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scutellum distinctly separated for some distance at ape^c. Scutum coarsely scaly, except at 

 ■cephalic margin, there less coarsely so (like the scutellum and axilla)). Median carina of 

 propodeum narrow, lateral carina? absent, the minute round spiracle with several fovea) meso- 

 caudad of it, forming a short sulcus mesad of spiracle. Propodeum glabrous. Petiole short 

 but distinct. Abdomen depressed. Postmarginal vein much longer than the stigmal, the latter 

 a fourth the length of the marginal. Third club joint much the smallest. Meson of thorax flat. 



From one female taken in forest, May 16, 1914. 

 Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type : No. Hy 2697, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag ; head and 

 hind leg on a slide. 



Eespectfully dedicated to Thomas Alva Edison. 



3. ALOPHOMORPHELLA ALBICLAVA new species of Girault and A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, 2.50 mm. 



Like the genotype but dark metallic blue, the pronotum, scutellum and propodeum dark 

 purplish; abdomen suffused with yellow medially for proximal two thirds; antennal club white 

 like the legs; scutum and scutellum without a median longitudinal depression; grooves of 

 scutellum more convex, closer together; thorax with very fine scaly sculpture, the pronotum 

 reticulately rugulose; first funicle joint much longer, three times as long as pedicel and twice 

 as long as fourth funicle joint; only twice as long as pedicel and one third longer than fourth 

 funicle joint in the genotype; mandibles only 4-dentate. 



Described from one female caught by sweeping in jungle, June 7, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Northern Queensland (Gordonvale near Cairns). 



Type : No. Hy 2698, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag, the head and 

 hind legs on a slide. 



Genus DIAULINOPSIS Crawford. 



Head thin; scape flattened and somewhat widened; funicle 2-jointed, club swollen, 

 3- jointed, with a terminal spine, two ring- joints. Parapsidal furrows deeply impressed. 

 Scutellum with two parallel furrows. Propodeum noncarinate but with obscure spiracular 

 ■sulci. Postmarginal vein almost as long as marginal. Caudal tibia) with two weak spurs, the 

 shorter one very obscure. Abdomen sessile. 



The male is the same but the scape is much more widened, the club not enlarged. After 

 Crawford (1912). 



1. DIAULINOPSIS SUBATRICORPUS new species. 

 Female: — Length, 1.30 mm. 



Shining black, with a faint purplish tinge, the wings lightly sooty, the legs (except 

 coxso and hind femur) and scape white. Thorax finely scaly, the propodeum subglabrous, not 

 ■showing sculpture, perfectly plane (i.e., noncarinate, nonsulcate), the spiracle small, at cephalic 

 margin. Antenna) as in Atoposoma Masi, the funicle and club compressed but the funicle and 

 pedicel as in the genotype of Diaulinopsis (as described) ; club also as described for the 

 genotype but somewhat shorter. Abdomen as long as the rest of the body, the black valves 

 of the ovipositor distinctly but shortly extruded. Stigmal vein a little over a third the length 

 of the marginal, the postmarginal over half the length of marginal. Mandibles 6-dentate. 



From one female captured in jungle, February 10, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Babinda (Cairns district), Queensland. 



Type : No. Hy 2699, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag ; head and 

 lund legs on a slide. 



