AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XIV.—GIRAULT. 323 
31. CHALCIS CURTISI new species. 
Female :—Length, 4 mm. 
Very similar to browningi but the tegule are reddish cephalad, the first two pairs or 
femora are black instead of pale icd, the first two pairs of tibie are dark reddish, the elongate 
spots on hind tibie dorsad are narrowly separated from each other by the red. The plate at 
apex of scutellum is practically straight, the first narrow piece of mesopleurum is wholly 
punctate (partly glabrous in browningi). Hind femur with nine teeth ventrad, the second 
very minute, also the last four, none large. Segment 2 of abdomen dorsad glabrous. Funicle 
1 a little longer than wide, the others shortening. Abdomen wholly black. 
From a female from the Queensland Musewn collections, captured April 7, 1912 
«(H. Hacker). 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3382, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag 
Dedicated to George William Curtis. 
DIAGNOSIS OF THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF CHALCIS FABRICIUS. 
(Omitting Walker’s species. Types of my own species have been re-examined. ) 
(Additions and corrections to the descriptions are given in the table.) 
Black. The species are all about the same in sculpture. The apex of the plate of the 
scutellum may be truncate or bidentate. 
Antenne wholly red. 
Knees, cephalic tibiw, proximal half of middle tibie and all tarsi golden yellow; proximal 
half of ventral abdomen and proximal third dorsad, red .. .. Truficornis Girault. 
Antenne not wholly red. 
Seape and pedicel red, rest of antenna black. Wings infuscated. 
Knees, tips of tibie, caudal tibie and tarsi yellow; caudal femur red but with a large 
black spot laterad centrally and a small yellow spot ventrad near tip; first two pairs 
of legs pale reddish brown. Body with a conspicuous golden coppery pubescence. 
Caudal tibia reddish at base, the caudal femur exteriorly finely punctulate. Meso- 
pleurum transversely striate but caudo-ventrad punctulate, caudo-dorsad with a 
glabrous area a Ag HE te Si ar ty .. aurea Girault. 
Antenne red except scape. 
Abdomen wholly red. 
Distal third of first two pairs of femora, the tegule, a rounded spot at apex of caudal 
femur laterad, a distinct long-oval spot at tip of caudal tibia (distal third nearly) 
and the knees, pale yellow; caudal legs nearly entirely, all tarsi and cephalic tibie 
except at base, red. Postmarginal vein just twice the length of the stigmal. 
Middle tibiz fuscous except at each end bre .. (male) rubrwentris Girault. 
Antenne wholly black, the body or legs marked with red. 
Abdomen red. 
Tegulx, tarsi, distal third of cephalic femur, cephalic tibie (except mesad), distal fourth 
of middle femur, middle tibize except broadly at center, yellow. Caudal coxa (except 
at base) and caudal femur, red. All tibiw# pale red; red intervenes between the 
black and yellow of the first two pairs of femora. Segment 3 of abdomen with 
several rows of minute punctures cephalad, caudad very finely punctulate; segment 
2 polished but with a group of very minute punctures dorso-laterad of middle. 
Segment 7 entirely hairy .. S aie 25 is .. brisbanensis Girault. 
