A THIRD ADDITION TO THE MYMARIDAE OF 
AUSTRALIA 
By A. A. Girault 
All of the following Chalcidoid Hymenoptera belonging to the 
family Mymaridae have just recently been captured in North 
Queensland. Two notes on European species are added. 
Genus Polynema Haliday. 
1. Polynema australiense new species. 
$ : Length, 1 mm. 
Like Polynema spenceri Girault but the joints of the antennal funicle 
are longer; the first joint is distinctly shorter than the third, about equal 
in spenceri ; the second joint is six or more times longer than wide but in 
spenceri only about four times; the distal two joints are subequal, joint 
4 distinctly longer than either. While in spenceri, the distal three joints 
of the funicle are subequal. Otherwise the same; the pedicel and first 
funicle joint pale yellowish, the scape black. 
From one specimen, f-inch objective, l-inch optic, Bausch and Lomb. 
<? : Not known. 
Described from a single female captured by sweeping grass and 
foliage in a forest along Gape River, Capeville (Pentland), Queens- 
land, December 26, 1912. 
Habitat : Australia — -Pentland, Queensland. 
Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above speci- 
men on a slide (mounted with the type of Gonatocerus dies). 
2. Polynema pax new species. 
$ : Length, 1.25 mm. 
Jet black, the legs and petiole dusky brown, the tarsi lemon yellow; 
wings hyaline; scape, pedicel and first funicle joint lemon yellow, the distal 
three antennal joints black, funicle joints 2-4 dusky yellowish. Scape 
without sculpture. Near to spenceri but the second funicle joint plainly 
over twice the length of the pedicel and the discal ciliation of the fore 
wing does not disappear proximad; the color differences are also noticeable. 
From one specimen, similarly magnified. 
cf : Not known. 
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