396 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [NoV., '14 



A New Genus of Chalcidoid Hymenoptera of the 

 Family Cleonymidae from Australia. 



By A. A. GiRAULT. 



The following genus belongs to the Cleonyminae. 

 EPICAUDONIA new genus. 



Female. — With the build of Bpistenia West wood, but the 

 abdomen noncarinated along each side, the second, sixth and 

 seventh segments longest. Head rather large, the antennae 

 13-jointed, inserted in the middle of the face, three ring- and 

 club-joints, the first funicle joint elongate. One mandible 

 4-dentate (other not seen). Parapsidal furrows four-fifths 

 complete. Scutellum simple. Pronotum transverse, the pro- 

 podeum without a median carina but with a fovea more than 

 halfway to the round-oval spiracle from the meson at cephalic 

 margin. Postmarginal vein three-fourths or more the length 

 of the marginal, the stigmal about half the length of the mar- 

 ginal. Like Caudonia Walker otherwise. Anterior femora 

 distinctly swollen, the posterior still much more so, but neither 

 of them excised nor dentate. Wings subhyaline, the infusca- 

 tion very faint or totally absent. Stigmal knob small. 



Male. — Not known. 



Type. — The following species. 



1. Epicaudonia scelestus n. sp. 



Female. — Length, 3.90 mm. 



Dark metallic green, the mesothorax with rather inconspicuous 

 pubescence somewhat like that of Catola<cus. Tegulae, venation, tro- 

 chanters, knees, tarsi, scape, pedicel and joints 2 and 3 of funicle 

 reddish brown ; antennae black ; tips of tibiae white. Thorax finely 

 reticulately punctate (including the propodeum). Legs concolorous. 

 First club joint forming half of that region, the distal funicle joint 

 distinctly longer than wide but less than half the length of the first, 

 joints 2 and 3 subequal, 4 about equal in length to the pedicel. The 

 three ring-joints large. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping in a jun- 

 gle, July 26, 19 1 3. 



Habitat. — 'Meerawa (Cairns District), Queensland. 



Type. — In the Queensland Aluseum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimen on a tag, a fore and hind leg and the head on a slide. 



