60 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



A NEW GENUS OF SCELIONIDM FROM AUSTRALIA. 



BY ALAN P. DODD, NELSON, QUEENSLAND. 



Subfamily Balince. 

 Acolomorpha, nov. gen. 



9 . — Head transverse, a little wider than the thorax; mandibles 

 broad, tridentate; maxillary palpi 2-jointed. Antennae 6-jointed 

 (really 7-jointed since a small ring-joint is present), scape, pedicel, 

 3 funicle joints and a solid club. Thorax and forewings as in 

 Aeolus Forester. Abdomen broadly sessile, no wider or longer 

 than the thorax; first and second segments short, transverse; third 

 segment occupying two-thirds of the abdominal length. 



Type: Acolomorpha minuta described herewith. 

 Acolomorpha minuta, n. sp. 



9 . — Length 0.75 mm. 



Shining black; legs and antenna? black. 



Head and thorax with very fine polygonal sculpture. Abdo- 

 men with first and second segments striate; third segment smooth. 

 Antennae short; scape equal to pedicel and funicle joints combined; 

 pedicel one-half longer than wide; first funicle joint as wide as the 

 pedicel and almost as long; second and third much narrower than 

 the first, short, transverse; club large, one-half longer than wide, 

 -as long as the scape. Forewings reaching some distance beyond 

 apex of abdomen; narrow, infuscated; longest marginal cilia equal 

 to two-fifths the greatest wing width; discal cilia fine and dense; 

 submarginal vein attaining the costa about the middle of the 

 wing; marginal' vein as long as the stigmal, which is short, a little 

 oblique; basal vein rather short, perpendicular. 



[From 1 specimen % inch objective, 1 inch optic, Bausch and 

 Lomb.] 



Habitat: North Queensland (Nelson, near Cairns). Described 

 from one 9 caught by sweeping in forest, 12th August, 1913 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Type: In the South Australian Museum, a female on a 

 slide. 



