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1 . Epimetagea purpurea, new species. 

 Female. — Length, 3.5 mm. 



Metallic purple, the abdomen with metallic green reflections; 

 knees, tibiae, tarsi (except distal dark part of distal joint) and the 

 antennae, brown, the latter sufl^used with purplish distad. Vena- 

 tion nearly invisible, but the stigmal vein brownish. Head im- 

 punctate, but with very fine circular stri;e; lateral ocelli very dis- 

 tant from the eye margins; scrobicular cavity with its lateral mar- 

 gins noncarinate; a tubercle at latero-cephalic aspect of pronotum. 

 Scutellum between and behind the axillae (at the meson) sunken. 

 Abdominal petiole longitudinally striate. Cephalic part of thorax 

 dorsad (cephalad of the middle of the scutum) coarsely reticulate, 

 as is also much of the scutellum. Base of propodeum with deep, 

 transverse foveae. 



(From three specimens, the same magnification.) 



Male. — Not known. 



Described from three female specimens kindly given to me by 

 Mr. F. P. Dodd, mounted together on a card labelled "From ant 

 pupae. Townsville, July 1902." 



Habitat: Australia — Townsville, Queensland. 



Types: No. Ily 1195, Queensland Museum, the above speci- 

 mens (two more or less mutilated) on a single card, plus a slide of 

 xylol-balsam bearing female head and antennae. 



Family Cleonymidae. 



Chalcedectinae. 



Calosetroides, new genus. 



Female. — Allied to Amotura Cameron, but the front femora 

 are swollen, compressed and excised beneath at apex, the posterior 

 femora unarmed beneath. Legs unarmed otherwise; cephalic 

 tibiae somewhat compressed; caudal coxa compressed, flat interior- 

 ly, the caudal femur enlarged but unarmed ; caudal tibiae with two 

 unequal spurs, both rather large. Tarsi five-jointed. Antennae 

 inserted distinctly below the ventral ends of the eyes; very near the 

 clypeus, the scape obclavate and long, the flagellum 9-jointed, no 

 ring-joint. Scrobicular cavity long, but not including the cephalic 

 ocellus, the lateral ocelli separated from the eye margin, the three 



