172 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Seape dusky. Distal three funicle joints longest, each somewhat longer than wide, the proximal 
three slightly longer than wide. Pedicel somewhat longer than funicle 4. Oblique hairless line 
of fore wing with about half a dozen lines of coarser cilia proximad of it. Hind wings short 
and broad, with about twenty-three lines of fine discal ciliation where broadest. Ring-joint 
present. Axille finely scaly, narrow, just joining at meson, with an obscure carina between 
them; scutellum longitudinally lined; scutum and the transverse pronotum densely scaly, the 
former with very many minute setigerous pin-punctures, the pubescence not silvery. Abdomen 
shorter than the thorax, finely scaly, bright green at base. Hind tibial spur single. 
From one female taken May 29, 1914, forest uplands (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Maclean (Clarence River), New South Wales. 
Type: No. Hy 3147, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, with type of WHpitetracnemus 
sexguttatipennis Girault, tag and slide. 
GENUS ERICYDNUS Walker, 
1. ERICYDNUS CHRYSCUS Walker. Male. 
‘*Pteromalus ? chryscus Walker, Mon. Chaleid, II, p. 34, 3: Australia. ’’ 
2. ERICYDNUS MEGALARUS Walker. Female. 
‘‘Bulophus megalarus Walker, Ent. Mag. V, p. 477, 9, Australia.’’ 
3. ERICYDNUS HEMIPTERUS new species 
Female:—Length, 1.15 mm. Short and robust, resembling a Hadronotus. 
Brilliant metallic dark green, the mesopleurum and abdomen purple; distal fourth of 
fore wing sooty; legs purple except tarsi and distal two thirds of middle tibiz which are 
brownish yellow, also the knees and more or less of tips of tibie. Antenne purplish, the club 
paler; scape slender, cylindrical; pedicel subelongate, longer than any of the funicle joints, 
all of the latter longer than wide, 4 somewhat the longest, 6 somewhat the shortest. Club 
slightly wider than the funicle, its three joints a little shorter than the funicle joints; pedicel 
not quite a third the length of the funicle; antenne 12-jointed, one short ring-joint. Middle 
tibiw armed with black teeth beneath as in many Eupelmine. Head densely scaly punctate, the 
thorax polygonally scaly; axille widely separated, the scutellum convex, sublenticular but 
nearly as long as wide, rounded at apex. Wings very small, reaching to proximal fifth of 
abdomen, the latter short. Front femur compressed, middle tibia somewhat dilated at apex, 
the spur with hairs ventrad. Lateral ocelli somewhat separated from the eyes, the ocelli minute. 
Mesopleurum finely, longitudinally lineolated. Abdomen finely scaly, green at base. Scrobes 
not long. Vertex moderate in width, the frons moderately narrow. Ovipositor not exserted. 
Hind tibial spurs apparently double. Pronotum transverse-linear. Second tooth of mandible 
broad, truncate, the first small. 
Described at first from eight females reared from a mass of pentatomid eggs on a bush 
in the forest. The hosts were obtained May 7, the parasites emerging May 30, 1912. Later two 
females were seen in the collections of the Queensland Museum labelled ‘‘Sweeping under- 
growth, mostly eucalypts, Brisbane, April 4 and 16, 1913 (H. Hacker).’’ Also, what appears 
to be a male was captured by sweeping in the dry bed of the Proserpine River, at Proserpine, 
Queensland, November 3, 1912. It is similar to the female except that the middle tibie are 
wholly yellow, the club is solid, the pedicel shorter, the funicle joints longer; pedicel much 
shorter than funicle 1; funicles 2 and 3 slightly the longest, two and a half times 
longer than wide. The antennal pubescence though not long is longer than in the female. 
Diseal cilia of fore wing confined to the small distal sooty area, the venation running to apex. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Proserpine and Brisbane, Queensland. Forest. 
Types: No. Hy 3148, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, four females on a tag; two female 
heads and three legs on a slide. 
Type locality, Gordonvale. 
