98 MEMOIES OF TIIK QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



NEOCLADELLA new genus. 



Female: — Form elongate, the abdomen conic-ovate, a little produced at apex, longer than 

 the rest of the body, the ovipositor valves stout, prominent, extruded a little. Frons rather 

 broad; mandibles with three short obtuse teeth but the third is wider, obliquely truncate but 

 not very broad. Fourth joint of maxillary palpi nearly as long as the others combined, stouter 

 alsL). Marginal vein barely longer than wide, thick, as long as the stigmal and more so than the 

 postmarginal which is barely developed. Hind legs flattened (except the tarsi), broad, the 

 tibial sjiurs short, double. Anteniuc inserted below the middle of the inflexed face, the scape 

 very short, broadly dilated for its entire length, somewhat longer than wide; jjedicel flat, a 

 little longer than wide; fuuicle with the joints wider than long, the first much the shortest, 

 combined somewhat longer than the club which is ovate, wider than the fuuicle, 3-jointed, the 

 ring-joint ahsent. Axill* distinctly a little sei)arated. 



1. NEOCLADELLA COMPRESSIPES new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, l.S.j nun. 



Dark metallic blue, the scutollum and abdomen purple, the wings hyaline; tarsi white. 

 Thorax densely, finely, polygonally scaly, the axilla; finely, transversely so. Pedicel longer than 

 any of the funicle joints of which i to (i are subeipial, distinctly wider than long, 1 much wider 

 than long, only about a third the length of the others. Club much longer than the scape, the 

 latter distinctly longer than the pedicel. Hairless line of fore wing with two Hues of coarser 

 discal cilia along its proximal border and with two shorter lines of cilia somewhat farther 

 ])roximad of these, the four lines more or less joined caudad. Discal cjlia of fore wing fine, 

 dense, distinct, the marginal fringes very short. 



From one fem.ale caught in forest, Ajiril 14, 1913 (A. I'. Dodd). 



Habitat: Cloncurry, Queensland. 



Type: No. HySOlS, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore 

 wing and a caudal leg on a slide. 



ACHAH'KKINY.S new genus. 



1. ACHALCERINYS TRICLAVATA uew species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, 0.65 mm. 



Agrees with the description of tlie genotype of Clialceiiiiys except that the distal two 

 thirds of abdomen is brownish yellow in all that part distad of the spiracles, the legs and 

 antennse pale yellow. The abdomen is somewhat longer than the rest of the body, conic-ovate. 

 The marginal vein is linear and a little over twice longer than wide, the stigmal slightly shorter 

 than it, the postmarginal absent. The fore wings are more regular in shape, slenderer, with 

 liarallel margins, shaped as in ApheUiim, their discal ciliation fine and dense, the hairless line 

 complete. The antennse differ in that funicle (i is jilainly the longest joint of the funicle, being 

 a little longer than wide, twice the length of thc> ]ircceding joint; funicle 1 small, subglobular, 

 2 and S subequal, smallest, wider than long; I a little longer than 3, 5 distinctly longer than 4, 

 a little wider than long. Funicle gradually widening, the club still wider, three fourths the 

 length of the funicle or more. Pedicel a little longer than funicle 6. Antennas inserted some- 

 what below the middle of the face. Axilla- distinctly separated but not much so. Frons 

 moderate. Cheeks distinctly longer tlian the eyes. Mandibular teeth equal, acute. The marginal 

 vein is olaiuly longer than wide. 



Vunn one female caught April is. 11112 iti the forest. 



Ildliilat: Uordor.vale (Cairns), (Queensland. 



Type: No. UySOlS, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the sjiecimeu ou a slide. 



