288 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



A NEW SPECIES OF MYMARIDiE FROM AUSTRALIA. 



BY A. A. GIRAULT, NELSON, N. Q., AUSTRALIA. 



Genus Stethynium Enock. 

 1. Stethynium cinctiventris, new species. 



Female. — Length 0.80 mm. Habitus of Anaphes. 



Black, the abdomen with a broad band of silvery-white around 

 its base, occupying nearly a third of the surface; scutum more or 

 less pallid, especially at caudal half, the parapsides and scutellum 

 white. Legs white or nearly, the antennae black, the first three 

 funicle joints cylindrical, the second longest, 1 and 3 more or less 

 equal, a third shorter than 2; 6 subglobular, a third shorter than 

 5, while 4 is a fourth shorter than 5; proximal club joint nearly 

 half of the club. Fore wings rather narrow and graceful, with 

 about fourteen lines of discal cilia across the widest part of the 

 blade, the longest marginal cilia about half the greatest width. 

 Hind wings rather narrow and curved, with five lines of fine discal 

 cilia near tip, the third and fourth lines soon disappearing. Strigil 

 present. Scutellum rectangular, the mesopostscutellum much 

 longer than it and joined to the phragma (two pairs of sclerites 

 between scutellum and postscutellum). Fore wing with a more 

 or less distinct subfuscous stripe across it at about the middle. 

 Valves of ovipositor slightly exserted. Tibial spurs single. 



Male not known. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping in a jungle 

 pocket, September 3, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 

 Habitat. — Nelson (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type. — In the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above 

 specimen on a slide with the following specimen: 



Genus Anaphoidea Girault. 

 1. Anaphoidea galtoni Girault. 



Male. — Funicle joints each a little over twice longer than 

 broad, otherwise like the female. 



From one specimen captured with the female type specimen 

 (Roma, Queensland). 



August, 1914 



