300 MEMOIBS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



AUSTRALIAN 

 HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA— V. 



SUPPLEMENT. 



By A. A. Girault. 

 The following additions to the genera and species. Magnification as formerly. 



Family PERILAMPID^. 



Genus PERILAMPUS Latreille. 



The metallic tints vary considerably, blue often becoming green or purple and so on. 

 One ring- joint. 



1. PERILAMPUS CAIRNSENSIS Girault. 



A female of this species captured at Cairns, Queensland, was bright metallic green 

 instead of dark eeneous like the type. Compared with type. Length, 4.50 mm. Type captured 

 November 1, 1911 and is on a tag. 



2. PERILAMPUS CAPENSIS Girault. 



The parapsides are uniformly punctured as in cairnsensis Girault. Length, 2.80 mm. 

 Type on a tag and was captured in January. 



3. PERILAMPUS SPINOSUS new species of A. P. Dodd and Girault. 

 Female: — Length, 3 mm. 



Dark, dull ameous green, the coxse and femora concolorous, the tibiae and tarsi golden 

 yellow, the scape black, rest of antenna? dark broAvn. Wings hyaline, the venation dark brown, 

 the postmarginal vein twice as long as the stigmal and scarcely more than half as long as 

 marginal. At least one mandible tridentate. Funicle joints all somewhat wider than long, the 

 first longest, a little shorter than the pedicel. Face striate, the vertex finely reticulate, the 

 lines not raised. Scutum and scutellum umbilicately punctate, the parapsides cephalad of the 

 middle smooth. Scutellum at apex with a large, semi-erect plate, this appearing from the side, 

 as a semi-erect spine. Second segment of abdomen smooth, the other segments fine scaly 

 reticulate, with scattered punctures at the caudal margins, the punctures setigerous. Propodeum 

 with a median carina. 



From one female taken in jungle, February 5, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Babinda, North Queensland. 



Type : No. Hy 3747, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on 

 a slide. 



4. PERILAMPUS AUSTRALIS new species. 



Male:- — Length, 3.25 mm. 



Agreeing with tasmaniensis Girault but the sculpture of the abdomen is very dense, more 

 so than with cairnsensis, the abdomen of both being glazed, the sculpture consisting of very 

 dense pin-punctures with scattered, larger pits. First tibia? brownish laterad, the abdomen 



