AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTEBA CHALCIDOIDEA, VI.—GIRAULT. 327 



HOLASAPHES new genus. 



Female: — Head wider than the thorax, lenticular, the occiput concave; running to 

 Asaphes Walker but the antennae only 11-jointed; club indistinctly 3-jointed, the flagellum 

 clavate, the first funicle joint like a ring-joint. Like Asaphoideus Girault but the hind tibial 

 spurs rather long and stout (somewhat stouter than normal in the other genus) and the 

 postmarginal vein is twice or more the length of the marginal which is plainly not twice the 

 length of the stigmal and the ovipositor and valves are distinctly extruded for a third or less 

 the length of the abdomen. The punctate line across scutellum is rather distant from the apex 

 in both genera and it is the fourth abdominal segment which is much the longest in both genera; 

 also in both, the pronotum is subequal to the short scutum. Petiole in this new genus rather 

 shorter than with Asaphoideus. Type of latter re-examined (type of niger). 



With the habitus of a Torymid and somewhat of a Eurytomid. 



1. HOLASAPHES GBEGI new species. Genotype. 

 Female: — Length, 1.67 mm., excluding the short ovipositor. 



Black, rather shining, the wings hyaline, the legs reddish brown, paler at the articula- 

 tions and tarsi, the coxae black; antennae concolorous with the legs; last funicle joint widest, 

 the joints not much unequal in length, the pedicel much longer than any of the funicle joints. 

 Mandibles strongly tridentate, the teeth subequal (in Asaphoideus niger, the lateral tooth is 

 distinctly the longest, the mesal one smallest). Thorax finely, transversely polygonally scaly, 

 the scutellum uniformly sculptured, the abdomen smooth; lateral carinae rather close to median 

 on propodeum, curved, joining the median a short distance before apex; a deep, curved spira- 

 cular sulcus runs directly from the small spiracle. (Spiracular sulcus also present in Asaphoi- 

 deus niger but straighter). Segment 2 of abdomen longer than 3. Pronotum with a faintly 

 indicated line of punctures across distad of middle. 



Described from one female captured March 9, 1912 in forest. 



Habitat: Horn Island, Torres Strait. 



Type: No. HyS788, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and 

 hind tibia? on a slide. 



2. HOLASAPHES EMERSONI new species. 



Female: — Length, 1 mm., excluding ovipositor which is exserted for a length equal to 

 a third that of the abdomen. 



Very dark shining metallic blue-green, nearly black, the fore wing with a more or less 

 obscure yellowish stain under the marginal and stigmal veins, and which does not extend 

 further caudad than the middle; legs and antennae pale straw yellow, the cephalic coxae con- 

 colorous with the body. Caudal half of pronotum, the abdomen and the scutellum caudad of 

 the transverse groove, glabrous. Otherwise as in the genotype, or nearly, but the club is 

 distinctly 3-jointed, the head not as large and the antenna? slenderer. 



Male: — Noi, known. 



Described from one female captured in a jungle pocket, March 1, 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type : No. JSy 2789, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag ; head, hind 

 legs and a fore wing on a slide. 



