22G MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



about four times longer than wide, a])out two thirds longer than the stigmal, the 

 latter a little longer than the postniarginal. Axillae slightly widely separated, 

 terminating mesad more than half way between meson and the ends of the 

 parapsidal furrows. Thorax densely polygonally scaly, the abdomen and head 

 more faintly so. Propodeum short at the meson. Abdomen globose, larger than 

 the rest of the body. Scape slender, two distinct ring- joints, the second larger 

 than the first; funicle joints a little longer than wide, the funicle cylindrical, 

 the joints gradually shortening distad, 6 quadrate. Pedicel as large as funicle 1. 

 3Iale, the same but the abdomen nearly all black and the antennae nodular, the 

 funicle joints swollen at base and tapering distad and each with a whorl of rather 

 long stiff bristles around the swollen portion ; also the pedicel is no longer than 

 wide at apex and all funicle joints are distinctly longer than in the female. 



Described from two males, seven females in the U. S. National Museum 

 collections labelled " 850. Swan Riv. W. Austr. G. Compere Coll." 



Tu2)cs: Catalogue No. 19147, U.S.N.M., two females plus a slide with the 

 appendages. Cot y pes: No. Hy356o, Queensland INIuseum, two males, three 

 i'emales on tags. 



PARELATUS new genus. 



Genotype: Elatiis atcr Girault, male. 



Elatus is described as bearing two ring- joints in the antenna. 



Family PTEROMALID^. 



In antea, III, p. 330, line 23, Pctcroscma read Ptcrosenm; page 342, line 

 19, Paracloclisis read Paracroclisis. 



PTEROMALUS PUPARUM (Linnseus). 

 What is accepted as this species occurs in Australia. There are specimens 

 in the U. S. National INIuseum labelled ' ' Reared from orange butterfly pupa, June 

 14, 1898, W. W. Froggatt." Evidently from near Sydney and introduced. 



PARURIELLA VIRIDIS new species. 

 Female: — Length, 1.60 mm. 



Similar to oustraliensis but the lateral carina of the propodeum is absent. 

 The male is about the same but the propodeum \evy short at the meson. 



Described from two males, one female on tags in the U. S. National 

 Museum, labelled " H. 98. Boggabri, New South Wales. Reared from seeds 

 of grass (Panicum sp.). Fry. January 23, 1909." 



Types: Catalogue No. 19686, U.S.N.M., the foregoing specimens plus a 

 slide bearing female head, fore wing and caudal tibia. 



Genus CCELOCYBA Ashmead. 

 Belongs to the PerilarapidaB which see. 



Genus TERABIELLA Ashmead. 

 Belongs to the Perilampidi^ which see. 



Genus BRACHYSCELIDIPHAGA Ashmead. 

 Belongs to the Perilampidte which see. 



