A FEW NEW CHALCIDOID HYMENOPTERA FROM 
QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA 
By A. A. Gtrault 
DIRHININI 
Eniacella, new genius 
cT : Like Eniaca Kirby, but the antennae 14-jointed wth two short 
ring-joints, the club 3-jointed. Postmarginal and stigmal veins very short, 
the latter sessile. Posterior femora beneath with comblike teeth preceded 
by a single moderate sized tooth. Abdominal petiole short. Metathorax 
with teeth laterally and ventrally. 
$ : Not known. 
Type: Eniacella rufricornis n. sp. 
1. Eniacella rufricornis new species. 
c? : Length, 3.85 mm. 
Black, the antennal and first two pairs of legs reddish, the posterior 
legs black, all tarsi yellow. Fore wings stained. Punctate. Scutellum sim- 
ple. Tegulae reddish. 
From one specimen f-inch objective, 1-inch optic Bausch and Lomb. 
From one male captured by sweeping foliage and grass along 
the banks of the Mulgrave River (jungle growth) adjoining cul- 
tivated fields, Nelson, Queensland, April 2, 1918. 
Habitat: Australia — -Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above speci- 
men on a tag (head accidentally lost.) 
EUPELMINI 
Neanastatus new genus 
Type: The following species: Neanastatus cinctiventris n. sp. 
1. Neanastatus cinctiventris, new species. 
$ : Length, 2.75 to 3.50 mm. 
Dark metallic green marked with bright lemon yellow as follows: Base 
of abdomen encircled with a band just out from base; scutum with a long 
rectangular area down its center; cephalic legs, intermediate legs except 
most of coxae and the coxae of the posterior legs, the posterior femora and 
tibiae and the distal four tarsal joints bluish to black, the distal joints of 
other tarsi black. Forewings with a deep smoky subrectangular area 
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