AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XIV.—GIRAULT. 329 
1. MEGACHILOCHALCIS AURICOMOSUS new species. Male. Genotype. 
Length, 8.75 mm. 
Black, the knees, tibia (except most of hind tibia), tarsi, scape and tegule blood red. 
Fore wings with a rectangular stigmate spot under all the marginal vein, smoky from thence 
distad to apex and also across the wing from marginal vein and beyond it. Propodeum with 
‘shining pubescence, also the face (dense), the abdomen above (except most of segment 2) 
with dense, rich golden yellow, hispid pubescence and there is a clump of this short pubescence 
from apex of each axilla, like two golden yellow spots on each side of the scutellum. Horn 
of scutellum curved near its tip, punctate. Thorax densely punctate; the naked portion of 
‘second abdominal segment irregularly densely pitted. Pedicel much wider than long; funicle 
stout, the joints all longer than wide, the first longest; second club joint longer, obtusely 
pointed. Antenne tapering distad. 
Habitat: Kewell, Western Victoria. April, 1888. Labelled ‘‘57.’’ 
Type: In the National Museum, Melbourne, the male minutien-mounted, the antennew 
on a slide. 
GENUS MEGALOCOLUS Kirby. 
1. MEGALOCOLUS RUFINOTUM Girault. Female. 
Length, 8 mm., including the stylus. 
Black, punctate; the venter of abdomen, mesal aspect, the legs (except the coxe, 
proximal half or so of cephalic femur, interior of caudal tibia and the caudal femur) and the 
whole of the mesonotum (including seutellum and tegule) rufous; pedicel, first funicle joint 
and tip of club fuscous; fore wings irregularly stained, the venation fuscous or darker; 
staining accented at the stigmal vein, the latter nearly at right angles to the marginal and 
‘subequal to the short postmarginal. Posterior femur with seven teeth beneath, widely separated, 
the first large and obtuse, the last very small. Mandibles with two teeth, both acute but the 
inner broadly bevelled off mesad. The small first funicle joint longer than the pedicel which 
is cupshaped; second funicle joint longest, a third longer than 3 which is more than twice 
the size of the first. The lateral projection on the propodeum is absent. 
Habitat: Cairns, Queensland. 
Type: No. I. 1239, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 
TriseE HALTICHELLINI. 
Genus HALTICHELLA S§pinola. 
1. HALTICHELLA FABRICATOR Walker. Female. 
Haltichella fabricator Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., I, p. 365, (1862). 
Australia. 
2. HALTICHELLA INDIGNATOR Walker. Female. 
Haltichella indignator Walker, Trans. Ent. Soe. Lond., I, p. 369,Q (1862). 
Tasmania, Australia. 
3. HALTICHELLA INTERNATA Walker. 
Haltichella internata Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., I, p. 369 (1862). 
Tasmania, Australia. 
