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margin opposite basal part of 4, its cilia smaller, 2-4 from 

 apex to a point about where venation would end if present. 

 Fringes deep-set into the margins, 64-66 counting shortest. 

 Petiole appearing as if jointed at distal two-thirds. Strigils 

 absent. Scutum and face lighter. Minute. 

 Gordonvale, window, February. 



Procheiloneurus, new genus. 



Like Cheiloneurus but scutellum simple, ovipositor ex- 

 truded, one-fourth of abdomen and the fore wings are dis- 

 tinctly 3-spotted, one ovate marginal spot apex venation, an- 

 other elongate one opposite, a smaller, round spot at apex 

 centrally at margin. Teeth of mandible acute, 2 somewhat 

 longest. Frons very narrow. Dilation of scape moderate. 

 Type, the following species. 



Procheiloneurus triguttatipennis, new species. 



1.65 mm. Orange, the fore wings all infuscated but a nar- 

 row cross-stripe just proximad of apex of hairless line ; scutum 

 save cephalic fourth, scutellum save cephalic margin, hind 

 lateral angle propodeum, abdomen, a spot at meson, upper 

 face pronotum, middle femur at apex, tibia 2 at base widely, 

 purple ; upper occiput aeneous. Frons, cheeks save ventrad, 

 ventral margin of scape (less so distad), purplish; rest of 

 antennae black, save apex of pedicel, funicles 5-6, one corner 

 of apex of funicle 4, ovipositor valves, coxae, base of femora, 

 all white. Pedicel elongate, funicles 1-2 somewhat longer 

 than wide, 3 quadrate, others shorter and wider. Thorax 

 finely scaly, pubescence inconspicuous. 



Gordonvale, July. 



Mesentendon, new genus. 



Female : Vertex rather thick. Mandibles bidentate. An- 

 tennas 8-jointed, 3 funicle, 1 large ring-joint, the club short, 

 rotund, 2 with a short, stout nipple. Parapsidal furrows com- 

 plete, distinct ; scutellum with a lateral groove joined around 

 apex ; propodeum with three narrow median carinae (the lat- 

 eral diverging), a spur at hind margin over hind coxa, the 



