288 MEMOIL'S OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



ZOYPHIUM PUSILLUM, new species. 

 Male. Length 4 mm. (,'iypeus wide, the margins somewhat sinuate, without 

 teeth ; face clothed with thin white pubescence ; front rather prominent, convex, 

 finely and closelj' punctured : joints of antenna? broader than long, the apical joint 

 not wider than the preceding joint ; ocelli not twice as far from each other than from 

 the eyes ; mesonotum and scutellum finely punctured ; median segment finely 

 diagonally striate-punctate with a longitudinal carina which ends in a shallow 

 shining transverse crescent apically. Abdomen shining, minutely punctured, with 

 thin pubescence on the apical segments ; hypopygium truncate, with a small blunt 

 apical spine, and one at each side near the apex. Second recurrent nervure received 

 a little beyond the middle of the second submarginal cell, the first received a smaller 

 distance from the apex of the first submarginal cell. 



Black, base of mandibles, clypeus, and tarsal joints cream- colour, tegulae 

 'testaceous ; tubercles, upper border of prothorax, legs, and abdomen ferruginous ; 

 flagellum red, dusky above ; wings hyaline, iridescent, sHghtly dusky apically, 

 nervures brown. 



Hab. — Brisbane {Hacker), October. 



ZOYPHIUM SPLENDIDUM, new species. 



Female. Length 9 mm. Head finely punctured, orbits converging above; 

 ocelli half as far again from each other as from the eyes ; joints of antennae gradually 

 increasing in size, apical joint conical, as long as the two previous joints ; clypeus 

 convex, porrect at the apex, with two teeth on each side ; clypeus and face clothed 

 with silver pubescence. Thorax opaque, very finely and closely punctured ; pro- 

 thorax rather narrow ; depressed below the level of the mesonotum ; a deep foveolate 

 transverse groove at the base of the scutellum, and in front of it a line of white hair ; 

 median segment opaque with a few very short striae at the base ; a longitudinal 

 carina lying in a shallow sulcus, extending to the end of the segment dorsally ; the 

 posterior truncation with thin white pubescence. Abdomen shining, microscopically 

 punctured, the apical segments clothed with thin pale pubescence ; the pygidial 

 area triangular, with coarser punctures and short golden hair ; second recurrent 

 nervure received at rather moie than one-third from the apex of the second sub- 

 marginal cell, the first received a Uttle further from the base of the first transverse 

 cubitel nervure. 



Black, base of mandibles whitish ; clypeus whitish in the centre, dusky at 

 l)ase and sides, scape duU yellowish-white ; flagellum (somewhat darkened apically), 

 entire abdomen, apex of femora, tibiae, and tarsi ferruginous, the anterior tarsi 

 paler ; tegulse and nervures fuscous. 



Male. Length shghtly over 6 mm. Clypeus black, apically porrect, armed 

 with a stout spine ; there is a short prominent keel above the antennae ; face clothed 

 with short silver pubescence ; hypopygium triangular, terminating in a spine, with 

 a spine on either side near the apex. Scape darkly paUid at end. 



Hab. — Brisbane {Hacker), February, March. On flowers of Lomatia silaifolia. 



