190 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



shorter than the pedicel, which is a little longer than wide. Club apparently with a minute 

 apical fourth joint (excluding this, antenna lo-jointed with two ring-joints). 



Described from one female captured by sweeping in forest. December 2, 1912 (A. P. 

 Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. HyS173, Queensland Museum. H'risbane, the above s]iecimen on a tag, the 

 head and a hind leg on a slide. 



A second female, type habitat, May 27. ]9H. 



Tribe METASTENINI. 



METASTENOIDES new genus. 



Form short, robust, the head large, from cephalic aspect rounded, the antenna) inserted 

 in the middle of the face, 13-jointed, three' ring and club joints. Clypeus emarginate at meson. 

 Mandibles 3- and 4-dentate. Postmarginal and stigmal veins long, the former longer than the 

 latter, nearly as long as the rather short marginal. Scutellum simple. Pronotum distinct, 

 transverse. Propodeum conical, without a median carina, the lateral carinte present and a 

 foveate, irregular, short spiracular sulcus, the spiracle narrow, long-reniform. A large transverse 

 fovea at cephalic margin of propodeum just mesad of lateral carina. Abdomen short, depressed 

 ovate, the second segment longest, occupying a little less than a fourth of the surface, the 

 others shorter but not transverse-linear. 



1. METASTENOIDES SIMUS new species. Female. Clenotype. 



Length, 2.70 mm. 



Bronze, the wings hyaline, the abdomen dark green, legs (except the concolorous hind 

 coxa, others not noted) reddish; the knees, tijis of tibias and tarsi white. Antennie reddish, 

 the first funicle joint longer than the pedicel, longest of the funicle. the others shortening, 

 joint 1 nearly twice longer than wide; funicle .5 slightly longer than wide. Scape long and 

 slender. Head and thorax densely punctate. Distal half of hind tibial white. 



Habitat: Knranda. Queensland. .Tungle, Septemljer 1"). 1913. 



Type: No. Hy317o, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag. the hind tibia; and 

 antenna} on a slide. 



CtEXUS ARTIIROLYSIS Foerster. 

 1. ARTHROLYSIS FLAVIVENTRIS new species of CJirault and A. P. Dodd. Female. 



Length, 3.2.5 mm. 



Head and thorax dark metallic lilue. the cephalic coxa> concolorous; anterior femora 

 black-brown; rest of legs golden yellow; abdomen with a longitudinal stripe running down 

 each lateral margin from base to two thirds length and a median strijie from one sixth length 

 to two thirds length, brown; apex of abdomen liUu-k, rest golden yellow; antenna; wholly 

 brownish yellow. Wings hvaliue, long and broad, the venation yellow; marginal vein one 

 third longer than postmarginal, the latter twice as long as the rather long stigmal vein. 

 Abdomen conic-ovate, depressed above, ccmvex beneath, as long as the head and thorax 

 combined, its second segment occujiying one fourth of the surface, 3 and 4 subeqnal, together 

 ecpial to 2, 4-6 gradnallj' lengthening, li as long as 2. Pronotum distinctly separated; 

 parapsidal furrows only indicated anteriorly; scutellum as long as wide, simple; propodeum 

 moderate in length, punctate, without carina' or sulci. Thorax densely umbilicately ])unetate 

 and with a few scattered hairs. Mandibles 4 ilentatc. Antenna) inserted about on the middle 

 of the f.ace, 13-jointed with twii ring-, three club joints; jiedicel distinctly longer than wide. 



