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MEMOmS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
long, subequal, combined slightly longer tlian segment 2 (not so in sobrinus). Grooves of 
scutellum separated at apex by less than their own diameter. Abdomen black, or nearly. 
Oblique cariua3 from median cariua of i)ropodeum very long and oblique. 
Described from one female caught by sweeping in a jungle pocket, November 16, 1913 
(A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. HySGBS, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag; head 
and hind tibiae on a slide. 
4. PARENTEDON FRATERCULUS new species. 
FemaJe: — Similar to simiUs but the fore wings stained yellow, the mandibles 15-dentate, 
the second segment of abdomen a little shorter, the abdomen sessile, the hind wing a little 
narrower, the grooves of scutellum separated by a little more than their width. Oblique caringe 
from median cariua of propodeniu not so distinct as in similis and shorter and less oblique. 
Prom one female captured in a meadow, February 24, 1912. 
Habitat : Cooktown, Qiieensland. 
Type: No. Hy S694, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and 
hind tibiae on a slide. 
TABLE TO THE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF PAEENTEDON GIEAULT. 
Grooves of scutellum separated at apex by not more than their own width or only slightly more. 
Segment 2 of abdomen occupying half the surface, 3 and 4 united, much shorter than it; 
mandibles 11-dentate; wings subhyaline; abdomen sessile . . . . sobrmus G. &; D. 
Segment 2 of abdomen occupying only a third or somewhat more of the surface; wings 
hyaline; mandibles 14-dentate; abdomen with a short petiole .. similis G. &!). 
The same; wings yellowish ; mandibles 15-deutate ; abdomen sessile fraterculus Girault. 
Grooves of scutellum at apex separated i)laiuly more than their owm width. 
Segment 2 of abdomen occupying one third of surface; wdngs yellowish; mandibles 
13-dentate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . australis Girault. 
Genus OPHELTMINUS Girault. 
1. OPHELIMINUS GROTIUSI Girault. 
Length, 2.50 mm. The type is on a tag, the head and caudal tibiae on a slide. It was 
taken in forest near a streamlet, June 27, 1913. 
2. OPHELIMINUS PULCHERRIMUS new species of A P. Dodd. 
Female: — Ijcngth, 2.80 mm. 
Very similar to consomis Girault-^ but all the coxee metallic, except apical half of cephalic 
pair; mandibles 5-dentate; abdomen with more yellow’ dorsad, the basal half being yellow, 
margined witli ])urp]ish black but at the caudal margin of the yellow at meson there is an 
extension from the black into the. yellow area (ni eonsonus the yellow extends to less than half 
the abdomen, is more broadly margined with purplish and wdth no black extension into the 
yellow at meson) ; the abdomen Is no longer than the thorax (in eonsonus it is distinctly longer), 
the median cariua of propodeum is distinct and the stigmal vein is shorter as in grotiusi Girault. 
From one female caught sw’eeping in forest, January 27, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hi/ ^655, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head 
on a slide. 
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