AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VIII—GIRAULT. 193 
Non-metallic. Eyes naked. Pronotum as seen from above, transverse-linear, widening laterad, 
normal. Segment 2 of abdomen occupying about a fifth of the surface, notched at meson 
caudad; no petiole. Pronotum well separated. 
1. APIRENE LONGIFASCIATA Girault. Female. Genotype. 
Length, 2.60 mm. 
Black, the abdomen honey yellow and with a long broad black stripe down each side 
from base to apex; coxe black, the legs fuscous, tips of tibie and most of the tarsi 
paler, the cephalic femora darker, washed with more or less blackish. Wings hyaline. Head 
and thorax densely but not deeply punctate, the propodeum less rough, polygonally reticulated, 
the abdomen all similarly reticulated but more delicately. Face with converging striw above 
the clypeus. Second and third funicle joints subequal, the third, fourth and fifth each shortening. 
Scape and pedicel fuscous; ring-joints yellowish, the funicle yellow, suffused with dusky. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, December, 1912. 
Not uncommon. 
Types: No. Hy 3179, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on tags (two pins) ; 
head on a slide. 
EROTOLEPSIELLA new genus. 
Running to Eroiolepsia Howard but the stigmal and postmarginal veins extremely long, 
subequal, each over three fourths the length of the marginal, the antennal pedicel somewhat 
shorter than the solid club, the eyes naked or nearly so. There is a single ring-joint and the 
first funicle joint is subquadrate and narrower than the others, the second and third joints 
longest. Fore wings banded. Cephalic femur somewhat swollen but simple. Mandibles 
tridentate. Parapsidal furrows complete, delicate. Abdomen pointed conic-ovate, segment 2 
longest but occupying only about a third of the surface, its caudal margin entire. Propodeum 
with a neck but no carinez, rugose, the scutellum with a not very distinct cross-furrow before 
apex. Abdomen with a short stout petiole. Antenne 11-jointed. With the habitus of the 
Pteromalide. 
1. EROTOLEPSIELLA BIFASCIATA new species. Female. Genotype. 
Length, 1.80 mm. 
Purplish brown, the tip of abdomen ringed narrowly with white, the distal part of 
metathorax and the short abdominal petiole also white. Legs concolorous, the tarsi yellowish 
white, the antenne concolorous. Fore wings with two conspicuous black-brown bands across 
them, the first narrow and from the bend of the submarginal vein, the second very broad and 
from the stigmal vein. Thorax punctate. 
Habitat: Babinda, Queensland. Jungle. October 28, 1911. 
Type: No. Hy 3180, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the head and 
caudal tibiz on a slide. 
EROTOLEPSIOPUS new genus. 
Female:—Form short. Head wider than long, the antennz inserted on a level with 
the ventral ends of the eyes, capitate, the club short, obliquely truncate, 3-jointed; eleven joints 
with one ring-joint, the funicle joints after the subquadrate first, wider than long and sub- 
pedunculate. Mandibles slender, with three long teeth. Parapsidal furrows complete, deep. 
Pronotum transverse. Scutellum with a punctate cross-groove just before apex. Propodeum 
polished, with a median carina only, the spiracle small, round. Axille large, widely separated. 
Second abdominal segment occupying a little over a third of the surface, the others much shorter 
than it. Marginal vein short, less than half the length of the submarginal, the stigmal not 
long, two thirds the length of the marginal, the postmarginal somewhat longer than the stigmal. 
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