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From one female caught May 10, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 

 llfibitot: Murmllumbali (Tweed River), New South "Wales. 



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

 wing and hind tibia with slide type of Eiiri/rtomijUi vindisciitflluni. 

 Dedicated to the author of " Vanity Fair." 



STE\t)TER()l'SlS new genus. 



Vcmdlc: — In my table runs to Fulyoridicida Perkins liut differs in that the stigmal and 

 postmarginal veins are subequal. each somewhat longer than the marginal, the latter a little 

 longer than wide. Also the head is a little longer than wide, the scrobes very long extending not 

 quite to the cephalic ocellus. Hind tibial spur single. Club five sixths the length of the 

 fnnicle, long conic-ovate. Abdomen rounded triangular, depressed, not as long as the thorax. 

 Scutum and scutellum not much unequal. Pronotum transverse-linear. 



1. STENOTEROPSIS ABJECTUS mw species. Genotype 



Female: — Length, O.SO mm. 



Dark metallic blue, the abdomen green, the wings hyaline. Body finely scaly, the 

 scutmn clothed with black seta' wliicli are not very dense. Axilla; slender, separated by a short 

 carina. Antenna) black. Scape long, very slender, as long as the funicle whose joints are all 

 subquadrate and nearly of equal width, shorter than the usual pedicel. Venation pale yellow, 

 the fore wings broad, densely finely ciliate. Frons moderately narrow. Cheeks much shorter 

 than the eyes. Antenme inserted at the mouth border. 



Prom one female from the Queensland Museum collections labelled " Ajiril 20. 191:! 

 (H. Hacker). Sweeping young Euealiiptus." 



Sahitat : Brisbane, Queenslaiul. 



Type: No. 'BySh't4. Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag; head. Iiind 

 tibia^ and fore wing on a slide. 



EPITETRALOl'HIDEA new genus. 



Femiile: — Runs to Piiniletraloiihi<Je<i Girault but diifers in having the head rounded, the 

 scape dilated for its entire length, the face much inflexed, the frons subprominent ; also the 

 postnmrginal and stigmal veins are short and subequal, the marginal vein nearly twice the 

 length of either and a little more than twice longer than wide; the club is not compressed and 

 is over half the length of the funicle. the joints of the latter enlarging distad. The legs are 

 slender, the hind tibial spur single. Axilla- with a short carina between them. Otherwise 

 agreeing with the generic description of the genus named except that the ovipositor is distinctl.v 

 Imt very shortly extruded. 



1. EPITETRALOPHIDEA BICINCTIPES n. w species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, 0.8.T mm., excluding ovipositor; the latter is extruded for a length 

 less than a seventh that of the abdomen. 



Metallic purple, the abdomen very dark, the fore wings hyaline but very lightly dusky 

 along distal third. Venation pale .yellow. Legs eoucolorous; all tibia; and tarsi silvery white; 

 cephalic tibia black just below knee, middle tibia with a rather broad black band between 

 middle and knee; caudal tibia with a broad black band nearer to knee than to apex; middle 

 femur silvery white encircled by a tolerably broad black band between middle and knee ; knees 

 silvery white. Antenna* .yellowish white except over proxinml half of scape and proximal half 

 of pedicel above; dilation of scape moderate. Pedicel subequal to funicle 6 which is largest, a 

 little longer than wide; fuiiiclcs 1-2 subeipial. small, a little wider tliau long, .'?-4 subequal. 



