BY ALAN P. DODD. 11^ 



SCELIO PUNCTATICEPS. Dodd. 



''Archiv fiir Xaturgeschiehte,'" Berlin, 79, February. 

 1914, pp. 77-8. 



Abdominal segments after the first, finely striate : 

 head densely confluently punctate, except for transverse 

 area (very narrow) between the lateral ocelli, which is 

 practically smooth : stigmal vein not curved. Type re- 

 examined, also one female caught by sweeping in forest, 

 Pentland, 200 miles west of Townsville. September. 1914 

 (A. A. Girault). 



Genus Encyrtoscelio, new genus. 



$ Vertex of head extraordinarily lengthened, being 

 as long cephalo-caudad as its greatest width, and as long as 

 the thorax, but no wider, its cephalic margin convex, and 

 with a rim or carina follo\ving the cephalic margin from eye 

 to eye : eyes moderately large, but not half as long as the 

 head, bare, situated fai- doAvn on the sides of the face ; 

 ocelli absent ; \aewed from the side, the head is conical, 

 the apex of the cone cephalad. and almost pointed. Anten- 

 nEe inserted in a deep depression, near the mouth, and right 

 against the vertex of the thorax ; 12-jointed. with five 

 funicle and five club joints. Mandibles extraordinarily 

 long and slender, .straight, several times as long as wide-, 

 and nearly as long as the long scape, with three small teeth. 

 Legs normal. Thorax stout, as long as wide, as in Had- 

 ronotus Foerster, the pronotum not visible, the scutum 

 large but Avider than long ; scutellum semicircular, pro- 

 jecting over and completely hiding the short metanotum. 

 Abdomen broadly sessile, short and stout, as in Hadronotus, 

 no wider or longer than the thorax ; 2nd segment the 

 longest, occupying nearly one-half of the surface. Fore- 

 wings narrowed at base, the caudal margin straight (i.e. 

 when the wing is outstretched the caudal margin runs at 

 right angles to the body), and not at all curved, the cephalic 

 margin much inclined cephalad, so that the wing is nearly 

 hemispherical, the caudal margin forming the base, the 

 distal margin broadly rounded, but cut sharply off at the 

 caudal margin ; the proxirao-cephalad margin of the 

 hemisphere prolonged and narrowed towards the caudal 



