80 MEHOmS OF THE QUEEXSLAKD MUSEUM. 



Genus ^NASIELLA Girault. 



Head (cephalic aspect) routnled, the facial impression broad but not acutely margined, 

 the scrobes forming a triangle; frons reticulated, without jmnctures; antenn® inserted below 

 the middle of the face, nearly on a line with the ventral ends of the eyes, the cheeks short. 

 Eyes slightly convergent above; lateral ocelli their own diameter distant from the eyes. 

 Vertex and mesouotum with similar sculpture, tlie mesonotum, however, with sparse thimble 

 punctures; scutum longer than the scutellum. .\xilte meeting in an acute point; pronotum 

 short. Abdomen short, pointed-triangular, the dorsum flat, without dense pubescence, the 

 hypopygium extending sligthly beyond the tip. Strigils present; hind tibial spur single. Inner 

 two teeth of mandible subequal, the lateral one a little longer, acute. Fore wing broad, the 

 discal ciliation dense, the marginal short ; marginal vein punctiform, slightly wider than long, 

 the stigma! moderately long, the postmarginal well developed, about two thirds the length 

 of the stigmal; oblique hairless line not conspicuous. Antenna" 12-joiuted with one very short 

 ring-joint, the club 3-jointed; scape clavate, compressed, there being a regular foliaceous 

 dilation toward apex but this is not enormous and fan-shaped as in some genera yet distinct 

 and foliaceous; flagellum clavate, the funicle joints noticeably widening distad, the club thick 

 and oval, wider than but only half the length of the funicle. the latter with 1 and 2 somewhat 

 longer than wide, each somewhat shorter than the pedicel. Pubescence of antenna bristly. 

 Mesonotum densely reticulate in polygons. Eyes longer than the malar space. Frons 

 moderate. 



The genus resembles AiKujijrus but the club is truncate at apex. 



1. ffiNASIELLA BRACHYSCEUDIS Girault. Female. Genotype. 



Length, 2.10 mm. 



Short, moderately robust. Metallic green, the scutellum feneous, the propodeum and 

 abdomen purplish black. Scape and jiedieel black, the club and venation smoky brown, the 

 funicle lemon yellow to brownish but the first joint more or less dusky. Legs ferrugineous 

 except proximal half (or nearly) of cephalic femora, all of the eoncolorous coxae, the dark 

 distal tarsal joint and most of hind legs which are eoncolorous except at the end of each 

 tibia and the tarsi. An elongate purplish black spot on cephalic tibia laterad. Fore wings 

 with a small, rounded cloud at the base of the stigmal vein. Frons imperial purple. A'ertex 

 and thorax finely, densely reticulated, the polygonal areas sunk slightly below the surface 

 but not like punctures. Funicle 1 longest, 2 and 3 subequal, quadrate, slightly shorter than 1, 

 6 twice wider than 1, subequal in width to the widest part of the scape. 



Hahitiit: Brisbane, Queensland. Associated with the gall of a BrnHn/scfli.s. October 23, 

 1911. 



Tjiprs: No. HijJfi^S, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, many females on a card. 



2. ffiNASIELLA APIOMORPHffi new species. 



Female: — Length, l..'it) mm. 



Same as brachyscelidis Girault Ijut smaller, the antenna?, intermediate femora and tibiae 

 and proximal half of cephalic tibiae eoncolorous. the marginal vein a little longer than wide. 

 Otherwise identical. Scape a little expanded ventrad in both sjiecies. Second tooth of 

 mandible broadly truncate. 



Male: — The same but the antenna' thick, cylindrical. lOjointed with a ring-joint, the 

 clulj solid and not greatly longer than the funicle joints which are clothed with not long hairs 

 and longer than the small pedicel; antenna; dark brown. Scape slightly compressed. Funicle 

 joints stout. 



Described from one male, eleven females labelled "1.5. Nat. Mus. A'ictoria. Bred from 

 Apiomorpha pileata. Dandenong. .J.Kershaw. 2. 1900." 



Hahitat: Dandenong, Victoria. 



Types: In the National Museum, Jlelliourne. the above series of specimens on a card. 

 .Mso 12 females labelled "1(3. Nat. Mus. A'ictoria'' on a card and 1.14.1900." 



