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than long; 2-5 rather sharply widening, all short, and fully 

 twice as wide as long; sixth abruptly larger than the fifth, 

 hut much wider than long ; last joint one-half longer than 

 wide, but one-half length of the scape. Length, 1 mm. 



Hab. — North Queensland: Nelson. Described from one 

 female caught by sweeping in forest, August 25, 1912 (A. 

 A. Girault). 



Type. — I. 2060, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a slide. 



Ceraphron diana, sp. nov. 



9 • Colour as in varicornis, Dodd, but the antennae 

 (except the scape) are wholly black. Structure of body as in 

 varicornis, but the thorax has the usual fine polygonal 

 sculpture. Forewings banded as in varicornis ; discal cilia 

 fine and dense ; marginal vein one-half as long as the stigmal, 

 which is moderately long, its apex being distant from the 

 wing margin by nearly one-half its own length. Antennae 

 10-jointed; scape a little swollen at base, as long as next five 

 joints combined; pedicel twice as long as wide; first funicle- 

 joint as wide as the pedicel but shorter, one-half longer than 

 wide; 2-5 all a little wider than long; sixth abruptly larger 

 than fifth; sixth and seventh subequal, a little longer than 

 wide; last joint two and a half times as long as wide, half as 

 long as the scape. Length, l'lO mm. 



Hab. — North Queensland: Nelson. Described from one 

 female caught by sweeping in forest June 17, 1912 (A. A. 

 Girault) . 



Type. — I. 2061, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a slide. 



Ceraphron achilles, sp. nov. 



9 . Very similar to tasmanicus, Dodd, and fiavicoxa, 

 Dodd, but differing from both in having the abdomen wholly 

 black, the first funicle-joint only slightly longer than wide, 

 the sixth and seventh wider than long. Length, 1 mm. 



Hab. — North Queensland: Nelson and Babinda. De- 

 scribed from one female caught by sweeping in jungle, 

 Babinda, October 28, 1911, and one female sweeping in jungle, 

 Nelson, June 7, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type. — I. 2062, South Australian Museum. A female on 

 a slide. 



Ceraphron apollo, sp. nov. 

 9- Black; legs (including coxae) and antennal scape 

 golden-yellow. Antennae very much as in fiavicoxa, Dodd; 

 pedicel slender, two and a half times as long as wide ; first 

 funicle-joint much shorter, and a little narrower than the 

 pedicel, twice as long as wide ; sixth and seventh slightly wider 

 than long. Forewings almost hyaline; marginal vein one-half 



