1913] Girault: Chalcidoid Hymenoptera from Australia 
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From one female mounted in balsam, captured from a window 
at Nelson, N. Q., March 20, 1913. 
Habitat: Australia — -Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above speci- 
men on a slide. 
Achrysocharis Girault MS. 
1. Achrysocharis grandis, new species. 
9 : Length, 2 mm. 
Like pulchra but the whole thorax metallic green; the abdomen is only 
slightly so at (extreme) tip and somewhat distad of the middle there is a 
round dot near each lateral margin. Otherwise like the other two species. 
Fore wings very broad, pyriform, the apex subtruncate but not differing 
from the others. 
From one specimen, enlarged as above. 
d : Not known. 
Described from a single female captured with a female of pul- 
chra by sweeping foliage and grass in a forest, September 3, 1912. 
Habitat: Australia — Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above speci- 
men in xylol-balsam with a female of pulchra and one of maculati- 
pennis. 
This species when unmounted has the metallic green median 
line of the scutellum outlined as in the type species magnifica 
by that portion being shining and punctate while the rest of the 
scutellum is opaque and smooth or nearly. 
2. Achrysocharis maculatipennis new species. 
$ : Length, 1.20 mm. 
Wholly metallic green and punctate including most of the abdomen; 
propodeum blue; legs white, the coxae darker; antennal dusky yellowish, 
the pedicel over twice the length of the first funicle joint which is sub- 
globate; wings hyaline but in the fore wing there is a subelliptical stained 
area from the knob of the stigmal vein. Like the other species but with 
no yellow on the body and the abdomen is shorter, the wings less broad, 
more rounded at apex and moderately coarsely ciliated. The stigmal vein 
is longer. Posterior femur more or less dusky. Second funicle joint nearly 
twice the size of the first but still shorter than the pedicel’ which is long 
and obconic. 
From one specimen, similarly magnified. 
d : Not known. 
Described from one female captured with grandis. 
Habitat: Australia — Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
