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The Queensland Naturalist January, i938 
DESCRIPTIONS OF A FEW NEW PARASITES OF 
PESTS, AUSTRALIAN MOSTLY. 
By A. A. GIRAULT, B.Sc. 
I have in the following pages given descriptions of a 
few new Chalcididae parasitic upon pest insects. The 
first species is an entedonine from New Guinea, also in- 
teresting because it so closely resembles its Australian con- 
geners ; and represents a distinct though as yet little 
known genus. Pleurotropis is better known ; but this Aus- 
tralian genus bears a prong-shaped median carina (propo- 
deon) and a median groove distad on the scutum. So it 
is different from the mentioned European and extra- Aus- 
tralian genus. From the 7-8 Australian species it is dis- 
tinct mainly in bearing the legs half metallic (to the 
knees), the scape white. 
EN TEDONItiAE. 
Apleurotropis lalori nov . 
Metallic blue and as the other species. Coxae and 
femora concolorous. Peticle square , white, the scape 
white except at apex wings hyaline. Scape dilated, widest 
at distal two-thirds, thrice longer than wide, long; pedicel 
twice longer than wide at apex, equal to the second club 
joint but thicker (the pedicel is even a little longer than 
stated) ; first and second funicle segments equal, about 
thrice longer than wide, No. 3 slightly shorter, the first 
(dub segment longer than the second and still shorter than 
the third funicle segment, the second club segment bearing 
a curved spicule nearly as long as itself. 
Median groove of the scutum at distal half. Eyes 
hispid (more densely than in the genotype). Segment 
No. 2 of the abdomen a fourth part of the surface, the 
longest segment, then the penultimate or seventh, the rest 
transverse. Stigmal vein short, curved, its neck as long as 
the knob, the postmarginal elongate. Antennae inserted 
between the eye-end and the middle of the face. Hind 
femora swollen, the hind tibial spur stout, short, but ex- 
ceeding the dorsal length of the metatarsus. Prong of 
the median carina (propodeon) with the space between 
twice longer than wide, a third the length of the rest, 
whicdi consists of a solid, strong carina; the lateral carina 
is also strong. Hind tibiae short. Mandibles as in the 
genotype. Face, vertex hispid. Lateral ocellus over its 
diameter from the eye, still further from the median and 
still further yet from each other. The lateral carina is 
