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3. ACHRYSOCHARELLA MACKAYENSIS new species. 



Female: — Length, 0.80 mm. 



^Eneous green, bright, the wings hyaline, the legs white except coxae which are more or 

 less metallic; antennae dusky yellow, the funicle joints quadrate, 1 a little longer, the pedicel 

 a little longer than funicle 1 ; terminal spine of club distinct. Mandibles tridentate. Pedicel 

 dusky, the scape white. Closest to olympus but the antennae are lighter in color, the funicle 

 joints distinctly shorter, the postmarginal vein is as long as the stigmal (distinctly shorter in 

 olympus) and the fore wings are distinctly smaller. Propodeum without a median carina in 

 both species. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from one female taken by sweeping lantana and other vegetation in a field 

 near town, October 21, 1911. 



Habitat: Mackay, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2521, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag, the 

 head on a slide. 



4. ACHRYSOCHARELLA QUINQUEFASCIATA new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.10 mm. 



Dark aeneous, the wings hyaline, the legs and abdomen pale yellow, the latter with about 

 five brownish black stripes across between base and apex, the latter also dusky. Postmarginal 

 vein somewhat longer than the stigmal, long. Thorax finely, polygonally lined. Abdomen 

 longer than the rest of the body, conic-ovate. Hind coxa metallic laterad. Mandibles long and 

 slender, as in Paromphale flavicorpus. Marginal vein somewhat longer than the submarginal. 

 Fore wing where widest with about 20 lines of diseal cilia. Scape and pedicel pale, the latter 

 somewhat dusky above ; rest of antenna sooty. Funicle 1 largest, longest and widest, distinctly 

 longer than the pedicel, about one and a half times longer than wide; pedicel next longest of 

 the flagellum, a little wider than funicle 1, a little longer than funicle 2, which is a little longer 

 than club 1 : the latter a fourth longer than wide and subequal to club 2 ; terminal spine 

 distinct. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from one female taken by sweeping in jungle (500 feet), February 5, 1912. 



Habitat: Normanby (Cooktown), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy25S%, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the fore-described female on a slide. 



5. ACHRYSOCHARELLA AURICORPUS new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, 0.85 mm. 



Deep golden yellow, the wings hyaline the body unmarked save extreme tip of abdomen 

 ana caudal margin of propodeum at meson; legs and venation pale. Mandibles tridentate. 

 Antennas dusky pallid, the terminal spur distinct, the second funicle joint quadrate, somewhat 

 shorter than the first. 



Male: — Not known. 



Described from one female captured by sweeping in forest, December 10, 1913 (A.A.G.). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy252S, Queensland Museum, Brisbaue, the above specimen on a slide. 



b. ACHRYSOCHARELLA MULTIDENTATA new species. 



Female: — Length, 1.15 mm. Slender. Characterized by bearing 5-dentate mandibles, 

 the three inner teeth small. 



Orange yellow, the vertex and proximal third of abdomen dark metallic blue; rest of 

 abdomen except a small whitish area across just before apex, metallic coppery. Legs and 

 scape orange yellow; rest of antennas black. Dorsal thorax washed with metallic cyaneus, 



