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from it as follows : The fore wings are fumated continuously through- 

 out, the body bears metallic coloration, the marginal fringes of the 

 fore wing at apex are somewhat shorter. With the two other species 

 it need not be confused. As concerns the other species of the nigra 

 group, namely noacki Ashmead, maxima Girault, pulclira, Girault, 

 and nigrella Girault, funeralis should not be confusable, since all of 

 these species bear much longer marginal ciliation on the fore wings; 

 specifically, in general coloration it differs from all of these species 

 excepting pulchra because the fore wings are nearly uniformly fumated 

 throughout; from pulclira it may be distinguished also by means of 

 the pallid tarsi, the broader wings, the absence of the discal bristle 

 and so on. 



Antennal club not unusually long, conic-ovate and about four 

 times longer than its greatest width; fore wings moderately broad, 

 their longest marginal cilia somewhat less than half their greatest 

 width; discal bristle absent. Posterior wings moderate in width, 

 not as w4de as their longest marginal cilia. Oblique hair-line crease 

 of fore wing slightly indicated, present but faint. 



From one specimen, the same magnification. 



Male . — Unknown . 



Described from a single female specimen mounted in balsam and 

 captured from a window in an empty dwelling, December 28, 1911, 

 at Herberton, North Queensland, Australia. 



Habitat. — Australia — Queensland (Herberton) . 



Host. — Unknown. 



Type. — One female in xylol-balsam (mounted with some tricho- 

 grammatids — AhheUa, TricTiogrammatoidea, and an Anagrus) deposited 

 in the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, No. Hy./771. 



26. SIGNIPHORA CORVINA, new species. 



Normal position. 



Female. — Length, 1.10 mm.; large, robust. 



General color deep black, tinged on the head and thorax with 

 metallic bluish green, the whole of the mesonotum thus colored; 

 legs, antennae and venation brownish black, but the tarsi and cephahc 

 tibise interiorly yellowish brown. Fore wings hyaline excepting 

 along about the proximal half, or out not quite to the end of the 

 venation. The stained proximal area of the wing is peculiar; thus 

 its distal margin is obliquely (caudo-proximad) truncate, the caudal 

 midlongitudinal (nearly) half being more clear. Hence, somewhat 

 as in melanchalica, the fumation is under the venation extending 

 caudad somewhat beyond the midlongitudinal line of the blade. It 

 is longer, however, than the clouded area of the species named. 

 Distal tarsal joints only slightly darker. 



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