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the fore ivings have a distinct dusky, curved dash from the knob of the stig;mal vein which 

 extends about half way across the wing; it is not black, merely dusky. Posterior femora 

 beneath with eleven teeth, all distinct, the first largest, then 5 and 7, 3 and 9; 2 and H 

 smallest, then 4, then 6, 8 and 10 which are subequal, each not more than half the length of 

 1. Coxae green, the tibi® dark except at tip, at base broadly ringed with yellow-white. First 

 funicle joint much longer than the pedicel, the distal one somewhat wider than long; joints 

 2 to 4 rather long, 1 longest. Disk of propodeiun without a median carina, shallowly concaved, 

 the concavity punctate, without it the surface rugose and sulcate, the middle of the dorso- 

 lateral aspect with a conspicuous oval and deep fovea whose long axis is longitudinal; punctures 

 of propodeal disk about the same as those of the rest of the thorax, Seutellum smooth and 

 shining distad of the transverse line or suture. 



Hahitat : Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, May 11, 1913. 



Type: No. HySSlG, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the female on a tag and a slide with 

 the caudal femora and the head. 



Genus Pnp.XCRION Spinola. 

 1. PODAGRION OBSCURUM (Westwood). Femrle. 



Palmon ohscurum Westwood. Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud., IV, pt. 4, p. 260 (1847). 



Australia. 



2. PODAGRION OLENUS (Walker). 

 Palmon olc/iiis Walker, 1839, pp. 7-8. 



''Fein. — Corpus lougum, augustum, convexum, scitissime siiuameum. paruni nitens, parce 

 hirtmn: caput transversum, breve, thorace pauUo latins; vertex sat latus; frons excavata, 

 abrupte decUvis: oculi mediocrcs, nou extantes: ocelli vertice triangulum fingentes: antenna? 

 clavatas, crassa;, apice quasi truneatse, thorace non longiores; articulus 1"" Bublinearis; 2"'S 

 lougicyathifonnis; 3us et 4us brevissimi; 5us et sequentes breves, transversi, uscjue ad clavam 

 latescentes: thorax sublinearis: prothorax transversus, subquadratus, sat magnus: mesothoracis 

 parapsidum sutura; non bene determinata; : petiolus brevis : abdomen comijressum, Ifeve, nitens, 

 thorace multo brevius et augustius: oviductus vaginaj juibescentes, corpora longiores: 

 nietapeduin cux;« magnic, femora maxima ovata subtus dentata, tibiro arcuatie: ate mediocres. 



Sji. 1. Pal. Olciius. Fem. JEnco-viridis, antennae fiilvae, abdomen suiUis fulimm. 

 pedes fusco-fulvi, femora viridia, alae limiiidue. 



.^Slneo-viridis: oculi et ocelli ruti: antennae fulvae: abdomen cyaneo et cupreo-variuni, 

 subtus fulvum; oviductus rufus; vaginae nigrae: pedes fulvi ; coxae virides; femora viridia; 

 tibiae fuscae: alae limpidae. (Corp. long. lin. 2; alar. lin. 2\i>.) 



Sydney, New South Wales. ' " 



3. PODAGRION SPILOPTERION Cameron. Female : male. 



Length, 3 mm.; ()vipo8iti)r, 2 mm. 



Dark blue; abdomen dark violaceous, hind tibiaj and femora black, tarsi testaceous, 

 antennal scape fulvous; wings hyaline, nervures black, a large blackish-violaceous cloud on the 

 marginal nervure, commencing near its base and reaching to near the apex, enclosing the 

 stigmal nervure, becoming slightly, gradually widened to shortly beyond the middle, then 

 roundly narrowed, the sides at the apex rounded, the centre transverse; it extends to the top 

 of the apiial third. Pace closely, finely punctured; the punctures close and regular. Man- 

 dibles darker red, brighter in tint at the base. Pro- and mesonotmn and seutellum closely 

 punctured; the seutellum with more distinct brassy tints; upjier part of basal mesopleura^ 

 strongly, obliquely striated, it forming a triangle, bordered below by a keel; the rest of it 



