NEW CHALCID PARASITES FROM MALAYA, 



By A. A. Girault. 



Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



The following chaleid-flies are named from among a number 

 sent to me by Mr. C. F. Baker, comprising the few I could name 

 with certainty. The collection showed marked affinities to Austra- 

 lian forms; novel genera were rare. My facilities would not allow 

 me to study the others, regrettable because I could have made a 

 comparative study, and collections of these very numerous insects 

 are not common nor their study at all well-advanced. Remarkable 

 and attractive as they are, they seem to escape ordinary observa- 

 tion while even the trained entomologist sees only the larger kinds. 

 The myriads of minute kinds form a wonderland whose marvels are 

 known to the very few only and these fortunates are charmed 

 amongst what seems to be a never-ending scene of glory and magni- 

 ficence. 



I feel indebted to Mr. Baker for allowing, me to see his collec- 

 tion and to your Society for publishing this scanty return. The 

 types are in the Baffles Museum at Singapore. 



Leptomastix guttatipennis io var. nov. 



Similar to type but extreme apex of fore wings narrowly 

 to center from cephalad, clear, whole dorsal surface of thorax 

 metallic, the head washed with it, the middle legs purple save 

 tips of tibiae and all tarsi, hind tibiae all dark, fore tibiae 

 purple laterad. Pedicel purple. Teeth of mandible unequal. 



Singapore, C. F. Baker, two females. 



The hyaline apex of fore wing was not visible in a wing 

 placed in balsam so that it was probably overlooked while 

 describing the type. Ovipositor not free. 



Leptomastix penangi sp. nov. 



Like description trifusciatus but differing notably in that 

 the wide distal band of fore wing is triangularly produced at 

 caudal margin nearly to the middle band (in the other only 

 slightly produced proximad), while the latter is twice the 

 width of the first (so in the Queensland species). Head only 

 suffused with brown and the front legs are nearly all metallic, 

 only the middle femora brown, the tarsi and tips of hind tibiae. 



Penang, C. F. Baker, two females. 



Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soc, No. 80, 1919. 



