142 MEMOmS OF THE QUEENSLAXD ilUSEUil. 



PARACALOCERINUS new genus. 

 1. PARACALOCERINUS AUSTRALIENSIS new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, 1.20 mm. 



Metallic purple, the scutelluni ;ni(l iiropudeinn green; cephalic and intermediate tibise 

 pale brown, the hind tibiie whitish below the knees for some distance; tarsi pale brown. Fore 

 wings brown from the bend of the submarginal vein to apex, the brown broken by a large, 

 obliquely ovate white area at each wing margin and thus two opposite white areas, situated 

 just a little distad of the apex of the venation. Stigmal and postmarginal veins short, the 

 former a little the longer, the marginal vein long, four or more times longer than the stigmal; 

 oblique hairless line distinct. Axillae nearly meeting. Ovipositor valves black, extruded for a 

 length equal to half that of the abdomen. Head and thorax with a fine scaly sculpture. 

 Mandibles with two equal acute teeth. Propodeal spiracle minute, round. Antennae 9-joiuted, 

 the club solid, no ring-joint. Scape slender, the pedicel much longer than any of the funicle 

 joints which are all much wider than long, and widening distad; scajie without the bulla about 

 as long as the funicle, the clulj more or less the same length. Frons moderately broad, the 

 face inflexed. 



From one female captured by sweeping the forest tloor, top of coast range of mountains 

 (1,500 feet), May 26, 1912. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. HySOSG, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the specimen cm a tag; head on a 

 slide. 



In a female from tlordon\ale, .lanuiiry 1, 19K'., raught by A. I'. Dodd sweeping a jungle- 

 clad forest streamlet, the middle tibia was lemon yellow. 



A female was caught in jungle, May, 1913, at the same place and another there in the 

 forest on March 31, 1914, the latter with no trace of wings. Also, a normal female by sweeping 

 grass in forest, Capeville, Pentland, Queensland, September 15, 1914. A female from Kuranda, 

 Queensland, September 12, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



ECTEOMELLA new genus. 



Female: — Head thin, somewhat longer than wide, the antennse 11-jointed, the funicle 

 5-jointed, three club joints, one very short ring-joint; scape cylindrical. Wings hyaline, the 

 marginal vein barely longer than wide, the stigmal short but distinctly longer than the marginal, 

 the postmarginal nearly as long as the marginal, subobsolete; wings with an oblique hairless line. 

 Axillae barely separated. Abdomen pointed conic-ovate, the ovipositor not extruded. Form 

 small, slender. The mandibles are very small, with two acute teeth. Frons narrow at upper 

 face, rather broad caudad at occipital margin, the eyes rounded; cheeks long. Hind tibial 

 spur single, the middle tibial spiur over twice its size but not very stout. Oblique hairless line 

 of fore wing obscure, apparently running along against the submarginal vein. Fore wings 

 densely, very finely ciliate discall.y. Scutellum conve.xly rounded at apex. 



1. ECTROMELLA BICOLOR new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, OM'i uiui. 



Dark metallic purple, the thorax mostly yellowish brown washed lightly witli pur])lish, 

 the pronotum and propodeum purple. .Antennas yellowish brown, the pedicel as long as the 

 first funicle joint which is twice longer than wide and distinctly longer than the other four 

 joints of which 2 is shortest, somewhat shorter than 5 and narrowest; joints 3 and 4 subequal, 

 each a fourth shorter than 1; club dusky, wider than the funicle. Thorax with a distinct staly 

 sculpture. Legs pale yellow. 



