36 MEMOIES OF THE QDEEXSLAND MUSEUM. 



NEOCALOSOTEE new genus of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Head not much excavated, the frons somewhat concave, the antennal serobes 

 distinct, the vertex rather thin. Eyes moderately large, bare; ocelli iu an equilateral triangle, 

 the lateral ones rather farther from the eye margins than from the median ocellus. Antennie 

 inserted at the mouth border; 11-jointed, no ring -joint, the club 3 jointed; similar to the male 

 antenna; of the genus Scelio Latreille; seajjc not distinctly swollen nor very long; pedicel a 

 little longer than first funicle joint, which is distinctly longer than wide; funicles 2-6 shortening 

 all somewhat wider than long, the sixth distinctly so. Mandibles 4-dentate, the teeth small. 

 Legs all normal; middle tarsi without strong teeth ventrad; posterior tibial with two apical 

 spurs. Pronotum longer than the scutum ; parajisidal furrows deep and distinct. Axillaj rather 

 widely separated. Propodeum with many irregular faint cross-carinffi, also rather faint median 

 and lateral carina;. Scutellum with a delicate cross-suture before apex. Abdomen barely as 

 long as the thorax; conic-ovate, the ovipositor exserted for a length equal to two thirds that of 

 the abdonien, second segment deeply incised at meson of caudal margin, occupying over one 

 third of the surface; caudal margins of remaining segments straight; third scarcely one fourth 

 as long as second; fourth and fifth subequal, together as long as second. Wings perfect; 

 marginal vein not much shorter than submarginal; stigmal vein short and curved; post- 

 marginal barely as long as the stigmal. 



1. NEOCALOSOTER PULCHRIPENNIS new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, 3.25 mm., excluding the ovipositor. 



Black; most of lower face, propleura and cephalic margin of pronotum, venter of 

 thorax more or less, basal two thirds of ovipositor and the antennse (except the scape), reddish 

 brown; femora and tibiae somewhat suffused with brown; tarsi and antennal scape bright 

 golden yellow; abdomen steel blue. Head (exeeirt lower portion of face), pronotum, scutum, 

 scutellum (except apex) and second abdominal segment smooth and shining. Kest of abdomen, 

 lower portion of face and apex of scutellum, very finely scaly. Fore wings hyaline, with an 

 irregular smoky transverse band across wing at joining of marginal and submarginal veins 

 and another at apex of marginal vein and involving the stigmal vein, the second band much 

 the wider. 



Described from one female caught by Mr. F. P. Dodd in December, 1913. 



Habitat: Northern Queensland (Kuranda. near Cairns). 



Type: No. Hy 2S9S, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the head and a 

 liind leg on a slide. 



Genus PAROODEBELLA Girault. 

 Synonym: Parasolindenia Girault. 

 The same as Aiiastatus l)ut the wings mere scales, absent or greatly reduced. 



1. PAROODERELLA APTERA Girault. Female. Genotj-pe. 



Length, 3.25 mm. 



Very dark metallic green, nearly black; base of abdomen with a silvery white stripe 

 across it above, narrower mesad, broader beneath; distal four antennal joints white; tarsi and 

 knees yellowish; scape brownish. First funicle joint longest, longer than pedicel, funicles 

 2 and 3 nearly as long as 1, subequal. Mesoseutum punctate. Hind tibise with one spur. 

 Front femur beneath emarginate near apex. "Wingless. 



Habitat : Cairns, Queensland. 



Type: No. 1.1S71, South Australian Museum. Adelaide. 



