AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, II.—GIRAULT. 
125: 
Described from a single male specimen captured by sweeping foliage in a 
jungle pocket, July 30, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Respectfully dedicated to the Russian chemist who propounded the 
periodic law in chemistry. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1593, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide- 
with two other species of the same genus. 
19. POLYNEMA ZANGWXLLI new species. 
Male: — Length, 1 *30 mm. 
Like zolai but the scape and pedicel yellowish, the legs orange yellow, 
except hind legs which are brownish ; also the fore wings bear longer marginal 
cilia, the longest of which are plainly half the greatest width of the blade while 
the latter bears at least twenty lines of discal cilia, the latter tolerably dense and 
uniform. The line of fovea* across scutellum absent. 
Female : — Not known. 
Described from one male captured by sweeping in forest, December 2, 
1912. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1594, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
DIAGNOSTIC ARRANGEMENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF POLYNEMA 
HALID AY. 
Males and Females. 
I. Fore wings hyaline but more or less patterned, either with an extra- 
ordinarily conspicuous black or brown cross stripe, or two such 
stripes, or else with a dusky cross stripe, or a cross stripe and 
a spot or simply a disto-cephalic spot; or else there is a broad 
black longitudinal stripe from the apex. 
1. Fore wings extraordinarily strij>ed with broad fuscous or jet black; 
large, appendages elongate. 
Fore wing with only one conspicuous broad black stripe across it ; 
antenna* ringed with w r hite. 
Black; head, pro- and mesonotum reddish brown; petiole, cox®, 
trochanters, front femora, proximal half of all tibi®, silvery 
white; tarsi, scape and pedicel reddish brown; joints 4 
and 5 of funicle white. Joint 1 of funicle two thirds the 
length of joint 2, which is subequal to 3, all three elongate speciosissimum Girault- 
Fore wing with two conspicuous broad black stripes across it ; 
antenn® not ringed with white. 
