150 MEMOmS OF TEE QVEENSLAKT) MUSEUM. 



Tribe OPHIONEUBIXT. 

 The name of tbis tribe lias been changed from Lathromeriui because the oldest iucluded 

 gcmis is Opliioneunis Ratzburg. 



Genus APHELIXOinKA Girault. 



1. APHELINOIDEA TINTINNABULUM new species. 



Differs from liowardii and the other Australian si)ecies in having the diseal ciliatiou 

 absent just distad of venation somewhat as in plutella but the naked stripe is not so clearly 

 delimited as in that species. Legs and antennje pallid, suffused slightly with dusky, the femora 

 dusky. Face, sides of thorax, occiput and obscure cross-stripes on abdomen blackish. Dorsum 

 of thorax orange yellow. Only one or two cephalic lines of diseal cilia reach the marginal 

 vein, the others disappearing about the length of that vein away. Scutellum p.aler. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from two females captured by sweeping forest, .January 6, 191.3. 



Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 



Type : No. Ey S4S7, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on a slide together. 



2. APHELINOIDEA PAINEI Girault. 

 One female, Gordonvale. Ajiril S. 1014, sweeping grass in forest. 



3. APHELINOIDEA SPECIOSISSIMA Girault belongs to Pxnidhrachygmmma. 



Genus LATHROMEEELLA Girault. 



A. female captured at Gordonvale, Queensland, January 13, 1913, by sweeping in forest 

 bore nuich less black on the pleura of thorax. Tlie species is not uncommon in the type locality. 



1. LATHROMEEELLA FASCIATA Girault. 

 Five females, forest, type locality, 2,000 feet. .Tune 3. ^fetathcu'ax and propodeum 

 laterad black. The t^^^'o ring-joints are veritied. 



2. LATHROMEEELLA OCCIDENT ALIS new species. 



Female: — Lcngtli, 1 mm. excluding ovipositor which is extruded a little over a fourth 

 the length of the abdomen. Differs from the genotype in lacking a terminal spine on club 

 and the ovipositor is distinctly extruded. 



Black, the vertex, scutum and scutelUmi deep orange yellow, the scutum on each sids 

 of the meson with two conspicuous elongate dusky black markings reaching distad of middle. 

 Pore wings lightly dusky from base distad half wa.y to apex of wing from end of venation. 

 Pore wings with about 14 lines of diseal cilia in regular lines the marginal cilia not long but 

 a little longer than usual. Legs dusky, the tips of tibias and tarsi pallid. Anteunse dusky. 

 Ovipositor inserted near base. Fourth did) joint longest, wider than long, the fifth joint 

 conical, longer than wide. 



From one female captured by sweeping forest. April Hi, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Eahilat: Cloncurry, Queensland. 



Type: No. Eyfi-l."S, Queensland Jluseum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide with type of 

 Vfens hinotahis. 



3. LATHEOMEEELLA CHINDEEAENSIS new species. 



Female: — Lengtli, 0.7". niiii. Aiilinn.'v Hitii tlic distinct terminal spine. .Xbdonieii 

 iiornial. 



.let black, the scutum (excepting for a long wedgeshaped spot on each side of meson 

 from cephalic margin), scutelluin, axilUe, meson of projiodeum, abdomen across base dorsad 



