202 MEUOIES OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



bearing a large black seta at each lateral end). Pronotum transverse. Tibial spurs normal, 

 leg slender. Pedicel not especially long but longer than any of the funiele joints of which 1 

 is longest, not much shorter than the pedicel, somewhat longer than wide; 2 subquadrate, the 

 others gradually shortening, 7 being distinctly wider than long. Vertex also with several long 

 black seta;, the head scaly reticulate. 



From one female captured in jungle. February 5. 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Babinda, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy3193, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head,^ 

 front and hind legs on a slide. 



2. URIOLELAPS POEI new species. 



Female: — Length, 2 mm. 



Similar to the genotype but shorter and besides the black parapsides, the proximal 

 third dorsad of segment 2 of abdomen is purplish black, thei-e is a round spot of the same 

 color on each side of meson of the same segment at apex and the rest of the abdomen dorsad is 

 of the same color except a short, intervening space caudad of the two spots. Also, the 

 propodeum is black centrally on each side of meson. The antenna? differ in that the funiele 

 is entirely black and the joints are a little shorter. Otherwise about the same. In both 

 species, the scutellum caudad of the transverse suture is glabrous and the whole surface of 

 the abdomen except slightly distad. The propodeum in both bears several irregular earinse 

 blocking out large, sunken areas. Compared with type of argenticoxce. 



Described from one female captured in the jungle on the Tweed River, May 2, 1914r 

 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Tweed Heads, New South AVales. 



Type: No. Hy3194, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag. 



Respectfully dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe. 



This family shows most interesting ]iarnllelisms with tlie Pteronialidae. Ihe species do- 

 not shrivel very much. 



