204 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
GENUS DINOURA Ashmead. 
1. DINOURA AURIVENTRIS Ashmead. Female; male. 
Length, 4.8 mm.; to tip of ovipositor nearly 7 mm. Head bluish or blue-green, with 
a metallic green spot on vertex enclosing ocelli; thorax above metallic green, at sides and 
beneath with metathorax, blue or blue-green; femora except tips, eneous black, anterior pair 
more or less bluish; rest of legs pale yellowish; hind tibiz obfuscated medially. Wings hyaline, 
venation dark brown. Abdomen gold green and terminating in a prominent ovipositor which 
is dilated into three broad leaf-like expansions, like a propeller in a naphtha launch. 
Male measures 3.60 mm. Antenne 9-jointed, flagellum filiform, clothed with a short 
dense felt-like pubescence, the joints longer than thick; all legs wneous black with white tarsi; 
abdomen oblong-oval, bronzed black, metallic greenish above toward base. 
Habitat: Sydney, New South Wales. From galls of Brachyscelis pileata. 
Type: No. 4892, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 
2. DINOURA CYANEA Ashmead. Female. 
Length, 5 mm.; to tip of ovipositor, 10 mm. Head and thorax blue with a metallic 
green tinge on thorax above; basal half of abdomen yellowish; anterior and middle tibia, hind 
tibize along outer face and all tarsi ivory white. Wings hyaline, as in the previous species. 
Habitat: Wellington, New South Wales. From galls of Brachyscelis ovicola Schr., 
August 20, 1891. 
Type: No. 4893, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 
GENus SCHIZONOTUS Ratzeburg. 
1. SCHIZONOTUS DODDI new species. Female. 
Length, 2 mm. 
Dark metallic purple, the scutellum and base of abdomen green; the legs concolorous, 
the knees and tarsi yellowish; wings hyaline, the venation dark; antenne black, 12-joimted 
with two ring-joints, the pedicel scarcely longer than the first funicle joint which is not much 
longer than wide, the distal three funicle joints subequal, the 3-jointed club not enlarged. 
Stigmal vein somewhat shorter than the postmarginal. Secutellum with a cross-furrow near 
apex, proximad of this with some scattered thimble punctures. Thorax densely shagreened, 
the propodeum with a sharp median carina, near its base crossed by a sharp transverse carina 
near or at the caudal margin; parapsidal furrows sharp. Mandibles tridentate. Abdominal 
segments more or less equal. Front femora only slightly swollen, not toothed. Antenne 
inserted near the middle of the face. 
Habitat: Gordonyale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest (2,500-3,000 feet), June 3, 1913 
(A. P. Dodd). 
Type: No. Hy 3195, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a 
slide, 
2. SCHIZONOTUS AMABILIS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 
Length, 2.10 mm. 
Bright metallic green, the mesonotum coppery; coxe and femora concolorous; tibiz and 
basal half of antennal scape golden yellow; tarsi white, the apical joint dusky, rest of antenne 
black. Secutum, scutellum and axille with fine scaly reticulation, the median lobe of scutum 
with large deep punctures. Parapsidal furrows deep and distinct. Scutellum rather long with 
a deep cross-suture before apex. Propodeum short, broad, glabrous; with a distinct median 
carina. Abdomen short, shorter than the thorax, segment 2 longest, occupying about a third 
of the surface, smooth, rest of abdomen with very fine reticulation. Wings hyaline, the venation 
