Some New Parasitic Hymenoptera from Australia. 169 



while sweeping foliage in jungle, Upper Mulgrave River, lOth 

 June, '13 (Alan P. Dodd). — The species is dedicated to William 

 Harris Ashmead for his splendid work on the Parasitic Hymenoptera. 



Habitat: North Queensland (Nelson, near Cairns). 



Type: In the South Australian Museum, a <J tagmounted, 

 plus a slide bearing <$ head with the type appendages of kieff er iDodd. 



Neoteleia nov. gen. 



Male: Head transverse, as wide as the thorax; eyes large, 

 bare; ocelli wide apart, the lateral ones touching the eye margins; 

 mandibles tridentate; maxillary palpi short, 2-jointed. 



Antennae 1 2-jointed; scape long and slender; pedicel short; 

 funicle joints long and cylindrical. 



Thorax almost twice as long as wide; pronotum not visible 

 from above; mesonotum without furrows; scutellum semi-circular, 

 distinctly keeled posteriorly; postscutellum and metanotum 

 unarmed; posterior angles of the metanotum subacute. 



Forewings with the submarginal vein attaining the costa a 

 little before the middle of the wing; marginal vein very short; 

 stigmal vein exceedingly long, oblique; postmarginal vein a little 

 longer than the stigmaL 



Abdomen sessile; as long as the head and thorax united; much 

 narrower than the thorax; the apex almost truncate; Ist segment 

 short; 2nd segment twice as long as wide, equal to four-fifths 

 abdominal length. Legs slender. 



This genus is rather like Hoploteleia Ashmead, but differs in 

 the short 2-jointed maxillary palpi; the absence of furrows on the 

 mesonotum, and the long, second abdominal segment. 



Type: The following species. 



Neoteleia punctata sp. nov. 



Male: Length, 1.75 mm. 



Shining black; the legs (including the coxae), and the antennal 

 scape and pedicel ferruginous. 



Head and thorax with fine, dense punctuation, and with 

 whitish pubescence; abdomen with Ist segment striate; rest of 

 abdomen smooth. Antennae long and slender; Ist funicle joint 

 fully three times as long as wide; 2-9 gradually and slightly de- 

 creasing in length. 



Forewings reaching apex of abdomen ; broad ; infuscated, the 

 infuscation not regulär; marginal cilia moderately long; discal 

 cilia very fine and dense; venation fuscous; basal vein indicated 

 by a thick curved brown line. 



(From 1 specimen, etc.) 



Female: Unknown. 



Described from a single $ caught while sweeping foliage in 

 jungle, Upper Mulgrave River, Nelson, near Cairns, lOth June, 

 m (Alan P. Dodd). 



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