AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, XIV—GIRAULT. 365 
GENUS EUPLECTRUS Westwood. 
1. EUPLECTRUS IMMARGIVENTRIS new species. 
Female :—Length, 2.65 mm. 
Black, the antenne, legs and abdomen pale yellow; the pedicel, distal third or more of 
abdomen and hind cox orange yellow; abdominal petiole quadrate, black; a narrow marginal 
stripe at about proximal one seventh and around or across base of abdomen dorsad; two 
distinet black stripes acrors abdomen at about base of distal third, both rather broad and side 
by side. Fore wings with a distinct fuscous, round spot appended from apex of stigmal knob. 
Marginal black at base of abdomen about as long as the petiole. Scutum scabrous; axille 
and scutellum reticulated. Funicle 1 a little longer than the pedicel. Parapsides smoother 
caudo-mesad. Oral area and tegule white. Head and pronotum practically smooth. Other- 
_ wise like the other Australian species. 
Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. Forest, September 12, 1914. Two females. 
Type: No. Hy 3449, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female in alcohol with type 
Atoposoma unguttatipes. 
CONCLUSION. 
‘*Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light 
from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needs be delightful and rejoicing.’’ (David Hume.) 
I have aimed at the light.* 
* No doubt I have committed mistakes, however. Indulgence for these is not sought because 
1 know that mistakes are inevitable. To indulge them is to increase them. In themselves they are 
excusable but it is inexcusable not to use every effort and resource to prevent, discover and correct 
them. Rather than indulgence for them, then, I seek criticism of them. 
By Authority: ANTHONY James Cummine, Government Printer, Brishane. 
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