AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, IV.— GIRAULT. 295 



advanced, the parapsidal furrows very short, cephalad only. Scutellum with two delicate 

 grooved lines. Marginal vein a little shorter than the submarginal. Pronotum transverse-linear 

 (dorsal aspect). 



Male: — Not known. 



Type : The following species. 



1. DIAULOMORPHELLA CYANEIPURPUREA new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.55 mm. 



Dark metallic purple-blue, the wings hyaline, the petiole, tip of scape and legs except 

 cox89, distal half of caudal femur above, hind tibiae outwardly along proximal half and front 

 femora beneath, which are purplish; hind coxa white toward tip. Mesoscutum densely 

 reticulated, the lines raised; the scutellum finer, with the sculpture of Tetrastichus. Grooves of 

 scutellum delicate. Eeticulation of propodeum not raised, the region shiny. Pedicel very short, 

 like a cup; funiele 1 longest, 4 shortest yet plainly longer than wide, larger and a little longer 

 than either of the club joints, the distal of the two latter ending in a distinct seta. Flagellum 

 dusky yellowish brown ; proximal half of pedicel purplish. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping in jungle, May 19, 1913 (A.P.D.). 



Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 



Type : No. Hy 2712, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the foregoing specimen on a tag, the 

 head and hind legs on a slide. 



PAEDIAULOMELLA new genus. 



Differs from Diaulomella in bearing two ring-joints. In this genus, the axillae are much 

 advanced; form slender; casually the club appears 2-jointed. 



1. PARDIAULOMELLA CONSONUS new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, 2.65 mm. 



Eemarkably like Opheliminus grotiusi but the parapsidal furrows are less evident near 

 the advanced axillae, the triangular dorsal yellow spot on abdomen is directly at base, no dark 

 metallic coloration intervening, the mandibles are 7-dentate and the propodeum has a different 

 sculpture, reticulate-punctate, the punctures smaller than those of the rest of the thorax (in 

 grotiusi, the thorax is similarly reticulate-punctate yet the propodeum is only reticulated, shining 

 and scaly) ; in this species the propodeum is longer, the median carina less raised, fading out 

 caudad. The stigmal vein also is longer, less plainly only half the length of the postmarginal 

 while the fore wings are slightly embrowned throughout. The antennae are similar or nearly. 



Male: — Not known. 



From one female captured in September (F. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2715, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; hind legs and 

 head on a slide. 



Genus ASYMPIESIELLA Girault. 

 The antennae bear two ring-joints. 



1. ASYMPIESIELLA NELSONENSIS (Girault). 



Length, 5.10 mm. ; male. 2.85 mm. Associated with Mestocharoideus cyaneus in a gall 

 on a forest bush. The types were reared November 30, 1912 and consist of two pairs on tags 

 (four pins) and a head on a slide. 



