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14. NEOMPHALOIDELLA NIGRICLAVA new species. 

 Female: — Length, 1.05 mm. 



Dark aeneous green, the antenna' white, the club blackj knees, tibise and tarsi white, the 

 wings hyaline; second two ring-joints very short; funicle 3 a little shorter than the others 

 which are a little shorter than the pedicel and about a fourth longer than wide; club with a 

 small terminal s]>ine. Mandibles tridentate. Propodeum short at the meson, with a flat median 

 carina, lateral carinse and a curved, convex carina between the two. Median groove of scutum 

 complete. Senium naked. Waives of ovipositor somewhat extruded. The usual fine tetrastichine 

 sculpture. 



From one female captured in forest. January 14, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Ingham, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy ?t>16, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head on a 

 slide. 



15. NEOMPHALOIDELLA NOMADIS new species. 

 Female: — Length, 1.20 mm. 



Very similar to viridiscapus Girault but differing in the following particulars: The 

 head is wholly yellow except center of occipul obscurely, the body is smaller, the abdomen not 

 nearly twice the length of the thorax only a little longer, the axilla', scutellum and parapsides 

 are wholly metallic green, the abdomen bears five cross-stripes (the first two narrower) from 

 base to apex (the first no1 counted as at base); no median colored line on abdomen; the 

 metapleurum is yellow only across from insertion of fore wing; only the pedicel is distinctly 

 marked with metallic green. Otherwise about the same. Funicle joints all a little wider than 

 long. Mesopostscutellum lemon yellow. 



From two females captured in forest. April 16". 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Oloncurry, Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 3617, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one of the specimens on a tag with 

 ty pe of viridiscapus. 



16. NEOMPHALOIDELLA SALTENSIS new species. 



Female :- — Length, 1.50 mm. 



Orange or reddish yellow, The abdomen and ieys yellowish brown, also the scape and 

 head; upper half of occiput, flagelluni, tip of scape above and meson of pronotum broadly, black, 

 the other parts marked nearly like silvcn&is except that the abdomen is margined with black 

 along a little over proximal half only (not to the distal black as in silvensis), the distal end of 

 each marginal stripe broken in one or two places so that there appear to be one or two 

 marginal spots caudad. Postscutellum lemon yellow, propodeum black, orange laterad of the 

 spiraele. Scutellum laterad of first grooves distinctly suffused with reddish. The abdomen is 

 not conical as in silvensis yet longer than the thorax. Propodeum short at the meson, with a 

 pair of median carina' but no others. Central frustum-shaped black marking on scutum at 

 cephalic half; a black spot on caudo-latera! angle of pronotum. Club with a terminal spur. 

 Funicle 1 subequal to the club, '■'> distinctly longer than the rather long pedicel, 2 intermediate 

 between 1 and 3, the latter twice longer than wide. Median groove of scutum delicate. Teeth 

 of mandibles not distinctly separated as regards the last two. 



Prom one female captured in forest. March 31, 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns). Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2618, Queensland Museum. Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head on a 

 slide. 



