162 MEMOIBS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



pairs 'it' sclerites between scutellum and postscutellum). Fore wings with a more or less 

 distinct snbfuscous stripe across a1 about the middle. Valves of ovipositor slightly exserted. 

 Tibial spurs single. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from one female captured September :!, 1913 by sweeping in a .jungle pocket. 



Habitat: G-ordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2461, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a slide with 

 an Anagrus male. 



2. STETHYNIUM FLAVINOTJE new species. 



Female: — Length, 0.65 mm. 



Black, the wings hyaline, the body marked with golden yellow as follows: Legs, the 

 whole of the large, peltate scutellum which bears a deep median sulcus, distal fifth of scutum, 

 the sclerites between scutum and scutellum, center of vertex, caudal half of each parapside 

 and much of the face. Antenna? black suffused somewhat with yellow; distal funicle joint 

 a little longer than wide, subequal to 1, 2 longest, plainly longer than wide, 3 and 4 subequal, 

 slightly shorter than 2; distal club joint longest. Fore wings very broad (about 36 lines of 

 very fine discal cilia), their longest marginal fringes not much more than a fifth the greatest 

 wing width. Hind wings broad, bearing about six lines of sparse discal cilia, curved, their 

 longest marginal fringes distinctly longer than those of the fore wing. Phragma and strigils 

 present. 



Male: — The same but only the propleura, mesopleura, ventral cheeks, the face and the base 

 and margins of phragma are yellow. Thorax very finely sculptured. Club 2-jointed. Marginal 

 cilia of fore wing longer. 



Described from one female from fleshy galls on gum, March 20, 1911 and two males 

 labelled "52. From galls,'' all from the collections of the National Museum, Melbourne, 

 Victoria. 



Habitat: Melbourne .'. Victoria. 



Type: No. Hy2iB r 2, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above female on a slide with 

 1he types of perlatipenne. 



3. STETHYNIUM GLADIUS new species. 



Female: — Length, 0.75 nun., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for nearly half the 

 Length of the abdomen and dusky black. 



Pale golden yellow, marked with black as follows: Cephalic half of pronotum except 

 lateral margins and meson (two large wedgeshaped spots), cephalic half of each parapside, a 

 round dot on axilla eephalad, two dots on abdomen one on each side of meson just before tip, 

 two dots on meson of same just out from base in a line longitudinally and a narrow cross-stripe 

 a little distad of middle accented on each side at lateral margin and obscurely, narrowly divided 

 nlong meson. Scutellum with three grooves, one median. Legs, scape and pedicel yellow, rest 

 of antenna blackish. Funicle 1 shortest, barely longer than wide, 3 longest, somewhat longer 

 than wide, the others subequal to each other and to the pedicel. Fore wings slender, their 

 longest marginal cilia about three fourths the greatest wing width and caudo-distad. Usual 

 for the genus with the exception of the ovipositor. Pedicel globular. Hind wings linear, 

 v.ith two complete lines of discal cilia along each margin. 



From one female caught in forest, June 26, 1914. 



Habitat : Gordonvale, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2463, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide with type 

 maxivelli. 



4. STETHYNIUM MAXWELLI new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.12 mm. 



Jet black, the large mesopostscutellum contrasting golden yellow and with two lateral 

 grooved lines. Legs pale yellow, the caudal femur dusky. Fore wings lightly infuscated, 



