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and the lateral margins carinated, the surface of the segments coarsely scaly. Face inflexed, 
the head much as in the Eupelminew, the antenne 11-jointed without a ring-joint, the first 
funicle joint small, like a large ring-joint, the club solid; pedicel much longer than any of 
the funicle joints which widen distad, joints 3 and 4 about longest, not much longer than 
the others, barely wider than long; club ovate, not half the length of the funicle; scrobes 
forming a triangle. Hind femora simple but more swollen than the front ones which are also 
simple (very finely serrulate) yet distinctly swollen. Incisions of abdomen smooth. Plate 
at apex of scutellum entire. Mandibles tridentate. 
Described from one female caught by sweeping in forest, December 2, 1912 (A. P. 
Dodd). 
Habitat: Northern Queensland (Gordonvale near Cairns). 
: Type: No. Hy 3211, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag; the head, hind 
legs and a front leg on a slide. 
SuBFaAMiIny CHALCODECTINA. 
GENUS CHALCODECTUS Walker. 
1. CHALCODECTUS CUPRESCENS (Westwood). 
Polychroma cuprescens Westwood, Thesaur. Ent. Oxon. p. 142 (1874). Australia. 
GENUS AGAMERION Haliday. 
1. AGAMERION GELO (Walker). 
Miscogaster gelo Walker, 1839, p. 27. Male. 
‘* Mas. Purpureo cyanea viridi-varia, antennae nigrae, pedes nigro-virides, tarsi picei, 
alae subfuscae. 
Purpureo-cyanea: caput cyaneo-viride; sulea quo insidet scapus laete cuprea: oculi et 
ocelli obscure rufi: antennae nigrae: thoracis segmentorum suturae nonnullae virides: meso- 
thoracis scutellum purpureum: abdomen laete purpureum, basi viride micans, apice eyaneo- 
varium: pedes virides, cyaneo et purpureo varii; trochanters ferruginei; genua ferruginea; 
tibiae nigrae, spinae fulvae; tarsi picei; pro- et mesotarsis articulus lus fulvus: alae subfuscae; 
squamulae piceae; nervi picei. (Corp. long. lin. 24%; alar. lin. 3.) 
Sydney, New South Wales. 
2. AGAMERION METALLICA new species. 
Female :—Length, 2.60 mm. Propodeum polygonally scaly. Occiput finely scaly. 
In Ashmead’s (1904) table of genera running to Conura Spinola in the Haltichellini 
but the body is metallic, the antennew only 11-jointed with one large ring-joint, the club 
2-jointed. Marginal vein three fourths the length of the submarginal, the postmarginal and 
stigmal moderate in length, the latter the shorter. Hind tibia at apex normal, squarely trun- 
cate, with two large, unequal, normal spurs. Second abdominal segment occupying about a 
fourth of the surface, not much longer than 4 which is a little longer than 3. Scrobes rather 
deep. Propodeum with a distinet, thick median carina and no others. Pronotum subtransverse. 
Scutellum at apex with a short, entire plate. Hind femur beneath distinctly serrated, with 
no large teeth. 
Dark metallic blue, the wings hyaline, the tarsi brown, the dorsal edge of hind tibia 
white together with the first joint of hind tarsus, the rest of that tarsus blackish blue; tip 
of hind tibia margined with brown. Densely punctate (head and thorax). Pubescence incon- 
spicuous. Scape straight, cylindrical; pedicel long, distinctly longer than any of the funicle 
