AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTEEA CHALCIDOIDEA, YI.—GIEAVLT. 319 



1. PARANOGMUS PALLIDICORNIS new .species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, 1.75 mm. 



Brilliant metallic coppery green, the coxa? concolorous; rest of legs (except apical joint 

 of tarsi which is dusky) and the antenna?, very pale straw yellow. Wings hyaline, the venation 

 almost white. Thorax, except the smooth propodeum, finely reticulate, the reticulation in 

 raised lines. Pedicel distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints, which are subquadrate, a 

 little wider than long- rlagellum gently clavate; club twice as long as wide. 



Described from two females caught by sweeping in forest, mainland, near Double Island, 

 December 24, 1911 (A.A.G.). 



Habitat: Double Island (Cairns), mainland, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2774, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head and 

 hind legs on a slide. 



URIELLOMYIA new genus. 



Femalt : — Like Uriella Ashmead but the abdomen with the third segment next longest, 

 the second longest, occupying nearly a fourth of the surface and distinctly longer than the 

 third. Mandibles 3- and 4-dentate. Propodeum tricarinate and with a long cross-carina which 

 crosses the median and lateral carina? and passes in front of the rather small, oval spiracle. 

 Parapsidal furrows rather short, nearly complete. Postmarginal and stigma! veins subequal, 

 moderate in length as is also the marginal which is about one and two third times the length 

 of the stigmal. Antenna? 13-jointed witli two ring-joints. Seutellum simple. Pronotum 

 transverse. The axilla? are not advanced. 



Male: — Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. URIELLOMYIA RESOLUTA new species. Genotype. 



Femali : — Length, 1.85 mm. Robust. 



Very dark ameous green, the wings hyaline, the venation, legs, scape and pedicel yellow 

 brown; pedicel dark above. Coxa? dark metallic. Thorax densely, finely reticulately scaly. 

 Pedicel somewhat longer than any of the funicle joints of which the first is a little longer than 

 wide and narrower than the others, 2 and 3 a little longer than 1. the remaining three quadrate. 

 .Scape slender. Club without a nipple. 



Described from four female specimens captured from the windows of a grocery store, 

 October, 30, 1911. 



Habitat: Port Douglas, Queensland. 



Type: Xo. Hy 2775, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above females on tags (two 

 pins) and a slide with two heads and hind legs. 



One female on a window, Thursday I ski ml. Torres Strait. .March If, 1912. 



2. URIELLOMYIA FLAVICORNIS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 

 Female: — Length, 2.60 mm. 



Differs from the generic description in bearing 4-dentate mandibles and in propodeal 

 characters; propodeum with a pair of very short, abbreviated median carina? at base and 

 complete lateral carina 1 which branch, one branch running obliquely to the caudal margin mesad, 

 the other to the caudal margin laterad; no cross-carina. 



Very dark metallic green, the coxa? concolorous; abdomen shining metallic coppery; 

 antenna? golden yellow; femora and basal half of tibia? yellowish brown; apical half of tibia? 



