AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XII.—GIRAULT. 279 
Described from two pairs of each sex on a card labelled ‘‘5. Galls on Wattle. Govt. 
Domain, Melb., Nov. 708. Emerged Feb. ’09.’’ 
‘Habitat: Melbourne, Victoria. 
Types: In the National Museum, Melbourne, the above specimens and a slide with 
male and female head and female antennae and fore and hind legs. 
5. MACRODONTOMERUS IOLE new species. Female. 
Length, 1.35 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is about a third shorter than the 
abdomen. 
Metallic zneous green, the abdomen coppery, the wings hyaline, the legs pale but with 
a yellowish tinge (hind coxe concolorous with body, the others more or less so); venation 
lemon yellow, also the antenne of which the pedicel is longer than the first funicle joint. 
Thorax transversely finely lined, the propodeum with a median carina and fine reticulation. 
Postmarginal vein a little longer than the stigmal which is not sessile. Mandibles tridentate. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Forest, October 24, 1911. 
Type: No. Hy 3295, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head and 
hind legs on a slide. 
6. MACRODONTOMERUS CINCTIVENTRIS new species. 
Female :—Length, 1.60 mm., exclusive of ovipositor which is extruded for a length 
equal to that of the abdomen. 
Dark metallic purple, the wings hyaline. Closely resembling capricornis but the 
ovipositor is distinctly shorter, the proximal yellow of the abdomen is more distinctly delimited 
forming a distinct, broad band; the coxw and femora are concolorous (not white or nearly as 
in the other species, the hind coxa somewhat colored only). Proximad, somewhat over a third 
of the abdomen is golden yellow (segment 2). Caudal margin of abdominal segments straight. 
Propodeum without a median carina but with oblique striae from cephalad. The postmarginal 
vein is distinctly longer than the stigmal. Vertex punctate; thorax subpunectate, scaly and 
somewhat roughened. Hind coxa coarsely reticulated, the lines forming raised polygons. Hind 
femur beneath finely denticulate, not excised but with a distinct, complete tooth before apex, 
this tooth obtuse at apex. Seape yellow. Funicles 1-4 quadrate, a little or barely shorter than 
the pedicel; funicle 6 a little wider than long. Mandibles tridentate. Immediate base of 
abdomen dorsad purple. 
From one female captured in jungle, May 19, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3296, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head, 
hind legs and a fore leg on a slide. 
A second female April 10, 1914 by sweeping jungle. 
7. MACRODONTOMERUS CAPRICORNIS new species. 
Female:—Length, 1.80 mm., excluding ovipositor which is somewhat longer than the 
slobular abdomen. 
Like justitia but dark wneous green, the pronotum, head and scutum dark purplish, the 
abdomen pale yellowish along proximal third, the distal half or more dark purplish. Also, 
the legs are more yellowish. The suture on face of mesepimeron is more triangular, the oblique 
suleus on the episternum immargined and less distinct. There are no scattered thimble 
punctures on scutellum as with justitia. Propodeum plane, scaly. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in forest, August 2, 1913. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3297, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag, the 
head and hind legs on a slide. 
