AUSTRALIAN EYMENOPTEEA CHALCIDOIDEA, IF.—GIEAULT. 193 



" Fern. — Corpus longum, angustum, nitens, scitissime squameum, parce hirtum: thorax 

 fusiformis, parum eonvexus: prothorax bene determinatus, transversus, antice angustus: 

 mesothoracis scutum longitudine paullo latius; parapsidum suturse vix conspicuse; scutellum 

 breviovatuin : nietathorax sat magnus, transversus, lsevis: petiolus brevissimus : abdomen 

 longiovatuin, laeve, supra depressum, subtus basi earinatum, apice acuminatum, thoraee paullo 

 latius vix: longius : pedes simplices, subsequales. ' ' 



Genus SECODES Girault. 

 1. SECODES CAPENSIS new species. 

 Female: — Length, 0.85 mm., excluding ovipositor. 

 . Propodeum longer laterad. Postmarginal vein a little longer than the stigmal. Funiele 

 joints wider than long. Abdomen ovate, a little longer than the thorax. See antea, p. 160. 

 Taken in forest, December 27, 1912. Antea, p. 160, line 3, tibiae should read tarsi 



Genus OMPHALOMOEPHA Girault. 



1. OMPHALOMORPHA FRATER new species. 

 Female: — Length, 1.25 mm. 



Similar to viridis but the ovipositor and valves exserted for a third the length of the 

 abdomen; the propodeum is as in repercussa. 

 From one female captured in forest. 

 Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 

 Type': No. Hy 2497, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, head on a slide. 



2. OMPHALOMORPHA REPERCUSSA Girault. 



The scutellum (from laterad) overhangs the propodeum, the latter shortening at the 

 meson but the median carina is distinct and of some length. 



Genus RHICNOPELTELLA Girault. 

 The abdomen is not depressed. Synonym: Elachertetrastichus Girault. 



1. RHICNOPELTELLA ACUMINATA new species. 



Female: — Length, 1 mm. 



Like consobrinus Girault but slender, the abdomen conic-ovate, longer than the rest of 

 the body. Tibiae yellow. Antennee wholly concolorous, the pedicel as long as the funiele, 

 about four times longer than funiele 3; ring-joints equal, each about half the length of funiele 

 1 which is about half the length of funiele 2 which is nearly as long as 3. Postmarginal vein 

 shorter than the stigmal. Third tooth of mandible distinctly shorter than the other two which 

 are subequal. 



Prom one female captured in forest, February 17, 1913. 



Habitat: Seymour (Ingham), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2498, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, hind 

 tibia and fore wing on a slide. 



2. RHICNOPELTELLA FLAVIPES Girault. 

 The scape is concolorous at distal third only, the pedicel wholly concolorous; rest of 

 antenna more or less yellowish white. Type re-examined. The following new variety was 

 reared from galls on Eucalyptus, October, 1913 at Gordonvale, Queensland. 



A. RHICNOPELTELLA FLAVIPES BINOTATA new variety. 

 Female: — Like the typical form in all details but all of the underside of the abdomen 

 except at base, the tip above and a spot on each side just before the tip dull golden yellow. 

 Types: No. Hy 2499, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on a tag. 

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