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iviiigs with a |.;ittern. tlie margiiuil fringes short. Hind tibial si.nrs .h,nl)l<.. Fnnifle 1 nuarly 

 twice longer than wide, longest. Cephalic and caudal femora and tibiic compressed. Scutuiii 

 a little longer than the seutelluni, the abdomen de]iressed. triangular, as long as the thorax, 

 the ovipositor not e.xserted, segment :i apparently occujiying two tliirds or more of the surface 



1. PARATETRALOPHIDEA ORNATIPENNIS new speeie.s. Genotype. 



FeiiiaJe: — Length, l.Oii mm. Stout, rather short. 



Dark metallic purple, the seutelluni dark liluc at di.stal third, rest green; middle legs 

 except coxa? and femora proxiniad and all tarsi, brown. Kore wing with two consjjicuous, 

 broad, black stripes across them, the first from the distal fourth or less of tlic sulimarginal, 

 uU of marginal and stigmal veins (not crossing the latter) , its proximal margin straight, continuous 

 with the discal ciliation, its cephalic margin c(mvex; the second stripe is a little longer and 

 occupies about tlic distal third of the wing; a ratlier broad hyaline band I)Ctw(>en the two; 

 cilia proximad of the hairless line dense, twice coarser, aliout 10 lines. Head and thorax 

 delicately reticulate and with numerous, distiiu-t but minute setigerons punctures, the seutelluni 

 polished but with faint traces of scaliness proximad and with a few scattered setigerous 

 punctures. Propodeum with a weak median carina, the snrfaie ne.arlv smootli. Puliescence 

 not consfiicuous. 



From one female taken in jungle. March .1, liilt. 



Eabitat: Gordouvale (Cairns), t^ueensland. 



Ty[)t: No. llij.U41, Queensland Museum, Bvisbane. the spei-imcn on a tag; liimi tibia, 

 iieail and a fore wing on a slide. 



OMPHALKNCYKTUS new genus. 



Female: — Antenna; inserted below the middle of the f.ace, 9-jointed with no ring-joint, 

 the club long, .3-jointed, the incisions faint. Alidomeii rather stout, longer than the thorax, 

 the ovipositor short, inserted toward tiji, not extruded. Middle tibial spur normal for the 

 family. Axilla' wedge-shaiied, meeting at meson or iicaily. Mandibles with the second tooth 

 truncate. Eyes not convergent. Wings present, the m.arginal vein about twice longer than 

 wide, the stigmal and postmarginal veins still slicuter. Scape a little compressed. With the 

 habitus of an omphaline eulo|jliid. 



1. OMPHALENCYRTUS WALLACEI u.w species. (lrHot\pe. 



Female: — Length, 0.75 mm. 



Dark met.allic gi'eeu. the wings hyaline, the coxa' com-olorous. als.i the pedicel above; 

 antenna' and legs pallid white except hind femur and proximal two thirds of hind tibia which are 

 concolorous. Club longer than ihe funicle. Incisions of abdomen showing as more or less 

 distinct whitisli cross-stripes. T'edicel not mudi o\er a tliird tin' length of the club, distinctly 

 longer than any of the funicle joints of whicli 1 )s longer than wide and plainly the longest, 

 the others wider than long, 2 and 3 subequal, shorter than 4 which is not much wider than 

 long. Pedicel nearly twice the length of fnuicle 1. Thorax finely scaly. 



Described from one female caught .lanuary i;. IHK! Ijy swe(-ping forest (A. 1'. Iioild). 



Haiti at : Gordouvale (Cairns), (Queensland. 



Type: No. Hij.ll4'2, t^ueenslaud Museum. I'.risbane. the female on a slide, 



Kh'l("il>Xl-:bl.A new genus. 



1. ERICYDNELLA ASHMEADI new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, 1.80 mm. 



Dark metallic pnr]ile, the wings hyaline; tarsi, cephalic tibia' and distal half of inter- 

 Jiiediate tibiae reddish brown, the scape so at proximal third and the intermediate femora in 



