2 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
GENUS EUPELMUS Dalman. 
Where ring-joint is mentioned funicle 1 is intended, this joint often ring-like. The 
species may have one or two spurs on the caudal tibix. The axille are separated yet rather 
close together. 
1. EUPELMUS VARICOLOR (Girault). Genotype of Episolindelia Girault. 
Length, 2.10 mm., excluding extruded part of ovipositor which is two thirds or more: 
the length of the abdomen. 
Bright metallic green, the conic-ovate abdomen golden yellowish and with a metallic 
green dorso-lateral stripe down each side for proximal two thirds, its dorsal base also some- 
what metallic. Antenne black, the ring-joint and tip of pedicel whitish, the third funicle joint 
longest, subequal in length to the pedicel. Legs lemon yellow, the coxe black except at tip,. 
the intermediate tibie ringed with black a short distance below the knees, the intermediate: 
femora with a black spot above on one side, the same distance before the knees. Wings 
hyaline. Ovipositor valves white, broadly black at base, narrowly brown at tip, the brown tip 
about half the length of the black proximal portion. A yellow stripe down each side of the 
thorax, broader cephalad. Head and thorax polygonally reticulated. Seape black. Ring-joint. 
somewhat wider than long; funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, 3 longest of the funicle. 
Hind tibial spur single. Mandibles tridentate. Front femur stout. Type re-examined. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping miscellaneous vegetation in forest,. 
December 5, 1912 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 2826, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a card point plus- 
a slide bearing an antenna and one of each pair of legs. 
2, EUPELMUS VULGARELLUS new name. 
Idoleupelmus vulgaris Girault, 1913, p. 94. * 
Eupelmus vulgaris (Girault), preoccupied. 
Female :—Length, 4.50 mm., excluding the extruded portion of the ovipositor which is: 
as long as the abdomen and yellowish white except broadly at base and tip. 
Bright ewneous green, the wings hyaline, the legs and tegule lemon yellow (except the- 
cox, a dusky brownish spot above before apex on hind femur, one just below knee and another 
just ventrad of the first and a spot on same place on middle femur, a ring around middle: 
tibia just out from the knee). Sides and venter of abdomen yellow. Head and thorax very 
finely shagreened. Antenne 13-jointed, no ring-joint, the club 3-jointed; pedicel rimmed with 
whitish at apex, the first funicle joint similarly rimmed at base. Postmarginal vein longer 
than the stigmal. Prepectus golden yellow. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, May 3, 1913. - 
Type: No. Hy 2827, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head and! 
hind legs on a slide. 
3. EUPELMUS AUSTRALIENSIS (Girault). Female. 
Idoleupelmus australiensis Girault, 1913, pp. 94-95. 
Length, 1.20 mm. Same as vulgaris but much smaller and the valves of the ovipositor: 
are wholly black, the hind legs lack the black spots. 
Antenne 13-jointed, inserted just below the ventral ends of the eyes, the first funicle- 
joint minute, white, not a true ring-joint, 2 twice longer, 3 still longer, quadrate, the following 
joints longer, all much shorter than the pedicel. Mandibles tridentate. Middle tibiz without. 
black teeth, with scattered light ones. Abdomen mostly yellowish above. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, April 4, 1913. 
Type: No. Hy 2828, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on separate tags. 
