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joints which are wider than long except the fiist which is quadrate. Distal half of tibia' and 

 the tarsi reddish brown. Head finely striate, the thorax finely densely punctate, the abdomen 

 .mostly glabrous but with several rows of moderate sized punctures along the cephalic margins 

 of each of the three segments. Scape and upper pedicel really dark metallic blue. Axillae 

 very widely separated, obliquely striate, more than the lateral half strongly deflexed. in the 

 lateral aspect. 



From two females captured January 17, 1912 (H. Hacker). 



Habitat : Brisbane, Queensland. 



Type: Xo. HyS758, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a specimen on a pin. 



EPICHRYSOMALLA new genus. 



Female: — Antennas inserted in the middle of the face, 12-jointed without a ring-joint, 

 the club 3-jointed but not well differentiated. Marginal vein short, linear, the stigmal well 

 developed, as long as the marginal, the postmarginal very short. Axilla) rather widely 

 separated, just within the caudal ends of the parapsidal furrows. Scutellum convex. 

 Propodemn noncarinate. Habitus of Perilampoieles. 



Male: — The same but the antenna) only 11-jointed, the club distinctly 3-jointed. The 



abdomen is depressed, the genitalia exserted. Mandibles bidentate, the inner tooth truncate. 



1. EPICHRYSOMALLA ATRICORPUS new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, 2.43 mm. 



Jet black, the wings hyaline; scape and hind coxa ivory white; tibia) and tarsi pale 

 yellow. Pedicel a little longer than funicle 1 which is urn-shaped, a little longer than wide; 

 other funicle joints wider than long; distal club joint ovate. Face below antenna) with fine 

 setigerous punctures, the thorax very finely subtransversely lineolated, the axilla) longitudinally 

 so, the head variously so ; all the center of scutellum glabrous but laterad Avith the fine sculpture 

 and a few scattered punctures, at apex obscurely, finely wrinkled. Lateral ocellus distant 

 from the eye margin. Scutum obtusely obconical; the scutellum simple. Venation usually 

 black. 



Described from three males, fourteen females taken from what appeared to be a 

 cluster of galls (capsule-like) in swollen ripe figs, January 26, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). Jungle. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Types: No. HyS759, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one male, two females on a tag; 

 male and female antenna? on a slide. 



PARACHRYSOMALLA new genus. 



Fi male: — Differs from Euceelocybomyia Girault in having the stigmal vein shorter, the 

 postmarginal longer, long, twice the length of the stigmal and as long (or nearly) as the 

 marginal. Also the abdomen is less flattened, produced beneath. The scutellum has its apical 

 margin impressed, the postscutellum glabrous, with a pair of narrow median carina) and as 

 long as the subtransverse, noncarinated propodeum. In EucQ3locy~bomyia, there is a punctate 

 cross-suture a little before the apex of scutellum. the mesopostscutellum is sculptured like the 

 scutellum and is large, while the propodeum proper bears a median carina and is separated 

 from the shorter, glabrous, transverse metathorax by a foveate suture. Antenna? 12-jointed 

 with one distinct ring-joint, the club 2-jointed, the flagellum not clavate but slender, sub- 

 moniliforiii. the club not enlarged. Hind tibial spurs double. Antenna? inserted in the middle 

 of the face. Mandibles normal, bidentate but the broad second tooth has its lateral angle 

 .acute and projected. Submarginal vein distinctly broken. Axilla) widely separated. Both 

 this genus and Eucoelocybomyia bear short marginal fringes on the fore wing. 



