AUSTL'ALIAN HYMENOPTEBA CHALCIDOIDEA.—GIBAULT. 217 



abbreviated laterad, the first pair joined to the Y at base and narrowly along 

 the meson to the second and third i^airs ; three very minute marginal dots on 

 abdomen, the second and third opposite the first and second pairs of cross-stripes ; 

 propodeum; dorso-lateral base of caudal coxa; each side of the meson of 

 preventer; an oblique dash on mesopleurum just eaudad of cephalic coxjb and 

 continuously from this across mesoventer; space between cephalic coxae; and 

 the mesopleurum between second and third coxixi obliquely from wing insertion. 

 Cross-stripe 4 of abdomen nearly solid and all dark. Wings hyaline, the venation 

 pale.. An elbow-like green marking just eaudad of each axilla. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping forest uplands, Brooklyn, 

 New South Wales, November 5, 1914. 



Type : No. Hij 3558, Queensland ]\Iuseum, the foregoing female on a slide. 



GYROLASELLA RUSKINI new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.50 mm. Pronotum rather long. 



Golden yellow, the wings hyaline (the stigmal vein darker), the legs con- 

 colorous. Marked with dark metallic blue-green as follows : — A U-shaped 

 marking inverted over centre of occiput, ocellar spots, a narrow, curved line on 

 face along upper third of eye, its dorsal end turned some distance mesad in front 

 of the ocelli, proximal half of pedicel dorsad, a streak down side of the scape ; 

 pronotum (excluding the hidden neck) ; a marking along meson of scutum as in 

 gracilis but somewhat more broadly separated from pronotum; median line of 

 scutellum to very near apex, the line clavate ; parapsidal furrows narrowly but 

 spreading eaudad over a little of each parapside ; a very narrow, short, longi- 

 tudinal line across lateral end of axilla? ; a spot just laterad of scutellum and one 

 just mesad of insertion of fore wing; cephalic margin of propodeum rather 

 broadly and irregularly, meson of propodeum more narrowly, caudal margin of 

 propodeum narrowly across meson ; a spot cephalad of i:)ropodeal spiracle ; tip 

 •of ovipositor valves ; base of abdomen at centre ; four transverse marginal spots 

 on abdomen (near base to somewhat distad of middle) ; eight lines across 

 abdomen, 1 dusky, in a line with the first marginal spot but not connecting; 

 2 and 3 close together, 2 dusky, complete, 3 dark, incomplete, in a line with the 

 .second marginal spot, against 2 and connected along the meson wdth 4 ; 4 and 5 

 like 2 and 3 but 5 nearly reaches the marginal spot on each side and is not against 

 4 ; 5 is connected to 6 along meson ; 6 and 7 also paired like 4 and 5 but 7 

 connects the fourth marginal spot; stripe 8 is dusky (not deep metallic like 

 3, 5 and 7), complete, turning proximad at meson as if to joint 7 but plainly 

 not doing so ; first marginal dot of abdomen smallest. Antenna? usual. ]\Iandibles 

 tridentate. Funicle 1 larger than the pedicel, longer than wide, 2 quadrate. 

 Postmarginal vein shorter than stigmal. Scutellum with four bristles in a large 

 square, as in hifasciatifrons. 



Described from one female caught on forest upland, Hawkesbury River, 

 Brooklyn, N.S.W., November 3, 1914. 



Type: No. Hy 3559, Qiueensland ]\Iuseum, the specimen on a slide ; a female 

 on a slide, cotype in U. S. N. Museum. 



A common species. The lines on abdomen vary somewhat as regards the 

 positions of 2 and 3, 4 and 5, and 6 and 7 ; also 5 may not be connected along the 

 meson to 6 ; 3 may be upon 2 and 5 upon 4. The green on the parapside swells 

 triangularly at about middle. 



