94 MEMOITtS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



margin just before tip. I'edicel small, liariUj' longer than wide, yet somewhat longer than any 

 of the funicle joints which are all distinctly wider than long, 2 and 3 a little the longest, 6 

 widest, all hispid; ring-joint present. Hind tibial spurs double. Stignial vein long, curved, 

 over twice the length of tlie marginal, the postmarginal longer than the marginal. Many lines 

 of distal cilia (over a dozen) proximad of hairless line. Whole body with a frosted appearance, 

 subglaucous, extraordinarily finely scaly reticulate. Cheeks somewhat over half the length of the 

 eyes. Seutellum reaching base of abdomen, the axillaj distinctly separated by a short triangular 

 projection at apex of scutum but they are not ver_y wide apart. Thorax with scattered, short 

 white pubescence. Vertex sloping; face inflexed. Wings hyaline. 



Prom one female caught by sweeping forest. 



Enliitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Tjipc: No. HyoOO.'t, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; fore wings, 

 hind tibia and head on a slide. 



COPIDOSOMOPSIS new genus. 

 Fi'Duilc: — Form small, the thorax very convex, globular, the abdomen rather distinctly 

 narrower than it and somewhat longer, narrow-triangular. Agrees otherwise with the description 

 of Copidosomyia but the frons is broad, the cheeks longer than the eyes, the serobes long. 

 Also the marginal vein is punctiform, the postmarginal absent, the stigmal twice longer than 

 the marginal. Mandibles rather long, with three acute, small teeth, of which the middle is the 

 longest. Axilla? distinctly separated for a short distance. Marginal vein thickened, almost 

 circular. 



1. COPIDOSOMOPSIS PERMINUTUS new species. 



Female: — Length, 0.70 mm. 



Dark metallic purple, the wrings hyaline; scape, middle legs (except coxa;), tarsi and tips 

 of hind tibiae broadly (cephalic tibia; not seen), yellow. Funicle 1 distinctly longer than wide, 

 subequal to the pedicel, the following joints quadrate, the distal three a little wider than long. 

 Head and thorax finely scaly. Club no thicker than the funicle and shorter. Very few setse 

 proximad of hairless line of fore wing, the line not very definitely bounded by a single line 

 of cilia. 



From one female, all remaining nut of i.lL'O reared from a '■ pyrale larva,"' April 23, 

 1914 (F. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. 



Type: No. By.lOOd, Queensland Museum, Hrisbane, the specimen on a tag; fore wing, 

 head and fragments of antenna:' on a slide. 



HLATTICIDA new genus. 

 1. BLATTICIDA ASHMEADI new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Lengtii, 1.25 mm. 



Very dark metallic blue, the wings hyaline, the seutellum contrasting metallic green, 

 the Jegs and antenna' rich yellowish brown but the much enlarged club black. Head and thorax 

 delicately scaly with obscure setigerous punctures (in rows on the vertex), the scutum pilose; 

 seutellum densely punctate. Mandibles with three small teeth, the inner tooth shorter. Funicle 

 joints annular. Axilhe slightly separated. Scape distinctly dilated for its entire length, not 

 long, the pedicel a little longer than wide yet much longer than any of the funicle joints which 

 do not differ much in length (4 and i) shortest) but 6 is twice wider than 1. Club as long as 

 the funicle and pedicel united, obliquely truncate, over twice the width of funicle 6, the 

 flagellum strongly capitate. Face strongly inflexed, the vertex and frons moderately narrow 

 but over thrice the diameter of the cei)halic ocellus, the lateral ocelli oblique and against the 

 eyes. Metaiileura bare, the body pubescence not conspicuous. Marginal vein somewhat over 

 twice longer than wide, the stigmal shorter than it by a fourth or more, the postmarginal vein 



