AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CEALCIDOIDEA , VI. — GIRA ULT. 
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Described from one female captured by sweeping partly cleared forest, second growth, . 
July 2, 1912. Respectfully dedicated to Hugo Grotius. 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. By 1989, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag, the antennas on a. 
slide (with the type of Prospaltella seminigriclava ) . 
2. SPALANGIA AUSTRALIENSIS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.70 mm. 
Shining black, the wings hyaline; legs eoncolorous, the tarsi white. Antennas 10-jointed, 
the club somewhat enlarged and shorter than usual, the pedicel elongate, the funicle joints 
all short, wider than long but the first subquadrate, not half the length of the pedicel which 
is nearly as long as the club. Mandibles bidentate. Abdomen very finely densely reticulated, 
the fourth segment longest. Propodeum glabrous, margined nearly all around with fovese and 
with lateral foveate lines, at the meson a pair of these which touch beyond the middle and 
ore separated by a carina, proximad. Scutellum glabrous, at distal third crossed by a faint 
line of minute pin-punctures; just back (caudad) of this on each side at lateral margin is 
an isolated, distinct puncture-fovea, round. Suture between axilla) and scutellum foveate. 
Axilla) with several scattered pin-punctures discallv. Cephalad of the transverse line of 
scutellum on each side, a short longitudinal line of fovese (3 or 4) and on each side of the 
meson about two fovese caudad in a. longitudinal line. Scutum finely alutaceous, together with 
the head bearing obscure scattered setigerous punctures. Parapsidal furrows foveate. Pronotum 
densely sculptured like the abdomen. 
Male : — Not known. 
Described from two females captured from windows, December 28, 1911. 
Habitat: Herberton, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 1990, Queensland Museum, one of the above specimens on a tag, the head 
on a slide. 
2. SPALANGIA VIRGINICA new species. 
Male: — Length, 1.50 mm. 
Differs from the preceding in being a little more brassy and in lacking the cross-line 
of fovea) at distal third of the scutellum. Also the abdomen is smoother while the impunctate 
areas of the thorax show a very minute reticulation like that of the abdomen. First funicle 
joint as long as the next two combined. 
Female : — Not known. 
Described from one male captured by sweeping in a jungle, June 24, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. H y 1901, Queensland Museum, the above specimen on a tag. 
Genus SPALANGIOMORPHA Girault. 
Antennm 8-jointed, the club solid, no ring-joint. Fore wings naked, with long 
marginal cilia, resembling those of Signiphora but the stigmal vein is normal. Cephalic and 
posterior femora swollen but simple. Mandibles 4-dentate. Head simple. Funicle joints- 
snbquadrate. Postmarginal vein very short but distinct. Fore wings with a dense tuft of 
black bristles at the bend of the long submarginal vein. Hind wings as in Signiphora. 
Abdomen robust. With the subfamily characters. 
