152 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



2. LATHROMEROIDES FASCIATIVENTRIS new species. 

 Antea, first supplement, p. 106. Length, 1.30 mm. Mandibles tridentate. The type was 

 captured al 2,000 feet, -Tune 3 and is on a slide. 



PAEUSCAXOIDEA new genus. 



Female: — In my table of genera running to Uscanoidea Girault from which it differs in 

 bearing a long slender marginal vein, which is as long as the submarginal and about thrice the 

 length of the stigmal; the latter is somewhat longer than in Uscanoidea Girault. The fore wing 

 is quite naked. The scape is distinctly shorter than the club. Valves of ovipositor slightly, 

 distinctly extruded. Hind wing narrow, acute, with very long caudal marginal fringes. 



Male: — Not known. 



Type: The following species. 



1. PARUSCANOIDEA DICKENSI new species. 



Female: — Length, 0.65 mm. 



Black, the head and thorax bright lemon yellow but the cephalic scutum with a short 

 longitudinal black marking on each side of meson. Trochanters, knees, tarsi and distal three 

 fourths of tibia? pale, antenna? dusky pallid. The fore wing is lightly infuseated proximad, 

 seen more particularly in a more or less indefinite stripe across from the stigmal vein and an 

 indefinite, suffused patch under the submarginal, the space between the two subhyaline. Hind 

 femur compressed. 



Described from one female taken in forest, January 4, 1912. 



Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2422, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide with 

 Coccophagus auricaput. 



Dedicated to Charles Dickens. 



Genus TUMIDICLAYA Girault. 



1. TUMIDICLAVA CILIATA Girault. 

 On page 97, line 4 in the original description of this species (Part I) the peculiar grass 

 in which the Cooktown specimens were captured is a common sedge locally called " nutgrass. " 

 On April 4, 1914, I captured a female of this species by sweeping native grasses in the forest; 

 on this specimen I clearly saw the yellow median line on the scutum which makes the species 

 agree with the North American genotype. Is this a case of parallel evolution? 



2. TUMIDICLAVA NIVEIPES new species. 



Female: — Similar to ciliata but the black on the body is much lighter yet forming the 

 same pattern while the legs are yellowish white except hind coxa and femur. Also, the abdomen 

 bears a complete line of marginal dots and about four abbreviated cross-stripes centrally. 

 Body scaly. 



Described from one female captured with the ciliata mentioned above. A second female 

 same place, April 16 following and one on April 25, 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Grass in forest. 



Type: No. HyS443, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the first female on a slide with the 

 type of Mirufem dentipes Girault. 



3. TUMIDICLAVA CANALIS new species. 

 Male: — Length, 0.80 mm. 



Golden yellow, the occiput, antenna', scutum except median line and lateral margins, 

 seven pairs of round marginal spots on abdomen from base to apex and three or four dots 



