AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, IV.—GIRAULT. 
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•dusky spots or bands; first and fifth tarsal joints dusky. The wings are spotted with patches 
of dark cilia ; not connected in a reticulate pattern as with pulchellus and mexicanus. Vertex 
reticulated ; thorax smooth. 
Habitat: Sydney, New South Wales. 
Type: Cat. No. 10,313, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 
Host: Lepidosaphes pollens Maskell on Xanthorrhoea. 
Genus COCCOPHAGUS Westwood. 
Fore wings without an oblique hairless line from stigmal vein; antennae filiform, 
8-jointed, the scape not especially short, the club 3-jointed; stigmal vein present, the mar- 
ginal cilia of fore wing not long, the marginal vein as long or longer than the submarginal. 
TIind tibia) normal. 
1. COCCOPHAGUS FUNERALIS new species. 
Female: — Lbngfli, 1.05 mm. 
Wholly black suffused with brownish, the wings hyaline; legs and antennae lemon 
yellow, the posterior coxa) and femora black; funicle joints distinctly longer than the pedicel, 
the first longest, nearly twice longer than wide, the third distinctly longer than any of the 
■club joints. Thorax finely scaly, without noticeable punctures. Fore wings broad, very 
finely, densely ciliate. Thorax pubescent. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female reared from coccids, June 28, 1913 (II. Hacker). 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1721, Queensland Museum. The above specimen on a slide with an 
encyrtid and an eulopliid. 
Genus PHYSCUS Howard. 
Fore wings without an oblique hairless line; antennas 7-jointed, the club 2-jointed, the 
first funicle joint usually shorter than second or third. Ovipositor scarcely extruded. 
1. PHYSCUS NIGRICEP3 new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.00 mm. 
Bright golden yellow, the head, the first funicle joint and the club, base of abdomen 
and of thorax all around and a cross-stripe across abdomen distad of the middle, black. Distal 
two funicle joints white, all three joints subequal, the distal club joint the longest joint of 
the flagellum, the proximal club joint a little shorter than the funicle joints. Wings sub- 
hyaline, densely ciliate, the marginal cilia short. Hind coxrn dusky, the legs otherwise golden 
yellow. Hind wings with about seven lines of discal cilia, their caudal marginal cilia thrice or 
more the length of the longest marginal cilia of the fore wing. Mandibles bidentate, the inner 
tooth broadly truncate. 
Male : — Unknown. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping foliage in jungle, June 7, 1913 
(A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns) and Kuranda, Queensland. 
