Parasitic insects from North Queensland. ay 
Belongs to Marshall’s Section 1 of the genus with the 
basal segment longer than its breadth at apex and the 2nd 
cubital cell subtriangular and open. 
The minute hyperparasites sent with this are shrivelled 
and indeterminable. 
No. 6. PROTAPANTELES RUFIVENTRIS, form. nov. 
. Head lightly punctured ; face medially carinate below the 
eyes ; antenne long, pilose, 18-jointed. Thorax shining broad and 
gibbous, anteriorly finely punctured ; scutellum triangular convex 
divided from the mesonotum by a short broad transverse furrow 
and with a punctured very narrow groove bordering both sides 
and meeting at the apex; median segment not carinate oblique, 
slightly convex, somewhat more closely and coarsely punctured than 
the pro- and mesonotum ; wings hyaline iridescent ; legs robust, pos- 
terior femora somewhat compressed. Abdomen broad, basal two 
segments punctured like the median segment, remainder smooth and 
shining, apex rounded, ovipositor only slightly exserted. 
Head, thorax and median segment black ; antennz reddish-brown ; 
legs and abdomen brownish-yellow, basal segment reddish-brown 
above, apical segment shaded with fuscous. 
¢. Similar, slightly smaller ; abdomen shorter and more truncate 
posteriorly. 
Length 9 4,¢ 3mm. Exp. 2 ¢ 9mm. 
Types in Hope Department, co-types in British Museum 
of Natural History. 
Hab. N. QUEENSLAND, Townsville (/ P. Dodd). 
This agrees in generic characters with Protapanteles, 
Ashmead. In the classificatory tables given by this 
author in the Proceedings of the United States National 
Museum, vol. xxii, pp. 1-220 (1900), the presence or 
absence of a longitudinal carina on the median segment is 
given as the chief point of difference between the genera 
Apanteles and Protapanteles. The present form differs from 
Apanteles deliadis (supra), besides other characters, in the 
much more lengthened median segment. 
CHALCIDID. 
No. 2, MICROTERYS C@RULEUS, form. nov. 
?. Head, thorax and abdomen smooth and shining, the face in 
front and the prothorax anteriorly with a few scattered punctures. 
