AUSTRALIAN HYMENOFTFBA CHALCIDOIDEA, I.—GIBAULT. 151 



and vertex orange yellow. Tibiae dusky, pallid along distal half. Fore wings with a 

 substigmal spot, irregularly infuscated near base. Marginal fringes of fore wing nearly as 

 long as the caudal marginal fringes of hind wing. Otherwise like unfasciata. 



From one female taken by sweeping in mangrove, May 14, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Chindera, Tweed River, New South Wales. 



Type : Xo. Hy 3139, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. 



4. LATHROMERELLA LONGICILIATA new species. 



Female: — Length, 0.70 mm. 



Bright, deep golden yellow; head, cephalic part of thorax (pronotum and a little of 

 mesonotum). propodeum and distal third of abdomen dusky or jet black; legs dusky. Fore 

 wings distinctly dusky but irregularly so yet there is a distinct dusky stripe across from 

 the stigmal vein and which is rather broad; under the submarginal vein the black is also 

 distinctly dusky, elsewhere faintly so. Marginal . vein a little longer than the submarginal. 

 Agrees with the generic diagnosis except that the fore wings bear rather long marginal cilia 

 (somewhat less than a third the greatest wing width) and the abdomen is shorter, the 

 ovipositor inserted at middle (not extruded) ; fore wings where widest with about a dozen 

 lines of discal cilia which are not dense but in more or less regular lines, each cilium very 

 short. Hind wings with at least two complete lines of discal cilia, both cephalic. Mandibles 

 tridentate, the third tooth shorter than the others. Antenna? dusky; fifth club joint longest, 

 subequal to the terminal spine or a little shorter. Vertex transversely lineolated. Marginal 

 cilia of hind wing caudad barely longer than the longest marginal cilia of fore wing. 



From one female captured in forest, April 4, 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type : Xo. Hy 2440, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 



What appears to be the male of this species lacks the terminal spine on the antenna 

 and the whole abdomen is dusky black, the meson of propodeum yellow and most of scutum, 

 the latter bearing two long, spindle-shaped black markings quite as in TJfens binotatus. The 

 fore wings are more uniformly infuscated. 



One male captured with the female and mounted with the type of TJfens binotatus 

 Girault. 



5. LATHROMERELLA UNFASCIATA new species. 



Female: — Length, 0.60 mm. 

 Golden yellow; a wedgeshaped marking on each side of meson of scutum cephalad, 

 antenna;, caudal legs except tibiae and tarsi, sides of pronotum and propodeum, dusky; a 

 rather broad stripe across abdomen at distal three fourths and a rather large round spot 

 between this and apex on each side of meson, black. Fore wings with marginal cilia not long, 

 the blade lightly infuscated only from stigmal vein; marginal cilia of fore wing distinctly 

 shorter than the caudal cilia of hind wing. 



Male: — Xot known. 



From one female captured by sweeping grass in forest, April 8, 1914. A second 

 specimen June 10, 1914, in the same place. A third female, September, Pentland, Queensland. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: Xo. Hy2441, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the first specimen on a slide. 



The cross-stripe of abdomen is really very narrowly divided along the meson, the 

 mesal ends of each side turned caudad. There is also a more obscure stripe across just before 

 tip of abdomen. 



Genus LATHEOMEROIDES Girault. 



1. LATHROMEROIDES LONGICORPUS Girault. 

 One female, Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland, March 31, 1914, by sweeping grasses in 

 forest. Two females, same place, April 8, 1914. 



