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discal cdiation) and there are 3-4 lines of cilia proximad of the hairless line, these being 
distinctly (about thrice) coarser than the main ciliation. Hind femur somewhat swollen. 
Thorax apparently with a complete median groove to end of phragma (specimen not seen out 
of balsam). Rich golden yellow. Antenna) about the same as with the preceding species. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from one female captured from a window, March 13, 1912. 
Habitat: Thursday Island, Torres Strait and Nelson, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hyl719, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide with a female 
of Alaptus newtoni Girault. 
Later, a female was found on a slide labelled 11 From windows of men’s quarters on a 
sugar farm, Nelson, Qsld., December 18, 1911.” 
TABLE TO THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF APHELINUS Dalman. 
(Compiled from the types.) 
Black species, the antennae and legs yellow. 
Abdomen all yellow except for a more or less obscure stripe across middle; cilia proximad 
of hairless line arranged in two long lines and a third short one. Robust. 
dies Girault. 
Abdomen with the proximal third lemon yellow; cilia proximad of hairless line arranged 
in two long lines and two short ones. Hind wings with about 12 lines of discal cilia. 
nox Girault. 
The same but the fore wings infuscated slightly along proximal half to end of venation, 
the proximal patch of ciliation consisting of one long line and three short ones. 
Hind wings with about 7 lines of discal cilia. pax Girault. 
Black and like mali but cilia proximad of hairless line consisting of but one long line, 
which is complete and four cilia representing its second line but nearly parallel with 
the marginal vein. n i ger Girault. 
Yellow species, the wings hyaline. 
Extremely minute. 
Pale lemon yellow; pedicel as long as the funicle and first club joint combined; fore 
■wings with about 12 lines of discal cilia at the widest part. Funicle joints 
rings; proximal ciliation hardly coarser than the main ciliation. 
m in utiss imus Girault . 
The same but somewhat larger, the fore wings broader bearing about 16 lines of 
discal cilia at widest portion and the proximal cilia distinctly (about thrice) 
coarser than the main ciliation. newtoni Girault. 
Of normal size or robust; immaculate. 
Second funicle joint distinctly larger than the first. 
First club joint twice the length of funicle 2. haecTceli Girault. 
First club joint plainly not twice the length of funicle 2. australiensis Girault. 
Second funicle joint barely longer than the first, subequal to it. 
Fore wings broad, bearing about 45 lines of very fine ciliation (widest portion). 
Funicle joints a little longer than wide; club 1 nearly half the length of 2. 
darwini Girault. 
