AUSTRALIAN H YMEN OP TER A CHALCIDOIDEA , 1V.—GIRAULT. 
205 ; 
Nearly entire head lemon yellow; abdomen yellowish brown at proximal third, 
the rest dark brown and with more or less obscure dusky cross-stripes. 
col) deni Girault. 
III. Lemon or reddish or brownish yellow. 
Reddish yellow. 
Thorax immaculate, the abdomen with six black cross-stripes; centre of face 
and tip of ovipositor black; funicle joints cylindrical ovate. 
xanther Girault.* 
Cephalic portion of scutum, cephalic end of parapsides, sides of thorax and the 
propodeum dusky; funicle 1 not quite twice longer than wide, the others 
shortening. xanthicolor Girault. 
Lemon yellow, the antennae concolorous (see description). nelsonensis Girault. 
Greenish yellow, the abdomen with four cross-stripes (see description). io Girault. 
Brownish yellow, the legs concolorous, the antennae black, the scape yellow nearly to 
tip; see description. darwini Girault. 
Genus MELITTOBIA Westwood. 
1. MELITTOBIA AUSTRALICA Girault. Female, male. 
Brown-black ; proximal two thirds of abdomen lighter; legs yellow, the coxae and 
femora washed with dilute dusky; antenna) brownish black; funicle joints 2 and 3 subequal, 
slightly wider than long, joint 1 subquadrate, slightly wider than the pedicel. Hind wings 
with about twelve lines of diseal cilia where widest. Fore wings about two and a quarter times 
longer than wide. Distal joint of tarsi longest of the four. The cuneate scutum stained 
with minute setigerous dots. Scutellum longer than wide. Club with a stout terminal seta. 
The male is light honey yellow; abdomen dorsad, femora, distal tarsal joint and scape 
subfuscous. Fore wings with about eight lines of discal cilia; funicle joints wider than long, 
the first shortest, transverse; terminal spur of club just traceable. 
Habitat: Mt. Tambourine and Brisbane, Queensland. 
Host : Pison 8pinolce. 
Type: No. Hy997, Queensland Museum. 
Genus SYNTOMOSPHYRUM Foerster. 
Neotetrastichus Perkins, 1912, is a synonym of this genus. 
1. SYNTOMOSPHYRUM H Y ALINIPENNE Girault. Female. 
Purplish black; wings hyaline; femora and coxa) more or less concolorous, the rest of legs 
yellowish. Antennae yellow-brown, the club not terminating in a spine; pedicel slightly longer 
than either of the funicle joints which are subequal and one and a quarter times longer than 
broad. Propodeum shining, with a median carina. 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1763, Queensland Museum. 
Epitetrastichus. 
