Parasitic insects from North Queensland. 129 
Stomatoceras, Kirby, is another widespread genus 
occurring in Africa, Japan, and America, and now recorded 
from Australia, 
No. 8. The single specimen of this Chalcidid is too 
fragile to remove from the card for examination. It 
probably belongs to the genus Halticella. 
No. 9. RHIPIPALLUS AFFINIS, form. nov. 
dg. Head lenticular ; clypeus triangular deeply incised anteriorly, 
front below the antenne slightly raised, smooth and shining, cheeks 
face and vertex finely but somewhat obsoletely longitudinally striate ; 
scape of antenne short smooth and shining, flagellum finely 
granulose, pilose, the hairs very short, the basal two joints simple, 
the rest except the apical joint with long slightly clavate rami on 
each side, two to each joint, apex distinctly incrassate. Thorax 
densely and somewhat coarsely punctured ; scutellum conical pro- 
duced, the apex terminating in two short teeth ; at base a tranverse 
series of fovezee or large shallow punctures; postscutellum and 
median segment very coarsely cribrate, the latter with two or three 
irregular more or less vertical carine ; wings hyaline and iridescent ; 
legs slender. Abdomen smooth and shining, its petiole opaque 
granulose. Mandibles tibie and tarsi pale yellowish-brown ; coxe 
and femora dark blue or black ; antenne dark reddish-brown ; head, 
thorax anteriorly, scutellum and median segment, metallic-green 
with in certain lights a bronze tint ; middle of thorax above entirely 
coppery-bronze ; petiole and abdomen dark metallic-blue. 
Q. differs from the ¢ as follows: Clypeus not incised ; antennz 
moniliform, the joints simple not provided with lateral rami ; 
scutellum not bidentate at apex, at base a deep, broad transverse 
suleation within which is situated the transverse series of fovez so 
conspicuous in the ¢; petiole of abdomen much shorter, abdomen 
as in the ¢. Antenne paler, head and thorax more bronze than 
green ; abdomen a darker blue. 
Length ¢ 5; 94mm. Exp. g¢ 2 9mm. 
2 ¢ types in the Hope Department, $ 2 co-types in 
British Museum of Natural History. 
Hab. N. QUEENSLAND, Townsville (/. P. Dodd). 
Superficially this form closely resembles the type of 
the genus (f. volusus, Walker), but besides other points 
of difference it is easily separable by the sculpture of the 
