AUSTRALIAN HYMEN OP TER A CHALC1H0IDEA, V.—GIRAULT. 
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8. PERILAMPU3 QUEENSLANDENSIS new species. 
Female: — Length, 2.00 mm. 
Very dark metallic green, the abdomen shining black. Legs, scape and pedicel con- 
colorous, the tarsi pale brown. Propodeum with a median carina, rugose, on each side of 
the median carina about the middle a large, subquadrate smooth area bounded by carinas. 
Occiput circularly striate. Postmarginal vein a third longer than the stigmal, the venation 
brown. Second segment of abdomen without sculpture, shining, the third with pin-punctures 
wb'eb are numerous but not dense. Vertex smooth and also all of the head. Funicle and 
club uniformly chocolate brown. Genal sulcus present. 
Male: — ISTot known. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping foliage in a jungle, June 7, 1913 
(A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1950, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag. 
TABLE TO THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OP PERILAMPUS LATREILLE. 
Wings hyaline. 
Mesothorax with several fiery red spots, dorsad and laterad. 
Dark blue. Legs eoncolorous except articulations, ends of tibiae and tarsi, the tibia} 
darker; antenna) black, fuscous beneath. Head striated, the occiput finely so; 
an oblique keel along the propleurum dividing it in two, the smaller sclerite 
of the two striated, the larger smooth. Mesopleurum longitudinally striated 
but with a subquadrate smooth depression at upper basal half. 
Mesonotum without red spots. 
tasmanicus Cameron. 
Metallic green species. 
All tibia} yellow. 
Abdomen blackish. 
saleius Walker. 
All tibiae metallic and eoncolorous. 
Dark aeneous green; all dorsal aspect of abdomen with uniform, rather 
dense, fine pin-punctures; flagellum and tarsi chocolate brown; head 
sculptured. cairnseiisis Girault. 
The same but segment 2 of abdomen glabrous, the third w T ith minute pin- 
punctures which are numerous but not dense; head smooth; funicie 
and club chocolate brown. Propodeum with a median carina, rugose 
but smooth on each side of median carina about the middle. 
queenslandensis Girault. 
(Compare capensis.) 
Metallic blue species, tinged more or less with green. 
Cephalic tibia} brown. 
Cyaneous, tinged with green about the head and abdomen; sculptured like 
tasmaniensis but punctures on abdomen not quite so dense; antennal 
club brown; funicle 1 longer than wide, 2 cup-shaped, others shorter; 
club 3-jointed, no apparent fourth joint at tip. australiensis Girault. 
