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black. Axilla; deeper in color; legs pale straw yellow; transverse suture of seutellum, scape, 

 proDotum and flagellum black. Wings hyaline. Scutum with dense, stiff black pubescence, the 

 seutellum with six long black hairs. Thorax scaly, non-metallic. Funieles 2 and 3 subequal, 

 distinctly longer than the pedicel; joints 1 and 2 of the club subequal, longer than wide. 

 Scape silvery white at extreme tip. 



Hdbitat: Seymour (Ingham), Queensland. Jungle, February, 3913. 



Type: No. EySOOS, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on 

 a slide. 



A second female was taken in jungle at Gordonvale, Queensland, .June 4, 1913. 



2. TANEOSTIGMOIDELLA MIXTA new species. Female. 



Length, O.SO mm. Like the genotype structurally. Orange yellow; abdomen black; 

 propodeum, scape, except the black ventral margin of the foliation, pedicel, funicle 1 and the 

 whole of one side of the other two funicle joints, the distal two thirds of the distal club joint 

 and the legs, silvery w-hite. Tip of abdomen rather broadly, two triangular or cuneate spots 

 on the lateral margins (dorsad) of proximal half, a large round area with a black dot in its 

 middle at distal third laterad. of abdomen, also silvery white. Antenna} otherwise black. 

 Fore wings obscurely infuscated centrally. Scape with an oblique black stripe across it from 

 the black ventral margin. Joint 1 of funicle not much longer than its width, the other two 

 each a little wider than long; antenna? 9- jointed, one ring-joint. 



Hdhitat: Townsville, Queensland. Associated with ornamental plants (rubber), July 11, 



1912. 



Type: Xo. IlyiDOO, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. 



3. TANEOSTIGMOIDELLA ARGENTISCUTELLUM new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.2.5 mm., excluding ovipositor. 



Silvery white; face and meson of pronotum, thoracic sutures very narrowly, the sclerite 

 between seutellum and postscutellum, propodeal spiracle, thorax laterad of postscutellum dorsad, 

 abdomen except lateral aspect and antenna; except scape at base and at apex dorsad, jet black. 

 Caudal tibial dusky just below knee. A broad strijje across middle occiput (broken centrally) 

 and a blotch on each side above it around edge of cheeks, also black. Vertex, scutum, parapsides 

 and axilla; deep orange yellow. Wings hyaline. Scutum with dense black, stiff but inclinate 

 pubescence. Thorax densely shagreened, the propodeum with a median ridge, delicately scaly, 

 its caudal edge black. Seutellum with only about six black setse in pairs, the caudal pair 

 largest, the sclerite suffused with yellow. Parapsides narrow, boomerang-shaped. Valves of 

 ovipositor slightly extruded, black. Mandibles bidentate, the second tooth broadly truncate. 

 Funicles 2-3 subequal, somewhat longer than wide, each somewhat shorter than 1, slightly 

 longer than the pedicel which is subequal to club 1. Scape greatly dilated. Eing-joint distinct. 

 Caudal wings with about nine lines of discal cilia. Hind tibial spurs double. Abdomen 

 purj)lisli. 



From one female caught in jungle. .July 30, 1914 (A. 1'. Dodd). 



lliihited: (iordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: Xo. Hy 2909, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and a 

 hind leg with slide type of Zarhopcdoieles ei:r)llari.<i. 



EUTEICHOSOMELLA new genus. 



Like Tiiiieostieinioidelhi Girault but the club solid, the face intlexed, the eyes strongly 



convergent at dorsal edge of the face, the antenna; inserted farther ventrad being at the mouth 



border, the scape slender. Antennre 7-jointed with one short ring-joint. Mandibles with two 



minute teeth, the second tooth followed by a broad truncated piece. Parapsidal furrows 



