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Records and descriptions of Australian 

 Chalcidoidea. 



By Alan P. Dodd. 



[Head October 11, 1917.] 



The following species have been collected by the author 

 in tfie Cairns district, Northern Queensland, or have been 

 received from Mr. G. F. Hill, formerly Government 

 Entomologist of the Northern Territory; a single species is 

 from Townsville, received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. Many of 

 the species have been reared, and the records are of interest; 

 several have been bred from that wide-spread pest, the bean- 

 fly Agromyza phaseoli, Coq., and others are from insects of 

 -economic importance. The types are in the collection of the 

 Queensland Museum at Brisbane. 



Family CHALC1DIDAE. 

 Stomatoceroides clariscapus, n. sp. 



9- Length, 3*10 mm. Black; legs reddish-yellow, the 

 anterior coxae black, the anterior femora and tibiae, dusky, 

 or the coxae, femora, and tibiae, sometimes almost wholly 

 dusky-black; antennal scape, pedicel, ring-joint, and funicle 

 1, testaceous, the rest black; tegulae reddish; abdomen 

 ventrally more or less washed with red. 



Antennal scrobes extending to vertex of head, the 

 anterior ocellus plainly not within the scrobes. Head, 

 pronotum, scutum, and scutellum, densely umbilicately 

 punctate, and finely alutaceous, the punctures large; 

 scutellum faintly emarginate at apex ; propodeum without 

 teeth. Abdomen rather slender, somewhat longer than the 

 thorax ; segment 2 almost as long as the following combined, 

 4 the shortest, 5 shorter than 3, 6 nearly as long as 3, 

 7 distinctly longer, 8 fully as long as 7 ; 2 and 3 smooth, 



4 practically smooth except for a row of scattered setae, 



5 and 6 with faint surface sculpture and scattered setae, 

 sculpture distinct and setae more numerous on 7 and 8. 

 Hind femora not very much larger than their coxae, with 

 numerous fine comb-like teeth (about 24) along distal half of 

 ventral margin. Forewings hyaline except for a stain beneath 

 the marginal vein ; marginal vein fully twice as long as the 

 short stout stigmal, the postmarginal very short. Pedicel 

 twice as long as wide, longer than any of the funicle joints, of 

 which 1 is slightly shorter than 2, 3-7 very gradually 

 shortening, 1 one-fourth longer than wide, 7 quadrate ; ring 

 joint large, but wider than long. 



