236 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Cameron. Parapsidal furrows straight, meeting at apex. Head finely, circularly striate, the 
thorax foveate-punctate. Antenne 12-jointed, no ring-joint; scape very short, twice the 
length of the very short pedicel which is longer than wide; no distinct club. Funicle 1 distinctly 
the longest, the following joints all more or less equal, gradually shortening, a little more than 
half the length of 1 which is elongate. 
From one male captured in jungle, January 18, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3288, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on 
a slide. 
GENUS CHALCUROIDES Girault. 
Agreeing with Chalcurella Girault but the scutellum terminating in a minute, upturned 
spinelike plate nearly as in Lpimetagea Girault and the antenne bear paired branches after the 
fifth funicle joint, the first five funicle joints with single branches from opposite sides 
alternately. Joints 2-5 short, joint 1 as long as a third or more of the long club, the funicle 
joints lengthening after the fifth; pedicel very short; twelve joints, no ring-joint. Scutellum 
with a median groove. Mandibles with one and two teeth within, respectively. 
1. CHALCUROIDES VERSICOLOR Girault. Male. Genotype. 
Length, 3.85 mm. 
Metallic green, the axille and rest of thorax distad of them, purple, the abdomen blue, 
the long petiole greenish and roughened like the thorax; face bluish about the antenna, striate; 
antenne black (submetallic); wings hyaline, the venation brown. Legs dark, submetallic, 
the knees, tips of tibiz and tarsi brownish. 
Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. Parasitic upon Myrmecia species. 
Type: No. 1.1352, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, tag and slide. 
GENUS CHALCUROIDELLA Girault. 
Like Chalcurella Girault but the antenna with paired branches after the third funicle 
joint and thus like those of Chalcuroides but the third funicle joint bears a shortened second 
branch which is a fifth or less the length of its opposite or any of the branches; twelve 
antennal joints, no ring-joint, all the funicle joints with branches. Mandibles as in Orasema. 
1. CHALCUROIDELLA ORIENTALIS Girault. Male. Genotype. 
Length, 3.20 mm. 
Dark metallic purple, the wings hyaline, the branches of the antenna dark chocolate 
brown; coxe and femora concolorous, the cephalic femora less concolorous, the rest of the 
legs brown; abdomen except petiole and base, dark chocolate brown, venation black. Rugosely 
punctate, the head striate weakly, glabrous ventral half of face. Propodeum with a distinct 
lateral groove, otherwise convex, the scutellum with a very obscure median groove. First 
funicle joint as long as the next three combined, the club joint long, capitate, without branches, 
straight and longest. From laterdl aspect scutellam with two upturned teeth in a longitudinal 
line near or on the apex. Petiole aciculated, dark greenish; posterior coxee shining, very dark. 
Corrected description from types. 
Habitat: Gordonyale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, April 15, 1912. 
Types: No. Hy 3289, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two males on tags (two pins), a head 
on a slide. 
