62 MEMOIRS OF THE QVEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Described from one female captured from the foliage of gum in October, 1913 (A. P. 

 Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2'.)53, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen ou a slide (with 

 two females of BrachychrysochareUa duMa Girault). 



8. ABLERUS B^USOIDES new species. 



Female: — Length, 0.50 mm. Very short and compact. 



Wholly dark Ijlue-black except tirst four tarsal .ioints and joints 2 and 4 of the funicle. 

 B'ore wings deeply embrowned as in nympha but the fumation is very convex distad extending 

 nearh- to apex, leaving ajncal margin and the portion of cephalic margin around to stigmal 

 vein, subhyaline. Hind wings more lightly stained and not as far distad. Discal cilia of 

 fore wings very fine, barely visible, the marginal cilia short, longest around apex, very much 

 as in clisiocampe Ashmead (both wings). Body iinely lined, the mesopleurum coarser. Mandi- 

 bles tridentate. Extruded portion of ovipositor valves short, white, black at tips. Antennee 

 much as 1 figured for clisiocampe but funicle 4 is a little shorter than 2. Evidently closely 

 allied with the North American cliiiocuinpc but the tips of tibiaj are not silvery white, the 

 club is uniformly dark, the extruded valves of the ovipositor are white except at tips and 

 the wings are infuscated somewhat farther distad. The ver}' short fonn (from dorsal asjject 

 abnost round without the head) is also characteristic. Of the .Australian species closest to 

 nympha from which it may be easily distinguished. 



From one female taken by sweeping in forest. September 2. ItiKl. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy205i. Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the specimen ou a slide. 



9. ABLERUS SOCRUS new species. 



Female: — Length, i).~>^ nun. 



In my table of species I'uns to hyatiinrs but uuicli smaller, the funicle is wliolly white 

 (joints 1 and 'A in liyalinus dusky), funicle 4 is somewhat shorter, only sliglitly longer than 

 wide; funicle 1 a little longer than 2 (a little shorter in liyalinus); tlie mandibles are smaller 

 and the marginal fringes somewhat longer (in hyaliiu'f: somewhat less than a third tlie greatest 

 wing width). Otherwise the same except that the head is whol-y w-hite except lower margin 

 of face and margins of occiput and the strijie across at antenna;. There is a distinct narrow 

 silvery cross-stripe just caudad of scutellum. Fringes of fore wing moderate, somewhat over 

 a third the greatest wing width. Wings hyaline and apparently different from those of 

 liyalinus in that there are not several lines of coarse cilia just proximad of stigmal vein. 



From two females taken in forest. .\]uil l(i. 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Cloncurry. Queensland. 



Type: No. Hyi055, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a specimen on a slide with type 

 Arehenonns albifcmiir Girault. 



10. ABLERUS HOWARDII new species. 

 Female: — Length, 0.60 mm. 



In my table of species runs to piincuni from wliicli it differs in having the fore wings 

 hyaline. Diifers from piceiprs in the clear wings and the shorter marginal fringes of the 

 fore wing. Valves of ovipositor black at tij). Club somewhat stouter than usual. Vertex 

 white. Funicle 1 a little longer than wide, shorter and narrower than the jiedicel, 2 sub- 

 <juadrate, also 4 but the latter distinctly wider than the others. I.,<ingest marginal fringe of 

 fore wing about a fourth the greatest wing width. 



