08 AUSTRALIAN PROCTOTRYPOIDEA 



wide apart, almost parallel : scutelluni smooth except for 

 a few minute punctures ; metathoracic caudal angles 

 acute, the metanotum laterally with a patch of white 

 pubescence. Abdomen twice as long as head and thorax 

 united ; 1st segment almost twice as long as wide, longi- 

 tudinally striate, with a blunt hoin projecting over and 

 against centre of metanotum. the horn transversely striate 

 at apex : 2nd segment somewhat longer than 1st, longi- 

 tudinally striate, except near the carinated margins, where 

 dense setigerous thimble-punctures prevail ; 3rd shorter 

 than 2nd, granulate in centre, laterad of this striate, and 

 the lateral area of punctures wider ; 4th one-half length 

 of 3rd, granulate in centre, then with the dense thimble 

 punctures : 5th as long as 4th, wholly granulate, except 

 for scattered punctures : 6th forming a straight projection, 

 a little longer than two i)receding segments united, granu- 

 late, and with numerous setigerous punctures. Foi-e wings 

 reaching to apex of 6th abdominal segment ; broad ; 

 somewhat infuscated : discal cilia moderately fine, very 

 dense ; submarginal vein attaining costa about middle of 

 wing ; marginal one-half as long as the stigmal, which is long, 

 very oblique, its apex slightly curved caudad ; postmar- 

 ginal very long, several times as long as the stigmal ; basal 

 vein very distinct, veiv oblique, over one-half longer than 

 the stigmal ; median not indicated. Pedicel nearly tAvic3 

 as long as wide : 1st funicle joint twice as long as pedicel ; 

 2nd slightly longer than 1st : 3rd a little shorter ; 4th 

 distinctly shorter than 3rd : 5th shorter than 4th : but 

 distinctly longer than wide ; club slender, 5-jointed : 1st 

 the longest and widest, longer than \vide, 2-4 quacb-ate. 



Hah : North Queensland (Halifax, Herbert River). 

 Described from numerous females captured on a decayed 

 log in jungle. 6th April, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type : South Australian Museum, & ^ on a tag, 

 antennae and forewings on a slide. 



Trichoteleia acutivextris, 67}. nov. 



9 Length, 3.20 mm. 



Very similar to nigricincta Dodd, but the orange 

 coloration of the bodj' is much deeper, the abdomen not 

 being noticeably margined with black, only darker along the 



