AVSTSALl.iX nVMEXDI'TKh-.l (11 ALVIDOIVEA. VI I .—GI RAVI.T. 



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the latter with about five lines of eilia |iroxiinail of it. The stij>nial vein is xliortcr, subsessile. 

 Antenna) as iu the genotype except that the pedirel is sonieuhat shorter. The frons is a little 

 broafier. tMlierwise like the genotype. 



From one female caught in forest, Decemlier 2M, Itlbi. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Tyjie: No. HySOSl, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the sjieeimen on a tag with typo of 

 qiiKdridfiilc.tKx; head, fore wing and hind legs with slide type of AclirysniiJuiijiis wcslinxni; 

 Girault. 



XKZ.VKIIOPAT.T'S new genus. 



1. NEZARHOPALUS CAUDATUS new species. (Jenotype. 



Like ZiiiliopaUis Ashniead liut the t'unii'Je Joints not aniuilar. 



Fcimilc: — Length, O.liil mm., exchiding ovipositor wliicli is extruded for three fourths the 

 lengtli of the abdomen. Slender. 



Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline; legs, autennio and ovipositor concolorous; knees, 

 tips of tibial and tarsi pallid. Scape a little compressed, tapering toward ti[); funicle 6 largest, 

 much wider than long (not annular), over twice the width of 1, distinctly shorter than the 

 usual pedicel; club enlarged, subequal to funicle in length; funicle widening rather rapidly 

 ilistad; scape more or less equal to the funicle. Mandibles with three acute teeth. Frons 

 rather narrow, prominent, the cheeks over half the length of the eyes. A'enation pallid. Hind 

 femur com]a-essi'd. Tliorax with a short jihragma. Axilhe slightly separated. Scutum a little 

 longer than the scutellum. Abdonnui conicovate, nearly as long as the thorax. Cephalic legs 

 paler. Hind tiliial spur minute. Fore wings densely, finely ciliate, the hairless line i)resent, 

 proxinuad of it, the discal i ilia arranged only in two conspicuous lines. Venation as described 

 for Zarliojiiiliis Ashmeail. Jtarginal vein punctiform, the stigmal and postjnarginal very long, 

 subequal. 



From one female captured July 28, 1913 in .iungle (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy:iO.!3. Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. 



NEASTEROP^US new genus. 

 Female: — Kuns to A.^leiopiFiis Howard but the funicle is a little longer than the club, 

 the frons is subprominent only, the postniarginal vein a little shorter than the marginal which 

 is about twice longer than wi<le. The axilla? are distinctly a little separated and the ovipositor 

 extruded for a length ec|ual to a fifth that of tin' ubdouien. 



1. NEASTEROPjEUS CAUDATUS new species. (Jenotype. 



Female: — Length, o.N.j mm. excluding the ovipositiU'. 



Dark metallic purple, the scutellum green, the first two i^iirs of legs (except coxa;), the 

 caudal knees and tarsi and distal half (or a little more) of caudal tiljite, whitish. Funicle and 

 club brownish yellow. Wings hyaline but with a dusky spot against whole of the side of the 

 stigmal vein. Venation black. Hairless line of fore wing with about a half dozen lines of 

 cilia proximad of it. Pedicel slightly longer than wide, longer than funicle (i which is largest 

 and a half wider than long; funicles 1-2 suliequal, ring like; funicle joints enlarging distad. 

 Frons moderate. Cheeks as long as the eyes, the head rounded. .Mandibles with two short 

 outer teeth and a third broad one. the latter truncate, the mandibles small. Scape sube(pial 

 to the cdub. Hind tibial spur weak. Fore wings broad, very finely ciliate. Body scaly. 

 Scutellum reaching base of abdomen. Pubescence soft, weak. Abdomen ])ointed, conicovate, 

 as long as the thorax. Axillie narrow. Prouotum transversedinear. 



From one female caught by s\vee])ing on Tweed River, May 11), 191i (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Murwillumbah, New South Wales. 



Type: No. HyS033, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore 

 wing and a hind tibia with slide type of Taniostiamoidilla nymplia Girault. 



