110 MEMOIRS OF THIC QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



2. NEASTEROPiEUS CINCTIPES new species. 



Female: Length, 0.80 mm., excluding the ovipositor. 



Dark metallic coppery, the scutum dark blue; knees, tips of tibiiE and tarsi pale 

 yellowish; middle tibial white with a black band just below knee. Thorax scaly. Funicle 

 yellowish, rest of antenufe black. Differs from the genotype in coloration and as follows: 

 The wings are wholly hyaline, the venation jialer, the hairless line is bounded by but a single 

 line of cilia proximad (excluding several cilia in a second line) ; the third tooth of mandible 

 is obtuse not truncate; and the club is broader. Also, funieles 1-3 are longer, each only a 

 a little wider than long, 3 shortest of them. Otherwise about the same. 



Described from one female caught at 2,000 feet, June 3. 1913 in forest (A. P. Dodd). 



Eabitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type : No. Hi/ 3034, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, head, fore wing and hind tibiae on 

 a slide with slide type of Hexencyrtiis ulhiclni-a Girault. Body of type accidentally destroyed. 



PAE^NASOMYIA new genus. 

 1. PARffiNASOMYIA ORRO new species 



Differs from .Eitasiella in liavLiig tlie cluli conic-ovate, the ovipositor extruded and the 

 axilla; separated. 



Female: — Length. 1.30 mm., excluding the ovipositor which is extruded for a fourth the 

 length of the abdomen. 



Dark metallic purple, the apex of scutellum and abdomen metallic green, the wings 

 hyaline; venation yellowish brown. Apex of valves of ovipositor, tips of tibiae (more broadly 

 in middle legs), knees and tarsi white. Funicle suffused with yellowish. Scutum and axillae 

 very finely, densely, polygonally scaly, the latter distinctly separated for some little distance. 

 8eutellum scaly, the sealiness with a distinct longitudinal trend. Scutellum reaching base of 

 abdomen, the latter scaly. Scutum with scattered obscure setigerous punctures, the pubescence 

 moderate, soft normal. Abdomen conic-ovate, inclined upward at apex, as long as the thorax. 

 Scape with a slight but distinct foliaceoua expansion toward apex; a little longer than the club, 

 the latter somewhat wider than the funicle and a little over half its length. Funieles 1-3 

 subequal to each other and to the pedicel but 3 wider, 1 a little over twice longer than wide; 

 funicle 4 a little shorter than 3, .5 still shorter and wider, 6 barely longer than wide. Ring-joint 

 present. Marginal vein punctiform, the postmarginal subequal to it, the stigmal normal, thrice 

 tlie length of the marginal. Hairless line of fore wing with only one distinct line of cilia 

 proximad of it. Fore wings broad. Hind tibial spurs double. Mandibles with the two inner 

 teeth shorter than the outer, not long. Frons moderately narrow. Face deeply inflexed, the 

 frons not prominent. 



From one female caught in forest, .Tanuary 7, 1913. 



Habitat: Uordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 3035, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, fore 

 wing and hind tibiffi with slide type of Cerehysiella niijrella Girault. 



Many specimens were found later which had been reared from oval ceeidoniyiid galls on 

 Melaleuca, Gordonvale, April, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). A few males were present. In this sex the 

 frons is somewhat broader, the antenna? yellow except scape and pedicel, the club solid, the 

 funicle and club clothed with long scraggly hairs which are not in distinct whorls. Also, the 

 sca])e is shorter and more dilated, the funicle joints longer than wide but shortening distad, 

 the pedicel subglobular, wider than long. The face is metallic green in the male. In one 

 female specimen, there was a dii-tinct carina at nieson of base of sMitellum but the axilla 

 were distinctly separated as in the other specimens! 



