108 



Type. — I. 2043, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a tag, plus a slide bearing head, antennae, and forewings. 



Ceraphron atlas, sp. nov. 



9 . Shining-black ; legs (except the coxae) and first four 

 funicle-joints reddish-yellow; scape and pedicel almost wholly 

 black ; last four antennal- joints black. Head no wider than 

 the thorax. Thorax scarcely longer than wide, with fine, 

 dense pin-punctures ; scutellum a little longer than wide. 

 Abdomen scarcely wider than the thorax, no longer than the 

 head and thorax united. Antennae 10- jointed ; scape not 

 swollen, equal to next four joints combined; pedicel two and 

 a half times as long as wide ; first funicle- joint as long and as 

 wide as the pedicel ; 2-7 all as wide as long ; fifth abruptly 

 larger than fourth; last joint scarcely twice as long as wide. 

 Forewings reaching apex of abdomen ; very broad, , the apex 

 squarely rounded; darkly infuscated; marginal vein one-third 

 as long as the stigmal, which is long and curved, its apex 

 distant from the wing margin by about one-sixth its own length. 

 Length, 2 mm. 



Bab.— North Queensland : Mount Pyramid, 300-1,500 ft.,, 

 near Cairns. Described from one female caught by sweeping 

 in forest, June 2, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — I. 2044, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 tag, plus a slide bearing antennae and forewings. 



Ceraphron meridianus, sp. nov. 



9 . Shining-black ; the tarsi yellow ; rest of legs and an- 

 tennae almost wholly black. Head no wider than the thorax. 

 Thorax one-half longer than wide; finely polygonally sculp- 

 tured ; scutellum a little longer than wide. Abdomen wider 

 than the thorax, no longer than the head and thorax united. 

 Antennae 10-jointed ; scape somewhat swollen, equal to next 

 four joints combined; pedicel slender, nearly three times as 

 long as wide; first funicle-joint shorter and narrower than the 

 pedicel, one-half longer than wide ; 2-5 slightly wider than 

 long ; sixth abruptly larger than the fifth ; sixth and seventh 

 about subequal, each a little longer than wide ; last joint two- 

 thirds as long as the scape. Forewings reaching apex of 

 abdomen • moderately broad, the apex rather rounded ; hya- 

 line, with a broad infuscated band occupying end of sub- 

 marginal and all marginal veins ; discal cilia very fine, dense ; 

 marginal vein three-fifths as long as the stigmal, which is 

 scarcely curved, its apex distant from the wing margin by 

 nearly one-half its own length ; venation fuscous, the stigmal 

 vein somewhat paler. Length, 1'30 mm. 



