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Aeneous or coppery green, the propodeum green, also the 

 abdomen and its petiole, the latter alutaceous, the abdomen and 

 the posterior coxae shining and smooth. Legs dark brown, the 

 coxae, posterior femora and proximal half of intermediate femora 

 (more or less), concolorous with the body ; abdomen distad brownish. 

 Antennae concolorous, suffused lightly with brownish. Thorax 

 rugosely punctate, the head finely striate. First single branch of 

 antennae shorter than the other two long ones. Venation nearly 

 black. 



(From one specimen, similarly magnified.) 

 Female: Not known. 



Described from one male specimen captured by sweeping in 

 forest, April 16, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habit at: Australia — Nelson (Cairns), North Qsld. 



Type: In the Qsld. Mus., Brisbane, the above specimen on 

 a tag and the head on a slide. 



Family Callimomidae, 



Genus Podagrion Spinola. 

 1. Podagrion pax new species. 



Female: Length, 3,10 mm, exclusive of ovipositor, which 

 is longer. 



Like beneficium Girault but the seven teeth of the posterior 

 femora different; thus teeth 4 and 5 are nearly equal, 4 a little 

 longer, tooth 2 is smallest while 1, 3, 6 and 7 are longest, 1 acutely, 

 3 obtusely, conical; all of the teeth are distinct. All the segmenta- 

 tion of the antenna is different, the penultimate funicle joint longer 

 than wide, the ultimate subquadrate, the first two funicle joints 

 distinctly more than a fourth longer than wide, nearly twice wider 

 than long, while joint 3 is subequal to them. The club is large as 

 in species of Polynema. 



(From one specimen, same magnification.) 



Male: Not known. 



From one female reared from an eggmass of a mantid obtained 

 from the forest, Nelson, N. Q., 27. April 1913. 



Habitat: Australia — Nelson (Cairns), North Qsld. 



Type: In the Qsld. Mus., Brisbane, the above specimen on 

 a tag, the head and a posterior leg on a slide. 



Family Pteromalidae 



Sphegigasterinae. 



Genus Syntomopus Walker. 

 1. Syntomopus australiensis new species. 

 Male: Length, 1,75 mm. 



Very dark metallic green, the legs except the coxae and the 

 antennae pale straw yellow, the wings hyaline; scutellum without 

 a cross furrow; parapsidal furrows complete; antennae 13-jointed, 



6. Heft 



