AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CH ALCIDOIDEA, XII—GIRAULT. 291 
6. PODAGRION PAX Girault. Female. 
Length, 3.10 mm., exclusive of ovipositor, which is longer. 
Like beneficium Girault but the seven teeth of the posterior femora different; thus teeth 
4 and 5 are nearly equal, 4 a little longer, tooth 2 is smallest, while 1, 3, 6 and 7 are longest, 
1 acutely, 3 obtusely, conical; all of the teeth distinct. And the segmentation of the antenna 
is different, the penultimate funicle joint longer than wide, the ultimate subquadrate, the 
first two funicle joints distinctly more than a fourth longer than wide, nearly twice longer than 
wide, while joint 3 is subequal to them. The club is large as in species of Polynema. Type 
re-examined. Corrected description. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. From mantid eggs, forest, April 27, 1913. 
Type: No. Hy 3318, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head and a 
caudal leg on a slide. 
7. PODAGRION PAVO new species. 
Female :—Length, 3.20 mm., excluding the exserted part of the ovipositor which is about 
the same length. 
Dark metallic green, the propodeum, hind cox and abdomen bluish, the wings hyaline; 
seape, middle of funicle, venter of abdomen, tibiz, tarsi, trochanters and knees brownish 
yellow; rest of antenne black or nearly. Propodeum with a distinct V-shaped carina whose 
apex is at base and a carina laterad of the spiracle. Club somewhat enlarged; joints 1 and 2 
of funicle subequal, each shorter than the pedicel, a little longer than wide; distal funicle joint 
over twice wider than long; ring-joint distinct. Hind femur with six teeth—large, small, large, 
large, large, small from proximad; teeth 3 and 4 longest, subequal. Body with the usual 
sculpture, the seutellum and axille smoother, scaly, the scutellum smooth at apex. Hind femur, 
mesal aspect, reddish yellow. 
Male:—Length about the same. 
Totally different in color, very brilliant. Bright metallic green, the antenne, legs and 
abdomen (orange) bright yellow; a large oval spot at base of hind coxa laterad and distal 
fourth or more of abdomen above metallic green. Hind tibizw reddish brown, black centrally. 
Hind femur with three large teeth. Antenne 13-jointed, slenderer, the funicle joints all 
subquadrate after the first two which are as in the female. 
Described from two males, four females on a card labelled ‘‘ 22. Bred from eggease of 
Mantis, Tinodera australiana Leach. 22 9, 2 g, 15-38-1903. J.A.K.”’ 
Habitat: Melbourne, Victoria. 
Types: The above specimens; male and female antennz and a female hind leg on a slide. 
In the National Museum, Melbourne. 
The species derives its name from the gaudy colours of the male. The host is the 
common Tenodera australasie of Leach. 
Later, four females were found on a ecard in the same collection labelled ‘‘ 88. March 
19, 1903, Melb.’’ and reared from the same host. The four hind femora of the males showed 
no variation in the number of teeth and none was found in the female specimens except slight 
differences in size. 
8. PODAGRION GROTII new species. 
Female :—Length, 3.50 mm., excluding the very long ovipositor which is over twice the 
length of the body. 
- Distinguished from the other Australian species by the extremely long ovipositor. From 
beneficium, which it resembles in color, it differs in having the seventh tooth of the hind femur 
large, 6 and 7 shortest and subequal, confluent broadly at base; also the median carina of the 
propodeum does not branch until near the apex of that region (or caudad); the distal two 
funicle joints are distinctly longer than wide and the first funicle joint is very much longer 
than the pedicel, joints 1-5 subequal, longest. Distal club joint distinctly shorter than the 
proximal. From washingtoni, it may be distinguished by the forking of the median carina 
