AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 29 
GENUS NEANASTATUS Girault. 
Marginal and submarginal veins not differentiated, very long, the stigmal well developed, 
the postmarginal very long, thrice or more the length of the stigmal. A long oblique hairless. 
line running cephalo-distad toward base of stigmal vein but not reaching it for some distance. 
Intermediate tibial spurs as long as the tarsi of these legs, stout, spiny, at apex ending in 
several stout spines. Scutellum with a broad base and a median groove. Antenne 10-jointed, 
with one ring-joint, the club 2-jointed. Head subtriangular, only as wide as the greatest 
width of the thorax, the frons broad, eyes not large, not convergent, the genal sulcus distinct; 
mandibles tridentate. Antenne inserted below the eyes. Ovipositor not exserted. Abdomen 
conic-ovate. Face convex. 
1. NEANASTATUS CINCTIVENTRIS Girault. Female. Genotype. 
Length, 2.75 to 3.50 mm. : 
Dark metallic green marked with bright lemon yellow as follows: Base of abdomen 
encircled with a band just out from base; scutum with a long rectangular area down its 
center; cephalic legs, intermediate legs except most of cox and coxw of posterior legs; 
posterior femora and tibie and the distal four tarsal joints bluish to black, the distal joints 
of other tarsi black. Fore wings with a deep smoky subrectangular area under the venation, 
its middle at the stigmal vein. Hyes with very sparse pubescence. First funicle joint longest, 
the others shortening, the distal two subequal to each other and to the pedicel. Distal club 
joint subequal to first funicle joint. Head with dense, rather small thimble punctures. Thorax 
and abdomen polygonally sculptured. Antenna brownish yellow. 
The types were captured by sweeping foliage of jungle growth along the banks of 
the Mulgrave River, near Gordonvale, March 30, 1913. 
Types: No. Hy 2882, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on tags (two pins). 
The male is about similar to the female; its funicle joints are all somewhat longer 
than wide, distinctly longer than the pedicel. A male from forest, type locality, March 21, 
1913. A rather common species. Also a pair, same place, April. 
2. NEANASTATUS DESERTENSIS new species 
Female :—Length, 2.50 mm. 
Very similar to aurivertex Girault but differing in the following particulars: ‘The 
prepectus is contrasting deep orange yellow; the lateral margins of pronotum are not metallic 
green but the caudal margin is so yet very lightly, not distinctly; the distal third of caudal 
femur is not yellow except ventrad but wholly metallic purple; the tip of middle tibiz, distal 
part of middle tibial spur and the distal four tarsal joints of middle legs, are metallic purple; 
caudal knees and tibize wholly metallic purple, also caudal coxa at base; distal joint of caudal 
tarsus purple. Antenne very hispid. 
From one female taken in forest, April 15, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 2883, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 
3. NEANASTATUS AURIFASCIATUS new species, 
Female :—Length, 2 mm. 
Dark metallic green, the abdomen, propodeum, mesopleurum and most of scutellum 
metallic purple, the abdomen with a rather broad golden orange band just out from base its 
caudal margin narrowly silvery white. Wings hyaline. Antenne and first two pairs of legs 
honey yellow, the middle coxa mostly concolorous, the cephalic one so at base. Caudal legs wholly 
purple except trochanters, a minute spot just ventrad of knees and the tarsi which are white. 
Funicle 1 quadrate, slightly smaller than the pedicel; distal two or three funicle joints wider 
