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yellowish; the scutellum has not a small patch of greyish pubes- 

 cence at apex, just above the terminal plate as with the type speci- 

 men (rubrifemur) and in tricolor the third abdominal segment is 

 more roughly finely sculptured. There are eleven distinct teeth 

 on the posterior femur instead of the ten of the type species. 

 Intermediate and cephalic tarsi white or whitish. (Antennae 

 missing; scape black.) Wings hyaline. 



(From a single specimen, the same magnification.) 



Male: Not known. 



Described from a single cardmounted specimen from the 

 collections of the Queensland Museum, labelled "Q.M. Tam- 

 bourine. H. Hacker, April 2, 1911." 



Habitat: Australia — Tambourine, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 1183. Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the 

 above female on a card. 



Brachepitelia new genus. 



Female: The same as the preceding genus, Pseudepitelia, 

 but the antennae 12-jointed, the scutellum terminating in a short 

 plate, whose distal margins are straight, the plate barely differen- 

 tiated, The submarginal vein is shorter and stouter. Propodeum 

 without noticeable lateral projections. Second abdominal seg- 

 ment occupying nearly half of the abdomen. 



Male: Not known. 



Type: The following species. 

 1, Brachepitelia rubripes new species. 



Female: Length, 3.70 mm. 



Opaque black, marked with dark red as follows: Posterior 

 legs except coxae; cephalic knees, tibiae and tarsi; intermediate 

 knees and tarsi (mixed with brownish) and the ends of the 

 tibiae. Venation dark, the wings hyaline. Head and thorax 

 rugoso-punctate. Posterior femur with ten distinct teeth, the 

 first twice the largest, the distal teeth smaller in succession. 



Male: Not known. 



Described from a cardmounted female, labelled "Larva of 

 Various Moths, Melbourne." 



Habitat: Australia — Melbourne, Victoria. 



Type: No. Hy 1184, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the 

 above specimen; an antenna on a slide. 



(To be continued.) 



