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long, subequal, combined slightly longer than segment 2 (not so in sobrinus). Grooves of 

 scutellum separated at apex by less than their own diameter. Abdomen black, or nearly. 

 Oblique carinas from median carina of propodenm very long and oblique. 



Described from one female caught by sweeping in a jungle pocket, November 16, 1913 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. HyS693, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag; head 

 and hind tibia? on a slide. 



4. PARENTEDON FRATERCULUS new species. 



Female: — Similar to similis but the fore wings stained yellow, the mandibles 15-dentate, 

 the second segment of abdomen a little shorter, the abdomen sessile, the hind wing a little 

 narrower, the grooves of scutellum separated by a little more than their width. Oblique carina? 

 from median carina of propodeum not so distinct as in similis and shorter and less oblique. 



From one female captured in a meadow, February 24, 1912. . 



Habitat: Cooktown, Queensland. 



Type : No. Ey 2694, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag ; head and 

 hind tibia? on a slide. 



TABLE TO THE AUSTEALIAN SPECIES OF PJBENTEDON GIRAULT. 



Grooves of scutellum separated at apex by not more than their own width or only slightly more. 



Segment 2 of abdomen occupying half the surface, 3 and 4 united, much shorter than it; 



mandibles 11-dentate; wings subhyaline; abdomen sessile . . . . sobrinus G. & D. 



Segment 2 of abdomen occupying only a third or somewhat more of the surface; wings 



hyaline; mandibles 14-dentate; abdomen with a short petiole . . similis G. & D. 



The same; wings yellowish; mandibles 15-dentate; abdomen sessile fraterculus Girault. 



Grooves of scutellum at apex separated plainly more than their own width. 



Segment 2 of abdomen occupying one third of surface; wings yellowish; mandibles 

 13-dentate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . aiistralis Girault. 



Genus OPHELIMINUS Girault. 



1. OPHELIMINUS GROTIUSI Girault. 



Length, 2.50 mm. The type is on a tag, the head and caudal tibia? on a slide. It was 

 taken in forest near a streamlet, June 27, 1913. 



2. OPHELIMINUS PULCHERRIMUS new species of A P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, 2.80 mm. 



Very similar to consonus Girault 20 but all the coxa? metallic, except apical half of cephalic 

 pair; mandibles 5-dentate; abdomen with more yellow dorsad, the basal half being yellow, 

 margined with purplish black but at the caudal margin of the yellow at meson there is an 

 extension from the black into the yellow area (in consonus the yellow extends to less than half 

 the abdomen, is more broadly margined with purplish and with no black extension into the 

 yellow at meson) ; the abdomen is no longer than the thorax (in consonus it is distinctly longer), 

 the median carina of propodeum is distinct and the stigmal vein is shorter as in grotiusi Girault. 



From one female caught sweeping in forest, January 27, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2695, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head 

 on a slide. 



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