AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, V.—GIRAULT. 
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AUSTRALIAN 
HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA.-V.* 
The Family Perilampidae with the Descriptions of One New Genus and Four Species. 
By A. A. Girault. 
INTRODUCTION. 
This family is a small one, represented commonly by a single cosmopolitan genus but 
in tropical countries there seem to be a number of gall-making genera which are just becoming 
known. Two of these are at present known to occur in Australia; the others occur in South 
America. 
Family PERILAMPIDAE. 
Genus PERILAMPUS Latreille. 
1. PERILAMPUS SALEIUS Walker. 
Walker, 1839, p. 16. 
te Sp. 1. Peri. Saleius. Mas. Yiridis cieneo-varius, abdomen- at rum, pedes fulvi, femora 
■ viridia , alee limp idee. 
“Viridis aeneo-varius; abdomen atrum; pedes fulvi; coxsb virides; femora viridia; ungues 
et pulvilli fusci; alas limpidas; squamulse picea>; nervi proalis fusci, metalis fusci. (Corp. long, 
lin. 4/5; alar. lin. I 1 /*.) 
“ March; King George’s Sound, Australia.” 
2. PERILAMPUS TASMANICUS Cameron. Female. 
Cameron, 1912, pp. 646-647. 
Dark blue, largely tinged with violaceus, especially on the head; a fiery red spot on apex 
of the mesonotum on each side and another at apex of mesopleura above the middle; apex of 
second and last segments of abdomen dark red. Legs dark blue to apex of femora, the 
hind tibiae almost black; knees, each end of tibiae and the tarsi testaceous. Wings hyaline, 
the veins fuscous. Antenna) black, fuscous beneath, pubescent. Head somewhat strongly 
striated, longitudinally so on vertex and front, curved on the former; occiput more closely, 
finely, transversely striate. Propodeum irregularly, obliquely striated. An oblique keel along 
the propleurum cephalad of middle, dividing the sclerite into two, of which the basal and 
smaller is irregularly striated, the apical smooth. MeSopleurum with a quadrate, smooth 
depression, longer than wide and at the upper basal half; rest of mesopleurum longitudinally 
striated. 
Habitat: Tasmania (Hobart). 
Type: Query. 
* Contribution No. 16, Entomological Laboratory, Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, Bundaberg, 
•Queensland. 
