AUSTRALIAN RYMEKOPTEEA CSALCIDOIDEA, VI.— GIRAULT. 833 



AUSTRALIAN 

 HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA— VI. 



SUPPLEMENT. 1 



By A. A. Girault. 

 Magnification as previously. 



Family PTEROMALID.E. 



Tribe PTEROMALINI. 



Genus PTEEOMALTJS Swederus. 



1. PTEROMALUS AUSTRALICUS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Female : — Length, 3 mm. 



Dark metallic blue; second abdominal segment dorsad, brilliant metallic blue; segments 

 3-5 dorsad, purple; coxa) metallic; femora dark brownish; trochanters, knees and tibiae, golden 

 yellow; tarsi paler yellow; antennal scape golden yellow; rest of antennae fuscous. Thorax 

 densely punctate; parapsidal furrows almost, or quite, complete; scutellum with a distinct 

 cross-suture. Propodenm rather long, with a neck; distinctly tricarinate; spiracles large, oval. 

 Abdomen wider but no longer than the thorax ; ovate ; second segment occupying fully one third 

 of the surface; third two thirds length of second; fourth one half length of third; 4-6 sub- 

 equal; seventh longer than sixth. Wings hyaline; venation yellow; marginal and postmarginal 

 veins subequal; stigmal vein somewhat shorter. Antenna? 13-jointed, two ring, three club 

 joints; first funicle joint distinctly longer than the pedicel, one half longer than wide; 2-6 

 gradually shortening, but the sixth is distinctly longer than wide; club as long as two preceding- 

 joints united; first club joint a little the longest of club. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from one female caught on foliage of Eucalptus platypliylla, December 8, 

 3913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2762, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, plus a slide 

 bearing the head and a hind leg. 



Genus APLASTOMOEPHA Crawford. 

 1. APLASTOMORPHA AUSTRALIENSIS (Girault). 



Neocatolaccus australiensis Girault. 



Three females from windows, Innisfail, Queensland, January 13, 3932 (A.A.G.). 

 Another female at Cairns, Queensland, sweeping the foliage of tea trees, November 1, 1913 

 and one female from a window, Hambledon Junction (Cairns), November 2, 1931. The general 

 colour is very dark. The abbreviated parapsidal furrows are faint. The postmarginal vein 

 is nearly as long as the marginal; segment 3 of abdomen as long as 2, 4 a little longer than 



See these Memoirs, II, pp. t03-334. 



