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AUSTRALIAN 

 HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA. 



GENERAL SUPPLEMENT. 



By a. a. Girault. 



Herein are recorded the examinations of some of the types of Howard 

 and of Ashmead which are in the United States National Museum; errors of 

 omission and commission; and the addition of new genera and species. This 

 supplement I consider of some importance since in it I am able to make quite 

 a number of new observations and to throw light upon a number of old genera, 

 heretofore very poorly (inexcusably so, it seems to me) described. The index 

 and bibliography are deferred for the present as is also a second general supple- 

 ment, covering the remainder of the families. 



Family TRICHOGRAM]\IATIDiE. 

 ABBELLA XANTHOGASTER Girault. 

 A female, window, Muswellbrook, New South "Wales, October 25, 1914. 



ABBELLA SUBFLAVA SUBFLAVELLA new variety. 



The Australian variety differs from the North American one in minor 

 arrangements of the discal ciliation of the fore wn'ng and it seems native to 

 Australia. All former references here to suhflava mean this variety. Types 

 compared. 



A female from a window, Muswellbrook, New South Wales, October 25, 

 1914. 



Tyjje : No. H^j 3549, Queensland JMuseum, Brisbane, the above specimen 

 on a slide. 



UFENS LUNA Girault. 



''Ufens luna, sp. n. (normal position). 



Female. — Length 0.60 mm. Exactly similar in general structure, appear- 

 ance, and colour to the type species — niger (Ashmead) — but differing as follows: 

 In the fore wings primarily : they have distinctly shorter marginal cilia, short 

 in the type species, but here very short and close, hardly distinguishable from 

 the edges of the wing ; the discal ciliation is different, not so dense, the straight, 

 distinct lines more numerous, consequently not peculiarly distinct as in niger; 

 also the fore wing is fumated farther distad, and more distinctly, though not 

 pronouncedly. In the legs : the posterior femora are more enlarged, ovate, and 

 with a longitudinal lamellate sculpture. The posterior wings differ in being less 



