AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, IX—GIRAULT. 215 
(first three funicle joints blackish). Caudal tibial spurs white. Pedicel distinctly longer than 
any funicle joint, a little longer than wide at apex. Club a little over half the length of the 
funicle. Frons broad. Scutum transversely lineolated; rest of thorax scaly but the propo- 
deum punctate. Head finely scaly lined. First two segments of abdomen glabrous, the others 
showing scaly sculpture, especially from cephalic margins. Propodeum glabrous in a line 
mesad from the spiracle to the postscutellum, the latter with rimmed margins. Wings normally 
ciliate. 
Described from two females captured by sweeping on forest uplands, Clarence River, 
May 30, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Maclean, New South Wales. 
Type: No. Hy 3209, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on a tag; head and 
a pair of caudal legs on a slide. 
PARATOMICOBIA new genus. 
Like the preceding but the frons prominent, the vertex flat, the scutellum bears a 
curved, shallow cross-groove just before apex, the propodeum bears a median earina, the 
seutellum a shallow lateral groove; segments 2 and 3 of the abdomen together occupying 
somewhat less than a third of the surface; parapsidal furrows subobsolete, the pronotum 
transverse-quadrate. Stigmal vein as long as the postmarginal. Scape stout, not noticeably 
dilated. Caudal femur not stout. Postmarginal vein somewhat shorter than the marginal; 
cheeks longer than the eyes. Caudal tibiz compressed toward apex. 
1. PARATOMICOBIA FLAVIOS new species. Female. Genotype. 
Length, 2.50 mm. Dark metallic green, the oral area yellowish, the legs, propodeum 
and abdomen coppery blue, the knees and tips of tibia reddish brown, the tarsi white, the 
eaudal tarsi black (also the spurs). Tips of caudal tibie concolorous. Distal three funicle 
joints and the club reddish brown. Fore wing with the apex moderately, broadly infuscated 
and that portion between the bend of the submarginal vein and apex of venation. Under 
and against the marginal vein, a large, pyriform, hyaline area turned sideways and with 
the narrow end just a little proximad of the junction of marginal and stigmal veins; this 
area extends half way across the wing; a narrow, subhyaline area at caudal margin opposite 
the pyriform area. Apical and central infuscated areas narrowly connected along each 
margin. Infuseated areas generally coterminous with the discal cilia. Median carina of 
propodeum forking at base distinctly, the propodeum punctate and with lateral carine 
indicated distad. Abdomen showing a scaly sculpture after segment 4. Thorax polygonally 
sealy, the scutum scaly punctate and with short, whitish pubescence. Frons moderately broad. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping forest uplands, Clarence River, May 
30, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Maclean, New South Wales. 
Type: No. Hy 3210, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, 
hind legs and a fore wing on a slide. 
GENUS EPISTENIA Westwood. 
1. EPISTENIA NIGRIZENEA new species. 
Female :—Length, 1.85 mm. 
Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the abdomen coppery, blue at base; legs and 
antenne concolorous, the knees and tips of tibiz brownish, the tarsi white. Head and thorax 
umbilicately punctate, the propodeum subglabrous, with a row of punctures along the cephalic 
and caudal margins, a short, strong median carina, a rather small, round-oval spiracle and a 
broad sulcus just laterad of the latter. Abdomen with the incisions between the segments, 
