AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTEBA CHALCIDOIDEA, 1Y.—GIEAVLT. 251 



Genus EPOMPHALOIDES Girault. 



1. EPOMPHALOIDES FLAVUS Girault. 



Female: — Length, 1.35 mm. Funicle 1 a little longer than wide. Mandibles tridentate, 

 the inner tooth shortest. The Type was captured in forest. May 3, 1913 and is on a slide 



2. EPOMPHALOIDES VIRIDIS Girault. 



This is a synonym of Epitetrastichus longfellowi Girault. 



3. EPOMPHALOIDES PULCHER new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, 1.60 mm. 



Dark metallic green, the eoxa> eoncolorous; rest of legs bright golden yellow, the femora 

 somewhat brown; antenual scape yellow; pedicel brownish; rest of antenna black. Propodeum 

 with a strong median carina. Wings hyaline. Pedicel one half shorter than first funicle 

 joint which is elongate; second slightly shorter than first; third a little shorter than second 

 but distinctly longer than pedicel; club one half longer than first funicle joint, first club joint 

 the longest, a little longer than second. 



From one female caught by sweeping in heart of jungle. 800 feet, September 13, 1913 

 (A. P. Podd). 



Ifaliitot: Kuranda, Queensland. 



Ti/i": No. Hy26?7, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head on slide. 



''A female at Malanda, Queensland, virgin jungle, December 31, 1911. Compared 

 with type. Slender. Valves of ovipositor somewhat extruded, the femora more or less colored 

 proximad inwardly, the C0X33 yellowish. Antennas slender, filiform, the ring-joints distinct. 

 Scutum naked. Lateral carina 1 on propodeum absent. Fore wings broad and somewhat sordid." 

 (A. A. Girault.) 



4. EPOMPHALOIDES PALLIDIPES new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Ft Duii< : — Length, 2 mm. 



Park metallic green; oral area of face yellow; antenna! scape yellow, rest, of antenna; 

 black; legs wholly yellow. Propodeum scaly; median carina of propodeum forking before 

 apex. Pedicel elongate but barely as long as funicle 3, 1 a half longer than pedieel, 2 somewhat 

 shorter than 1, 3 shorter than 2. .Mandibles tridentate. 



From one female caught in forest, July 1. 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: Xo. Hy 2628, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head on 

 a slide. 



5. EPOMPHALOIDES SEMIFLAVICEPS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, 2.10 mm. 



Bright metallic green; legs, antenna! scape, face below the antenna?, margins of the 

 eyes and a square patch near base of abdomen dorso-mesad. golden yellow; rest, of antenna-, 

 black. Wings hyaline. Propodeum rather long. Otherwise as in pallidipes. 



Described from one female caught by sweeping in forest, August 5, 1913 (A. A. Girault). 



Habitat: Northern Queensland (Gordonvale near Cairns). 



Type: No. Hy 2629, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag; the head on a 

 slide. 



