102 AUSTRALIAX PROCTOTRYPOIDEA 



moderately long, rather oblique ; postniarginal fully twice 

 as long as stigiiial. Antennse 12-jointed : pedicel long and 

 slender, almost twice as long as wide : 1 .st f unicle joint slightly 

 longer than pedicel : 2nd as wide as long : 3rd wider than 

 long : club probably f5-jointed (the 3rd and 4th f unicle 

 joints appear to form part of club, as in peyitatomus). joints 

 1-5 distinctly wider than long, 2nd the largest. 



$ Pedicel short and stout ; 1st funicle joint twice as 

 long as pedicel, fully twice as long as wide ; 2nd shorter ; 

 but distinctly longer than wide ; 4-9 subquadrate, gradually 

 narrowing towards apex. 



Hah : South Au.stralia. Described from two males, 

 one female in the Macleay Museum, and labelled "' South 

 Australia." 



Types : In the Macleay Museum, Sydney, Hymenoptera 

 3d, th3 above specimens on a tag, ^ and Q antennae and 

 foreAAinas on a slide. 



HA.DRONOTOIDES RETICULATUS, Sp. UOV . 



9 Length, 1.55 mm. 



Coal black : the legs (except the coxae), reddifh 

 yellow . 



Til general appearance and .structure very similar to 

 pentatomus. 



Head, scutum and scutellum rather coarsely rugulose 

 and with fine pubescence ; eyes hairy ; scutellum not so 

 large as in the two other species, almost semicircular, not so 

 deeply bidentate at apex. Abdomen somewhat longer 

 than wide ; first segment striate ; ths second with a row of 

 deep fovese at base : rest of abdomciu with fine, rather 

 dense, irregularly longitudinal reticulation. Pedicel one- 

 half longer than wide, the first funicle joint as long and 

 shghtly narrower, the second a httle wider than long ; 4th 

 distinctly widened to form part of club. Marginal vein 

 one-half as long as the long stigmal. Otherwise about as 

 in pentatomus. 



Hab : North Queensland (Pentland, 200 miles west of 

 Townsville). Described from two females caught by 

 sweeping in forest, September, 1914 (A. A. Girault). 



Types : In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two 

 9 s on a tag, antennae and forewings on a slide. 



