AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 31 
From one female taken by sweeping jungle growth along a forest streamlet, June 29, 1913. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 2887, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head on a 
slide. 
7. NEANASTATUS PURPUREISCUTELLUM new species. 
Female :—Length, 1.65 mm. 
Golden yellow, the abdomen except a broad white band around base which occupies over 
proximal third, the scutellum, the propodeum, the mesopleurum (except cephalic margin), 
mesoventer and the hind legs except coxe and tibiw, dark metallic purple. The proximal 
silvery white base of abdomen with a narrow band of metallic purple at about middle. (Meson 
of scutum broadly from about cephalic fifth to caudal margin obscurely purplish, the broad 
mesal band dilating considerably caudad on each side to the lateral margins; this marking 
may be due to fading.) Thorax rather well-clothed with blackish pubescence; abdomen finely 
scaly. Head punctate as in the other species. Abdomen at tip above silvery white, the caudal 
margins of the segments straight. Hind tibial spurs double, one very small, the other large, 
both purple. Mandibles tridentate. Funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, longer than the 
pedicel, 5 subquadrate, subequal to the pedicel. 
From one female taken by sweeping jungle along a road, February 23, 1912. 
Habitat: Rossville (Cooktown), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 2888, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head and hind 
tibiz on a slide. 
8. NEANASTATUS FLAVIMESOPLEURUM new species. 
Female :—Length, 2.75 mm. 
Deep orange yellow, the fore wing a little stained under the marginal vein; scutellum 
except lateral and distal margins, abdomen except a broad yellowish white band around base, 
dorsal edge of caudal femora and all of caudal tibize except tip, dark metallic purple. Funicle 
1 one and a half times longer than wide, nearly twice the length of the pedicel, longest of the 
flagellum, Otherwise as in purpureiscutellum. 
From one female caught by sweeping in jungle, July 28, 1913. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 2889, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. 
A second female from the same place, April 2, 1914. 
9. NEANASTATUS INCONSPICUUS new species. 
Female :—Length, 1.90 mm. 
Differs from punctaticeps in lacking the cross-suture on scutellum and the first two pairs 
of cox are concolorous, the cephalic femora concolorous at base, the silvery band of abdomen 
very narrow. The middle legs are pale brown. From reymondi in the color of the legs and in 
having the hind tibie white at extreme base dorsad and the distal four tarsal joints of middle 
legs purple as in punctaticeps. From aurifasciatus in the coloration of the first two pairs of 
legs. Funicle 1 a little longer than wide; scape and pedicel dark purple, rest of antenne dull 
yellow. 
From one female caught in forest, May 15, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Chindera (Tweed River), New South Wales. 
Type: No. Hy 2890, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag with type 
punctaticeps. 
