AUSTRALIAN E YMEN OPT ERA CHALCIDOIDEA, IV.—GIRAULT. 
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3. EPOMPHALOIDES NIGER new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.55 mm. 
Jet black, the wings hyaline, the coxa} concolorous, the legs yellow, also the scape, the 
pedicel dusky yellow, rest of antenna black; pedicel elongate, intermediate between the first 
and second funiele joints, the first funicle joint about as long as the club, nearly twice the 
length of the third; nipple not long, distinct. Mandibles tridentate, the two inner teeth 
smaller and close together. Median carina of propodeum paired, forked at each end (i.e., a 
fine pair of car in®, each curving off laterad at base and apex following the cephalic and 
caudal margins). 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured amongst herbage, April 6, 1913 (H. Hacker). 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 
Types: No. Hp 1844, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head on a 
slide. 
Genus NEOTRICHAPOROIDES Girault.* 
Differs from Tricliaporoidella Girault in bearing four ring-joints. 
1. NEOTRICHAPQROIDES UNIGUTTATUS Girault. Female. Genotype. 
Honey yellow, the wings hyaline; a little less than the proximal half of the abdomen 
along each margin dorsad and a stripe down thorax from middle of scutum to a little distad 
of middle of scutellum, metallic green ; a round dot in centre of abdomen slightly distad of 
middle and tip of ovipositor valves, blackish. All of scutum eephalad of the median stripe 
reddish brown margined with lemon yellow, scape and pedicel lemon yellow except above, rest of 
antenna black; pedicel much shorter than the distal funiele joint, the first funicle joint over 
four times its own width. Mandibles tridentate. Median carina of propodeum forking a 
little eephalad of middle, prong-shaped. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1815, Queensland Museum. 
Genus EPENTASTICHUS new genus. 
Female : — Like Quadrasiicftus Girault but the scutum without a median grooved line. 
Male : — Unknown. 
Type: Fpentastichus nugatorius new species. 
1. EPENTASTICHUS NUGATORIUS new species . 
Female: — Length, 1.00 mm. 
Black suffused with brown, the antennae and legs lemon yellow, the wings hyaline; 
hind coxa? brown-black; propleururn lemon yellow, also the head and scutellum except the 
base of the latter between the first grooves. First funicle joint slightly shorter than the 
pedicel but distinctly longer than wide, longer than the length of 2 and 3 combined, 2 shortest, 
3 cupshaped. Pedicel dusky. Mandibles tridentate. 
* This genus is probably founded upon erroneous observation and is probably TncJia-poroidella. A second! 
specimen has been seen of the genotype. 
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