Diagnoses of New Chalcidoid Hymenoptera from Queensland, Australia. 93 

 Male: Not known. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping foliage in 

 jungle country, November 4, 1911. 



Habitat: Australia — Kuranda, Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimen on a tag and a slide with tbe legs and antennae. 



The deeply excavated face, the foliated scape, the short head 

 and some other characters will probably exclude this species from 

 the genus, becoming the type of a new segregate. 



Amirini new tribe. 



Male and Female: Mandibles totally absent; postmarginal 

 vein absent, the marginal punctiform, the stigmal well developed; 

 posterior tibiae with two spurs. Tarsi 5-jointed. Otherwise like 

 the Mirini. Costal cell wide, its margin convex. 



Amira new genus, 



Female: Head from cephalic aspect rounded, the frons 

 narrow, the antennae inserted near the clypeus, the scrobes se- 

 parate, converging above, the head punctured, the punctures 

 minute. Lateral ocellinearly touching the eyes, the latter convergent. 

 Thorax punctured like the head. Abdomen flat, short, from above 

 triangulär, no longer than the thorax, the hypopygium small, the 

 ovipositor not exserted. Wings hyaline, the venation not quite 

 attaining the costa, the long submarginal vein approaching the 

 costa gradually, then turning off to form the stigmal. Axillae 

 meeting inwardly. Second abdominal segment short, barely longer 

 than the following three segments. Antennae 12-jointed, capitate, 

 the scape somewhat convexed beneath, the pedicel long, nearly 

 half the length of the funicle, about thrice longer than wide at 

 apex, the distal funicle joints much wider than long, the first joint 

 of the funicle subquadrate; one very short ring-joint, the club 

 3-jointed. Fore wings with a short hairless line from middle of 

 stigmal vein ; the same not much obliqued. Frons arched or convex, 

 the scrobes not very long. 



Male: About the same but totally different in color and the 

 pedicel much longer, as long as the funicle. 



Type: The following species. 



1. Amira fahr ei new species. 



Female: Length, 2 mm. Robust. 



Shining black, the wings hyaline, the intermediate tibiae 

 toward tip and the tarsi brown. Head and thorax, besides the 

 pin punctures, densely finely scaly, the abdomen also densely 

 scaly. Discal ciliation of fore wing dense. Scutellum densely, 

 longitudinally lineolated or nearly. 



(From twenty specimens.) 



Male: See below. 



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