AUSTRALIAN EYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, IV.—GIRAULT. 
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2. ATOPOSOMA LANEI new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.00 mm. 
Intense lemon yellow. A broad stripe down median line of thorax, a narrower one 
down meson of abdomen forking near each end and intersecting five cross-stripes, the margins 
of the abdomen (dorsad) to fourth cross-stripe and around apex, a stripe along each side 
of thorax (dorsad), converging, crossing over each side of propodeum and joining broadly 
around its base, black. A narrow stripe across occiput at ventral ends of eyes and two 
diverging stripes from it up the occiput. Substigmal spot present. Mandibles 6-dentate. 
From one fomale captured by sweeping along a roadway near the Herbert River, 
February 28, 1913. Dedicated to Ralph Lane for his book The Great Illusion, A Study of 
the Relation of Military Power in Nations to their Economic and Social Advantage. 
Habitat: Halifax (Ingham), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1878, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide. 
3. ATOPOSOMA CHANNINGI new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.05 mm. 
Like saintpierrei Girault but the abdomen bears six distinct cross-stripes and the whole 
of the median line of scutum is black, the short apical median stripe on abdomen absent. The 
fore wings in both species are faintly banded as in species of Closterocerus ; the heads are 
also striped in both species but I could not make out the pattern. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from a single female captured by sweeping in jungle, July 26, 1913. 
Habitat: Meerawa (Cairns District), Queensland. 
Type: No. 11 y 1879, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a slide with the type 
head of Zagrammosomoides consobrinus. 
4. ATOPOSOMA SAINTPIERREI new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.00 mm. 
Orange yellow marked with black almost as in variegatum as figured by Masi but the 
pattern on the abdomen is different consisting of about five narrow cross-stripes, a more or 
less obscure mesical blotch centrally and a short median dark stripe at apex. Also, the fore 
wings are obscurely infuscated and bear a distinct substigmal spot which embraces the 
stigmal knob. Three narrow black stripes down the long pronotuin; parapsidal furrows dark 
except at each end and the middle of the median line of scutum, scutellum and postscutellum 
is black; also cephalic margin of scutum (accented on each side of middle, triangularly) ; 
a wavy black line across propodeum, resembling a bat with the wings out but not expanded. 
Scutum with two grooved lines. Lags and antennas yellow; two ring-joints. (Head markings 
not seen.) Mandibles with six teeth, the sixth minute. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in the forest, September 13, 1912. 
Later, a second female was found in a bottle labelled 11 Nelson, October, 1912. Sweeping 
in forest . 7 1 
Habitat: Quingilli and Nelson, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1880, Queensland Museum, the first specimen on a slide. 
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