458 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Dec., '13 



Habitat. Australia, Thursday Island (Torres Strait). 



Type. The above specimen on a tag, the head, a hind leg 

 and a fore wing on a slide with the type of Archenomus niger 

 Girault. 



OPHEUMINI. 

 Opheliminus new genus. 



Female. Like Alophomorpha Girault in antennal struc- 

 ture and otherwise but the scutellum is simple, the median 

 carina of the propodeum is present but the short sulcus on 

 each side absent. Also the abdomen is long, pointed conic- 

 ovate, depressed above, as long as the head and thorax com- 

 bined. Mandibles with about five teeth. 



Male. Not known. 



Type. The following species: 



1. Opheliminus grotii n. sp. 



Female. Length, 2.50 mm. 



Brilliant metallic green, the wings hyaline, the abdomen dark pur- 

 plish, dorsad with a pale yellowish, large, suhquadrate area cen- 

 trally a short distance from base ; ventrad this area is noticeably 

 larger. Legs white except proximal part of hind coxa; scape also 

 white, edged with dusky above, the flagellum black, the first funicle 

 joint about twice the length of the pedicel, the second and third joints 

 subequal and little the longest and stoutest; first club joint longest, 

 equal in length to the other two combined. Reticulated, including 

 the propodeum. Fore wings densely ciliate discally, the marginal 

 cilia extremely short. 



(From one specimen, similarly magnified.) 



Male. Not known. 



Described from a single female captured by sweeping in 

 forest and along a jungle-clad forest streamlet, June 27, 1913. 



Habitat. Australia, Nelson (Cairns), North Queensland. 



Type. The above specimen on a tag, the head and hind 

 tibiae together on a slide. 



This beautiful species is respectfully dedicated to Hugo 

 Grotius. 



iBLACHERTlNI. 



Genus Pseudiglyphus Girault. 



This genus was originally assigned to the Hemiptersenini, 

 but it belongs here since the parapsidal furrows are complete. 



