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apex of basal third and all apical third (except the black inner margin) of hind tibisw outwardly, 
all tarsi (except apical joint), apex of first two pairs of femora and base and apex of first 
two pairs of tibie and the tegule. Wings hyaline, the venation blackish, the postmarginal 
vein nearly twice as long as the stigmal, the marginal vein fully twice as long as the post- 
marginal. Plate of scutellum distinctly bidentate. Second abdominal segment occupying over 
half of the surface. Pedicel small, the ring-joint transverse, the first funicle joint a little 
longer than wide, the others much wider than long. 
Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Reared in February, 1914, from a dipterous puparium. 
Type: No. Hy 3377, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the antenna 
on a slide. 
27. CHALCIS AUREA (Girault). 
Pseudepitelia aurea Girault. 
Length, 7 mm. Robust. 
Black and punctate, the body with a conspicuous, hispid golden-coppery pubescence, 
seen from above forming a halo around the scutellum, a spot on each parapside cephalo-mesad 
and a large area on each side of the meson of pronotum; the large second abdominal segment 
bare excepting for a clump of the pubescence in the dorso-lateral aspect caudad; other 
abdominal segments densely hispid, forming broad transverse rows of reclining hairs. Tegule 
yellowish, reddish cephalo-mesad. First two pairs of legs reddish brown, the knees, tips of 
tibie and proximal four tarsal joints (more or less) lemon yellow; caudal coxa black, its 
femur blood red excepting a large rounded oval black spot in the lateral aspect centrally 
in the ventral longitudinal half and a small lemon-yellow spot same aspect, at ventral margin 
just before extreme tip. Caudal tibize bright lemon-yellow except some reddish at base and 
the narrow black latero-ventral margin. Hind coxa above polished, beneath downy or pilose; 
second abdominal segment also polished except for the clump of pubescence. Propodeum 
rugose. Scape and pedicel blood red, rest of antenna black. Hind femur with one moderately 
long tooth, followed by about from 10-11 others somewhat smaller, the last two or three much 
smaller. Fore wings uniformly greyish or smoky, the stigmal vein less than half the length 
of the postmarginal. Scrobes reaching the cephalic ocellus, the lateral ocelli distant from the 
eyes. Antenne with the ring-joint very short. 
Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. From pupa of Dielis mysis, June 22, 1913 (F. P. 
Dodd). 
Type: No. Hy 3378, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female minutien-mounted, the 
antenne on a slide. 
28. CHALCIS ROBUSTA new species. 
Female :—Length, 6 mm. 
Like albitegula but the black separating the first elongate white spot on caudal tibia 
dorsad is somewhat longer, the plate at apex of scutellum is plainly emarginate, the middle 
portion of proximal half of scutellum is not glabrous as in that species but only the median 
line is so narrowly, the caudal femora ventrad bear but eight teeth, the first three widely 
separated, short, obtuse, the distal four small, acute, close together before apex and forming 
a decreasing series, the last minute. Also the postmarginal vein is a little more than twice 
the length of the stigmal, the wings are hyaline, the apex of scutellum and the axille are 
more noticeably pubescent and segment 3 of abdomen along cephalic margin bears about two 
cross-rows (3-4 in albitegula) of fine pin-punctures, the rest of the segment back of these 
rows densely perpunctulate (smooth in albitegula). Segment 3 of abdomen in both species 
conspicuously pubescent laterad, the following segments also with silvery pubescence across 
them. Pedicel wider than long; funicle 1 somewhat longer than wide, the last two funicle 
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