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T-IYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA/-L/ 



SECOND SUPPLEMENT. 1 



By A.' AT* Girault. 



Magnification as in previous descriptions. 



Family TRICHOGRAMMATIDyE. 



CHJETOSTRICHINI. 



Genus NEOBEACHISTA Girault. 

 There are two funicle joints, the first transverse but wider than the ring-joini 

 scape of the male is dilated ventrad, sometimes enormously. 



1. NEOBRACHISTA TRIFASCIATA new species of A. P. Dodd and A. A. Giraul* 



Female: — Length, 1.10 mm. 



Like novifasciata Girault but besides the three black stripes across the abdome 



is a spot on each side of meson just caudad of the first stripe and a smaller spot on e 



of meson farther caudad and more laterad ; the second and third cross-stripes are ver 



the second not interrupted at the meson; the scutum is without the median sulcus i. , J 



ich is 

 present on the scutellum only; the scape is distinctly more compressed. Compared v 



type of novifasciata. 



Male: — not known. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping in the jungle, January 1 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. HySllO, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a sli< 



2. NEOBRACHISTA FASCIATA NIGRIVENTRIS Girault. 

 The male of this variety is probably that originally described with fasciata, the i 

 black. The scape is distinctly dilated ventrad, uniformly for its entire length. The r 

 been re-examined. 



3. NEOBRACHISTA FASCIATA Girault. 

 The male of this species is probably represented by a specimen caught April 

 at Gordonvale, Queensland, by sweeping grass in forest. It agrees in coloration as : 

 could see and in structure except that the scape is enormously dilated ventrad. very mu 

 so than in the male mentioned above, the rectangular, flat scape only somewhat lonj 

 vide. Scutellum with a median groove, the scutum simple. n 



4. NEOBRACHISTA INCOMPERTA new species. 



Neobrachista fasciata Girault, partim. 



Female: — Colored like novifasciata, the abdomen with three distinct black cross. 



one proximad, two distad but the second stripe is complete, not distinctly interrupted 1 ^ 3 ' 



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1 See Memoirs Queensland Museum, II, pp. 101 to 106. 



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