Diagnoses of New Chalcidoid Hymenoptera from Queensland, Australia. 99 



rough. The umbilicate punctures of mesonotum adjoining one to 

 the other, the abdomen with the second segment smooth and shining 

 (its immediate base above coriaceous), the following Segments 

 with a fine scaly sculpture. The ring-joint very short. Teeth on 

 posterior femur running to the middle. 

 Female: Not known. 



Described from one male captured May 11, 1913 by sweeping 

 in a jungle pocket. 



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



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimen on a tag and a slide with the head and posterior femur. 



2. Stomatoceroides insularis new species. 



Female: Length, 2 mm. 



Like nigripes Girault but much smaller and the club joint 

 is divided into two or eise the distal two antennal joints (the last 

 funicle and the club) are equal and much shorter than usual, each 

 equal to about a little over half the proximal joint of the funicle. 

 Wings hyaline. Tegulae black. 



Male: Not known. 



Described from a single female captured by sweeping, January 

 19, 1913 (Forest). 



Habitat: Australia — Magnetic Island (off Townsville,) 

 Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimen on a tag, the head and posterior femur on a slide. 



Family Mymaridae. 

 Genus Polynema Haliday. 



1. Polynema mendeli Girault. 



The female of this species was captured by sweeping grass in 

 the forest near Nelson, North Queensland, May 5, 1913 by Mr. 

 Alan P. Dodd. The head is jet black and all of the body of the 

 abdomen including the exserted ovipositor which is nearly equal 

 to the length of the abdomen, it being long and slender. The species 

 is therefore a unique one. There are two longitudinal grooved 

 lines on the scutellum; the second and third funicle joints are long, 

 the others short, the second longest and nearly twice the length 

 of the first, the slender third is about a third longer than the oval 

 fourth. The sculpture of the thorax is imperceptible except on the 

 scutum where it is finely scaly. The blade of the fore wing is sub- 

 fuscous. The exserted ovipositor, not being correlated with the 

 other characters, excepting perhaps the grooves on the scutellum, 

 is not sufficient to separate this species into a new segregate of 

 generic rank, more especially since the ovipositor is an adaptive 

 organ. 



2. Polynema poincarei new species. 

 Female: Length, 1.90 mm. 



7* 6. Heft 



