Some New Parasitic Hymenoptera from Australia. 



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Female: Length, 0.75 mm. 



Dark brown; basal half of abdomen, legs and antennal scape 

 golden yellow; rest of antennae light brown. 



Antennae 12-jointed; pedicel one-half longer than wide; 

 funicle joints all small, wider than long; club wide, 6-jointed; 

 Ist joint very short. 



Forewings just reaching apex of abdomen; moderately narrow; 

 infuscated; longest marginal cilia equal to one-half wing width; 

 discal cilia fine and dense; submarginal vein curving slightly 

 downwards before joining the costa about the middle of the wing; 

 marginal vein one half as long as the short very oblique, stigmal 

 vein; postmarginal vein a little longer than the stigmal. 



(From 2 specimens etc.) 



Male: Antennae rather slender, the joints longer than wide; 

 funicle joints almost subequal; pedicel a little short er than Ist 

 funicle joint. 



(From 1 specimen etc.) 



Described from 1 2 $ specimens caught while sweeping 

 grass in a swamp, Ingham, N. Q., 13th Jan., '13 (Alan P. Dodd). 



H abitat: North Queensland (Ingham, Herbert River). 



Typ es: South Australian Museum, a $ specimen and a <J 

 head on a slide with the type of aquaticus Dodd. 



5. Hadronotus aquaticus sp. nov. 



Male: Length, 0.75 mm. 



Head black; thorax bright brownish yellow; abdomen golden 

 yellow, the apex dusky; legs and antennal scape golden yellow; 

 rest of antennae black. 



Antennae as in parvipennis but the pedicel is as long as the 

 Ist funicle joint, and the funicle joints are as wide as long. 



Forewings rudimentary; scarcely reaching half way down 

 the abdomen; very narrow; infuscated, venation as in parvipennis. 



(From 4 specimens, etc.) 



Female: Unknown. 



Described from 4 $ specimens caught with parvipennis. 

 Habitat: North Queensland (Ingham, Herbert River). 

 Type: South Australian Museum, a $ on a slide with the 

 type of parvipennis. 



Sceliacantha nov. gen. 



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

 lateral ocelli touching the eye margins; mandibles tridentate; 

 maxillary palpi short, 2-jointed. 



Antennae 12-jointed; scape long and slender; funicle joints 

 short, moniliform. Thorax scarcely longer than wide; pronotum 

 not visible from above; mesonotum very wide; parapsidal furrows 

 visible posteriorly; scutellum semicircular ; postscutellum with 

 two short spines; metathorax very short, its posterior angles with 

 a short spine. 



6. Heft 



