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Some New Australian Genera and Spe- 

 cies of* Chalcidoid Hymeiioptera of the 

 Families Chalcirtidae, Callimoiiiidae, 

 Eiirytomidae, Pteroiiialidae and 

 Microffasteridae. 



By A. A. Giratdt. 



Podagrionmae. 

 Podagrionella new genus. 



Female: — Similar to Podagrion Spinola 

 but the antennal club solid, the antennae ll-jointed. 

 Ovipositor not curled. One ring-joint. Posterior femur 

 with about 10 teeth. Abdomen with short petiole, 

 from lateral aspect romided triangular. 



Male: — Not known. 



Type: The species described herewith. 



1. Podagrionella fasoiatipennis 

 new species. 



Female: — Length, about 5 mm exclusive of 

 ovipositoi'. 



Metallic aeneous dark green, shagreened. Fore 

 wings subhyaline but with a deep black, nearly 

 straight fascia across them, its distal margin taking 

 in the short stigmal vein; this band does not reach 

 the caudal margin. Antennae black with the distal 

 third of the club whitish, the funicle brown. Caudal 

 coxae metallic bluish. Proximal, on the fore wing, 

 at the middle of the sub marginal vein is an irregular 

 cross stripe of smokj' brown. 



(From one specimen, the -same magnification.) 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from three female specimens captured 

 by Mr. Alan P. Dodd by sweeping in a forest. Nelson, 

 N. Q., December 2, 1912. 



Habitat: Australia-Nelson (Cairns), Queens- 

 land. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum , Bris- 

 bane, two females on tags plus a slide bearing anten- 

 nae and head. 



This species is variable; the wings may be hyaline 

 and the second smoky brown (proximal) stripe absent; 

 the prominent rectangular black stripe from the distal 

 marginal vein is pm'plish in certain hghts. The proxi- 

 mal funicle joint is longest of the funicle, subequal 

 to the pedicel, the two distal funicle joints barely 

 longer than mde. Mandibles tridentate, the inner 

 tooth much shorter and truncate, the two outer acute 

 and subequal. 



Haltichellini. 



Stomatoceras Kirby. 



1. Stomatoceras nigriscapus new species. 



Female: — Length, 4.50 mm. 



Black, the posterior coxa and femur red as is also 

 the second abdominal segment. Fore wings \\'ith a 

 subrectangular fuscous dash half way across it from 

 the marginal vein and an obscure fuscous area in the 

 cephalic half of the wing half way to the apex from 

 the stigmal vein. Marginal vein short, the stigmal 

 and postmarginal very short, subequal, each only 

 about a fourth the length of the marginal; venation 

 black. Posterior femora with the black teeth along 



slightly over distal half. Last, joint of antennal 

 funicle somewhat longer than wide, more than half 

 tho length of thv club, the first funicle joint about 

 half the length of the pedicel, the second somewhat 

 the longest, subequal to pedicel. Otherwise as in 

 other s|îecies. 



(From one specimen, enlarged as formerly.) 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from a single female captured by swee- 

 ping in a forest (A. P. Dodd), Nelson, N. Q., 4. De- 

 cember, 1912. 



Habitat: Australia-Nelson (Cahns), N. Q. 



Type: Li these Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 

 the foregoing specimen on a tag plus a shde bearing 

 antenna and caudal leg. 



2. Stomatoceras f u s c i p e n n i s new species. 



Female: — • Length, 3. .50 mm. 



The same nearly as h a c k e r i but differing from 

 it as follows: The antennae are red only up to 

 and including the second funicle joint, the next 

 joint only slightly suffused with it; the first funicle 

 joint is nruch shorter and subquadrate, not half the 

 length of the pedicel (longer than wide and over half 

 the pedicels length in hacke ri). The fumation 

 of the fore wing is nearly of the same pattern but much' 

 deeper, nearly black, the second stripe miore compact 

 and better delimitad so that clear area under the 

 postmarginal vein stands out in a white spot. 

 The abdomen is wholly black, the teeth at apex of 

 scutellum more obtuse, the emargination less acute; 

 the ventral margin of the posterior femur is less emar- 

 ginate. The species h a c k e r i , moreover, is much 

 more robust. 



(From one specimen, similarly magnified.) 



Male: — • Not known. 



Described from a single female captured by swee- 

 ping in a forest near Hambledon Junction, N. Q., 

 June 7. 1912. 



Habitat: Australia-Hambledon Junction(Cairns), 

 Queensland. 



Types: In the Queensland Museum, Brisba.ne, 

 the above specimen on a tag; an antenna and posterior 

 leg on a slide. 



Stomatoceroides Girault. 



1. Stomatoceroides nigricorpus 

 new species. 



Female: — Length, 3.20 mm. 



Black, the wings hyaline and opaque with the 

 exception of a small, subtriangular fuscous spot under 

 the marginal vein. Differs from n i g r i p e s in 

 being more slender and shorter, in having the spot 

 on the fore wing and in the caudal femur ; thus n i- 

 gripes has the teeth on the caudal femora running 

 farther proximad while in this species they run only 

 to the middle; also in this species there is a marked 

 convexity distad beneath, only indicated in nig r i- 

 p e s. The antennae in both species are much alike. 

 Differing from the other species in coloration. Pro- 

 podeum with two median carinae which are some 

 distance from each other. 



(From two specimens, the same magnification.) 



Male: — Not known. 



