AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, IV.—GIRAULT. 
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being very finely densely ciliate over the blade, the marginal cilia moderately short. Joints 
3 and 4 of funicle longest, 1 shortest yet distinctly longer than the pedicel. Fore wings 
slightly stained under the proximal half of marginal vein. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from two females on a slide in the Queensland Museum labelled “ Among 
undergrowth, June 26, 1913. H. Hacker.” 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1785, Queensland Museum. The above specimens. 
3. ENCARSIA JUSTICIA new species. 
Female: — Length, 0.70 mm. 
Deep orange yellowy the head pale greenish yellow, the antenna) and legs pale yellow, 
the legs the paler; all tarsi 5-; jointed. Wings hyaline. Distal club joint dusky. Thorax with 
a median groove running to end of phragma and crossed by a transverse groove not far from 
cephalic margin of scutum. First funicle joint about subequal to the pedicel, the flagellum 
cylindrical, the second funicle somewhat longer than joint 1, the fourth longest yet somewhat 
shorter than the first club joint which is the longest joint of the flagellum. Longitudinal 
striation of antenna? apparently absent. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in the forest, July 9, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1726, Queensland Museum. The above specimen on a slide. 
Genus ASPIDIOTIPHAGTJS Howard. 
Fore wings with a long marginal fringe, without an oblique hairless line from the 
stigmal vein; antenna) 9-jointed, the club 3-join ted, one ring- joint . Stigmal vein present. The - 
antenna) in this genus bear a very short ring- joint. 
1. ASPIDIOTIPHAGU8 CITRINU3 (Craw). 
I have specimens of this species from Babinda and Nelson, North Queensland, associated 
with Cocci da? on imported citrus fruits near cultivated areas and settlements. 
2. ASPIDIOTIPHAGUS AUSTRALIENSIS Girault. Female. 
Dusky black; a crescentic band around base of scutum, tip of abdomen, the scutellum 
and the head lemon yellow; legs pallid, the antenna) dusky yellow; face below antenna? dusky 
black. Wings infuscated as in dtrinus. Antennal segmentation as in citrinus (antenme- 
9-jointed with one ring-joint). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. Forest. 
Type: No. Hy 1727, Queensland Museum. 
Genus PROSPALTELLA Ashmead. 
Fore wings with comparatively short marginal fringes, the oblique hairless line from 
stigmal vein absent, the submarginal vein longer than the marginal; antenna? 8-jointed with the - 
club 3- jointed. 
