200 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Genus ACHRYSOCHAEIS Girault, 



Differs from Closterocerus Westwood in having filiform antennas; funiele 2- jointed, club 

 3-jointed; wings usually hyaline. Similar to Chrysocharis Foerster but the postmarginal 

 vein slightly shorter than the stigmal and the club is 3-jointed. Third club joint terminating 

 in a spine-like seta; pedicel subequal to or longer than the moderately long cylindrical funiele 

 joints, the single ring- joint minute. Parapsidal furrows distinct only for cephalic two 

 thirds, sometimes complete. Propodeum very short, its spiracle minute, round, the carinas absent. 

 Yellow marked with brilliant metallic green or all green. Abdomen long conic-ovate, 

 pointed. 



1. ACHRYSOCHARIS MAGNIFICA Girault. Female. Genotype. 



Length, 1.75 mm. 



Pale cadmium yellow marked with deep metallic green as follows: — Head except face 

 ventrad of the antennal bulbs; pronotum, all of mesoscutum except latero-caudal halves of each 

 parapside, base of abdomen in the dorsal aspect, the propodeum except laterad, a narrow line 

 down the median line of the scutellum for about proximal two thirds and the cephalic third 

 of the axilla?. A dark round spot dorsal aspect on each side of the abdomen about the 

 middle, the space between them darkened (across the meson). Tip of abdomen dusky. Scape 

 pale, the antennae yellow. Legs whitish, including the coxaa. Body densely polygonally 

 reticulated, the mesoscutum more roughly, being almost punctate. A more or less obscure 

 brownish area laterad of the scutellum, cephalad of propodeal spiracle. Pedicel subequal 

 in length to proximal funiele joint, proximal club joint distinctly longer than wide. Tip of 

 ovipositor valves black. 



Captured December 3, 1912, Gordonvale, Queensland. 



Type: A female on a tag (minus head). 



Proximal club joint distinctly longer than wide, not as originally stated. For the 

 variety varicolor, see later. 



2. ACHRYSOCHARIS PULCHRA Girault. 



Length, 1.90 mm. 



Like the typical species but the metallic green on the scutellum does not form a 

 straight line down the median line but is much broader and ovate in shape, variable in size; 

 the metallic green stripe across the base of abdomen is longer and the tip of the abdomen 

 dark metallic. Moreover, the pedicel is longer, longer than the proximal funiele joint, the 

 proximal club joint shorter but still longer than wide. Same color pattern as magnified. 

 Hind wings with about 10 lines of diseal cilia, broad. 



Captured with magnified. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Types: Two females on tags. 



3. ACHRYSOCHARIS GRANDIS Girault, Female. 



Length, 2 mm. 



Like pulchra but whole thorax metallic green ; abdomen only slightly so at extreme tip ; 

 somewhat distad of middle there is a round dot near each lateral margin. Like the other two 

 species. Fore wings very broad, pyriform, the apex subtruncate but not differing from those 

 of the others. 



Captured September 3, 1912. 



The metallic green median line of scutellum is as in the genotype and is outlined by 

 being shiny and coarsely scaly, the rest of the scutellum opaque and nearly smooth. 



Type: A female on a slide. 



