AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, [X.—GIRAULT. 217 
joints, about as long as the second club joint which is longer than the first and conical. 
Funicle 1 a little longer than wide, 2 and 3 subquadrate, the others shorter; funicle 1 not 
quite half the length of the pedicel. Dorsal aspect of hind tibia armed with short, stout white 
‘spur-like setee somewhat like the black ones present on the middle tarsi of many eupelmine 
genera. Ovipositor not exserted. Distal two thirds of side of middle tibia ivory white; 
tips of first two tibie reddish brown. Metapleurum punetate. First two tarsi reddish brown; 
joint 1 of hind tarsus white, rest blue. 
Male :—Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping foliage, forest, on the outskirts of 
the township, November 30, 1913. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3212, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the antenna 
and a hind leg on a slide. 
It is no wonder that Kirby was misled by this insect and allied it with the Chalcidide ; 
its normal hind tibia, metallic coloration and the median carina on propodeum incline me to 
think that Ashmead has correctly placed it. The above species disagrees with the figure 
_given by Kirby in having but two elub joints. The propodeal spiracles are large, the opening 
reniform, the boundaries oval; no lateral carinw. Also at Port Darwin, N.T. 
This species differs from Ashmead’s in having the tips of tibie and first two pairs of 
tarsi reddish brown not white, the middle tibizw white along one side. Ashmead’s species may 
not be congeneric. 
I have seen a female through the kindness of Mr. A. P. Dodd which was reared from 
a pale blattid egg-case in 1903 at Horton Park, New South Wales (W. W. Froggatt). 
2. AGAMERION CQERULEIVENTRIS Ashmead. Male. 
Length, 3.8 mm. Robust. 
Metallic blue-green; thorax above bronzed green; face from ocellus, thorax at sides 
and beneath, tegule and legs except as noted and abdomen decidedly blue; flagellum brown- 
black; anterior and middle tarsi and hind tibiz, all along outer face, ivory or yellowish white. 
Head transverse, eyes large, convergent above, face below between base of eyes fully 
twice as wide as the space on vertex; scrobes distinct, long, in outline triangular; head above 
and thorax above with a close thimble-like punctuation, finer and feebly on sides and on 
hind coxe. Wings hyaline; subcostal and stigmal veins yellowish, postmarginal and marginal 
veins pale brown, the latter being two thirds the length of the subcostal; postmarginal longer 
than the stigmal. 
Habitat: Australia. 
Type: No. 4890, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 
GENUS SYSTOLOMORPHA Ashmead. 
1. SYSTOLOMORPHA THYRIDOPTERYGIS Ashmead. Female. 
Length, 1.8 to 2 mm. 
Black, shining; flagellum brown; sutures of trochanters, tips of femora and all of 
tibie and tarsi yellowish white; wings hyaline, venation brown. 
Head transverse, a little wider than thorax, about thrice as wide as thick anterio- 
posteriorly; scrobes delicately impressed but distinct; ocelli arranged in an obtuse triangle, 
lateral ocelli being a little farther from each other than from the front ocellus; surface of head 
distinetly coriaceous. Antenne short; flagellum clavate; pedicel short, obconical, a little longer 
than thick and much larger than the first two joints of funicle; funicle joints short, wider 
than long, all gradually widening to club. Thorax in shape similar to the Eurytomid genus 
Systole Walker; parapsidal furrows distinct, entire; mesonotum delicately transversely acicu- 
late; scutellum coriaceous; axille meeting at their inner, basal angles; metathorax short, 
