Some Chalcidoid Hymenoptera from North Queensland. 



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Aprostocerella new genus. 



Fe male: Like Tetrastichella Girault but there are four ring- 

 joints; also similar to Trichaporoides Girault but the scutum has 

 a median grooved line and the funicle joints are shorter. 



Male: Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. Aprostocerella kelloggi new species. 



Female: Length, 1.35 mm. 



Dull honey yellow, the wings hyaline, the abdomen crossed 

 by three — five black stripes from the base, the propodeum, a 

 large triangulär spot on each side of the median line of scutum, 

 cephalic half, pronotum and a crescentic bar across upper half 

 of occiput, black or purplish black. Antennae black, the scape 

 pale, the first funicle joint slightly longer than the other two, 

 slightly shorter than the pedicel, practically all of them subequal, 

 the ring-joints short. Both club- joints subequal, the second one 

 with a small non-articulated nipple. Mandibles tridentate. Pro- 

 podeum with a short median carina. 



Male: Unknown. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping along a 

 jungle path, February 13, 1912. 



Habit at: Australia — Rossville (Cooktown District), 

 Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above spe- 

 cimen on a tag and a slide with the head. 



Respectfully dedicated to Vermon L. Kellogg for his volume 

 "Beyond War". 



Asyntomosphyrum new genus. 

 Type: The following species. 

 1. Asyntomosphyrum pax new species. 

 Female: Length, 0.75 mm. 



Sooty black, the wings hyaline, the scutellum chocolate 

 brown, the lower face and Vertex lemon yellow; trochanters, knees, 

 tips of tibiae and tarsi (also cephalic tibiae) whitish yellow. Scape 

 pallid, the antennae dusky yellow, 9-jointed with one ring-joint, 

 the funicle joints shorter than the pedicel, the first subquadrate, 

 the second transverse, short, smallest, the third twice longer than 2, 

 hemispherical. Club much wider than the funicle and longer than 

 it and a little longer than the moderate scape which is compressed. 

 Scutum without a median groove, the scutellum with four grooves, 

 the abdomen pointed conic, a little longer than the head and thorax 

 combined, the ovipositor not exserted. Fore wings ample, very 

 closely, densely, uniformly ciliate, the marginal cilia short, the 

 stigmal vein long and slender. Mandibles tridentate. 



Male: Not known. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping forest, top 

 of coast ränge mountains (1500 feet), May 30, 1913. 



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