AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCID01DEA, IV.—GIRAULT. 
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Genus RHICNOPELTELLA Girault. 
Antenna) capitate, 11- jointed, three ring-, funicle- and club-joints, the club much wider 
than the funicle, the joints of the latter transverse. Postmarginal vein shorter than the stigmal,* 
the marginal not half the length of the submarginal. Parapsidal furrows complete, the 
scutellum simple. Abdomen rounded oval, depressed, not as long as the thorax but wider. 
Male about the same. 
1. RHICNOPELTELLA IMMACULATIPENNIS Girault. Female. Genotype. 
Dark metallic aeneous green; club, tarsi, knees, most of cephalic tibiaa, tips of other 
tibia), brown. Distal club joint shortest of the club, shorter than the distal funicle joint which 
is somewhat over half the length of the pedicel. 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Forest. 
Type: No. By 1202, Queensland Museum. 
2. RHICNOPELTELLA SPLENDORIFERELLA Girault. Female, male. 
Brilliant metallic green; distal half or more of hind tibiae white; fore wing with a 
stained rounded area under the ap3x of stigmal vein and beneath most of the marginal. The 
male is more brassy, the vertex metallic rosaceous. 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Forest. 
Types: No. Hy 1203, Queensland Museum. 
3. RHICNOPELTELLA VIRIDIS Girault. Female, male. 
Brilliant metallic green tinged with bluish, the legs except coxa), deep lemon yellow; 
wings hyaline; a peltate yellowish spot in centre of abdomen at base. Male about the same. 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. Forest. 
Type: No. Hy 1670, Queensland Museum. 
4o RHICNOPELTELLA CONSOBRINU3 Girault. Female. 
Like immaculatipennis but smaller and the fhorax bright metallic green; distal funicle 
joint only about a fourth the length of the pedicel. 
Habitat: Nelson, Queensland. Forest. 
Type: No. Hy 1671, Queensland Museum. 
5. RHICNOPELTELLA RETICULATA Girault. Female, male. 
Like im m acu latip ennis but the two distal funicle joints of the antennas are large and 
subquadrate, each as long as the pedicel, the last funicle joint more than twice the size of 
the last club joint. Outer half of cephalic tibia yellowish. Male the same but the antenna* 
with four ring-joints, the two funicle joints transverse. 
Habitat: Murray Bridge, South Australia. 
Type: No. 7. 1887, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 
* Sometimes as long as or a little longer than the stigmal. 
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