40 INSaCUTOR INSClTliE MENSTRUUS 



aspect, very densely and finely pin-punctate, almost glazed at 

 caudal half. 



A female, Inkerman, Queensland, jungle, December 9, 1917. 



Lamennaisia, new genus (Encyrtini). 



Small. Jaws small, 4-dentate, teeth small, subacute, 4 ab- 

 ruptly much shorter than others, nearly half shorter than 3, 

 1-2 a bit shorter than 3. Marginal quadrate, stigmal and post- 

 marginal long, equal. Frons moderately wide, scrobes long, 

 deep. Scape simple, flagellum cylindrical, club wider, funicles 

 subquadrate, 1 smaller, cup-shaped, pedicel twice funicle 2. 

 Club somewhat over half funicle. Four lines of cilia proximad 

 hairless line. 



Lamennaisia quadridentata, new species. 



Black, wings clear ; tarsi, knees, tibial tips, distal half tibia 2, 

 yellowish ; venation black. Sculpture fine. Abdomen short, 

 depressed, triangular ; thorax convex. Scape suffused with 

 pallid at apex. 



A female, forest, May, 1919, Ipswich, Queensland. 



Neanastatus ariostoni, new species. 



The same as aurivertex, but laterad ocellus not twice closer 

 to eye than to cephalic ocellus, of prothorax only pronotum 

 lemon and the vertex ; pale parts of legs silvery, tibia 3 purple 

 save basal fourth and apex more narrowly. Head entirely 

 orange except the stripe across upper occiput. Abdomen 

 wholly metallic. 



Ipswich, Queensland, forest, October 26, 1919. 



Quadrastichodella nova, new species. 



Peculiar, flattened aspect. Green, coxse, femur 3 same, 

 wings clear; rest of the legs pale yellow, antennae green. 

 Funicles equal, half wider than long; pedicel large, long, two- 

 thirds scape which equals club ; ring joints very distinct, 1 

 largest. Head rather long, pronotum transverse quadrate. 

 Densely scaly, propodeum apparently with median carina at 

 base. Postmarginal somewhat developed. Femora 1 and 2 



