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MEMOmS OF THE QVEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



and thorax polygoually retieuhited, tlie Hues not raised, the propodeum a little smoother. 

 Third ring-joint distinctly larger than the other two. 



Described from one female captured on a window, October 25, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Eabiiat: GordonTale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. EySS07, Queensland JIuseum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head and 

 a hind leg on a slide. 



NEOPOLYGYSTELLA new genus. 



Female: — Similar in all details to Epipolycystus Girault but the fifth abdominal segment 

 is not transverse-sublinear but long, longer than the third, over half the length of segment 4 

 which is longest. Postmarginal vein somewhat shorter than the marginal. Propodeum 

 with lateral carinse, longer at the spiracle which is situated just above and cephalad of a 

 " o-ulle}'. " Segment 3 of abdomen not half the length of segment 4. Head a little wider 

 than long (cephalic aspect), the antennal club 3-jointed. 



1. NEOPOLYCYSTELLA SICARIUS new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, 2.10 mm. 



Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the coxoe concolorous, the legs reddish brown; 

 abdomen shining, polished; head and thorax uniformly punctate. Pedicel longer than first 

 funicle joint, the antenna; black; funicle 1 longest of the funiele, somewhat longer than wide; 

 funicle 5 quadrate. Club simple. 



Described from one female cajitured by sweeping in the forest, December 2, 1912 (A. P. 

 Dodd). 



Hahital: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type : No. 3y SSOS, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head on 

 a slide. 



CKY'PTOPRYMNOIDES new genus. 



Female: — Petiole of abdomen enlarged at base, short, about two thirds the length of 

 the hind coxa;. Antenna? 13-jointed with two ring-joints, the club 3-jointed. Propodeum short, 

 punctate, w-ithout carina or a neck, the spiracle minute and with an indefinite spiracular sulcus. 

 Segments 2, 4, and 5 of abdomen subequal, longest, segment 2 occupying about a sixth of the 

 surface, 3 shorter than it, the caudal margins of all straight, segment 6 not much shorter 

 than the others. Both mandibles strongly 4-dentate. Parapsidal furrows absent. Pronotum 

 transverse. Scutellum simple. Marginal vein short, the postmarginal and stigmal veins long, 

 the postmarginal slightly longer, the stigmal slightly shorter, than the marginal. Abdomen 

 ovate. 



1. CRYPTOPRYMNOIDES RABIOSUS new .species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, 1.50 mm. 



Very dark metallic green, the wings hyaline; antenna? black; legs concolorous. the knee? 

 and tarsi (except distal joint) pale. Mandibles with the inmost tooth somewhat truncate. 

 Funicle joints all a little wider than long, subquadrate. Thorax densely polygonally reticulated, 

 the reticulation in raised lines. 



Described from one female cajitured liy sweeping miscellaneous vegetation along the 

 Pioneer Elver, October 19, 1911 (A.A.G.). 



Habitat : Mackay, Queensland. 



Type: No. EySS09. Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag, plus 

 a slide bearing head and a hind leg. 



