AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 75 
more coppery; mesopleura shining purplish. Legs almost wholly whitish. Abdomen yellowish, 
bordered with dark. Wings hyaline. _ 
Habitat: Cairns and Townsville, Queensland. Parasitic upon eggs of Siphanta. 
Types: Query. 
2. ECTOPIOGNATHA MAJOR Perkins. Female. 
Length, 0.75 mm. 
Head in front coppery, more brassy above, dull, with dense minute sculpture, the scape 
black, rest of antenna pale, the distal part of club subinfuscate. Mesonotum slightly shining, 
very faintly sculptured, blue-black; scutellum hardly metallic except at tip, where in some views 
it is shining coppery. Legs whitish. Abdomen yellowish with a dark border. 
Habitat: Cairns, Queensland. Parasitic on eggs of Platybrachys or an allied genus. 
And see below. 
This is a synonym of the first species. 
Many females, several males which were all dark metallic purple in coloration were 
reared together with an Aphelinus from pentatomid eggs on Careya australis at Gordonvale, 
April 7, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). The fore wings are very finely ciliate discally; the males are like 
the females except that the scape is pale, thick but not dilated, the club solid, a ring-joint 
present; funicle joints longer than wide, 3 longest, 1 and 6 subequal, somewhat longer than 
wide. Funicle joints clothed with scraggly, rather long hairs. The pedicel is scarcely longer 
than wide. The female antenne also bear the very short ring-joint. 
Also many specimens from leafhopper eggs on Eucalyptus platyphylla, Gordonvale, 
January, 1913 (A. P. Dodd) and from similar eggs on banyan, Townsville, Queensland, October, 
1911 (A.A.G.). And several specimens from Mr. F. P. Dodd labelled ‘‘ Fulgorid ova and 
parasites.’? One female, Cooktown, Queensland, February, 1912, window. One female from 
forest, Gordonvale, January 5, 1914 and August 13, 1914. Also three females, four males, from 
foliage of a wild citrus plant, October 30, 1911 and on egg-masses of a white jassid on same 
tree.* One female, February 26, 1913, sweeping along Herbert River, Halifax. 
GEeNus ECHTHROGONATOPUS Perkins. 
Head shaped much as in Echthrodryinus Perkins, the face inflexed, the eyes large, 
the least space between them much less than the width of an eye; between the eyes the face 
with very minute surface sculpture; lateral ocelli near the eyes, the latter sparsely hairy, the 
hairs inconspicuous. Antenne inserted far below the middle of the face, the scrobes elongate, 
the scape simple, elongate, the club large, about as long as the funicle, the joints of the 
latter wide and short; antenne 11-jointed, the club 3-jointed. Pedicel over a third the length 
of the funicle. Mandibles with three strong acute teeth. Maxillary palpi 4-jointed, moderately 
long, the distal joint longest; labial palpi 3-jointed, about half as long as the maxillary. 
Axille approximate. Mesoscutum with short, white, decumbent hairs, the scutellum with a 
very dense sculpture, very dull, contrasting with the metallic and finely punctured scutum. 
Oblique hairless line present on fore wing, the-stigmal vein short, the marginal subelongate, 
the postmarginal slightly developed; marginal cilia short. 
The eyes are much smaller in the male, the space between them wider than one of them; 
the male face is metallic like the seutum, the antenne much more elongate, the funicle joints 
elongate, the first subequal to the pedicel, the club subequal to the distal two funicle joints and 
solid. 
* Babinda, Queensland. 
