SOS MEMOIES OF THE QUEEXSLAM) MTSECM. 



otliers fjriuliially wideiiiiiu. Tlii>r;i.\ linelv ri'ticuluted. tlip lines not raised, the axilte 

 jiolished, nut sculptured. Abdominal petiole scaly, the seutelluni finely striate longitudinally 

 and near apex bearing a very fine convex cross-suture distad nf which it is brassy. Propo- 

 deum short, with lateral carinas but the median one at base only. Apical margin of fore 

 wing hyaline, the large black spot not touching the curved distal part of the submarginal 

 vein as in tlie tyjie species of Tomicohomorpliii and is almost kite-shaped, the proximal part 

 fiointetl. Laterad. propodenm glabrous. Pleura glabrous. Four long setaj from about center 

 of scutum, tlie first pair closer together. Long set* from cephalic margin of pronotum. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. .lungle. November I, 191,3 (A.P.D.). 



Type: No. Hi/ .11 US. (Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; liead and 

 a hind leg on a slide. 



The abdominal periole in this genus seems rather to lie tlie produced propodenm because 

 the lateral carinse continue without lireak its entire length along the lateral edge; above 

 centrally it (the so-called jieticde) is distinctly striated longitudinally; the jiostscutellum 

 is a glabrous platelike sclerite lolhuved by a transverse row of fovea; and then a transverse 

 ridge. The type has been re-examined; it bears a complete median carina on the propo- 

 denm. Two females at Gordonvale, forest, January 4 and 6, lOl-t and another from forest 

 swamji, May 15, lOl-t at (.'hindera. Tweed River. New South Wales (A. P. Dodd). 



1. TOMOCERA FLAVICEPS new species. 



F( iitair : — A little smaller than ijlabrirciitris which it is like excejiting in the folloit- 

 ing ]]articulars: About the distal half of that part of the scntellum distad of the faint 

 transverse suture is glabrous (in the other species only ajiex at meson) ; the fore wings are 

 narrower, the fuscous spot less distinct, its distal edge over the length of the marginal vein 

 from .apex (about that length in the other species), the hind wings are somewhat narrower, 

 the stigmal vein a little shorter, the antenna* reddish lirown, the club black, the fore wings 

 lack a large, isolated discal bristle near candal margin at ]iroximal edge of the fuscous spot. 

 The thorax is brass.v, tlie legs all reddish. Head reticulated. 



Described from three temalts reared from a coccid. ilctober 10, UM3 (G. F. Hill). 

 Labelled " No. 24." 



Hahitat: Port Darwin. Nortlurn, Territory. 



Tiijiix: No. Hi/.t'i:):), Queensland Museum. Brisbane, three females on a tag. 



(TIKIKOl'AcmSIA new genus. 



Built like Clieimpiiclii/s Westwood but the legs slender and unarmed, the fuuicle 

 ■5-jointed, the antenna) 12-,jointed with two ring-.ioints, the club o-jointed. Pedicel much 

 shorter than the first fuuicle .ioint. Mandibles bidentate, the second tooth broad at apex, 

 its outer ajiical angle acute like a second tooth but the truncate mesal slope does not form 

 a third tootli but is gradual. Parapsidal furrov.s complete, the scntellum without a cross 

 furrow, tile propodeuin strongly tricarinate or short and noncarinate. Abdomen sessile, non- 

 carinated, longer than the rest of the body, pointed conic-ovate, the segments not lengthened. 

 2 longest; ovipositor only slightly exserted, the valves less so. Fore wings with a midlongi- 

 tudinal black stripe from apex or hyaline, the jiostmarginal vein twice or more the length 

 of the moderately long stigmal, nearly as long as the marginal which is only somewhat shorter 

 than the submarginal. 



1. CHEIROPACHYSIA LONGIFASCIATIPENNIS new species. Female. Genotyjie. 



Length, 3 mm. 



Brilliant metallic purple, tlie scntellum, ]iropodeuiu and base of abdomen metallic 

 green; legs pale reddish brown, the coxa; metallic basally, the trochanters and knees white. 

 Scape white at base, otherwise like the legs, the club yellowish white; i-est of antennae black. 



