AUSTRALIAN HYMEN OFTEBA CHALCIDOIDEA, VI.—GIBAULT. 323 



Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline; the wide, thin, triangular head, the short, 

 flattened, rounded (dorsal aspect) abdomen and the legs (paler) deep golden, or orange, 

 yellow, the antenna? pale yellow. Lateral ocelli far distant from the eye margins. Antennae 

 inserted at the mouth, S-jointed, the club enlarged, solid; the scape slender, long; the pedicel 

 of usual length, much longer than any of the funicle joints all of which are wider than long, 

 5 largest, each enlarging in succession, 5 twice the length of 1 and much wider. Proximal 

 joint of hind tarsus abruptly longer than the others, the tibial spur normal. Mandibles slender, 

 tridentate, the teeth slender. Thorax finely reticulate scaly; the convex cross-suture of 

 scutellum delicate; propodeum subcorneal, coarsely foveate. Second segment of abdomen 

 occupying somewhat over a third of the surface; second and third combined, occupying nearly 

 two thirds. Pronotum large, transverse-quadrate, the scutum shorter than the scutellum; 

 parapsidal furrows complete. Postmarginal vein slightly longer than the stigmal, both slender 

 but of moderate length, the marginal distinctly longer than either. Thorax very sparsely 

 pubescent. No ring-joint. 



Described from one female caught in forest, December 20, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2781, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head and 

 hind tibia? on a slide. 



PAREUNOTUS new genus. 



Female: — In Ashmead's table running to Any sis Howard, the antenna? being 10-jointed, 

 strongly clavate, the club solid; antenna? inserted below the middle of the face. Mandibles 

 tridentate. Hind tibial spur normal, rather stout. Face inflexed. Postmarginal and stigmal 

 veins long and slender, the former a little the longer, the marginal a little shorter than the 

 stigmal, about three times longer than wide or somewhat more. Hind coxa? large. Axilla? 

 widely separated. Parapsidal furrows deep. Propodeum transverse, the postscutellum over- 

 hanging it. A broad oblique hairless line from apex of submarginal vein. Hind femur 

 compressed. Scutellum with a faint cross-suture indicated before apex. Scutellum distinctly 

 shorter than the scutum; the postscutellum triangular, tolerably large. 



Male: — Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. PAREUNOTUS FLAVICORPUS new species. 



Female: — Length, about 0.98 mm. 



Pale honey yellow and finely scaly. A stripe across cephalic margin of propodeum, the 

 indicated cross-suture of scutellum and cephalo-lateral ends of the axilla? dark purplish black. 

 "Wings hyaline. First three funicle joints like ring- joints but each enlarging, 3 not a third 

 the length of 4 which with 5 and 6 are distinctly wider than long and subequal, subtransverse ; 

 funicle 7 is longer than 6, still much wider than long. Club short. 



Described from one female captured in forest, December 26, 1912. 



Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 



Type : No. Hy 2182, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 



What I thought was the abdomen of this specimen, which had become separated, bore 

 six distinct purplish black cross-stripes, the first at base and all intersected by a median 

 longitudinal stripe. Valves of ovipositor are black. Abdomen conic-ovate, none of the segments 

 greatly lengthened. 



MUSCIDEA new genus. 



Female: — In Ashmead's table runs to this genus which was formerly without status, the 

 genotype being undescribed. I adopt the name for the following species. Head wider than 

 long, the antenna? 9-jointed with one very short ring-joint, the club solid and as long as the 

 funicle and much wider. Mandibles small, acute. Hind tibial spur normal for the family. 



