178 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MVSECM. 



Genus EUEYISCHOMYIA Girault. 

 Like Euryischia but the parapsidal furrows are complete; the hind cox;b are enlarged 

 but cylindrical ovate as in some species of Euryischiu. Tarsi 5-jointed. The male is similar 

 but with an obtuse abdomen. 



1. EUEYISCHOMYIA WASHINGTON! Girault. Female, male. Genotype. 



Length. 1 mm. Slender, the abdomen conic-ovate. 



Very dark metallic green; legs (except caudal coxae and femora) and tegulie pale 

 lemon yellow. Fore wings with a clearly delimited, broad, jet black band across them under 

 the marginal and most of postmarginal veins, its distal margin just reaching apex of stigmal 

 vein, its proximal margin nearly straight. Wings hyaline. Scutum with hardly more seta) 

 than the scutellum which is nearly naked, the sparse setae whitish. Thorax finely scaly. 

 Mandibles bidentate, the second tooth broadly truncate. Two ring-joints, the three funicle 

 joints subquadrate. Not more than two bristles under submarginal vein. Hind femur 

 compressed. The male is similar. Outer angle of second tooth of mandible acute. 



One female was captured by sweeping in forest, Townsville, January 19, 1913. The 

 type locality is Pentland (January 8, 1913). 



Habitat: Capeville (Pentland) and Townsville, Queensland. Forest. 



Type: Xo. 'H.y2':42, Queensland iliiseum, Brisbane. 



2. EURYISCHOMYIA FLAVITHORAX new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, 1.40 mm. 



Abdomen jet black; thorax deep orange yellow except most of the short black prouotum 

 which is lemon yellow at latetral angles and the postscutelluni and propodeum which are 

 transverse and lemon yellow, the suture between them black. Head lemon yellow as are also 

 the legs and antennis and thoracic pleura. Hind coxae blackish. Thorax finely reticulated. 

 "Wings hyaline. Mandibles tridentate, the third tooth really a truncation from the second 

 which forms the acute inner angle of the apex. Postmarginal vein somewhat longer than 

 Ihe stigmal. Somewhat similar to saintpierrei Girault. Funicle 3 largest, all wider than 

 long. Obscure white marginal spots on base of abdomen. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from three females taken by sweeping forest, December 1 and 3. 1913 

 (A.A.G.). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Types: No. Hy 2744, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag, the head, 

 a hind tibia and another female on a slide. 



On March 2, 1914 a female was captured at Cooktown in forest (A. P. Dodd). 



3. EURYISCHOMYIA SAINTPIERREI new species. 



Female: — ^Length, 1.30 mm. 



Running to Anysis Howard in the Eunotiuiie but the antennse clavate and 10-jointed 

 with two ring-joints, the club 3-jointed; scutellum flat and hardly differentiated from the 

 l>ropodeum, not as long as the scutum whicli bears complete parapsidal furrows. "Wings • 

 as in Euryiscliia of the Elasmidaj but the large bristles absent; hind coxae enlarged but 

 cylindrical. Second abdominal segment (dorsad) hardly as long as the others, not a fifth 

 of the surface, the abdomen short and stout. Hind tibiae with stiff bristles dorsad, the femora 

 stout. Wings hyaline. Propodeum apparently without eariuEB. Pedicel subelongate. 



Alidomen black, thorax and head yellowish brown, the propodeum black; legs brownish 

 black, the knees, tibiae and tarsi lemon yellow; antenna? brownish yellow, the three funicle 



