BY ALAN P. DODD. 123 



only one -half longer than wide, first funicle joint as long 

 and as wide as pedicel, the 2nd a little longer than wide, 

 club joints all distinctly wider than long ; abdomen shaped 

 as in cedeus but the 2nd segment shorter, the following 

 more than half its length. 



Hab : North Queensland (Gordon vale, near Cairns). 

 Described from one female caught by sweeping in jungle, 

 26th March. 1914 (A, A. Girault). 



Type : In the South Australian Museum, a 9 on a 

 tag. the antennae and fore wings on a sHde. 



Telenomus euander, Dodd. 



One female sweeping in forest, Burnett Heads, Bunda- 

 berg, S.Q., 20th June, 1914 (A. P. Dodd) : also several 

 females sweeping in forest, Pentland, 200 miles west of 

 Townsville. N.Q., September, 1914 (A. A. Girault). 



Telenomus diemenensis, sp. nov. 



2 Length, 1.70 mm. 



Coal black : the tibiae and tarsi reddish yellow. 



Head very transverse, wider than the thorax ; ocelli 

 .large, the lateral ones touching the eye margins. Thorax 

 a little longer than wide. Abdomen a little longer and wider 

 than the thorax, the second segment occupying nearl}' two- 

 thirds of surface. Head, scutum and scutellum finely 

 rugulose and pubescent ; 1st and basal two-thircls of 2nd 

 abdominal segment, striate, the rest smooth, the remaining 

 segments with setigerous pin-punctures Forewings long 

 and broad : infuscated^ this deepest around knob of stigmal 

 vein ; base of wing, and caudal and disto-caudal margins 

 almost hyaline ; discal cilia fine, very dense ; venation 

 fuscous ; submarginal vein attaining the costa about 

 middle of wing ; marginal vein one -fourth as long as the 

 stigmal, which is very long, obhque, with a cUstinct knob; 

 postmarginal twice as long as the stigmal. Scape long; 

 pedicel nearly twice as long as greatest width ; first funicle 

 joint very long, nearly twice as long as pedicel, over one- 

 half as long as the scape, and as long as three following 

 joints united ; 2nd a little longer than wide ; 3rd quadrate, 

 club 6 -jointed, joints 1-5 distinctly wider than long, 2nd 

 the longest' and widest. 



