nS MEMOmS OF THE QUEEySL.iyP iirSEVV. 



iic'irly as long as the eyes. Frons moderate. Eyes hairy. Caudal wings with about 15 lines 

 of (lineal cilia. Hind tibial spurs double. Scutum with scattered, minute setigerinis punctures. 

 Middle femur suffused with dusky. 



From two females captured in jungle, July 30. 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



JJahiiat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Tjipe: No. EiiS04'.). Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one sjiecimen on a tag; head, pair 

 of wings and hind tibia? with .slide type of Nraiinslatus pvrpureiscutennm Giraiilt. 



A third female same place August 2(1. 



FRIONOMITOIDES new genus. 



Fiiiitile: — Runs in my table to Prionomitus but differs in having the head (cephalic 

 aspect) dist'nctly longer than wide, the scape slender, the stigmal and postmarginal veins 

 rather long and subequal. Mandibles with three acute teeth, of which the middle one is 

 distinctly longer than the other two. Frons moderately broad. Cheeks about half as long 

 as the eyes. Hind tibial spur single, the middle one very large. Axillfe with a carina between 

 them. Valves of ovipositor shortly extruded, the abdomen pointed triangular. Cephalic coxa? 

 compressed, large, the femur oI)cIavate. Pronotum transverse-linear. S< utellum extending to 

 liase of abdomen. 



1. PRIONOMITOIDES VIRIDISCUTELLUM new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, I.IU mm. 



Metallic juirple, the seutellum metallic green, the wings hyaline, the venation dusky. 

 Knees, tibia?, distal half of middle femur and tarsi pale golden yellow. Apex of scape pale. 

 Club wider than and half as long as the funiele; joint 1 of the latter, a little shorter than 

 the pedicel, somewhat longer than wide, sul)er|ua! to 2 and 3, 4 and 5 subequal, a little longer 

 than wide, 6 quadrate. Ring-joint present. Hairless line of fore wing with four lines of discal 

 cilia proximad of it. tlie fore wings broad. Mandibles with acute teeth, the first and third 

 subequal, small, the middle over twice longer than either. Seutellum longitudinally lined, the 

 scutum polygonally si-aly. with slight jiubescence. Axilhp iMilygonally scaly, also the abdomen. 



From one female caught in jungle. May 4, lStl4 (.\. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed River), New South Wales. 



Type: No. 'Hy:30iil, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, tlip specimen nii a tag; head, fore 

 wing, middle and hind tibiiP on a slide. 



CiENUs NEOCLAIUA Perkins. 



Heail trans\evse, menisciftnin. inflexeil. bearing coarse shallow jiunctures, the space 

 between the eyes wide, the ocelli in a triangle nuich widest at base, the posterior ones being 

 rather near to eye margins, only about half as far from these as from the anterior ocellus. 

 Maxillary ])alpi long, 4-jointed, the first and third subequal, the second nuich longer than either 

 of these, the fourth curved and very elongate, much longer than second and clothed w'ith 

 long hairs, ilandililes broad and apparently sim])ly pointed in one aspect but in others seem 

 to have three microscopic teeth at apex. Antennie in front view of head inserted well below 

 the middle; those of the female simple, the scape long and slender, the pedicel rather shorter 

 than the first of the six funiele joints, which when seen at their widest gradually decrease in 

 length and increase in width to the sixth, which is transverse, the club oval, rather longer than 

 the two preceding joints; the serobes short and rather indefinite. Propodeimi widely rounded 

 in front; mesonotum about as long as the axiihe (which meet inwardly) and the seutellum, 

 the latter much deflexed apically. Wings with a j.attern in the female (but uniformly clear 

 in the male), stigmal vein long, marginal very short, postmarginal longish in the female and 

 rather longer still in the male. Middle tibia? armed at the apex with denticles as also are the 



