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A. A. Girault: 



Described from twenty females reared from a mass of naked 

 pupae in a spiders egg cocoon found adhering to grass in a forest, 

 May 2, 1913. 



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



Typ es: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females, two 

 males on tags, 4 pins and a slide with four $ heads and a fore wing. 



Later the male was discovered, reared from the same mass 

 of pupee in the cocoon. It is described herewith: Length, 1.80 mm. 

 Like the female but all the sides and venter of thorax and the legs, 

 the head and antennae, the scutellum except a spot along the meson 

 at apex, the axillae and the sides of the scutum centrally (invasion 

 from the pleurum) lemon yellow; tarsi brown. Antennal pedicel 

 elongate, longer than the scape which is more convexed than in 

 the female, the latter with all the joints distinctly wider than long 

 and more or less equal. Antennal club darker. Lateral ocelli 

 somewhat f arther from the eye than in the female. 



(From six specimens.) 



This remarkable genus and species is respectfully dedicated 

 to Henri Fabre, the French entomologist, whose life of constant 

 endeavour and persistence is an inspiration to us all. 



Subsequently, from the same egg cocoon, a hundred and 

 twenty-three more females emerged and seven males. 



Eupelmini. 



Idoleupelmus Ashmead. 



1. Idoleupelmus vulgaris new species. 



Female: Length, 4.50 mm, excluding the ovipositer which 

 is as long as the abdomen and yellowish white excepting broadly 

 at tip and base. 



Bright metallic aeneous green, the wings hyaline, the legs 

 and tegulae lemon yellow (except the coxa, a dusky brownish 

 spot above before apex on hind femur, one just below knee and 

 another just ventrad of the second and on middle legs a black 

 spot at the same place on the femur and a ring on the tibia out 

 from knee) . Sides and venter of abdomen yellow. Head and thorax 

 very finely shagreened. Antennae 12- or 13-jointed, no ring-joint, 

 the club 3-jointed: pedicel rimmed with whitish at apex, the first 

 funicle joint similarly rimmed at base. Post marginal vein longer 

 than the stigmal. 



Male: Not known. 



From one female captured by sweeping in forest, Nelson, 

 N. Q., May 3, 1913. 



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



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

 cimen on a tag and a slide with the head and legs. 



2. Idoleupelmus australiensis new species. 

 Female: Length, 1.20 mm. 



