144 MEMOmS OF TIIK QVEEXSLAyD ilUSEVM. 



suhflaviceps only the second joiut of the fuiiiL-le is white. Mesonotmu clothed with sboi't white- 

 pubescence. Legs pale yellowish. Ovipositor only slightly exserted. The short ring-joint is 

 present. The extreme tip of the scape is black in all three species. The ovipositor in vurns is- 

 barely exserted. Scape colored as in the other species. 



Described from one female cajitured by sweeping miscellaneons vegetation along the 

 left bank of the Pioneer Eiver, October 21, 1911. 



Hahital : Mackay, Queensland. 



Ti/pe: No. Hy 3090, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag; the 

 head and a hind leg on a slide. 



A second female from virgin jungle. Malanda, Xortlieni (ijuecnsland, December ?>\, 1911. 



4. EPIDINOCARSIS FUSCIVENTRIS new species. 



Female: — Length, l.hU mm. 



Orange j'ellow. the face of luonotuui. ventral margin of the face and tlie antennae jet 

 black; wings hyaline; legs white; co.\a% abdomen and metapleura, brownish black; ijronotuni 

 silvery white, also an oval spot in center of projiodeum with a black dot in its center. TegulsB 

 silvery. An inverted conspicuous, tau-shaiied marking on each side of scape at apex silvery 

 wjiite. Eyes hairy. A quadrate, white dot on scape at base. Mandibles with two acute teeth. 

 Funicle 1 about four times longer than wide, somewhat longer than the pedicel; 2-1 subequal to 

 each other and to the pedicel, (i somewhat longer than wide; club longer than distal two funicle 

 joints together. Caudal tibial spurs double. Frons moderate. Cheeks not half the length of 

 the eyes. Ring-joint j)resent. Oblicjue hairless line of fore wing closed at both ends; the 

 numerous cilia proximad of it no coarser than the main eiliation ; marginal vein four times 

 longer than wide, a little shorter than the long stigmal, the latter a little shorter than the 

 postmarginal. Scutum and ]irothorax with short silvery pubescence. Postseutelluni lemon 

 yellow, laterad the propodeum concolorous with abdomen. Head and thorax extraordinarily, 

 finely, densely, pin-punctured and also the dorsal surface of the abdomen. Venation rather 

 abnormal. Axilla' distinctly separated for some distance. 



From one female taken by sweeping. May 4, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



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



Type: No. ByJOfi], Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; fore wing, 

 caudal tibia: and head on a slide. 



5. EPIDINOCARSIS AURATISCUTUM n^'w species. 

 Female: — Length, 1.2.") mm. 



Like trieolor but differing as follows: The large, black spot on scutellum is absent, the 

 mesopleurum is purplish black while the distal half of dorsum of the honey yellow abdomen 

 is not black, the extreme tip of abdomen silvery white. The fnnicle joints are all a little 

 shorter. Postmarginal vein hardly developed, the stigmal somewhat shorter than the marginal. 

 Otherwise the same. 



From one female ciuglit sweeping jungle along a forest streamlet, December 4, 1913, 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy o09i. Queensland iluseum, Brisbane, the sjiecimen on a tag; head and a 

 fore wing on a slide. 



6. EPIDINOCARSIS CUNEINOTA new species. 



Female: — Length. l.SO mm., including the ovipositor which is shortly extrmled. black, 

 white at base. 



Differs from tricolor only in having the postmarginal vein a little over a third the length 

 of the stigmal and in bearing a long conical black marking on scutum from base nearly to 

 apex, the base of this nmrking fitting the broad mesal black of the pronotum which widens 

 rapidly frt>m it ; hence the base of the marking is but moderately broad, the whole a little 



