148 MJiMO/KS OF THE QVEEyHLAM) ilVf^EUM. 



3. FULGORIDICIDA MINUTA new species. 



Female: — Lengtli, U.70 inui. Kruns moderate. 



Dark metallic greeu, polygoually scaly. Knees, cephalic tibiaj, other tibia> except a 

 diisk.y ring a short distance below knees and the tarsi yellowish white; also the fuuicle, club 

 and apex of pedicel. Axilla? very slightly separated if at all. Mandibles with two equal 

 acute teeth, very small. Fuuicle joints enlarging distad, the first three subequal, narrower 

 than the distal three, eacli a little longer than wide, 4 and 3 subequal, somewhat longer and 

 wider than 3, G somewhat longer and wider than 5, about twice the size of 3, a little longer 

 than wide, a little shorter tlian tlu> pedicel. Club three fourths the length of funicle and a little 

 wider. Cheek as long as the eyes. Hairless line of fore wing with many lines of discal cilia 

 proximad of it. Venation yellow; a small dusky spot at the quadrate marginal vein. Post- 

 marginal vein nearly as long as the thickened marginal, the stigmal not long but somewhat 

 longer than the marginal. Fore wings moderately broad, finely, densely, ciliate. Club 1 

 longer than funicle 6. 



From one female caught in forest, November ], 1911. 



Hdbitat: Cairns, Queensland. 



Type: No. HySO'JT, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide with type 

 slide of Epidinocarsis simiJis Girault. 



4. FULGORIDICIDA NIGRICORPUS n, w species. 



Female: — Length, 1.05 mm. 



Black, the wings subhyaline, tlie antennae and legs brown-black. Head and thorax 

 densely punctate. Marginal vein semicircular, barely longer than wide, the postmarginal vein 

 much shorter than the marginal, as long as wide, the stigmal a little longer than the marginal. 

 Axillse a little separated. The second tooth of mandible a little longer tlmn the first. Frons 

 about two and two third times the width of an ocellus. Antenna- filiform, the scape (excluding 

 bulla) not as long as the funicle; jiedieel longer than any of the funicle joints of which 2 is 

 longest, one and a half times longer than wide, 1 somewhat shorter than it, 3-4 subequal, each 

 a little shorter than 2; funicle 6 subquadrate. Club a little wider than the funicle. Propodeum 

 finely transversely lincolated. Thorax with scattered short yellowish hairs. Hind tibial spur 

 single. At least ten lines of somewhat coarser cilia proximad of hairless line. 



From one female taken by sweeping forest, March 6, 1912. 



Hdhitat: Thursday Island, Torres Strait. 



Tiipi : No. TlySOiKS, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, hind 

 tiliia and a fore wing on a slide. 



5. FULGORIDICIDA SIMPLICISCAPUS i» w species. 



Female: — Length, O.SU niiu. 



Very dark metallic green, the head and thorax almost black; knees, tips of tibia; and 

 the tarsi brownish; middle legs sutfused with brownish. Wings hyaline. Antennas concolorous; 

 scape long and slender; jiediiel rather long, as long as funicles 2 and 3 united, much longer 

 than any of the fuuicle joints of which '■'> is longest, somewhat longer than wide; funicle 1 

 barely longer than wide together with 2 which is a little longer, not as long as the pedicel. 

 Distal funicle joint somewhat wider than long; club somewhat over half the length of the 

 funicle, somewhat wider than the funicle. Mandibles with two short, subequal, acute teeth. 

 .Marginal vein a little longer than wide, the postmarginal very short, half the length of the 

 marginal, the stigmal nearly twice the length of the marginal. Oblique hairless line present. 

 Frons about half the width of the eyes, moderately narrow. Lateral ocelli slightly separated 

 from the eyes. Cheeks nearly as long as the eyes. An obscure stain about the marginal vein. 

 Head and thorax densely, finely ]iunctulate, the axillro a little smoother, the abdomen shining, 

 finely scaly reticulate. Axilla' joined at meson. Serob^s rather long, .\bdomen as long as 

 the thorax. 



