AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 63 
From one female caught by sweeping in forest, April 16, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 2956, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on slide with type 
Coccophagus perpulchellus Girault. 
Dedicated to Leland Ossian Howard. 
Genus PLASTOCHARELLA Girault. 
Antea, p. 195, line 3 of the description, the second with read without. 
1. PLASTOCHARELLA FUSCIPENNIS Girault. 
Length, 1.05 mm. Infuscation of fore wing deeper under the marginal vein. The type 
was taken, February 16, 1913 from a window and is on a slide. 
2. PLASTOCHARELLA INCONSPICUA new species. 
Female :—Length, 0.50 mm. 
Brownish black, the wings lightly stained from base of marginal vein to apex, naked 
proximad from the same point. Pedicel elongate, longer than the funicle, the three joints 
of the latter subquadrate but 1 a little longer than the other two which are slightly wider 
than long. Club longer than the rather short scape which is only somewhat longer than the 
pedicel. Median groove on thorax not seen. Submarginal vein distinctly longer than the 
marginal. Legs dusky black. 
Much smaller than fuscipennis and uniform in color, the marginal vein shorter (some- 
what longer than the submarginal in the genotype), nearly the proximal half of fore wing 
is naked and clear, the club is distinctly longer than the funicle and the pedicel is long. The 
marginal fringes of fore wing are twice longer than is the case with the genotype where they 
are very short. In fuscipeniis the pedicel is plainly shorter than the funicle. 
From one female caught by sweeping in forest, January 16, 1913. 
Habitat: Magnetic Island (Townsville), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 2957, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide with type 
appendages of Anastatus insularis Girault. 
3. PLASTOCHARELLA MAXIMA new species, 
Female :—Length, 1.85 mm., excluding the shortly exserted ovipositor. 
Jet black, tip of abdomen, the legs except hind cox and a broad band around the base 
of the abdomen, silvery white; lower part of face (suffused), caudal half of scutum, much of 
parapsides and the narrow median groove of thorax, dull yellow. Wings infuscated as in 
fuscipennis. Mandibles tridentate. Funicle 3 distinctly the longest, 2 shortest, a little longer 
than wide, 1 distinctly longer than wide but not much longer than 2 yet wider; club longer 
than the funicle. Thorax very finely lined. Strigils distinct, tarsi as in the Elasmide; middle 
tibial spur not especiallly stout; hind tibial spurs double. Abdomen slender, conic-ovate, 
longer than rest of the body. Antenne inserted down near the mouth, the scape long and 
slender. Venation much as in Coccophagus, the stigmal vein minute. Fore wings distinctly 
broader than with fuscipennis; in both species, they are subhyaline proximad of the marginal 
vein. Mesopleurum rather flat, divided by a suture transversely as usual in Chaleids. 
This is an enormous member of the subfamily. 
From one female caught in jungle, December 27, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Warvey’s Creek (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 2958, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head on a 
slide. 
In fuscipennis, the club is subequal in length to the finicle. 
