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A. A. Girault: 



Habit at: Australia — Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 



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

 cimen on a slide (together with a Stethynium) . 



This genus differs from S yntomosphyrum Foerster by the 

 pointed abdomen, the ample, densely ciliated fore wing with a 

 long, stigmal vein and the segmentation of the funicle. The pro- 

 podeum apparently lacks a median carina. It has the habitus of 

 the trichogrammatid Pterygogramma Perkins, 



Euplectrini. 



Genus Euplectrus Westwood. 



1. Euplectrus kurandaensis new species. 

 Female: Length, 2.20 mm. 



Like melanocephalus Girault but with a keel down the meso- 

 scutum and the axillae are smooth mesad. 

 Male: Not known. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping foliage along 

 the edge of the jungle, May 20, 1913. (A. P. Dodd.) 



Habit at: Australia — Kuranda, Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimen on a tag. 



Aphelinini. 



Plastocharella new genus. 



Male: Like Plastocharis Foerster (— Thysanus Haliday) but 

 the antennae with three funicle joints, the first small but longer than 

 wide ; the others normal, the club solid but not as long as the scape, 

 the pedicel a little longer than the second funicle joint which is 

 the longestof the funicle. Fore wings very densely ciliated and em- 

 browned, the marginal cilia very short. Scutum and scutellum with 

 a median grooved line. Antennae 6-jointed. Mandibles with at 

 least three teeth. 



Female: Unknown. 



Type: The following species. 



1. Plastocharella fuscipennis new species. 



Male: Length, 1.05 mm. 



Orange yellow, the abdomen black, also the legs except tro- 

 chanters, knees, tips of tibiae and the tarsi; antennae dusky, the 

 club and last joint of funicle black. Hind wings embrowned, 

 clearer toward tip, the fore wing the same but less clear toward 

 tip and deeper under the marginal vein, clear proximad of the bend 

 of the submarginal vein and nearly naked there also. Mesopleurum 

 and tegula black. 



Female: Not known. 



Described from a single male specimen captured from the 

 window of an unoccupied dwelling, February 16, 1913. 

 Habit at: Australia — Ingham, Queensland. 



