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on each side of the meson each reaching somewhat three fourths the way to apex. Thorax 



distinctly longitudinally li ilated. Hind tibiae more or less dusky just below knees. Marginal 



vein subequal to stignial. Scape white, antenna black. 



From one female caught ou a native grass in forest, April 4. 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy MSS, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 



A second female taken May 13, same place, had the base of abdomen yellow transversely. 



GENUS PARUFENS Girault. 

 The antennae bear two ring-joiuts. Eemoved from TJfens. 



1. PARUFENS ARGENTITIBLE new species. 



Female: — Length, 0.70 mm. 



Jet black, the vertex more or less yellowish, the trochanters, tibiae, knees and tarsi 

 silvery white, the wings hyaline. Pedicel nearly twice the length of the funicle joint which is 

 cupshaped, its greatest width (apex) a little more than its length; club acuminate-ovate, longer 

 than the scape, without a terminal seta, its three joints longer than wide. Pedicel apparently 

 with a coarse scaly sculpture. Fore wings moderate in width, with about 15 regular lines of 

 discal cilia and a curved line from the stignial vein with about four cilia. Stigmal vein long, 

 the marginal longer than it but not much more so. Hiud wings short, moderately broad, 

 obtusely pointed at apex, bearing four lines of discal cilia, two cephalad and distinct, two 

 caudad and faint; caudal marginal fringes about as long as the greatest width. Marginal 

 fringes of fore wing very short. 



Differs from the genotype only in having the tibiae silvery besides the tarsi, the funicle 

 joint cupshaped and apparently in having one more line of discal cilia in the hind wing. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from one female captured December 24, 1912 in forest. 



Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 



Typ<: Xo. II it.' J. "i. Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide with the 

 type of Aprostoci tus saltensis Girault. 



2. PARUFENS ARGENTIPES Girault. 

 A male of this species was captured January 4, 1913 at Capeville (Pentland), Queens- 

 land, by sweeping in forest. It differs from the female in bearing a distinctly 2-jointed funicle, 

 the antennae as in the female of Ufens Girault. Thus the female Vfens is like the male of 

 Pant/ens except that there are two ring-joints in the latter. In the female of argentipes, 

 the pedicel is coarsely sculptured into scales, while the funicle is much wider than long ami 

 apparently solid while in the male the pedicel seems simple, the funicle plainly 2-jointed and 

 only somewhat wider than long, the division transverse. The male genitalia are extruded 

 distinctly for some length (half that of the abdomen) and resemble an ovipositor. The 

 mandibles are tridentate in both sexes, the hind wings with three rows of discal cilia, two 

 cephalic. The ring-joints in the male are distinct but the second one adheres closely to the 

 funicle. 



Genus ABBELLA Girault. 



1. ABBELLA SEXGUTTATA new species. 



Female: — Very similar to mira Girault but the two distal spots on the abdomen do not 

 form cross-stripes but are widely separated, the second spot widest, all wider than long. The 

 substigmal spot is very pronounced as in mira and the club is dusky, its first joint black as 

 in mira. 



Male: — Xot known. 



From one female taken in forest. March 'M, 1914. 



