A REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN TELEASINAE [HYMENOPTERA: PROCTOTRYPOIDEA]. By Alan P. Dodd. [Read 26th March, 1930.] The subfamily Teleasinae of the family Scelionidae is rich in species, poor in genera; Kieffer (Das Tierreich, 1926) listed 230 species under 9 genera. The group is a compact one, and the numerous species are very similar in general outline. Little is known of their host associations; one North American species has been reared from the eggs of a Carabid beetle, and the group may be restricted to parasitism of Coleopterous eggs. In my experience, the Australian species are found usually in damp situations, either among the low shrubs and undergrowth of the coastal heavily-timbered country, or among grass growing near streams or swamps. They are particularly abundant during the wet season summer months in the mountain scrubs of Southern Queensland, where they can be collected in numbers running over the surface of leaves within a few feet of the ground; on the other hand they are not plentiful in the humid tropical jungles of North Queensland. Their actions are rather slow in comparison with the rapid jerky movements and quick short flight of the majority of the Scelionidae. The chief characters of the subfamily are as follows: Head transverse, the vertex thin; ocelli situated close together, the lateral pair far removed from the eye margins; frons not depressed or excavated above the antennal insertion. Antennae inserted on a small prominence near the mouth; 12-jointed in both sexes; in the female with a compact 6-jointed club, the third and fourth funicle joints usually short; in the male, filiform, the flagellar joints usually long. Thorax stout; pronotum hardly visible from above; scutum with the parapsidal furrows either delicate or absent, deep and abbreviated in one genus; scutellum semi-circular, in one genus armed with a spine on either side; metanotum usually armed with from one to three teeth or spines; propodeum rather short, frequently armed with a tooth at the posterior angles, and sometimes with a small tooth at the anterior angles. Forewings often abbreviated; marginal vein very long, much longer than the stigmal vein, rarely as long as the submarginal, the stigmal vein usually short, the postmarginal absent. Abdomen rather short, rarely more than twice as long as its greatest width; broadly oval; narrowed at the base; lateral margins carinated on the ventral side; segment 1 sub-petiolate, sometimes with a basal prominence in the female; segment 3 the longest, except in Gryon Haliday; 4-6 short. The Genera of the Teleasinae. Kieffer recognized nine genera in his 1926 monograph, but he omitted Gryonoides Dodd (1919). Teleas Latreille, which occurs in Europe, Asia, and D
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