AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTEBA CHALCIDOIDEA, IV.—GIBAVLT. 27& 



2. EUPLECTROMORPHA NIGRIFEMUR (Girault). 



Length, 2.50 mm. Type re-examined. It was captured May 9 ? 1913 and is on a tag. 

 The description in antea is correct. Distal three funicle joints subequal, subglobular, the first 

 somewhat longer. Maxillary palpi 2-, the labial 1-jointed. A second female, type habitat, 

 July 24, 1913. 



3. EUPLECTROMORPHA VARIEGATA new species. 



Female: — Length, 2.15 mm. 



Like malandaensis but reddish, the prothorax black except two narrow, wider than long 

 spots on each side of meson dorsad, the lateral portions of propodeum black and somewhat 

 over distal third of abdomen dorsad (but broken by yellowish meso-cephalad) ; lateral margin 

 of abdomen to apex of proximal third from distad, dusky black. Abdomen yellowish brown. 

 Legs reddish. Caudal half of each parapside *jid of scutum and all of scutellum except a 

 narrow conical reddish marking along meson from base to apical third, contrasting lemon 

 yellow. Head lemon yellow, reddish at center of vertex, jet black along the scrobes and on 

 occiput except ventrad. Funicle 1 longest, somewhat longer than wide, the others oval; pedicel 

 shorter than funicle 1. Wings a little stained. Otherwise about as in malandaensis. Antennae 

 yellowish, suffused with dusky. Tarsi yellow. 



From one female caught in forest, May 12. 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Chindera, New South Wales. 



Type : No. Hy 3682, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 



4. EUPLECTROMORPHA MAGNIVENTRIS new species. 



Female: — Length, 3.05 mm. 



Like Euplectrus melanoceplialus Girault but a little over a distal third of the abdomen is 

 purplish black, the marginal coloration is broader except just out from base where it nearly 

 disappears and distad in the black there are two small white triangles at the meson, the 

 caudal one somewhat larger and just before apex. The body is more robust; abdomen and 

 legs white except as noted and the hind coxa. Head subseneous. Scape white, pedicel dusky, 

 rest of antenna black. Funicle 1 elongate, over twice longer than wide, longer than the club; 

 other joints of funicle shortening, 2 a fourth shorter than 1, 4 slightly shorter than the club, 

 much larger than the pedicel. Mandibles absent. Antenna? 9-jointed, the club solid. Hind 

 tibial spurs unequal, the largest not quite half the length of the tarsus. Pronotum and scutum 

 with long whitish pubescence. 



From one female caught in jungle, August (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type : No. Hy 2683, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag ; head and 

 a hind tibia on a slide. 



A. EUPLECTROMORPHA MAGNIVENTRIS CHINDERAENSIS new variety. 



Female: — Length, 2.75 mm. 



Black, the head submetallic, the wings hyaline, scape and abdomen whitish, abdomen 

 dorsad black at distal fourth and at immediate base, the intervening white portion margined 

 narrowly laterad with the black, but the marginal stripe besides being thin (except distad 

 where it abruptly widens) is distinctly interrupted at apex of proximal fourth. Wings 

 hyaline. Similar to typical form but the marginal stripe of abdomen is thinner and the legs 

 are yellowish brown (except hind coxa) instead of white. The abdomen also appears to be 

 flatter and longer. Compared with type of typical form. 



From one female caught, May, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Chindera (Tweed Eiver), New South Wales. 



Type : No. Hy 2684, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. 



