BY ALAN P. DODD. 131 



Vertex of head rather thin, the frons twice as wide as 

 long (cephaHc view), the eyes and oceni large, the latter 

 rather close together. Head with fine polj^gonal scaly 

 sculpture and scattered circular 2)unctures, the latter 

 more dense toward the mouth. Antennae lO-jointed ; 

 scape with an enormous leaf like expansion ; pedicel normal, 

 nearly twice as long as wide : 1st funicle joint very short, 

 transverse ; 2nd much wider than first and over tAvice as 

 long as greatest width : 3rd and 4th as long as greatest 

 width, 2-4 dilated at middle : club 4-jointed, joints 1-3 

 distinctly longer than wide, last as long as previous two 

 united. Forewings very long, reaching well beyond apex 

 of abdomen : broad ; darkly infuscated : discal cilia rather 

 sparse ; submarginal vein present. Scutum and scutellum 

 with very fine scaly sculpture : parapsidal furroM^s deep. 

 widening caudad and forming a deep sulcus ; near lateral 

 margin, a deep groove runs half way from caudal margin 

 cephalad : scutellum transverse, with a median carina, 

 and with a deep sulcus ruunuig from centre caudad diagon- 

 ally to cephalo-laterad angles, the area caudad of this 

 smooth. Abdomen rather flattened ; as long as the head 

 and thorax united, fully twice as long as wide ; 2nd segment 

 occupying nearly one-half of surface ; striate laterad, 

 the first three segments otherwise smooth, the rest smooth 

 mesad, then finely rather densely, punctate. 



Hah : South Queensland (Childers). Described from 

 one female caught by sweeping in strip of jungle, 27th 

 June, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



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

 tag, the head and forewings on a slide. 



Platygastoides nitens, sp. nov. 

 2 Length. 2.35 mm. 



Very similar to the foregoing but the first funicle joint 

 though small is longer than wide : the first three club joints 

 are Avider than long (the last is missing) ; the parapsidal 

 furrows, though widening caudad, do not form the wide 

 •sulcus as in nitidus ; and the median carina of the scutellum 

 is obscure (distinct m nUidus). ; tibiae almost whoUv 



