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eyes. Froiis with some |uiiictiires; SLnituiu finely st-aly. tlie scutelluiu glabrous; scutuiii with 

 numerous obseure setigerous punctures, tlie sciitellnn' witli cinly few. A.xilla; separated for a 

 sliort distance. 



Prom three females caught May 28, lf)13 by sweejiing .juugle. 



[labitat : Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. By 313!), Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one specimen on a tag; head, a 

 wing and a hind tibia on a slide. 



I'AKALEPTOMASTIX new genus. 



Female: — Form robust, the head lenticular, narrowed ventrad of the face, the mandibles 

 not large, with two acute teeth, the second tooth niiwh shorter than the first, from lateral 

 aspect acute. Prous broad, the cheeks over half the length of the eyes; scrobes very short. 

 Fourth joint of maxillary palpus elongate. Antennae slenderly clavate, the scape slender but 

 normal, the first funicle Joint elongate, the club short, ovate, its first two joints much wider 

 than long, together forming only about a tliird of tlie length. Marginal \'ein about thrice 

 longer than wide, the postniarginal elongate, over two and a half times the length of the 

 marginal, the stigmal long, curved, one and two third times longer than the marginal. Costal 

 cell large. Hind legs (including first tarsal joint, excluding coxa') compressed, the femur 

 along distal half ventrad with a narrow colorless membranous exfoliation; two tibial spurs. 

 Ovipositor not exserted, the abdomen much smaller than the thorax. Pronotum transverse. 

 Axillie meeting. 



1. PARALEPTOMASTIX THOREAUINI new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, about i!.3(l mm. 



Dark metallic green with bluish tinges, the abdomen and hind legs black-blue, the first 

 two pairs of legs and antennae reddish brown; antennal club black. Venation dusky black, 

 the fore wing with a large, diamond-shaped smoky area suspended from the distal half of 

 stigmal vein and reaching nearly to caudal margin, its apex distad and extending to a point 

 beyond apex of the postniarginal vein. The area is divided longitudinally nearly into two 

 equal halves by a clear line. 



Head densely punctulate. Scutum finely scaly, pilose. Scutellum longitudinally 

 lineolated. Axilla! witli a short carina between them. Oblique hairless line with over a dozen 

 lines of coarser cilia juoximad of it. Club shorter than funicle 1 which is distinctly twice 

 longer than the normal pedicel; funicle 2 a little over half the length, of 1. distinctly longer 

 than the pedicel, 4 and 5 subequal, each slightly longer than wide. 6 a little wider than long. 

 -loint 1 of maxillary palpus black. 



Prom one female taken November 19, 191.'! (H. Hacker). 



Habitat: Brisbane, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy314ii, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, fore 

 Aving .-md a hind leg i>n a slide. 



l'AKATKTRAL(.)l'HinKA new genus. 



Female: — In Ashmead 's (1904) table of genera runs to Calocerirrtis Howard but the 

 srape is distinctly but not greatly dilated, foliaceously widening toward apex. Head a little 

 longer than wide, the second tooth of mandible broadly truncate, the cheeks not quite as long 

 as the eyes, the scrobes toler.'ibly short, forming more or less of a semicircle, the face sub- 

 lenticular; frons tolerably narrow. Antenna^ inserted not far above the clypeus, clavate, 

 12-jointed with one short ring-joint, the club short and stout, compressed, about a third the 

 length of the funicle; pedicel subequal to funicle 3, the distal three funicle joints wider than 

 long. Axilhe broadly joined. Marginal vein about f\)ur times longer than wide, the stigmal 

 a fourth shorter than it, the postniarginal just develo]ied. Oblique hairless line present. Fore 



