AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA , IV.—GIRAULT. 
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globular (but wider than long), decidedly larger than the other two, the pedicel much longer 
than either three; first club joint longest, the second with a slight nipple. (One antenna in 
this specimen was abnormal, the second funicle joint not at all divided from the third but 
the articulation merely indicated by a deep incisiou or sinus from one side). Mandibles 
.tridentate. 
Male : — -Unknown. 
Described from one female captured August 5, 1913, by sweeping in forest. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1854, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
Another female was captured in the same place, three days later. The abdomen bears 
four narrow dusky stripes and a fifth represented by two spots, one on each side of the meson. 
3. SYNTOMOSPHYRELLA AURA new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.50 mm. 
Deep golden yellow, immaculate excepting for a dot on pronotum at lateral angle and 
another near the tegula); otherwise like auriflava except that the club is short, the distal joint 
obliquely truncate. The median groove of scutum is apparently present (at least cephalad). 
Intermediate tibial spur long and slender. 
Male: — Unknown. 
Described from one female specimen captured by sweeping undergrowth, mostly eucalypts, 
April 20, 1913 (H. Hacker). 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1856, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
4. SYNTOMOSPHYRELLA QUADRIMACULATA new species. 
Female: — Length, l’.OO mm. 
Golden yellow, the legs paler, the wings hyaline; a round spot in centre of scutellum 
at base, a diamond-shaped spot on each parapside at middle of mesal margin and more or 
less of the propodeum, dusky black; funicle joints 2 and 3 subequal, a little wider than long, 
joint 1 a little longer and wider than either but somewhat shorter than the pedicel. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from two females captured on the foliage of Eucalyptus in forest, November 9, 
1913. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1856, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
SELITRICHODELIA new genus. 
Female : — Like Selitrichodella Girault but there are two ring- joints. Mandibles weakly 
4-dentate. Lateral carina) absent on propodeum, the median carina also absent but the 
carinated cephalic and caudal margins meeting at the short meson. 
Male : — Not known. 
Type: The species described herewith ( aenea ). 
