106 AUSTRALIAN PROfTOTRYPOIDEA 



Hah : North Queensland (Gordonvale, near Cairns). 

 Described from one female caught by sweeping in jungle, 

 2<>th June, 1914 (A. A. Girault). 



Tyjie : South Australian Museum, a 9 on a tag, 

 antennae and fore wings on a slide. 



This species appears to agree with Kieffer's diagnosis 

 of the genus (subgenus of Kieffer). In general appearance 

 and structure it resembles the Australian species of Hojjlo- 

 teleia Ashmead. The type and only other species of the 

 genus. Oxyscelio (Dicroteleia) rugosa Kieffer comes from 

 Java. 



Dicroteleia olabriscutellum, sp. nov. 



9 Length, 2.95 mm. 



Coal black : legs (including coxse) bright golden yellow, 

 also the pedicel and first three funicle joints, the scape 

 distinc tly darker . 



Head transverse ; the face with large, not very close, 

 shallow punctures, some of these on the vertex joining 

 and forming irregular transverse rugosity ; no wider than 

 the thorax : eyes very large, bare ; ocelli large, separated 

 from the eye margins by half their own diameter. Thorax 

 somewhat longer than wide ; scutum large, with large, 

 rather close, shallow punctures, these setigerous ; parap- 

 sidal furrows distinct, also a distinct median carina present ; 

 scutellum large, smooth, shining, except for a few scattered 

 indefinite pin-jDunctures, these more distinct laterad ; post- 

 scutellum small, quadrate ; metanotum very short at meson. 

 Abdomen broadly sessile : as long as the head and thorax 

 combined, slightly narrower than the thorax : the segments 

 aU more or less wider than long, the 2nd the largest, a little 

 longer than the 3rd ; 1st striate, the 2nd and 3rd with large, 

 shallow, rather close punctures divided into rows by longitu- 

 dinal striae, the 4th and 5th without the striae and with 

 the punctures setigerous. Forewings reaching apex of 

 abdomen, broad : infuscate : submarginal vein attaining 

 costa about middle of wing : stigmal vein very long and 

 oblique, its apex curved slightly caudad ; venation golden 

 yellow. Antennae 12-jointed ; scape long and slender ; 

 pedicel over twice as long as wide, the first funicle joint 



