AUSTSJLIAN HYMENOFTEL'A ClI ALClDOIVK.l. VU.^GIKAVLT. ni 



PARKNCYRTOMYIA now gtnins. 

 1. PARENCYRTOMYIA NIVEICLAVA luw species. Genotype. 



Female: — Leiiytli, l.;in iiiin. Kobust, 



Deep iiraiiKe yellow, tlie pronotum, except e:iiiilo-mcsa(l, head, imipodiMiiii. dorsuiii of 

 abdomen exi-ept at distal fonrtli and M base inesad and the mesoplenrum, deep'nietallie purple; 

 serobienlar cavity, seaj.e and le^s yellow; antenna' pnrple, the club white. Head and thorax 

 finely scaly, a row of small punctures along the eyes on vertex; thorax with numerous, obscure 

 setigerous punctures. Axilla; a little separated. Abdomen a little shorter than the thorax, 

 acutely triangular, depressed; ovipositor a little extruded. Mandildes with three short, sube(|ual 

 teeth, the outer one acute, the mandibles rather sliort and stout. Fore wings distinctly 

 infuscated at distal fourth or more (but apex clearer), the infumatiou acuminately prolonged 

 proximad to the oblique hairless line; lightly stained under submarginal vein. Marginal vein 

 two and a third times longer than wide, subecpial to tlie postmarginal, the stigmal a little 

 longer. Half a dozen lines of coarser cilia proximad of the hairless line. Head (ceiihalic 

 aspect) longer than vfide, the frons nnjderate (alaout ."i times the diameter of the large cephalic 

 ocellus), the cheeks over half the length of the eyes. Inner tooth of mandibles blunt. Hind 

 tibial spur stout. Scape long and slender, the pedicel snbelongiitc, not quite thrice longer than 

 wide, somewdiat shorter than funicle 1 which is longest and about four and a half times longer 

 than wide; 2 and 3 each a little shorter in succession; funicle a little longer than wide. 

 Club not half the length of the flagellum. Face inflexed, the frons not especially ]ir(]minent. 

 Scutelluni shorter than the scutum. Club joints not very distinct. 



From one female caught by sweeping flosvers in a g.'iMlen. February is. H»i;t. 



Habitat: Ripple Creek (Ingham). Queensland. 



Type: No. Uy3036, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the S[iecimen on a tag; licad, hind 

 tibias and a fore wing on a slide. 



Genus SCnKDIUS Howard. 

 1. SCHEDIUS UNCINCTIPES new species. 



Female: — Length, l.l.j mm. liitt'ers from the genotyi>e in having the frons broader, 

 the club obliquely truncate, the funicle joints wider than long, the mandibles rather long and 

 with three acute teeth of which the mesal is longest. Also, the scutelluni extends to base of 

 abdomen. 



Brilliant metallic green, the abdomen darker, the wings hyaline; legs (except all cox:e 

 and a broad concolorous band on hind tibiie a short distance distad of knee and extending to 

 middle) and antennae (except iiedicel aliove at proximal two thirds) silvery white. Head and 

 thorax densely punctulate, the axillai smoother, reticulated. Abdomen scaly. Frons moderately 

 broad. Cheeks very short, about a fourth the length of the eyes or a little less. Frons 

 subprominent, the vertex nearly flat. Ring-joint present. Pedicel as long as funicles 1 and 2 

 united, barely longer than wide; funicle 6 widest and longest, nearly twice wMder than long, 

 5 a little longer than it. longest, 2 and 3 subequal, a little wider than 1. Club :i little over 

 half the length of the funicle and distinctly ivider. 



Ijateral ocelli nearly their own diameter from the eyes. Hind femur compressed, the 

 hind tibial spurs single. Tarsal joints of caudal legs all longer than wide. 1 and 5 subequal, 

 1 a little longer, over twice longer than wide. Venation pallid. Marginal vein slightly longer 

 than wide; other veins about as in the genotype. Hairless line of fore wing with only about 

 three lines of diseal cilia proximad of it. Pronotum transverse-linear. Scutum long. Abdomen 

 as figured for the genotype. Fore wings with about 40 lines of very fine diseal cilia where 

 widest. 



Described from one female, forest, .July 9, 1914. 



Babitat : Meerawa (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. By 30:17, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, fore 

 wings and hind tibiai with slide type of EctromoUles inirpiireiseateUuin fliranll. 



