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yellowish pubescence; second and third abdominal segments glabrous and shining. Plate oif 

 scutellum emarginate, faintly bidentate. Wings slightly stained, the venation black; stigmal 

 vein short; postmarginal scarcely twice the length of the stigmal, scarcely one third the length 

 of the marginal. Funiele 1 a little longer than wide, 2-7 subeqiial, about twice as wide as 

 long; club 2-jointed. 



Eahitat: T'pper Mulgrave River (Cairns). Queensland. Jungle, June 10, 1913. 



Type: Xo. nyS3S4, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on a 

 slide. 



3. TUMIDICOXOIDES PAUCIPUNCTATUS new species. 



Fcinulv: — Ijength, 4 mm. 



Black, the wings hyaline, the venation black. The following parts pale yellow: Tegula:', 

 first two pairs of knees, apex of caudal femur dorsad, an elongate spot dorsad on caudal 

 tibia less than its own length below knees, another at tip (distal third of caudal tibia dorsad), 

 dorsal tips narrowly of cephalic tibise, broadly of middle tibiaj. The following parts watery 

 rod: Bulla of scape, distal third of eei)halic femur, all tibia; (except ventrad on caudal pair), 

 caudal coxa; and femora; tarsi pinkish; ventral meson of abdomen before tip a little reddish. 

 Antennfe clavate, compact, the funiele .joints wider than long except 1 which is wider distad, 

 as long as wide distad, a little longer tlian the jiedicel. Differs from l-iiranducnsis besides 

 coloration, in having the ])unctuatiou of thorax sparser not dense as in that species, the plate 

 at apex of scutellum only slightly emarginate, the hind femur beneath with eleven teeth, the 

 dorsal abdomen shows scaly sculpture on segment 3 (not until after cephalic third of 7 in 

 the other species). Both species bear a more or less distinct pair of median rugae far apart 

 on the propodeum and a curved ruga in the usual place of the lateral carina. Head densely 

 punctate. Compared with type of IninDidaensis. Scrobes reaching cephalic ocellus. 



From one female captured by G. F. Hill. 



Ilahitat : Port Darwin, Northern Territory. 



Type: No. UySSSo, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen minutien. 



SinsGEXus TUMTDIC0X?:LLA Girault. 



The same as Chalcis Fabricius but the antenna; only 11 jointed; the plate of the- 

 scutellum not emarginate and inconspu-uiius. Second segnjent of abdomen occupying over 

 half of that region. 



1. TUMIDICOXELLA NIGRICOXA Girault. Female. Genotype. 



Length. 3.111 mm. 



Black and punctate, nuirked with red as follows: All of legs except coxa3 and the 

 cephalic and intermediate fenujra near base. Fore wings slightly stained. Posterior femur 

 witli eleven teeth beneath. Pedicel only half the length of the first funiele joint which, ;^i 

 longest of the funiele, longer tlinn wide. snljei|ual in length to the club joint. 



Huhilal: Port Lincoln, South Austr.-ilia. 



Type: No. I. 131!, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 



2. TUMIDICOXELLA TASMANIENSIS Girault. Male. 

 Length, 3 mm. 



The same as iiiyricd.ni but tlie antcniue wholly Ijlack and the cephalic and intermediate 

 femora are black farther distad, more than half black. 

 Sithilnt: Ilobart, Tasmania. 

 Typi : No. I.lSiii, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 



