AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VIII—GIRAULT. 189 
of moderate size, setigerous, the sete very short. Propodeum rather short, with a distinct 
median carina which is short and broad, forking strongly at apex, running along the caudal 
margin. Spiracle at the cephalic margin, round, small, in a more or less obscure impression 
whose caudal margin is subearinated. Propodeum finely scaly, impunctate. Abdomen 
also finely scaly, none of the segments greatly lengthened. Parapsidal furrows deep, complete. 
Legs slender. 
From one female captured in jungle, May, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3170, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag; hind legs and 
antennz on a slide. 
2. NEOSYSTASIS ORMYROIDES new species. 
Female :—Length, 1.80 mm. With the habits of Ormyrus. 
Brilliant coppery, the wings slightly uniformly infuscated throughout. Legs white 
except the sides of cephalic coxe and the hind coxe which are concolorous; cephalic femora and 
tibiz and caudal femur above, pinkish orange. Mandibles with three well-developed, acute 
teeth. Scape and pedicel yellowish brown; rest of antenna black but the club a little whitish. 
Venation brown. Head with numerous, scattered punctures; also the dorsal thorax except the 
propodeum. Scutellum rather broadly at meson from a little cephalad of middle, without 
punctures. Scutum and scutellum with a short greyish pubescence. Thorax finely scaly 
reticulated, the abdomen a little more coarsely so. Propodeum similarly sculptured, very short 
at the meson, nearly hidden from above by the scutellum, widening laterad, the median carina 
not distinct. Funicles 4 and 5 subequal, each a little wider than long, 2 and 3 subequal, each 
a little longer than wide; funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, subequal to the pedicel, distinctly 
shorter than with the genotype. 
Described from a single female captured in the jungle, July 31, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3171, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, hind 
legs and a fore wing on a slide. 
In this genus, the submarginal vein is broken. In the genotype, the median carina of 
the propodeum is short yet distinctly longer than wide and a lateral carina is indicated from 
caudad. 
GENUS EPITEROBIA Girault. 
Female :—Agyreeing with Terobia Foerster but the scutellum with a distinct cross-suture 
before apex and the marginal vein is fully twice the length of the stigmal, which is distinctly 
shorter than the postmarginal. Both mandibles flattened, distinctly 4-dentate. Abdomen conic- 
ovate, keeled beneath, the second segment longest, occupying about a fifth of the surface, its 
caudal margin with a slight notch at the meson; abdomen somewhat longer than the rest of the 
body. Antenne inserted below the middle of the face but somewhat above the ventral ends 
of the eyes, the first ring-joint very short. Lateral margins of propodeum carinated, but true 
lateral carine absent, the median carina distinct, not very long, complete. Spiracle small, 
round, central (i.e. midway between cephalic and caudal margins, far from cephalic margin). 
Parapsidal furrows deep. 
1. EPITEROBIA RETICULATITHORAX Girault. Genotype. 
Female :—Length; 1.15 mm. Dark coppery green, the wings hyaline, the thorax finely 
reticulated, the lines not raised, smooth on scutellum caudad of cross-suture; propodeum 
glabrous. Coxe concolorous, the femora also, the knees, tibie and tarsi pale. Mandibles some- 
what like an outspread hand with the last finger-joints turned down and the thumb hidden. 
Antenne pale yellowish, the pedicel above at base and the club dusky. Club somewhat enlarged; 
funicle joints subglobular, wider than long, increasing somewhat in size distad but always 
