, Queensland. 



A. RHICNOPELTELLA FLAVIPES BINOTATA new variety. 

 Female: — Like the typical form in all details but all of the underside of the abdomen 

 except at base, the tip above and a spot on each side just before the tip dull golden yellow. 

 Types : No. Ey 2499, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on a tag. 



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