Some Chalcidoid Hymenoptera from Nord Queensland. 83 



2 and 3 notched at the meson; segments 1 to 3occupying half the 

 sur face. Propodeum with no median carina but along the meson 

 with a rounded ridge which terminates at apex in a moundlike 

 elevation; lateral carinae and a distinct, complete spiracular sulcus 

 are present. Petiole of abdomen slightly longer than the hind coxa. 

 Mandibles 3-and 4-dentate. Otherwise like Pterosemoidea Girault, 

 especially in venation. 



Male: Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. Me rismomo rpha acutiventris new species. 



Female: Length, 1.50 mm. 



Dark metallic green, the legs except coxae, ligth yellow 

 brown, the wings subhyaline; scape, pedicel and first two ring- 

 joints concolorous with the legs, the rest of the antennae dusky 

 black. Head and thorax with a dense scaly sculpture, the abdomen 

 smooth (at least segments 2 — 4 or nearly two thirds). Third ring- 

 joint twice the length of the others, the pedicel a little longer than 

 any of the funicle joints which are subquadrate but the last (fifth) 

 wider than long. Ventral margin of clypeus with a tongue-like 

 projection at meson. 



Male: Unknown. 



From one female captured by sweeping in the jungle, May 18, 

 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



H abitat: Australia — Kuranda, Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimen. 



Family Encyrtidae. 

 Eetromini. 



Epidinocarsis new genus. 



Female: Head a little wider than long, the antennae inserted 

 below the middle near the clypeus, 11-jointed without a ring- 

 joint, the scape enormously dilated ventrad, the funicle filiform, 

 the joints all longer than wide, the first as long as the pedicel which 

 is elongate; club 3-jointed, cylindrical. Mandibles with two strong 

 teeth. Axillae rather widely separated. Abdomen elongate, sharply 

 pointed, distinctly longer than the head and thorax combined, the 

 ovipositor slightly exserted. Marginal and stigmal veins subequal, 

 moderat ely long, the stigmal curved, the post marginal a half 

 shorter; oblique, naked line present. Vertex punctate. No carina 

 bet ween the base of the antennae. Propodeum without a median carina. 



Male: Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. Epidinocarsis tricolor new species. 



Female: Length, 1.80 mm. 



Orange yellow, the legs pale yellow, the coxae nearly whitel 

 the fore wings slightly stained proximad under the submargina, 



6* 6. Heft 



