216 MEMOIBS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



1. PARZAOMMOMYIA TENUICORPUS new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, 2.65 mm. 



Bronzy green, the abdomen dark coppery, blue at base, the fore wings slightly 

 uniformly infuscated throughout, the legs white, the cephalic coxae dark metallic, the knees 

 and tarsi yellowish brown, also most of femora. Scape yellowish brown except at tip dorsad, 

 the distal two club joints silvery white, rest of antenna black. Funicle 1 a little longer than 

 2, two and a half times longer than wide, over twice the length of the pedicel; joints 1 and 2 

 of club and funicle 2 subequal, club 3 much shorter, subequal to the pedicel, with a short 

 terminal spine. Club rapidly narrowing distad. Thorax conspicuously scaly reticulate, the 

 lines not raised. Propodeum short at meson, with median and lateral carinas, the spiracle small, 

 round, the lateral carina with foveas along its mesal side. 



From one female caught in jungle, June 25, 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2544, Queensland Museum, the specimen on a tag, the head on a slide 

 with type Entedonomphale margiscutum Girault. 



ENTEDONOMPHALE new genus. 

 Female: — Form small, slender. Characterised by the antennae which are 6-jointed with 

 one very short ring-joint, the club solid. Postmarginal vein absent or nearly, the stigmal normal. 

 Propodeum nonearinate. Parapsidal furrows complete, the thorax otherwise simple. Club 

 armed at apex with three or four rather stout spines from the edges. Antennae inserted some- 

 what below the middle of the face. Fore wings naked. 



1. ENTEDONOMPHALE MARGISCUTUM new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, 0.63 mm. 



Dark metallic green and finely scaly, the lateral margins of scutum orange yellow; 

 scape, all tibias and tarsi and the cephalic femur, white; knees white. Antennae black. Scape 

 narrowing distinctly distad, the pedicel larger than either funicle joint of which 2 is globular, 

 1 slightly longer than wide. Club stout, oval, as long as the funicle. Mandibles absent. 

 Fore wings with a substigmal spot (on the stigmal vein and not large) and with a large dusky 

 cloud from apex of stigmal vein across to caudal margin and extending suffusedly proximad 

 and distad. Marginal vein long, somewhat longer than the submarginal. Marginal cilia of 

 fore wing short, the discal cilia absent. A yellow spot on vertex against the eye margin. 



From one female caught by sweeping mangrove and other bushes on the bank of Tweed 

 Elver, May 14, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Chindera, New South Wales. 



Type : No. Hy 2545, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 



On page 177, antea, line 6, caudad should read cephalad; for line 31, the words eyes 

 normal should be substituted. On page 178, line 5, tridentate should read bidentate. 



Subfamily TETEASTICHIN^E. 



Tribe TETEASTICHINI. 



It is quite likely that some of the genera described by me are merely old genera 

 correctly described, since I find that Melittobia has three ring- joints and thus formerly has 

 always been incorrectly diagnosed. In some species of those genera bearing a median 

 groove on the scutum, this groove may be partially obliterated, but seems to be always distinctly 

 indicated. A study of variation in the group is badly needed. The ring-joints cannot always 

 be seen by using the present simple methods and to make their detection easier and quicker 

 some method analogous to staining should be devised. The group is a difficult one and presents 

 a curious case of parallel evolution. 



