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n-esticoofli but it also is distinctly joined to the middle stripe by a short oblique baud from its- 

 apex to the middle of the dorsal arm of that strijie. Hind tibial spurs single in both species.. 



What appeared to be the male was similar. 



Prom one female caught on forest uplands, May 3, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed River), New South Wales. 



Type: No. Hy S540, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide with type 

 westtcoodi. 



Respectfully dedicated to George William Curtis. 



OMPHALOMORPHOIDES new genus of A. P. Dodd. 

 Like Omphalomorphella but the postmarginal vein not developed. 



1. OMPHALOMORPHOIDES VIOLESCENS new species of A. P. Dodd. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, 3.75 mm.. 



Brilliant metallic purple, the coxai concolorous, rest of legs intense lemon yellow;, 

 antennm black. 



Antenna) 11-jointed, two ring, four funicle, three cluli joints; pedicel long, fully twice 

 as long as greatest width, ring-joints large (forming a transition between ring and funicle 

 joints), funicle and club joints transverse, the flagellum clavate. Mandibles bidentate. 

 Scutum large, the scutellum also large, both densely reticulately scaly and with a few scattered 

 punctures. Scutellum simple. Propodeum short, without carinas, finely scaly. Abdomen 

 sessile, short and broad, second segment slightly the longest. Wings long, hyaline. 



Described from two females in the collections of the Macleay Museum and labelled 

 ' ' Sydney, N.S.W. ' ' 



Habitat: Sydney, New South Wales. 



Type: No. Hymenoptera IOd, Macleay Museum, Sydney University, two females on 

 a tag; head and hind legs on a slide. 



One hind tibial sp>ur, deep complete parapsidal furrows, submarginal vein broken, 

 marginal shorter than submarginal, stigmal very long, nearly as long as the marginal, post- 

 marginal not developed; discal ciliatiou normal. 



Genus ZAOMMOMYIELLA Girault. 



In this genus, the cheeks are very short yet distinct, the eye not quite extending to 

 the mandibles. 



1. ZAOMMOMYIELLA OCULATA (Girault). 



One female was captured in jungle at Babinda. Q., Febru.ary 11, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 

 The terminal spine of club is as long as joint 3. The abdomen has three dusky cross-stripes 

 distad of the broad blue basal liand. The oral area is yellow. Funicle 1 longest of the 

 Hagellum, subequal to pedicel. 



2. ZAOMMOMYIELLA ABNORMIS Girault. 



The vertex and sides of thorax are reddish brown. Type re-examined. 



3. ZAOMMOMYIELLA TINTINNABULUM new species. 



Female: — Length, l.SO nun. 



Similar to oculata Girault but on dorsal abdonicn there is one broader metallic blue and' 

 three narrower dusky stripes distad of the broad basal stripe (only three narrow dusky stripes 

 in oculata) ; the first or metallic of these stripes is deeply excised at meson from cephalic- 



