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margin carinated; propodeal spiracle minute, laterad of the lateral carina. Abdomen glabrous. 

 Propodeum black. Club larger than the funicle but only about half its length, obliquelv 

 truncate; pedicel a little over twice longer than wide at apex, a little longer than funicle 1 

 which is longest, the following joints shortening and widening gradually to the club, 4 

 subquadrate, 5 and 6 somewhat wider than long. Hind tibial spurs double. Cheeks two thirds 

 the length of the eyes. Antenna; well clothed : pubescence on thoracic dorsum present but 

 not conspicuous yet from lateral aspect rather dense. Seutellum more coarsely scaly than rest 

 of i borax. Mesopleurum densely, distinctly punctate, smooth at extreme cephalic end. Head 

 impunctate but a row of fine punctures across the vertex by the eye margins. 



From one female caught May 19, 1913 by sweeping in jungle (A. P. Dodd). 



Ilahitat : Kuranda, Queensland. 



Ti/pc: No. By 3133, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the speoimen on a tag; head and a 

 hind leg on a slide. 



2. PARASTENOTERYS VARIPES new specie s. 



Female: — Length, 1.50 mm. 



Black or nearly, the seutellum metallic blue, the abdomen dark coppery, green at base. 

 Fore wings lightly stained yellowish under marginal vein, the venation pale. All coxa; and 

 cephalic legs except the tarsi and each end of the tibia;, concolorous; rest of legs reddish brown. 

 Scape reddish brown except the bulla which is concolorous; rest of antenna; black, except the 

 yellowish apex of pedicel. Wings hyaline. Pedicel somewhat longer than wide at apex, some- 

 what longer than any of the funicle joints which thicken a little distad but are subequal, a 

 little longer than wide; club two thirds the- length of the funicle and distinctly much wider, 

 eonie-ovate. Hairless line rather obscure, with about five lines of cilia proximad of it. 

 Marginal vein about five times longer than wide, the i]Ostmarginal a little longer than the 

 stigmal which is two thirds the length of the marginal or a little longer. Tl'.e smaller spur of 

 hind tibia no longer than the apical seta; but distinctly stouter. Head somewhat longer than 

 wide. Scutum polygonally scaly and with pilosity; axillffl more finely scaly, the seutellum 

 like the axilliE but the scalincss has a longitudinal trend. Meson of propodeum with oblique 

 ruga>. Segment 2 of abdomen occupying a third of the surface, mnch longer than any of the 

 other segments. Face rather mueli inflexed, frons not prominent, the scrobes as in the genotype. 

 Ovipositor slightly extruded. Otherwise as in the genotype. 



From one female caught May 4, 1914 in jungle near Tweed River (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Tweed Heads, New South Wales. 



Type: No. Hy3137, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, a pair 

 [)f wings and hind tibi;e with slide tyjie of EctromomjiicUo nrticulux fiiranlt. 



PAEATETRACNEMOIDEA new genus. 



Fcmalf: — Differs from Tclraciicmoidea Howard in that the venation does not reach 

 the costal margin, the marginal vein punetiform, the postmarginal absent, the stigmal short 

 but distinct, clavate, about twice longer than wide. Mandibles with two unequal, acute teeth. 

 Carina on epistoma not distinct; the thorax is globular, the .axilla; separated a short distance; 

 abdomen very short, depressed, pointed triangular, shorter than the thorax, the ovipositor 

 extruded a short distance. Fore wing extending well beyond the body. Seutellum overhanging 

 the short jirojiodeum, convex, globular from dorsal aspect. 



1. PARATETRACNEMOroEA BREVIVENTRIS new species. Genotype. 

 Female: — Length, 0.70 nun. Very short but rather robust. Dark metallic purple, the 

 legs and scape except at ajiex, rich yellow-brown, the coxa; mostly concolorous with the body. 

 Antenna) inserted at the clypeus, the flagellum spear-shaped, the scrobes long, the scape 

 slender; pedicel somewhat longer than funicle 1 which is longest, somewhat longer than wide, 

 1' somewhat shorter than 1, a little longer than wide, 3 and 4 quadrate, .5 and 6 wider and 



