U6 Mh.UOU.-S OF THE QIEESSLASV lIVSEVil. 



on each side of the meson eaoh reaching somewhat three fourths the way to apex. Thorax 

 cUstinct)y hmgitndinally liueolated. Hind tibite more or less dusky jiist below knees. Marginal 

 vein subequal to stigmal. Scape white, antenna black. 



From one female caught on a native grass in forest, April i, 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Tyjw: No. U)t3ii8. Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 



A second female taken May 13, same jilace. had the base of abdomen yellow traus\ersely. 



Genus PARrFi::XS Girault. 

 The antenna' bear two ring-joints, liemoved from L'feiis. 



1. PARUFENS ARGENTITIBIS; new species. 



Female: — Length, 0.7U umi. 



Jet black, the vertex more or less yellowish, the trochanters, tibi*. knees and tarsi 

 silvery white, the wings hyaline. Pedicel nearly twice the length of the funicle joint which is 

 cupshaped, its greatest width (apex) a little more than its length; club acuminate-ovate, longer 

 than the scape, without a terminal seta, its three joints longer than wide. Pedicel apparently 

 with a coarse scaly sculpture. Fore wings moderate in width, with about 1-5 regular lines of 

 discal cilia and a curved line from the stigmal vein with about four cilia. Stigmal vein long, 

 the marginal longer than it but not much more so. Hind wings short, moderately broad, 

 obtusely pointed at apex. Iwaring four lines of disc:il cilia, two cephalad and distinct, two 

 caudad and faint ; caudal marginal fringes about as long as the greatest width. Marginal 

 i ringes of fore wing very short. 



Differs from the genotype only in having the tibiffi silver^' besides the tarsi, the funicle 

 joint cujishaped and apparently in having one more line of discal cilia in the hind wing. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from one female captured December '_'-!. I'.iTi in forest. 



Uahitat : Capeville (Peutland). Queensland. 



Type: Xo. Uij3l:29, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide with the 

 type of Aprofitocelu.s xallensis (4irault. 



2. PARUFENS ARGENTIPES (iirault. 

 .\ male of this species was capliacd .laamuy 4, 19J3 at Capeville (Peutland), Queens- 

 l:nid, by sweeping in forest. It differs from the female in bearing a distinctly 2-jointed funicle, 

 the antenna; as in the female of Ufeiis Girault. Thus the female Ufeiis is like the male of 

 Panifens except that there are two ring-joints in the latter. In the female of ori/entipes, 

 the pedicel is coarsely sculptured into scales, while the funicle is much wider than long and 

 .■ippareutly solid while in tlie nmle the pedicel seems simple, the funicle plainly 2-joiuted and 

 only somewhat wider than long, the division transverse. The male genitalia are extruded 

 <listinctly for some length (half that of the abdonu'u) and resemble an ovipositor. Tlie 

 mandibles are tridentate in both sexes, the hind wings with three rows of discal cilia, two 

 cephalic. The riiic; ii.iiit'. in tin- iikiIm .-in- distinct but tlie second one adheres closely to the 

 funicle. 



Genl-8 ABBELLA GirauU. 



1. ABBELLA SEXGUTTATA new species. 



Female: — Very siiiiil;ii- to inira Gir.iult but the two distal spots on the abdomen do not 

 form cross-stripes but are widely separated, the second spot widest, all wider than long. The 

 substigmal sjiot is very pronounced as in mira and the club is dusky, its first joint black as 

 in mira. 



Male: — Xol known. 



From one female taken m forest, .M.-uch ;il, IDU. 



