224 MEMOIBS OF TEE QVEENSLJND MUSEUM. 



1. AMOTURELLA SAINTPIERREI GiraiJt. Female. Genotype. 



Length, 1.2-") mm. 



Metallic coppery, the abdomen black, the sides of thorax green; legs rich, dark reddisb- 

 broun; posterior wings uniformly stained, fore ivings stained out to the end of the venation, 

 from thence hyaline, ajiparently without marginal fringes. Thorax scaly, also the head. Scape 

 slender; pedicel long obconie, twice the length of the first funicle .ioint, which is somewhat 

 wider than lung, largest of tlie funicle. tlic ring-joint closely attached to it and as wide as 

 its base; other funicle joints shortening; club as long as the fiini( h'. 



JTiiiitat : Hobart, Tasmania. 



Type: No. I.liG'J, South Australian Museum. 



In those forms of this family with simjde legs, it is difficult to distinguish them from 

 Ininis of the Miscogasteridai. The hiteral tlior:icie selerites ajipear to be the only characteristics 

 liut 1 have not seen enough of tlimi to form an adequaire opinion as to the value of this 

 difference. A careful study of the family in;iy show that the C/eo»)/»i(«fp and ChalcodectinsB 

 are invalid because of gradual variations in tlie si;e of the caudal femora. The species are not 

 often taken with the sweeping net but many more forms will doubtless be discovered when an 

 attempt is made to collect by rearing from beetle-infested wood. The forms do not shrivel 

 nnich. Nor are they niuner<ius in the Australian fauna, from present indications. 



