AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTEBA CHALCIDOIDEA.—GIRAVLT. 219 



of abdomen distinctly a short distance, the fifth some little distance before apex, 

 abbreviated laterad, curved and obscurely joined to 4 along the meson. Pedicel 

 dusky, a little longer than wide at the apex, slightly longer than the funicle 

 joints which are a little wider than long and subequal. Club longer than the 

 funicle. Antenna and cheeks with short, stiff hairs, larger on the club. Venation 

 dusky. Hind wings with about a dozen lines of discal cilia across from the 

 booklets. Vertex and pronotum with numerous, short, stiff black setas, longer 

 along the caudal margin of the pronotum. Finely scaly. Parapsides also with 

 the setae but here they are more scattered. Scutum with but four hairs. Propo- 

 deum simple. Small black setfe are present along the lateral margin of 

 propodeum. 



In the male, the vertex, meson of ]ironotum broadly, scutum, parapsides 

 mesad broadly, axillje, scutellum, propodeum and dorsal abdomen, are dark 

 metallic blue. Otherwise, it is about as in the female (ring-joints not verified). 



Described from four males, two females on a card in the U. S. National 

 Museum, labelled '' Scotolinx gallicola Ashmead. Types. Type No. 12,743, 

 U.S.N.M. 78. Liverpool galls. Melaleuca lineifolia." 



Haditat: Liverpool, New South Wales and as above. 

 Types: As above plus a slide with female appendages. 



EUPLECTROMORPHA AUSTRALIENSIS (Ashmead). 

 The distal fourth of abdomen dorsad (and somewhat less beneath) is 

 black. Dorsal thorax uniformly scaly, the propodeum glabrous except the finely 

 scaly neck, with the usual strong median carina. Scutum just caudad of cephalic 

 margin and the pronotum with punctures which are setigerous. Funicle 1 

 longest, over twice longer than wide, 2-4 nearly equal, each somewhat longer 

 than wide, somewhat shorter than the club, each longer than the pedicel. 

 Mandibles present, edentate, obtusely pointed. Belongs to Euplectromorpha. 



Description otherwise correct. From the type in the U.S.N.M. (the head 

 mounted on a slide). 



EUPLECTRUS AGARISTiE Crawford. 



There are obtuse mandibles as in the foregoing species. Original descrip- 

 tion correct but funicle 4 is distinctly longer than the pedicel, nearly twice longer 

 than wide. From the types. 



The genera Euplectrus and Euplectromorpha thus bear very pale, weak, 

 obtuse mandibles while Euplectromorpliella bears stronger and dentate ones. 



DIAULOMORPHA AUSTRALIENSIS Ashmead. 



Head (cephalic aspect) somewhat wider than long, the scrobes deep, long, 

 extending nearly to the cephalic ocellus but not quite joined above, the antennse 

 inserted below the middle of the face on a level with the ventral ends of the 

 eyes or slightly more dorsad, 10- jointed with two ring- joints (the first very 

 short), the funicle 3-jointed, the third joint of the club with a distinct nipple. 

 Flagellum somewhat compressed. Scutellum with a delicate but distinct, clear 

 lateral groove. Postmarginal vein somewhat longer than the long, slender stigmal, 

 the latter slightly less than half the length of the marginal; wings hyaline, the 

 venation yellow-bro'wm. Scape white, reddish above at tip, the pedicel nearly 

 all dark metallic, rest of antennte and the legs except the coxa, reddish yellow. 

 Hind tibial spurs distinct. Joints of funicle and club armed with flattened 



