310 ilEMOlllS OF THE QC EhS SLAM) MCSEUM. 



1. PARACHRYSOMALLA AEREIFEMUR new species. Genot\-pe. 



Fcinair: — liength, 1^.13 mm. Robust. 



Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the knees, tibiae, tar.si and sc-ape jiale yellow, the 

 pedicel dusky pallid; rest of antenna black. Funicle 1 longest, longer than wide, 2 and 3 

 subequal, snbquadrate, 5-7 wider than long, widening at ajiex; chib ovate, short, its apex 

 nippled. Thorax with a distinct scaly sculpture. Ring-joint by far not as wide as the funicle 

 but nearly as long as wide, the pedicel subecpial to funicle 4. 



Described from one female captured in a forest pocket, September 12, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Hdhital: Kuranda (Cairns). Queensland. 



Type: IS'o. Hi/C'TGO, <^ueeiislanil Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag; head and hind 

 legs on a slide. 



Genus ELATUs Walker. ._^. 



i. ELATUS ATER new species. ; ^ <3>'2^£^^'i'!^ " ^^ 



Male: — Length, 1.70 mm. Petiole of abdomen distinctly twice longer than wide, longer 

 than liind coxa'. 



Black with a metallic lustre, the wings hyaline; scape and tibife yellowish brown, the 

 tlagellum dusky brownish; tarsi white. Body glabrous; occiput and neck of prothorax finely 

 . reticulated ; scutum with delicate transverse lines excejrt caudad. Propodeum rather densely 

 scaly, -n-ith a short median carina and indicated from base a long, strong carina on each side 

 of meson and half way to spiracle; the lateral and caudal margins carinated; spiracle 

 reniform. Petiole longitudinally cariuate. Abdomen shaped as in Pcrilamjnis, glabrous. 

 Postmarginal vein nearly twice longer than the very short stigmal, the marginal two thirds 

 or more the length of the submarginal. With the general habitus of Perilampns. Antennae 

 lljointed, the short club solid; fiuiicle joints all distinctly wider tlian long, distinctly shorter 

 than the club, which is shorter than the moderately long, simple scape. Pedicel cupshaped. 

 One distinct ring-joint. Hind tibial S]iur single, slender. (Sculpture of distal half of dorsal 

 abdomen not seen.) 



From one male caught in jungle, .lauuary .1. 1!»14. 



HiibiUit: Oordonv.ale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: Xo. Ni/C'^Cl. Queeuslaml ^^usenm. Brisliane, tlie specimen on a tag; head and 

 hind legs on a slide. 



CiExus .MKLANOSOMELLA Girault. 



.\ntenn<c 12-jointed. with one large ring-joint, the club 3-jointed, the male antenna^ 

 different and liearing long rami. The marginal vein two and a half times its own width but 

 ahorter tlian cillier the stifimal or postmari/inal reins. 



Head (cephalic aspect) slightly wider than long; antenna* inserted slightly below the 

 middle of the face, the scrobes short and not deep, the lateral ocelli far distant from the 

 eyes; pronotum not long, the parapsidal furrows complete; head and thorax .smooth. Ring- joint 

 large, nearly as long as wide; funicle apparently compressed, the joints all transverse and 

 lamellate or prodiiced toward one side, the distal much less so and largest of the funicle; 

 pedicel sulK|u.'idrate, nuich longer than the proximal funicle joints; club loug-ovate, longer 

 than the cylindrical. sini|ile sca]ie. its joints olilirjuely truncate, the distal joint short and 

 conic. Fore wings noiuial, the marginal cilia sparse and short. Propodeum with a slight 



