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2. SYSTASIS HENRICI <;iiault. l<\„,ak-. 

 Length, 2.10 mm. 



Dark metallic a-neous green, retu-nlately ,>u„,t.-ite, the thorax also with obsenre thimhle 

 punctures. Wings hyaline. Legs brownish yellow, the cephalic femora washed with metallic 

 green, the posterior femora darker at the mi.ldle and submetallic; antennEB dusky Idack 

 12-jointed, with two ring-joints, the club :^-,ioin(e.i, the funiele joints subquadrate, the first 

 longest, slightly shorter than the pedicel; postraarginal vein somewhat longer than the stigmal 

 Mandibles o-dentate, the three inner teeth minute. Propodeum tricarinate, the scutellum without 

 a cross-furrow. Ovijioxitor not exserted. 



Iliibitiit: King Island. Tasnumia. 



Type: No. I.ISII, South Australian Musmnu. 



3. SYSTASIS GROTIUSI new sjieeies. Female. 

 Length, 1.75 mm. 



Like henrici but the mandibles without two small inner teeth aiul all femora and tibuu 

 are concolorous, the knees and tips of tibia; broadly yellow. Proiiodeum short at the meson. 

 Robust and with the habitus of Onniinix. A few- punctures on uiijjer face and vertex and the 

 fore tibia3 are mostly yellowish. 



Ilubitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), yueenslauil. Forest, May and December 2, 1912. 



Tyiic: No. Hy3iej. Queensland .Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the head atid 

 hind legs on a slide. 



4. SYSTASIS SEPOSITUS i"W species. Female. 

 Length, 1.40 mm. 



Bright metallic blue green, the fuuicle joints except the first wider than long, the first 

 quadrate and twice or less the length of the second which is shcutest. Otherwise like rii'ofiiisi. 

 Club enlarged, ovate. Pedicel longer than any of the funiele joints. In grotiusi, the three 

 distal fnniele joints are wider than long and the scape is longer. In scposilus the complete 

 median carina is very short, the |U'o]iodeum short. Thus very similar to ;/rotiusi but the antenna; 

 are shorter, the flagelhun brown (black in grotiii.si) and the second funiele joint distinctly 

 shorter than the first. Abdomen slender, conic. Icuiger than the thorax. 



The propodeum is short and with a median i-ariua iu both s[)ecies and the sculpture is 

 identical; but the hind wings in iiroliiisi are liroader. 



Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), (.jueensland. Forest. January S. 191:!. 



Type: No. Hy:S1H(>, (Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a t'enuih' on a tag. the head an<l 

 hind legs on a slide. 



5. SYSTASIS INSULARIS new species of A. P. Dodd anddirault. Female. 



Length, 1.911 mm. 



Brilliant metallic green, the coxa; and femora concoiorous; kiu-es. tiliiic and tarsi white, 

 the tibia) yellowish centrally, the antenna) black, the scape l)rownisli. Thorax densely finely 

 reticulate-punetate. Propodeum somewhat finer, short, broad, witli a median carina, the 

 lateral carina present, abbreviated anteriorly, the s|iiraclc roun.leil. tlie s[iiracular sulci faintly 

 indicated. Abdomen somewhat longer than the thorax, wholly finely scaly and with whitish 

 scattered pubescence; second segment occupying over a third of the surface. Wings liyaline; 

 marginal vein over twice as long as stigmal, the ]]ostmarginal a half longer than stigmal. 

 Pedicel a little shorter tlian first fuuicle joint whiili is a half longer than wide, the others 

 snbequal, slightly longer than wide; club joints a little wider than long. 



Habitat: Thursday Island. Torres Strait. Forest, March 11. 1912. 



Type: No. BySlti7. (Queensland Museum. Brisbane, a fem.-ilc on a tag: heail .-ind hind 

 legs on a slide. 



