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stnieturally as follows : The antenns bear only two ring-joints, 

 there being four transverse funicle joints and three club joints, 

 the pedicel long and slenderly obeonic ; the postmarginal vein is 

 two-thirds as long as the stigmal and the fore wings bear a 

 substigraal, fuscous cloud. The body is brilliantly metallic. The 

 marginal vein is longer, nearly half the length of the submar- 

 ginal. Scutellum without grooved lines. Posterior tibiae with a 

 single long spur. Abdomen depressed, oval. Propodeal spir- 

 acle central, small, round-oval, the propodeum without a median 

 carina nor spiracular sulci. Vertex large. Otherwise as in the 

 type of the genus. 



Female — The same but the abdomen is stout, short, com- 

 pressed beneath, the o\apositor slightly exserted. The antenna 

 has three rings and three funicle joints and the club is more 

 compact. 



2. RhicnopelteUa splendoriferella new species 



Female — Length, 2 mm. Brilliant metallic green, the abdo- 

 men dark cupreous, the legs concolorous with the abdomen and 

 with their articulations whitish; coxae metallic bluish; tibiae 

 lighter, the proximal half or more of the caudal tibiae white. 

 Flagellum brownish. Wings hyaline but the fore wings with a 

 lightly fuscated rounded area under the apex of the stigmal 

 vein and beneath most of the marginal vein; venation dusky 

 brownish. Head and thorax rather finely, densely reticulated, 

 the reticulation not coarse enough to form punctures but the 

 sculpt^ire of fine polygonal striation, on the abdomen and pro- 

 podeum smoother. 



(From a single specimen, similarly magnified). 



Male — Length, 1.75 mm. The same but much more brassy 

 and bronzy, the vertex metallic rosaceous, the same color on 

 much of the thorax and head, the abdomen brighter green ; legs 

 with more brownish. Scape and pedicel brown, the flagellum 

 dark brown. 



(From twelve specimens, the same magnification). 



Described at first from twelve males and one female mounted 

 together on a card in the Queensland Museum, labeled "Bred 

 from gall No. 5A. Brisbane, H. Hacker. 20/6/11". 



