340 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



The form and sculpture of this species is so clear-cut as to appear to have been chiselled 

 out by a sculptor. The head is large. 



Described from one female caught in jungle July 31, 1913 by sweeping (A. P. Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. By 2815. Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and 

 hind leg on a slide. 



A second female same place, August 20, 1914 (A.A.G.). 



2. PARAPOLYCYSTUS CLAVICORNIS new species of A. P. Dodd. 



Female: — Length, 3 mm. 



Similar to the genotype, pulchricornis, but the abdomen is bright burnished coppery, all 

 the legs (except the coxa?) are blood red, antennas rather darker, the third ring- joint is much 

 larger, distinctly longer than wide and the raised reticulation of the thorax is coarser, segments 

 2-4 of abdomen excised at meson of caudal margin (only second and third in pulchricornis). 



Described from one female labelled ' ' Stradbroke Island, H. Hacker, November 5, '13. ' ' 



Habitat: Stradbroke Island, Southern Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2816, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head 

 and hind legs on a slide. 



In this genus the antennas are clavate, the club much enlarged, the third ring- joint 

 enlarged and forming a transition between the ring and funicle joints, more especially so in 

 clavicornis. The petiole is vertical and from a distinct knob-like neck of the propodeum. Head 

 convex, round from cephalic aspect. 



POLYCYSTELOMOEPHA new genus. 



Female: — Eunning to Polycystoides Girault but both mandibles 4-dentate, the petiole of 

 abdomen slender, distinctly much longer than the hind coxsb (nearly twice longer), the 

 parapsidal furrows distinct and complete, narrow, the scutellum simple, the form shorter, the 

 body of the abdomen no longer than the thorax, convexed as in Folycystella, the second segment 

 occupying somewhat over half of the surface. Propodeum tricarinate, long, the lateral carinae 

 curved, the spiracle minute, round, without a definite sulcus. Mandibles deeply cleft. Post- 

 marginal vein shorter than the marginal, the well-developed stigmal vein a third shorter, curved; 

 the postmarginal not especially long for that vein and really somewhat (a third) shorter than 

 the marginal which is of moderate length but not long. Club solid; two ring-joints. Pronotum 

 transverse. 



1. POLYCYSTELOMORPHA FLAVIFEMUR new species. Genotype. 



Female: — Length, 1.15 mm. 



Dark aeneous, the wings hyaline, the coxae concolorous, the rest of the legs and all of 

 each antenna pale yellow, the club dusky. Head and thorax densely scaly, also the petiole, 

 rest of abdomen highly polished. Venation pale. Antennae insei'ted on a, level with the ventral 

 ends of the eyes (or thereabouts), rather distant from the clypeus; joints 2 and 3 of funicle 

 longest, a little longer than wide, 1 barely longer than wide, 5 subquadrate, 6 wider than long; 

 pedicel a little longer than funicle 2; club wider, without a terminal spine. A fovea at 

 cephalic margin of propodeum near base of lateral carina. 



Described from one female captured in forest, August 10, 1913 by sweeping (A. P. 

 Dodd). 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy2817, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag, the head and 

 hind tibiae on a slide. 



