126 AUSTRALIAN PROCTOTRYPOIDEA. 



?(;rings long and broad ; almost hyaline, with a dark spoi 

 round the marginal vein ; discal cilia moderately fine, 

 very dense ; marginal vein barely one -half as long as the 

 stigmal, which is long, rather oblique, straight : venation 

 yellowish. Scape long and slender ; pedicel over tAvice 

 as long as wide : funicle joints narrower than the ]3edicel, 

 1st almost twice as long as wide, 2-4 somewhat wider than 

 long : club slender, over twice as long as wide, 4-jointecl, 

 di\ided obliquely. 



Hab : South Queensland (Childers). Described from 

 one female caught by sweeping in forest. 2nd July. 1914 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



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

 tag, antennae and forewings on a slide. 



Genus ('eratob.bus, Ashmead. 



CeRATOB.^US FLA\aVENTRI.S, Sp. HOV. 



9 Length. 1.15 mm. 



Head, thorax and horn on abdomen, black : abdomen, 

 legs, and antennae, bright golden yellow. 



Antennae 7 -jointed : scape as long as next four joints 

 combined ; pedicel over twice as long as -wide ; funicle 

 joints narrower than the pedicel, 1st twice as long as wide, 

 2-4 wider than long : club as long as the scape. Forewings 

 almost reaching apex of abdomen ; hyaline ; moderately 

 broad ; venation very pale, indistinct ; marginal vein one- 

 half as long as the stigmal. which is rather long, almost 

 perpendicular ; basal vein perpendicular, indistinct. Head 

 transverse, a Uttle \vider than the thorax, the latter quadrate, 

 both finely densely gi-anulate. Abdomen distinctly longer 

 than the head and thorax combined : somewhat narrower 

 than the thorax : pointed at apex ; first two segments 

 striate, the remaining segments finely polygonally scaly ; 

 horn on basal segment reaching apex of scutellum ; 3rd 

 segment occup\ang over one-third of surface, as long as wide. 

 Hab : North Queensland (Gordonvale, near Cairns). 

 Described from one female caught by sweeping in forest, 

 14th August, 1914 (A. A. Girault). 



Ti/pe : In the South Australian .Museum, a 9 "^^ '^ 

 shde. 



