38 MEMOmS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



5. PAROODERELLA SEWITECTA new species. 



Female: — Of the same stature and so forth as scmiputata but differing in having the 

 scape coneolorous, valves of ovipositor not extruded, bromiish at tip, the silvery white band 

 of the abdomen distinct, the very small wings longer, fuscous with a rather broad central 

 hyaline cross-stripe as long as the proximal fuscous part, longer than the distal fuscous portion 

 (in semiputata the minute wings are mostly uncolorcil, fuscous at base). Otherwise about the 

 same; antenual segmentation the same. 



From one female taken November S, 191.3 by swee]iing forest. 



EaUtat: Stewart 's Creek (Towusville). Queensland. 



Type: No. By 2001, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag with type 

 favithorax. 



A second female at Peutland, Queensland, forest in early September. The caudal 

 margins of abdominal segments are not incised. 



6. PAROODERELLA FLAVITHORAX new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, 3 mm. 



Head dark metallic green, the thorax, legs, scape, pedicel, ring-joint and first three 

 funicle joints, honey yellow; rest of antenna black; abdomen dark purple, with a broad, 

 silvery white band around base. Wings vestigial but perfect, reaching to end of proximal third 

 of the abdomen, with a rather broad band of fuscous across apical edge and another much 

 broader one a short distance proximad from distal part of submarginal and proximal two 

 thirds of marginal veins. Scutellum densely scaly, the scutum polished, the axillro scaly, the 

 head less so. Caudal margin of abdominal segments sliglitly incised at meson, the abdomen 

 reticulated, the third segment smoother. Eyes practically naked. AntennsB 13- jointed, with 

 one large ring-joint, the club long, 3-jointed; pedicel subequal to funicle 3 which is longest 

 of the funicle, 1 slightly shorter, 2 a little shorter than 1 which is subequal to 4, the distal 

 joint slightly longer than wide. Hind tibial sjiurs double, uuich unequal, tlie first tarsal joint 

 long and slender, 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from one female captured by sweejiing in jungle, November 1.5, 1913 (A.P,D.). 



Habitat: Harvey's Creek (Cairns), Queensland. 



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



Cfxi's CKRAMBYCOBIUS Ashmead. 

 1. CERAMBYCOBIUS PAX Girault, Female. 



Length, 4 mm., exclusive of the long ovijiositor which is curved downward and is a little 

 longer than the abdomen. 



Metallic green, abdomen and scutellum purple, ovipositor brown, its sheaths black; 

 antenna! dark purple; tibi» brown except above, tarsi brown. Fore wings deeply infuscated, 

 the fumation divided through the middle by a clear line. Postmarginal vein nearly twice the 

 length of the stigmal. Posterior tibiaj with one spur. Face deeply exca\ated above antennse, 

 the excavation smooth and shining, the cephalic ocellus distant from it, the lateral ocelli closer 

 to cephalic one than to eye margins; before the cephalic ocellus a subquadrate, smooth 

 depression and a fovea behind each lateral ocellus; vertex rather coarsely punctate; eyes with 

 barely perceptible hairs, practically naked. Body with sculpture like that of Tetrastichus. 

 Axilla; just touching inwardly. Scai]e extending far beyond the vertex, foliaceously dilated or 

 comjiressed but not convexly, the foliation uniform and distinct; first funicle joint shorter 

 than the pedicel, not much longer than wide, second and third joints longest, subequal, longer 



