AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII.—GIRAULT. 97 
silvery white toward tips of tibie and proximad on femora and the knees and tarsi; inter- 
mediate legs with a narrow black band above and below knees. Mesopleurum caudad washed 
with purple. Caudal fourth of scutum metallic bluish and there clothed with dense silvery 
white pubescence. Scutum and scutellum very finely, densely, longitudinally lineolated but 
metallic part of seutum transversely so. Axille barely separated. Distal two thirds or more 
of first joint of hind tarsus black. Fore wings embrowned from the first bend of the sub- 
marginal vein to apex, deeper under the marginal vein and quite as in species of Cheiloneurus 
except that the white spot just distad of venation includes the whole area subtended by the 
postmarginal and stigmal veins. Oblique hairless line broad, not well delimited by sete. 
Marginal vein about two and a third times longer than wide. Pedicel much longer than any 
of the funicle joints, nearly twice longer than wide at apex; funicle slender proximad, widening 
a little distad, the joints all subquadrate but 5 and 6 wider than the others. Distal part of 
submarginal vein as usual curving but the curve is rather long and concave. 
From two females caught on the foliage of Acalypha growing in gardens in the town, 
October 23, 1911. 
Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3010, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag; head, wing 
and hind tibiz on a slide. 
PARAPHYCUS new genus. 
1. PARAPHYCUS ABNORMISCAPUS new species. Genotype. 
Female :—Length, 1.25 mm., excluding ovipositor which is distinctly but shortly extruded. 
Deep orange yellow, the head except vertex, the pronotum except lateral margin, propleura, 
mesopleura, legs, metapleura and abdomen very pale yellow, contrasting; face of pronotum, 
cephalic margin of scutum and dorsum of abdomen except along each margin where there are 
pale yellowish marginal spots, black. A large obscure rounded area in center of scutum on 
each side of the meson and a distinct, large arrow-shaped spot in center of the seutellum 
(covering most of it, the apex blunt and at base of scutellum, the spot leaving the distal 
margin yellow) purple. A spot below knee and one across tip of middle tibia and a spot 
centrally on lateral caudal femur, one just below knee and one a little distad of middle on 
caudal tibia, dusky black. Wings hyaline. Upper half of occiput black. Antenne colored 
like the legs. Extruded valves of ovipositor dusky, whitish at extreme base and apex. Marginal 
vein punctiform, the postmarginal distinct, somewhat longer than the marginal, the stigmal 
long, curved, about thrice the length of the postmarginal. Mandibles with three equal, small, 
acute teeth. Axille separated by a short carina. rons broad, face inflexed, the cheeks. 
somewhat shorter than the eyes. Pedicel and scape dusky the latter stout, obconic, the pedicel 
globular, the funicle joints subequal, each a little longer than wide, a little over half the 
length of the scape (excluding the bulla). Club slender, nearly half the length of the funicle, 
longer than the scape (even if the bulla is included). Marginal fringes of fore wing very 
short, the hairless line guarded by two lines of cilia proximad and three or four inconspicuous. 
lines of cilia under, and parallel with, the submarginal vein. Main discal ciliation of the fore 
wing fine, dense. Thorax densely, very finely scaly. Propodeum with several transverse 
black spots on each side. Distal margin of scutellum pale yellow. Antenne with a very thin 
ring-joint, the flagellum longitudinally striate. Hind tibial spurs double, very unequal. Seape 
shaped like an ordinary pedicel. 
From one female caught in forest, April 15, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Cloneurry, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3011, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 
