I • MEMOIBS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



11. NEOMPHALOIDELLA BREVIS new species. 



/•'. male: — Length, 0.50 nun. 



l);irk metallic green, the wines hyaline, the legs, proximal third of abdomen, head and 

 antenna? pale lemon yellow. Caudal coxa metallic green. Distal two funiele joints quadrate, 1 

 a little longer than wide, a little shorter than the pedicel. Mandibles delicate, tridentate. 

 Pedicel above at base and distal club joint dusky. Propodeum very short, with an obscure 

 median carina, fine lateral carina) absent, the spiracle minute, central. Club with a small nipple. 

 Abdomen about as long as the thorax. 



Prom one female captured by sweeping grass in forest, April 8, 1914. 



Habile! : Gordonvale (('aims). Queensland. 



Type: No. //// 2619, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head on a slide. 



18. NEOMPHALOIDELLA GLUCKI new species. 



Female: — Length, L.15 mm. 



Dark metallic purple black, the scape, pedicel, leL's and abdomen pale lemon yellow, the 

 abdomen margined down each side with purple from base to distal three fourths and with four 

 i ross stripes commencing at proximal fourth, the fourth stripe across between the ends of the 

 marginal purple; just distad of ends of marginal purple is a marginal dot. Extreme tip of 

 abdomen purple, the base yellow. Pedicel a little dusky, rest of antenna dusky black. Funiele 

 joints subequal, each a half longer than wide and somewhat longer than the pedicel; second 

 two ring-joints very short. Club distinctly jointed, with a short terminal spine, the middle joint 

 longest, slightly shorter than funiele 3, the proximal joint subequal to pedicel. Mandibles 

 tridentate. Propodeum without true lateral carina-, short at the meson. 



From one female captured by sweeping in forest, second growth, May 22. 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. 11 y $680, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag-; head on a slide. 



Dedicated to Christopher von Gluck. 



19. NEOMPHALOIDELLA SCHILLERI new species. 

 Female: — Length, 1 mm. 



Similar to Aprostocetus tarsalis Girault but the abdomen is margined all around with 

 metallic purple and there are no other markings except a cross-stripe a little before tip; also 

 the femora are wholly concolorous and the antenme all white except the purplish club and base 

 id' pedicel. The funiele joints are all short, subequal to the pedicel yet distinctly longer than 

 wide. Club with a distinct nipple. Two outer teeth of mandible acute, equal. Propodeum 

 without lateral carina-, short at the meson. 



From one female captured March <i, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). .Jungle. 



Habitat: Cooktown, Queensland. 



Type: No. 11 y $681, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide with the 

 type of Physcus multicolor Girault. 



Dedicated to the poet Frederick Schiller. 



20. NEOMPHALOIDELLA MARGINATUS (Girault). 



Tetrastichus marginatum Girault. 



The apex of abdomen is metallic purple including the tip of the ovipositor valves. 



Antenna- pale yellow. Propodeum without lateral carina-. Scutum naked. Type re-examined. 



