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Family Eur ytomidae. 



Eurytomini. 



Axanthosoma new genus. 



Female: Like Xanthosoma Ashmead but the abdomen 

 plainly twice the length of the head and thorax combined. Allied 

 with Aximogastra Ashmead but the abdominal Segments less 

 equal, the abdomen beyond the seventh segment produced into 

 a thin setiform process as long as the head and thorax combined; 

 Segments 5 and 6 are about equal, long, each about twice the length 

 of 4. Head and thorax not umbilicately punctate only finely 

 transversely wrinkled. Stigmal and postmarginal veins unequal. 

 Segment 6 of abdomen a little longer than segment 5. Hind tibiae 

 with two spurs. First funicle joint longer than the pedicel, only 

 about two-thirds the length of the scape ; a f ew scattered thimble 

 punctures on the propodeum. 



Male: Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. Axanthosama nigra new species. 



Female: Length, 4.78 mm. 



Shining black, the wings hyaline, the head and thorax more 

 or less opaque. Legs yellow brown, the coxae mostly, the posterior 

 femora and their tibiae below the knees, black; also the antennae. 

 Abdomen densely microscopically scaly, the thorax more roughly 

 so. Propodeum rugose and with a large median, triangulär exca- 

 vation für its whole length. Distal funicle joint oval. 



Male: Not known. 



From four females captured by sweeping in a jungle, May 

 18, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Australia — Kuranda and Nelson, Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one of the above 

 specimens on a tag and a slide with the antennae and hind legs. 



Later, among, some miscellaneous specimens placed together 

 in a vial without data, I found a female of this species (appa- 

 rently) but the hind tibia had no black and the long setiform 

 eighth abdominal segment was distinctly stouter but otherwise 

 I could detect no difference. The specimen was taken at Nelson. 



Family Elasmidae. 

 Genus Elasmus Westwood. 

 1. Elasmus kurandaensis new species. 

 Female: Length, 1.80 mm. 



Like speciosissimus, all the body pattern dark metallic green, 

 but differing as follows: The general color is lemon yellow with 

 the abdomen deep orange, thus contrasting; the scutellum is wholly 

 coppery dark green; and the pattern of the scutum differs in that 

 the metallic coloration which occupies nearly all of the cephalic 



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