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AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VII—GIRAULT. 161 
white. Hairless line of fore wing with about 5 or 6 lines of coarser cilia proximad of it. 
Thorax finely scaly. Fore wing pyriform, not especially broad, the marginal fringes short. 
From one male taken by sweeping forest, January 8, 1913. 
Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 31238, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 
PSEUDECTROMA new genus. 
Female :—Short and slender, the abdomen conic-ovate, a little longer than the rest of 
the body, the ovipositor and its valves plainly extruded for a third of the abdomen’s length. 
Distal four tarsal joints very short; first tarsal joint of cephalic legs half shorter than the 
same of other legs. Scutum wider than long; the axille barely separated. Fore wings densely 
ciliate discally, with an oblique hairless line from the stigmal vein, the marginal vein quadrate, 
the stigmal short and broad, longer than the marginal, the postmarginal very short; fringes of 
margin short. Head somewhat wider than long. Mandibles narrow, with two equal acute 
teeth. A spiracle on each lateral margin of abdomen a little beyond middle and which bears: 
long sete from pores. Antenne 9-jointed; five funicle, two club joints, the first shorter, the 
articulation not very distinct, no ring-joint, the flagellum clavate but not compressed, the 
funicle joints all very much wider than long, 5 much the widest, 1 narrowest; pedicel obconie,, 
two thirds or more the length of the funicle. Scape somewhat compressea.- Antenne inserted! 
at the base of the mandibles. Head a little wider than long. Middle tibial spur normal for 
the family. Frons broad. 
1. PSEUDECTROMA AURICORPUS new species. Genotype. 
Female :—Length, 0.65 mm. 
Golden yellow, the wings subhyaline; abdomen with three narrow dusky stripes across, 
the first complete, at proximal third, the second and third abbreviated laterad, on distal third; 
also between the spiracles a dusky crescent (just caudad of first cross-stripe). Propodeum 
suffused with dusky. Valves of ovipositor black. Club ovate, large, longer than the funicle. 
Fore wing with indefinite infuscation along the oblique hairless line. Hind wing acute, the 
part distad of venation very short, about ten lines of fine discal cilia. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping second forest growth and in grass, 
January 8, 1914. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3124, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. 
SCELIOENCYRTUS new genus. 
Female :—Form slender, depressed, the abdomen much like that of the genus Phanarus of 
the Proctotrypoidea but broad at base. Head depressed, circular, the face directed dorsad as 
in the scelionid genus Aradophagus, the antenne inserted at the base of the acute bidentate 
mandibles, 10-jointed, the club 2-jointed, no ring-joint. Middle tibial spurs not stout,-small. 
Fore wings slender, with an oblique hairless line from the stigmal vein, the marginal vein 
punctiform, the stigmal short but distinct, twice the length of the very short postmarginal. 
Abdomen long, obtusely conical, the ovipositor very short, inserted near the tip, the abdomen 
longer than the rest of the body. Axille not widely separated. Body finely sculptured. Frons: 
wide. Cheeks a little over half the length of the eyes. 
1. SCELIOENCYRTUS NIGRICLAVUS new species. Genotype. 
Female :—lLength, 1.10 mm. 
Honey yellow, the wings hyaline, the antennze dusky yellowish, the elub jet black. Fore 
wings densely finely ciliate, the marginal fringes longer than usual, a fifth the greatest wing width. 
Seape (excluding bulla) shorter than the club, the latter ovate, wider than the funicle. Pedicel 
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