AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIVOIDEA, II.— GIRAULT. 
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•of the genus so far known by bearing, besides a transverse blackish stripe across 
somewhat distad of the middle (much over its own length from the venation, 
the stripe subquadrate and faded along the cephalic margin, brown not jet 
black), on the fore wing an ovate dusky spot distad in the cephalo-distal corner 
of the blade. Discal cilia rather sparse, absent under the venation and for some 
distance distad from it (out as far as the cross band) ; longest marginal cilia 
equal to two thirds the greatest wing width. First funiele joint a little longer 
than the pedicel, a little over half the length of the second which is longest, the 
third a fourth shorter than the second, the sixth shortest, ovate, the fourth a 
little shorter than the first, a little longer than the fifth. Scape simple. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping jungle growths along a 
forest streamlet, June 18, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1586, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide 
with the type of Polynema speciosissimiim Girault. 
This species is closely allied with rousseaui Girault which also has the 
distocephalic spot on the fore wing; however; in that species the second and third 
funiele joints are of equal length, the fore wings wider (about sixteen lines of 
cilia, only about eleven here) and the first funiele joint is longer in rousseaui. 
Also, in the latter, the scape, pedicel and first funiele joint are all uniform in 
color. 
12. POLYNEMA NOTABILISSIMUM new species. 
Female: — Length, 1*50 mm. Large and striking. 
Like poincarei, that is the wings with two jet-black bands, but differing as 
follows: Firstly, it is jet black, only the pedicel and first two funiele joints of 
the antenna and the legs (except coxse and distal tarsal joints) are orange yellow. 
Secondly, the appendages are less slender; in the antenna? the first three funiele 
joints are not so long and the third is longest, distinctly longer than the second, 
which, however, is long; the club is normal, that is large and ovate, the distal 
funiele joint not apparently a part of it and much narrower than it; also the 
distal three funiele joints are much shorter, the distal joint shortest, subequal to 
the pedicel. The extraordinarily lengthened proximal tarsal joints in poincarei 
are replaced here by still long ones but not half as long as those of the species 
named. In the fore wings the pattern differs in that the clear band between the 
two black bands is not subequal to the length of the distal band as in poincarei 
but narrow and only about a third the length of that band and distinctly less 
than the length of the proximal band (distinctly longer than it is in poincarei ) . 
Abdominal petiole pale yellowish. The species less robust than poincarei, the 
wings shorter and not so broad. Third and fourth funiele joints only dusky, 
the other joints distad black. 
