102 MEMOIES OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



but the frons barely visible from lateral aspect. Antenna! inserted rather near the elypeus, the 

 serobes converging above, tolerably long. Mesopleurum finely polygonally lined or reticulated. 

 Epistoma carinated between the antenna;. Cheeks about as long as the eyes. 



Male: — The same as the female but the antenna; 11 -jointed, one short ring-joint, the 

 club 2-jointed. Tunicle 1 much longer than wide, the following shorter. Funiele joints with 

 numerous rather long hairs. 



From many female specimens and several males labelled "From Gall Xo. 20, H. Hacker." 



Habitat : Brisbane, Queensland. 



Types: No. Hy 3019, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, four females and two heads 

 on a slide. 5 females on a tag and one male head on the slide. 



3. RHOPALEIJCYRTOIDEA DUBIA new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.32 mm., o-XL-luding uvipusitur, the latter extruded for a length nearly 

 equal to that of the abdomen. 



Differs from the genotype in being more robust, the axilla; are distinctly separated for 

 some little distance, the head slightly longer than wide, eyes somewhat longer than the eheeka 

 and the marginal vein is twice longer than wide yet somewhat shorter than the stigmal, the 

 latter slightly shorter than the postmarginal. Very dark metallic purplish, nearly black, the 

 base of abdomen blue, wings hyaline. Apex of scutellum greenish. Venation dark. First two 

 pairs of tarsi and distal half or nearly of middle tibi;c reddish yellow. Scutum projected 

 between the axillae. Scutum and scutellum densely polygonally scaly and with very many 

 scattered setigerous pin-jiunctures, the pubescence soft not conspicuous. Frons moderate. 

 Funiele 1 subquadrate, 3 and 4 longest, a little longer than wide, the other joints slightly 

 shorter. Pedicel subequal to funiele 3 or a little longer. Club a little over half the length 

 of the funiele and plainly wider. Hairless line of fore wing with about six scattered lines of 

 cilia ])roximad of it. Hind tibial spur single. Body slightly flattened. Scutellum at base at 

 meson with a short carina (yet the axilla) jilainly separated!)* Abdomen scaly. Scutellum 

 extending to base of abdomen. Fore wings broad. 



Differs from Cercliysius austraUensis in general coloration, the axil'a> are separated and 

 so on. From clariiicnnis differs in not having the middle knees broadly reddish yellow (i.e., 

 knee, i)roximal end of tibia, distal end of femur) nor the middle femur broadly so colored at 

 base, in having the carina at meson of base of scutellum, the axillfe a little more separated, 

 the body distinctly shorter not slender, the axilla; polygonally scaly, not very finely transversely 

 lined and so on. 



Described from one female caught in a mangrove swani]i along the Tweed Eiver, May 14. 

 iyi4 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Chindera, New South Wales. 



Type: No. Hy 30SO, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore 

 wing and a liind tibia with slide tyjie of C( rrliysins rnhustus (Tirault. 



Gen-u.s CP:RAPTK(M'KRUS Westwood. 

 1. CERAPTROCERUS EMERSONI new species. 



Female: — Length l.T-'i mm. Form slender, the abdomen pointed conic-ovate, longer 

 than the thorax. 



Metallic blue-green, the abdomen darker; first two pairs of legs pale yellowish; caudal 

 coxa; concolorous at proximal half, caudal legs reddish brown. Face ventrad of antennae ivory 

 yellow. Tips of hind tibia; and the tarsi whitish. Fore w'ings sooty and with the following 

 normal pattern: A narrow longitudinal clear streak from base to some distance distad of apex 

 of venation and caudad of iniddle; this stripe is broken just opposite origin of marginal 



* In all other cases where the carina is present, the axillse are joined to it, i.e. meeting 

 inwardly. 



