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structurally as follows: The antenne bear only two ring-joints, 
there being four transverse funicle joints and three club joints, 
the pedicel long and slenderly obconic; the postmarginal vein is 
two-thirds as long as the stigmal and the fore wings bear a 
substigmal, fuscous cloud. The body is brilliantly metallic. The 
marginal vein is longer, nearly half the length of the submar- 
ginal. Scutellum without grooved lines. Posterior tibie with a 
single long spur. Abdomen depressed, oval. Propodeal spir- 
acle central, small, round-oval, the propodeum without a median 
carina nor spiracular sulci. Vertex large. Otherwise as in the 
type of the genus. 
Female—The same but the abdomen is stout, short, com- 
pressed beneath, the ovipositor slightly exserted. The antenna 
has three rings and three funicle joints and the club is more 
compact. 
2. Rhicnopeltella splendoriferella new species 
Female—Length, 2 mm. Brilliant metallic green, the abdo- 
men dark eupreous, the legs concolorous with the abdomen and 
with their articulations whitish; coxe metallic bluish; tibie 
lighter, the proximal half or more of the caudal tibie white. 
Flagellum brownish. Wings hyaline but the fore wings with a 
lightly fuseated rounded area under the apex of the stigmal 
vein and beneath most of the marginal vein; venation dusky 
brownish. Head and thorax rather finely, densely reticulated, 
the reticulation not coarse enough to form punctures but the 
sculpture of fine polygonal striation, on the abdomen and pro- 
podeum smoother. 
(From a single specimen, similarly magnified). 
Male—Length, 1.75 mm. The same but much more brassy 
and bronzy, the vertex metallic rosaceous, the same color on 
much of the thorax and head, the abdomen brighter green; legs 
with more brownish. Scape and pedicel brown, the flagellum 
dark brown. 
(From twelve specimens, the same magnification). 
Described at first from twelve males and one female mounted 
together on a card in the Queensland Museum, labeled ‘‘ Bred 
from gall No.5A. Brisbane, H. Hacker. 20/6/11’’. 
