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than the pedicel, the other joints shortening but all longer than ivide. Antennae 1?. jointed, 

 ■club 3-jointed, no ring-joint. Antennsc inserted near the middle of the face. Head wider than 

 long. Valves of ovipositor densely, shortly feathery, straight. Incisions of abdominal segments 

 small, inconspicnoiis, the abdomen cylindrical, a liltle longer than the tliorax. Corrected 

 description. 



Habitat: Kiiranda, t|)neensland. .Jungle, November 4, llill. 



Tape: Xo. Hii3;)0J, Queensland Jluseum, Brisbane, the above female on a tag, the legs 

 and antenna" on a slide. 



SrBFAMiLV TAX EOJSTK i M 1 X,K. 

 This sulifamily is distinguished from the A|ihelinina^ by usually bearing a ]i(istMiargin:il 

 vein and usually the marginal vein is much reduced, the middle tibial spur stout, the iiara])sidal 

 furrows variable, curved off laterad and sometimes meeting before apex. The mesopleurum is 

 always entire and convex and this is the cliaracteristic of the grnup. 



TANEOSTKIMOMVIA new genus. 



Characterized by the 11-jointed antenna', the club solid ■■ind well detined. the scape short, 

 slightly convexed beneath or slightly compressed, the funicle joints all transverse linear, the 

 first two like, ring-joints, the third a little less like 1 being wider, the others wider and of 

 equal width. Pedicel somewhat longer than wide at apex. Parajisidal furrows rather widely 

 separated caudad, meeting scutellum just mesad of the niesal ends of the axilla?. Mandibles 

 tridentate. Hind tibial spur single. Axilla rather widely separated. Thorax clothed with 

 scattered, short, stiil, black setiB. Marginal vein of moderate length, not long, a little longer 

 than or subequal to the slender stigmal and postmargiual veins. 



1. TANEOSTIGMOMYIA SPENCERI new species. Female. Genotype. 



Length, II. S2 nun. 



Lemon yellow, the scutum and paraj)sidcs orange yellow, the appendages concolorous, the 

 wings hyaline; three distinct (and a fourth and tifth less distinct, proximad and distad of 

 them respectively) black stripes across the abdomen proximad of middle. Cephalic and caudal 

 (centrally) margins of proj)odeum and dorsal thoracic sutures black. A fuscous, oblique spot 

 across the cephalic margin of each axilla. Fore wings densely ciliate, the marginal fringes 

 short. Valves of ovipositor slightly exserted, black. Club as long as the scape. 



Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Forest, September 12, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Ti/pe: X'o. HijJlfii)-!. Queensland Museum. Brisliane, the female on a tag; hind leg and 

 the head on a slide. 



TANEOSTIGMOIDPILLA new genus. 



Somewhat like Taiicostigmodes Ashmead but the antenna; 9-joiuted with one very short 

 ring-joint, the club 3-jointed, the three funicle joints much longer than wide, the first distinctly 

 more than twice longer th.an wide. Scai)e greatly, foliaceonsly dilated ventrad.* Mandibles 

 bidentate, tlfe second tooth broadly truncate at apex. Parapsidal furrows widely separated 

 eaudad. Axilla? also well separated, well advanced into the jiarapsides, the latter very short, 

 curved. Scutellum with a thin, transverse suture near its distal margin. Marginal vein as 

 long as the snbmarginal, the stigmal very short but longer than the extremely short i>ost- 

 marginal. Abdomen flat above, conic-ovate, the ovi]>ositor barely exserted. 



1. TANEOSTIGMOIDELLA NYMPHA new species. Female. Genotype. 

 Length, 1.3.j nun. 



Pale honey yellow, the abdomen black but concolorous along the lateral aspect and with 

 a narrow honey yellow strii>e across out from base, this stripe interrupted at meson by the 



• Convexly so. 



