Diagnoses of New Chalcidoid Hymenoptera from Queensland, Australia. 101 

 Female: Not known. 



Described from two males captured by sweeping in the open 

 forest, April 15, 1912. 



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



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimens on tags (2 pins), the head on a slide. 



Family Eucharidae. 



Genus Astilbula Girault. 

 1. Astilbula aenea new species. 

 Male: Length, 4.75 mm. 



Dark aeneous green, the head and scutum with purplish; 

 abdomen beneath and the legs, except coxae, yellowish brown, the 

 scape and pedicel pale; petiole of abdomen and coxae blackish. 

 Fore wings with a sooty blotch under the stigmal vein (continued 

 attenuatingly proximad) and another opposite to the first (con- 

 tinued proximad more distinctly) . Thorax rugose and transversely 

 lined, the scutellum with the lines longitudinal, the pronglike 

 process with a base about twice longer than its width, longitudi- 

 nally striate. Hind outer angle of each parapside produced laterad 

 into a plate-like tooth. Head coriaceous. Propodeum with a lateral 

 groove. Antennae 12-jointed, no ring-joints, eight long branches 

 from joints 2 — 9, all from the same side; funicle 1 twice the length 

 of the pedicel, 2 a little shorter than the pedicel, transverse, 3 a 

 little wider than long, 4 — 9 gradually increasing in length, 9 being 

 distinctly longer than 1 ; club very long, much over twice the length 

 of the distal funicle joint. 



Female: Not known. 



Described from one male captured by sweeping in a jungle 

 pocket, May 9, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



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



Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 male on a tag and a slide bearing an antenna. 



I am not sure that this species belongs to Astilbula but it agrees 

 in scutellar structure. Compare the type species of the genus and 

 also Thoracantha einer soni Girault. 



Eulophidae. 

 Euplectrini. 



Genus Euplectrus Westwood. 

 1. Euplectrus xanthocephalus new species. 

 Female: Length, 2.10 mm. 



Like australiensis Ashmead but the head and posterior coxa 

 also (honey) yellow, the petiole of abdomen black; a broad brownish 

 stripe across the abdomen beyond middle, followed by a narrower 

 stripe, the two joined along the middle. Scrobes blackish. Wings 

 slightly stained under the venation. Thorax sculptured nearly 



6. Heft 



