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than 1 wbieli is jilaiiily longer tbau wide. !Scai>e metallic. Postiiiargiiial \ein as long as tlie 

 stignial. Scape short. Proiiotum transverse (witliout the head, ratlier large, conical). Antenna- 

 inserted a little above \entral ends of the eyes. First femora sliglitly swollen, simple. 



Described from one female reared from galls on young gum trees, March, 1911 (F. P. 

 Spry). 



Uabiliit : Jlelbiiurne, Victoria. 



Type: Xo. HySSOS, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, tlie sjiecimen on a tag, the liead. 

 a fore leg and a hind tibia on a slide. 



Genus A1'H0TISMU8 Girault. 



Agreeing with I'hoti.imiis Walker but the abdomen with a very short petiole, its body 

 compressed, appearing sublinear from dorsal aspect and large and round from lateral aspect, 

 the ovijiositor hidden. Head from cephalic aspect subrectaugular, a little wider than long, 

 the antennai inserted slightly above the ventral ends of the eyes, llVjoiuted ivith one ring- 

 joint and a 3-jointed club. Pronotum transverse; parapsidal furrows complete, the scutellum 

 simple but with a cross-groove, the median carina of propodeum weak, the spiracle small, 

 round. Marginal, stigmal .-uid |iOstmarginal veins about equal, the first and last a little 

 longer, the fore wing with a longitudinal, subcreseentic, fuscous band extending from apex 

 of submarginal veiu to apex of stigmal. Mandibles bidentate but the second tooth broad, its 

 a]iex concavely eumrginate. Posterior femora much swollen and with a large triangular tooth 

 beneath near apex whose distal margin is minutely serrulate; cejdialic femora also swollen 

 but simple. Hind tibia' with two spurs. 



1. APHOTISMUS NIGER Girault. Female; male. Gcnot>'pe. 



Length, 1.S.5 mm. 



Shining black, the tibise and tarsi lemon yellow, also the distal third of cephalic femora; 

 antenniE eoncolorous, the funicle joints transverse, the first only twice the size of the ring- 

 joint, the others wider, all shorter than the jiedicel; flagellum short, clavate. Thorax finely, 

 transversely lined and polygonally reticulated and with obscure thimble ])nnctures. Short and 

 s'tout. The male is about the same. 



Habitat: Adelaide, South .\ustralia. From galls on Cusniiriiiii. 



Type: No. 7. J.W7, South Australian Museum. 



TGMIGOBGMOPPHKLLA new genus. 



Head triangular, the antenmu inserted at the clypeus, clavate, the club solid, the scape 

 dilated but not very greatly, the first two tunicle joints like ring-joints, tlie others all wider 

 than long, widening distad. Mandibles tridentate. One spur of caudal tibia? very short, the 

 other large but not csjiecially long. I'ostnutrginal and stigmal veins elongate, the former 

 somewhat longer, nearly as long as the marginal. Parapsidal furrows complete, shallow. 

 I'ronotum transverse. Scutellum sim])le. Propodeum conical, noncarinate. Postscutellum 

 rounded triangular, platelike. Abdomen sessile, depre.ssed, conic-ovate, noncarinate, subequal 

 to the thorax, segments 2 and .3 large, together occupying not quite half the surface, 2 the 

 larger. Cephalic fenmr swollen but simjile; caudal femur stout, simple. Glub obliquely 

 truncate. Antenna? 11 iointeil. 



1. TOMICOBOMORPHELLA JUSTICIA new species. Female. Genotype. 



Length, 2 mm. 



Dark metallic green, the scutellum, ))roii(jdeum and abdomen dark coppery purjde, 

 the wings subhyaline or but very slightly yellowish; legs eoncolorous except the knees broadly, 

 tips of tibia' and the tarsi which together with tlie funicle and club are rich reddish lirown 



