310 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



1. PARACHRYSOMALLA AEREIFEMUR new species. Genotype. 

 !•'< null' : -Length, 2.15 mm. Robust. 



Dark metallic green, the wings hyaline, the knees, tibiae, tarsi and scape pale yellow, the 

 pedicel dusky pallid; rest of antenna black. Funicle 1 longest, longer than wide, 2 and 3 

 subequal, subquadrate, 5-7 wider than long, widening at apex; elub ovate, short, its apex 

 nippled. Thorax with a distinct scaly sculpture. Ring- joint by far not as wide as the funicle 

 I hit nearly as long as wide, the pedicel subequal to funicle 1. 



1 'escribed from one female captured in a forest pocket, September 12, 19] 3 (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Kuranda (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. HyS760, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, cue female on a tag; head and hind. 



Ieg£ "ii a slide. 



GENUS ELATUS Walker. 



I. ELATUS ATER new species. 



Male: — Length, 1.70 mm. Petiole of abdomen distinctly twice longer than wide, longer 

 t h:m hind coxa 1 . 



Black with a metallic lustre, the wings hyaline; scape and tibia? yellowish brown, the 

 Hagellum dusky brownish; tarsi white. Body glabrous; occiput and neck of prothorax finely 

 reticulated; scutum with delicate transverse lines except eaudad. Propodeum rather densely 

 scaly, with a short median carina and indicated from base a long, strong carina on each side 

 of meson and half way to spiracle; the lateral and caudal margins carinated; spiracle 

 reniform. Petiole longitudinally carinate. Abdomen shaped as in Perilampus, glabrous. 

 PostmarginaJ vein nearly twice longer than the very short stigmal, the marginal two thirds 

 or more the length of the submarginal. With the general habitus of Perilampus. Antenna? 

 1 1 -jointed, the short club solid; funicle joints all distinctly wider than long, distinctly shorter 

 than the club, which is shorter than the moderately long, simple scape. Pedicel cupshaped. 

 One distinct ring-joint. Hind tibial spur single, slender. (Sculpture of distal half of dorsal 

 abdomen not seen.) 



From one male caught in jungle, January 3, 1914. 



Habi$at: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: Xo. Hy 8761, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and 

 hind leys on a slide. 



Genus MELANOSOMELLA Girault. 



Antenna; 12-jointed, with one large ring-joint, the club 3-jointed, the male antenna? 

 different and bearing long rami. The marginal vein two and a half times its men width but 

 shorter then either tht stigmal or postmarginal veins. 



Head (cephalic aspect) slightly wider than long; antenna? inserted slightly below the 

 middle of the face, the scrobes short and not deep, the lateral ocelli far distant from the 

 eyes; pronotum not long, the pn i apsidal furrows complete; head and thorax smooth. Ring-joint 

 large, nearly as long as wide; funicle apparently compressed, the joints all transverse and 

 lamellate or produced toward one side, the distal much less so and largest of the funicle; 

 pedicel subquadrate, much longer than the proximal funicle joints; club long-ovate, longer 

 than the cylindrical, simple scape, its joints obliquely truncate, the distal joint short and 

 conic. Pore wings normal, the marginal cilia sparse and short. Propodeum with a slight 



