AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA , IV.—GIRAULT. 
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1. SYMPIES0NECREMNU3 BOASI new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.85 mm. 
Metallic blue, the wings hyaline, the legs and antennae concolorous (except most of 
cephalic tibiso and all tarsi which are brownish, the tarsi paler) ; all funicle joints much 
larger than the pedicel which is but slightly longer than wide; funicle 1 longest, distinctly 
longer than wide, joints 2-4 subequal, oval, slightly longer than wide and more or less equal 
to club joint 1, the larger of the two club joints; club terminating in a minute nipple. Thorax 
moderately finely, polygonally reticulated, the lines raised, the propodeum similarly sculptured 
but smoother. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in the jungle, May 10, 1913. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1943, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the head and 
hind tibia) on a slide. 
Dedicated to Franz Boas for his book The Mind of Primitive Man. 
ELACHERTONECREMNUS new genus. 
Female: — Pronotum transverse; scutum long, large, the parapsidal furrows delicate 
and only at cephalic third ; scutellum oblate spherical, without grooves, postscutellum triangular, 
propodeum distinct, moderately short, with a median earina, no others. Abdomen sessile, 
depressed, pointed ovate, no longer than the thorax, segment 2 longest, occupying a fourth 
of the surface. Head somewhat wider than long, the antennae short and stout, inserted 
di-stinctly below the middle and slightly below the ventral ends of the eyes which are short, 
the scape short, the pedicel also, the funicle 4-jointed, the joints wider than long, increasing 
in width distad, the club missing; funicle joints subpet iolate ; one short ring-joint. Mandibles 
broad, with one short, acute outer tooth and about nine inner minute, comblike ones. TIind 
tibial spur very small, the hind coxee strongly compressed, the hind femur swollen somewhat. 
Body metallic marked with lemon yellow. Propodeal spiracle small. With the habitus of 
Z agrammosoma Aslimead. 
Male: — Not known. 
1. ELACHERTONECREMNUS CIRCUMJECTU3 new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.15 mm. 
Dark metallic green, the head golden yellow and with two rather broad dark greenish 
parallel stripes across the face from side to side, the ventral one passing through the antennas; 
upper half or more of occiput concolorous; outer margins of axillae, scutellum all around 
(except at meson of caudal margin) and the lateral margins of the triangular postscutellum, 
golden or yellow. Thorax finely, densely scaly, the propodeum glabrous centrally. Abdomen 
purplish black. Scape white, dusky black at distal half; flagellum black. Eyes softly 
pubescent. Mandible white, along tip brown. 
From one female captured in jungle by sweeping, September 13, 1913. 
Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1944, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag. 
The species may easily be recognised by its peculiar coloration. 
