AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIVOIDEA , IV.— GIRAULT. 
2G9 
wide, about twice longer than wide, joint 4 plainly longer than wide, much longer than the 
pedicel. Distal club joint plainly shorter than the other two taken separately. Funicle 2 a* 
third longer than funicle joint 3. 
Habitat: Little Mulgrave River (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle. 
Type: No. II y 1904 , Queensland Museum. 
3. SECODELLA RUFISCAPIS new species. 
Female: — Length, 2.25 mm. 
Like lineata but the scape reddish brown, the general coloration dark metallic blue; 
thorax (excluding propodeum) finely retieulately punctate as with lineata. Joints 1 and 2 of 
funicle subequal, each a third longer than wide. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from two females captured March 29 and April 22, 1913, among grass and 
herbage and on the flowers of Bceckea respectively (II. Hacker). 
Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1905 , Queensland Museum, the above specimens 1 on a tag, the heads on a 
slide. 
Later, two females were found, each captured with one of the others (on two slides — 
not types). 
4. SECODELLA PETULANS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.00 mm. 
Like lineata but the funicle joints all quadrate and equal, the sculpture (reticulate 1 
punctation) of the scutum not coarser than that of the scutellum. The body is much less 
robust, the ovipositor less prominent. Hind tibial spur single. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping forest along the banks of Cape River,. 
January 9, 1913. 
Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1906, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag (minus abdomen),, 
the head and a hind leg on a slide with the type appendages of Gyrolasomyia Washington i. 
Genus MESTOCHARELLA Girault. 
Differing from Mestoeharis in having four funicle joints and the scutellum with two 
grooved lines; propodeum with a median carina and a number of irregular Carinas. Pronotum 
long; stigmal vein very short; segments 2 and 3 of abdomen occupying half of the surface. 
1. MESTOCHARELLA FERALIS Girault. Female. Genotype. 
Shining black. The venter of abdomen and a large ovate area in centre of its dorsum 
yellow; legs brownish yellow except coxaa; wings hyaline; antennas brownish yellow, the distal 
three joints blackish. First funicle joint longest of the funicle. Thorax scaly. Length,. 
1.20 mm. Funicle 4 ovate, longer than either of the club joints. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. ITy 1907, Queensland Museum. 
