AUSTBALIAN HYMENOPTEEA CEALCIDOIDEA, IV.—GIMAULT. 
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2. SYMPIESOMORPHELLEUS THOREAUINI new species. 
Female: — ^Length, 1.58 mm. 
Shining black, the legs, scape and a large wedgeshaped area in dorsal abdomen from 
base, yellowish brown; the yellow abdominal area originates at base where it is narrower but 
truncate; distad it extends not quite to middle and there is broadly truncate; for its entire 
length it fills the abdominal dorsum except narrowly along each lateral margin (the margining 
black, widening distad. Wings hyaline. Mandildes 6*dentate. Funicle joints subcqual, oval, 
1 a little the longest, larger than the globular pedicel; club ending in the usual nipple-like 
joint^^ (nonarticulated). Median carina of propodeum solid, the spiracle round, small, in a 
roundish depre.ssion; a more or loss distinct, obtuse spiracular groove. Segment 2 of 
abdomen occupying soinow'hat over a fifth of the surface, longest. Parapsidal furrows 
represented by narrow carinac wdiich curve off before reaching the pronotum which is transverse- 
quadrate. Axilljc not advanced. Grooves of scntellum broadly separated distad (nearly for 
entire apical margin). Thorax distinctly moderately coarsely scaly, the propodeum glabrous; 
dorsal abdomen distad with very delicate scaly scnlpUire. Marginal vein nearly thrice the 
length of the stigma! ■which is distinctly sliovter than the ]K)Stmargiual. 
From one female caught by sweejiiug forest, June 7, 1914. 
Hahitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. HyS687, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag. 
Dedicated to flenry David Thoreau. 
3. SYMPIESOMORPHELLEUS PAUCIFASCIATUS new species. 
Female: — Length, 1.75 mm. 
Orange yellow, the wings hyaline, the abdomen and legs a little lighter yellow, the 
former narrowly margined down each dorsal edge with blackish and with two distinct, black 
cross-stripes at distal third, the two joined along the meson by a short median black line. 
Antennae concoloroiis, all the funicle joints larger than the short pedicel, the first longest, 
distinctly longer than wide, the others subglobnlar. Mandibles 7-dontate. Segment 3 of 
abdomen only half the length of 2, which occupies about a fourth of the surface. Thorax 
scaly. Median carina of propodeum paired, forking caudad. 
Described from one female caught by sweeping over all ])arts of island, a mile from 
mainland, forest, December 25, 1911. 
Jfahitai: Northern Queensland (Double Island near Cairns). 
Type: No. IlySBSS, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag; head and hind 
legs on a slide. 
4. SYMPIESOMORPHELLEUS ALBICLAVA new^ species. 
Female: — Tjength, l.SO mm. 
Orange yellow, the abdomen honey yellow, the legs concoloroiis with the abdomen. 
Scape and club yellowish white, pedicel and funicle 1 orange, other funicle joints black. 
Abdomen naiTowly obscurely margined with black from base to distal three fourths, the marginal 
stripe broken into obscure dots. Fore wings slightly stained with yellowish. Antennge as in 
nigriscuiellum. also the venation. A^ertex lemon yellow. Thorax scaly, the scutum rather 
thickly pin -punctured, the sciitelliun with only a few of these punctures. Immediate tip of 
abdomen black. Postscntellnm platelike. Projiodeum glabrous, finely scaly iaterad, with the 
usual three carinae — also a carina just Iaterad of the spiracle. Segment 2 of abdomen occupying 
a third of the Surface. Mandibles about 8-dentate. 
From one female caught November, 1912. 
Tlaljitat: Gordonvale, Queensland. 
Type: No. EyBG89, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and 
hind legs with the slide type of Euryscotolinx immarginaius. 
