AUSTRALIAN EYMENOPTEBA CHALCIDOIDEA, IV.~GIRAULT. 
2S'S 
3. ALOPHOMORPHELLA NIVEIPE3 new species. 
Female: — Length, 2.5 min. 
Dark metallic green, the legs (except caudal coxae) and the scape white. Scutellum and 
axillae brassy. Fore wings with a long-ovate dusky spot with its axis obliqued caudo- 
proximad from the end of the stigmal knob; but this spot docs not touch the stigmal vein 
being half the length of that vein directly cuudad of its apex. Antenna black; funicle 1 
distinctly the longest, elongate, twice the length of the pedicel, longer than the club; funicleS’ 
2 and 3 subequal, 4 shorter than 3, slightly longer than wide; third club- joint nipple-like,, 
itself with a short, stout terminal nipple. Mandibles about G-dcntate. Stigmal vein a little 
over a third the length of the marginal, sliorter than the postmarginal yet slender. Grooves- 
of scutellum joined around apical margin. Abdomen glabrous, distad finely scaly. Thorax 
densely punctate, the axillae and scutellum more densely scaly, the propodeum glabrous, with a 
distinct median Carina which has a narrow sulcus along each side of it: lateral carina 
represented by a straight line of foveas running meso-caudad from the spiracle to near apex 
of the median carina; this lateral line of foveao does not reach the spiracle by the latter ^s own 
diameter and a little more. Spot on fore wing not twice longer than wide. 
From one female taken in jungle. May 3, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Ealitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed River), New South Wales. 
Type: No. EyB691, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag: head and 
caudal tibia on a slide. 
PAEENTEDON new genus. 
For diagnosis see aniea, p. 279. 
1. PARENTEDON AUSTRALIS new species. 
Length, 2 min. The types were taken in forest, December 27, 1912 and January 8, 1913. 
2. PARENTEDON SOBRINUS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 
Female: — Length, 1.95 mm. 
Similar to the genotyq^e but the abdomen is more uniform in color (not submetallie 
distad) and darker, the margins still obscurely darker. The following structural differences: 
The grooves on the seutellnm are separated around distal margin by only slightly more than 
their own width (distinctly more separated in autfiralis) ; on the propodeum there are a 
number of weak oblique carime from the. side of the distinct median carina and also from 
the cephalic margin of propodeum mesad of the spiracle, the longitudinal space between the 
two groups of carinsB, smooth, the lateral of the two separated from the small round spiracle 
by a broad complete sulcus; caudal margin of ]tropodeum cn.rinatcd, turning up towmrd the 
spiracle and thus forming the more or less distinct lateral carinro as in misifalifi', the spiracle 
is somewhat larger in this species; sculpture of mesothorax alike in both species; mandibles 
with only eleven teeth. Antennje dark, scape whitish, the pedicel so beneath; fimicle 4 quadrate. 
Described from one female caught by sw'ceping in forest, Juno 18, 1912 (A. A. Girault). 
Eahitat: Northern Queensland (Gordonvale near Cairns). 
Type: No. JlyS69S, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag. 
Both australis and the above si^ecies have a hoodlike neck at apex of propodeum. 
3. PARENTEDON SIMILIS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 
Female: — Length, 1.50 mm. 
Similar to the preceding species (sohrmus) but slenderer, the abdomen slenderer and 
brownish interiorly (along mesal portion) only, the femora and tibiao nearly white, the abdomen 
narrower and with a short, distinct petiole and the second segment occupies only a third of 
the surface (not a half or nearly). Mandibles 14-dentate. Segments 3 and 4 of abdomen,. 
