AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 3 
4, EUPELMUS GROTII new species. Female; male. 
Length, 3.20 mm., excluding extruded ovipositor which is white and not quite as long as 
the abdomen. 
Metallic wneous green, the abdomen, axille and scutellum burnished purplish coppery. 
Legs concolorous except the articulations and the tips of tibize which are yellowish brown, the 
tarsi whitish. Fore wings with a narrow, rather indistinct brownish line across it at base of 
marginal vein, more obscure centrally. Ovipositor valves black at base. Scape metallic green; 
rest of antenna black. Hind tibia with only one spur. Antenne 13-jointed with one quadrate 
ring-joint; funicle 1 longest, subequal to pedicel, over twice the length of the ring-joint, the 
distal funicle joint plainly wider than long. 
Male:—The same but the wings hyaline, the antennz and legs yellow, the hind femur 
within with a midlongitudinal, elliptical fuscous marking. The distal funicle joint is only 
slightly longer than wide, the antenne 10-jointed excluding the club, the ring-joint present. 
The abdomen as in Anastatus. 
Habitat: Port Darwin, Northern Territory. Parasitic upon the eggs of mantids in 
forest. : 
Types: No. Hy 2829, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one male, four females on tags 
(two pins). 
Dedicated to Hugo Grotius. 
5. EUPELMUS ANTIPODA Ashmead. Female. 
Length, 3 mm. Head metallic green, thorax bottle blue, mesopleura with a greenish 
tinge; abdomen eneous black; ovipositor prominent, yellow for two thirds its length; wings 
fuscous except at proximal third which is hyaline; all coxe metallic green; sutures of 
trochanters, tips of tibiz and tarsi yellowish white; rest of legs wneous black. 
Habitat: Sydney, New South Wales. Mantid eggs. 
Type: Catalogue No. 4894, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 
Cameron (1911, pp. 651-652) gives Sydney and Darrigo, New South Wales, September. 
And also ‘‘ This appears to be a variable species as regards colouration: Some specimens have 
more of the green tint than others; the blue merges into violaceous, and there may be brassy 
tints. The male is green with brassy tints, and, on the metanotum, the green merges into 
violaceous, the antennal scape and four front legs are yellow tinged with fulvous, especially on 
the femora; the hind legs are coloured as in the female, except that the femora are green for 
the greater part; and the tibie are not so deeply black, while their base may be testaceous. The 
color of the wings varies, some having the fuscous tint on the apical two-thirds much lighter 
than the others; in the males they may be almost hyaline. ’’ 
Which part of the ovipositor is yellow? 
6. EUPELMUS TESTACEIVENTRIS Cameron. Female. 
Length, 2 mm.; length of terebra 5 mm. (?) 
Blue with brassy tints on the base and sides of mesonotum; scape dark green, flagellum 
black; third and following segments of abdomen dorsad and all ventrad yellowish testaceous; 
sides of third segment blue, base of 1 yellow, ventral keel black; extruded part of ovipositor 
about half the length of the abdomen, its proximal third black, the rest yellow; legs pale straw 
yellow; coxe blue to near apex; apex of tarsi black. Wings hyaline, -the venation straw 
yellow. 
Face finely, closely aciculated; malar suture distinct, curved. Palpi pale testaceous; 
seutum closely, finely, almost transversely striated, the middle lobe clearly separated, longer 
than wide at base, the apex broadly rounded, the lateral lobes with a distinct transverse furrow 
