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tlie triangular propodeum all similarly distinctly polygonally reticulated. Disc-al bristle absent. 

 Stigmal vein conieal. ilarginal fringes of the fore wing very short, these of the jiosterior 

 wings slightly longer, the latter wings very broad, where widest full three-fourths the width 

 •of the fore wings. Antennal tdub eonic-ovate and moderate in lengtli. ' ' 



Described from a single female si)ecinien raptured in forest. November 0, 1912. 



Sabitat : Ayr, Queensland. Also, Gordouvale. forest, .January. 



Type: No, TliiliSl, Queensland iluseum. Brisbane, tlie specimen on a slide. 



•'Belongs to the nigra group and to that section of it when' tlie marginal fringes 

 are very short. Closely allied with the Australian species cunina Girault from which it differs 

 in bearing hyaline wings, narrower fore wings and in being inifeh less robnst. The species 

 funeralis has decidedly longer marginal fringes and its wings are deeply fumated throughout." 



A second female was caiitured in the forest at Gordouvale in .January. 



4. SIGNIPHORA FUNERALIS Girault. Female. 



This species was recently described in the following words ((iirault, IfUo). 



" Length, 0..5.5 nun.; moderately snuill for the genus. General color uniformly black, 

 ■slightly suffused with brownish aud distinctly metallic on lii'ad and niesoscutuiu, the metallic 

 <;oloratiou being bluish green; antenna? and legs nearly concolorous. sooty black, the tarsi 

 2iallid yellow. Eyes dark red. Fore wings distinctly fiunated throughout, but the sootiness 

 gradually deepens proximad; there at the caudal wing margin caudad of the clistal portions of 

 the submarginal vein is a longitudinal clear area, subrectangular in shape. 



Belongs to the iiiffra group and to that section of it including those species bearing 

 ■short marginal fringes at the apex of the fore wing, namely, niijra Ashniead, niistraliciisis 

 Ashmead and dactylopii Ashniead, and more closely allied with the first. However, it differs 

 from it as follows: The fore wings arc fumated continuously throughout, the body bears 

 ■metallic coloration, the marginal fringes of the fore wing at apex are somewhat shorter. 

 With the two other species it need not be confused. As concerns the other species of the nigra 

 group, namely noacli Ashmeail. maxima Girault. pulchra Girault and nigrella Girault, 

 funeralis should not be confusable, since all of these sjiecies bear uuich longer nuirginal 

 ciliation on the fore wings; specifically, in general coloration it dift'ers from all of these 

 -species excepting pnlchra because the fore wings are nearly uniformly fumated throughout: 

 from piilclira it may be distinguished also by means of the pallid tarsi, the broader wings, the 

 absence of the discal bristle and so on. 



Antennal club not unusually long, conic-ovate and about four times longer than its 

 .greatest width; fore wings moderately broad, their longest marginal cilia somewhat less than 

 lialf their greatest width; discal bristle absent. Posterior wings moderate in width, not as 

 wide as their longest marginal cilia. Oblique hair-line crease of fore wing slightly indicated, 

 present but faint. ' ' 



Haiitat : Herberton, Queensland. December 2S. 1911. 



Type: No. Hy771. Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the single female on a slide (with 

 several triehogrammatids and an Anagrus') . 



5. SIGNIPHORA CORVINA (iirault. Female. 



I quote from Girault (191:!), 



" Length, 1.10 mm.; large, robust. 



General color deep black, tinged on the head and thora.x with nu^tallic bluish green, the 

 whole of the mesonotum thus colored; legs, antenna^ and venation brownish black, but the tarsi 

 and cephalic tibiiB interiorly yellow brown. Fore wings hyaline excepting along about the 

 proximal half, or out not quite to the end of the venation. The stained proxiunil area of the 

 ving is peculiar; thus its distal uu)rgin is obliquely (i-auilo proxim.-ul) truncate, the caudal 



