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A. A. Girault: 



Dark brown, the abdomen and scape black, the legs a little 

 lighter, the antennae with the two distal joints black, the abdomen 

 suffused with black; fore wings with two broad jet black bands 

 across them, the first at the apex, covering somewhat more than 

 the distal fifth, the second across the middle of the wing; longest 

 marginal cilia not more than a third the wings greatest width; 

 proximal tarsal joint extraordinarily lengthened, in the hind legs 

 as long as their tibia, in the cephalic legs longer than the tibia 

 of those legs. First funicle joint elongate, longer than the scape, 

 the second joint lengthened extraordinarily, subequal to the third, 

 each about twice longer than the first, joints 4 and 5 subequal, 

 5 short er, 4 about a fourth shorter than 3; joint 6 of the funicle 

 and the club joint equal in width, the club only about twice the 

 diameter of the funicle, the club in length between joints 4 and 5. 

 Petiole of Abdomen longer than the elongate hind coxa. 



Male: Unknown. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping in jungle 

 growth, side of coast ränge mountains, May 7, 1913 (Alan P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Australia — Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimen on a slide. 



This remarkable species is dedicated to the great French 

 mathematician, Jules Henri Poincare. 



Eucharidae. 



Chalcuroidella new genus. 



Male: Like Chalcurella Girault but the antennae with paired 

 branches after the third funicle joint and thus like those of Chal- 

 curoides but the third funicle joint bears a short ened second branch 

 which is a fifth or less the length of its opposite or any of the 

 branches; twelve antennal joints, no ring-joint, all the funicle 

 joints with branches. Mandibles as in Orasema, 



Female: Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. Chalcuroidella orientalis new species. 



Male: Length, 3.20 mm. 



Dark metallic purple, the wings hyaline, the branches of the 

 antenna dark chocolate brown; coxae and femora fuscous, the 

 posterior femora concolorous, the rest of the legs brown; abdomen, 

 except petiole and base, dark chocolate brown, venation black. 

 Rugosely punctate, the head striate. Propodeum with a groove on 

 each side, the scutellum with an obscure median groove. First 

 funicle joint as long as the next three combined, the club joint 

 long, capitate, without branches, straight and longest. From 

 lateral aspect, scutellum with two upturned teeth in a longitudinal 

 line near or on the apex. Petiole aciculated, dark greenish; posterior 

 coxa shining, very dark. 



