AUSTRALIAN HYMENOPTERA CHALCIDOIDEA, VI.—GIRAULT. 
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HOLASAPHES new genus. 
Female: — Head wider than the thorax, lenticular, the occiput concave; running to 
Asaphes Walker but the antennae only 11-jointed; club indistinctly 3-jointed, the flagellum 
clavate, the first funicle joint like a ring-joint. Like Asnphoideus Girault but the hind tibial 
spurs rather long and stout (somewhat stouter than normal in the other genus) and the 
postmarginal vein is twice or more the length of the marginal which is plainly not twice the 
length of the stigmal and the ovipositor and valves are distinctly extruded for a third or less 
the length of the abdomen. The punctate lino across scutellum is rather distant from the apex 
in both genera and it is the fourth abdominal segment which is much the longest in both genera; 
also in both, the pronotum is subequal to the short scutum. Petiole in this new genus rather 
shorter than with Asaphoideus. Type of latter re-examined (type of niger). 
With the habitus of a Torymid and somewhat of a Eurytomid. 
1. HOLASAPHES GREGI new species. Genotype. 
Female: — ^Length, 1.67 mm., excluding the short ovipositor. 
Black, rather shining, the wings hyaline, the legs reddish brown, paler at the articula- 
tions and tarsi, the coxse black; antennas concolorous with the legs; last funicle joint widest, 
the joints not much unequal in length, the pedicel much longer than any of the funicle joints. 
Mandibles strongly tridentate, the teeth subequal (in Asaphoideus niger, the lateral tooth is 
distinctly the longest, the mesal one smallest). Thorax finely, transversely polygonally scaly, 
the scutellum uniformly sculptured, the abdomen smooth; lateral carinae rather close to median 
on propodeum, curved, joining the median a short distance before apex; a deep, curved spira- 
cular sulcus runs directly from the small spiracle. (Spiracular sulcus also present in Asaphoi- 
deus niger but straighter). Segment 2 of abdomen longer than 3. Pronotum with a faintly 
indicated line of punctures across distad of middle. 
Described from one female captured March 9, 1912 in forest. 
Hahitat: Horn Island, Torres Strait. 
Type: No. HySISS, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and 
hind tibias on a slide. 
2. HOLASAPHES EMERSONI new species. 
Female: — Length, 1 mm., excluding ovipositor which is exserted for a length equal to 
a third that of the abdomen. 
Very dark shining metallic blue-green, nearly black, the fore wing with a more or less 
obscure yellowisli stain under the marginal and stigmal veins, and which does not extend 
further caudad than the middle; legs and antennas pale straw yellow, the cephalic cox« con- 
colorous with the body. Caudal half of pronotum, the abdomen and the scutellum caudad of 
the transverse groove, glabrous. Otherwise as in the genotype, or nearly, but the club is 
distinctly 3-jointed, the head not as large and the antennre slenderer. 
Male: — Not known. 
Described from one female captured in a jungle pocket, March 1, 1914. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. HyB789, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, hind 
legs and a fore wing on a slide. 
