AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, IV.—GIRAULT. 
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Like Entedon p odagrionidis (Girault) Lut the distal funicle joint is somewhat longer 
than wide; the lateral carina? of the propodeum are not at the lateral margin but not very 
far laterad from the pair of median carina?, the lateral margin of propodeum also carinate as 
well as fore and hind margins. Intermediate tibia! spurs only slightly smaller than those of 
the hind legs. Median carina? diverging, distad at apex with a very short carina between 
them. Antenna? 8-jointed, one ring-joint, the club 2-jointed. Hind coxa? polished, the 
tibia? metallic green. Space between median carina? rather broad, smooth. Thorax (excepting 
propodeum) roughly scaly. Mandibles with two equal teeth. Hind tibial spurs long and stout. 
Second segment of abdomen occupying about half the surface. 
Male: — The same but a third smaller, the abdomen much shorter, at apex broadly 
truncate. Antenna? apjmrently with two ring- joints. 
Described from three males, seven females labelled 11 No. 14. From Epilachne 28- 
punctata. Darwin, Northern Territory, 19 May, 1913 (G. F. Hill)/ 7 Later, six females 
labelled “ No. 6. Bachelor, N.T., Jan. 23, 1913 (G. F. Hill). 77 
Habitat: Port Darwin and Bachelor, Northern Territory. 
Type: No. Hy 1635 , Queensland Museum, one female on a tag, two males, six females 
on a slide (plus 3 female heads). 
2. MESTOCHARIS 3ILVENSI3 new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.16 mm. 
The same as the preceding species but the teeth of the mandibles longer and strong, 
the inner margin of the second tooth serrate below tip; also the pedicel is distinctly longer 
than the globular distal funicle joint but not much longer. In lividus the first funicle joint 
is distinctly longer than the pedicel, the latter subequal to the distal funicle joint. Parapsidal 
furrows caudad broadened from narrow sutures to shallow depressions. Hind and intermediate 
tibial spurs small and normal. Otherwiss as in limdus. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from one female captured August 31, 1913, by sweeping in a jungle pocket. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1636, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
3. MESTOCHARIS VETERNOSUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 0.70 mm. 
Differs from lividus in having the tibial spurs somewhat enlarged only and in having 
the caudal margin of the second segment of abdomen deeply cut into at the meson or incised, 
the third segment longer than usual, much longer than the next two which are transverse linear. 
Postmarginal vein longer than stigmal. Funicle joints subglobular, the first a little longer. 
Mandibles bidentate. 
From a female captured by sweeping in a strip of jungle bordering a streamlet, Novem- 
ber 4, 1912. 
Habitat: Proserpine, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1637, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag. 
