AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTEEA CEALCIDOIDEA, IV.—GIBAULT. 211 



PAEASECODELLA new genus. 



Female: — In my table of genera running to Omphalomorpha Girault but differing in 

 having the venation as in the Entedonini, that is, the marginal vein long and slender (but here 

 no longer than the long submarginal), the postmarginal barely developed, much shorter than 

 the stigmal which is very short, subsessile. Fore wings with distinct normal discal ciliation, 

 which, however, though rather dense, is minute. Propodeum longer, quite as in the Elachertini, 

 the median carina distinct, no others. Funicle filiform, the club enlarged, in relation to the 

 funicle somewhat as in Polynema but not quite as enlarged. Otherwise very similar to 

 Omplialomorpha. Abdomen conic-ovate but no longer than the rest of the body. Mandibles 

 tridentate. Hind tibial spur single. 



1, PARASECODELLA DICKENSI new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, 1.10 mm. 



Deep black with a purplish lustre, the scape except above near tip and first three tarsal 



joints white; also knees and tips of tibiae. Thorax (except propodeum) finely polygonally 



•scaly; propodeum smooth, no sculpture; wings hyaline. Pedicel somewhat longer than funicle 



1 which is longest, one third longer than wide, funicle 4 shortest, globular oval, a little longer 



than wide; club with a distinct terminal nipple, the two first joints subquadrate. 



From one female captured in forest, February 16, 1912 (A. M. Lea and A.A.G.). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2536, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; hind leg, a 

 fore wing and a head on a slide. 



Dedicated to Charles Dickens. 



EPOMPHALE new genus. 

 Female: — Like Achrysocliaris Girault but the club is 2-jointed, the antenna) 7-jointed. 

 Marginal vein much longer than the submarginal, the postmarginal barely developed. Form 

 small. 



1. EPOMPHALE AURIVENTRIS new species. Genotype. 



Female:- — Length, 0.70 mm. 



Metallic purple, the thorax with very fine sculpture somewhat as in the Tetrastichini, 

 the legs and abdomen golden yellow, the latter with two distinct cross-stripes of black close 

 together at distal third and indications of a third stripe just proximad of the others. Antenme 

 pallid, without a distinct terminal seta but with several long but colorless lateral apical setse. 

 Pedical longer than either funicle joint both of which are distinctly longer than wide but not 

 long, 2 a little longer than 1; club slender, conic ovate, longer than the funicle, divided near 

 middle. Wings hyaline, the" fore wing slender (about 15 lines of discal cilia where widest), 

 its marginal cilia moderately long, the longest about a third the greatest wing width or some- 

 what less. Hind wings acuminate, where widest with about three lines of discal cilia, the 

 caudal marginal fringes a little longer than the longest marginal cilia of the fore wing. 

 Discal cilia of the latter caudo-proximad bounded by a convex line of cilia. 



From one female captured by sweeping secondary forest growths, January 8, 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. HyS537, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. 



PAROMPHALE new genus of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Like Achrysocharella Girault but the antennal club only 2-jointed, the distal 

 joint formed by a constriction which appears to be nonarti dilated; it terminates in a nipple. 

 Mandibles long, nearly twice longer than wide, with three very distinct, acute teeth. Pedicel 



