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purple from base to a little beyond middle, the tip above is purple and is preceded by a cross- 

 stripe of purple; between this cross-stripe and the end of the marginal stripe there is along 

 the margin a dot of purple (bellicosus has the abdomen brown and margined all around with 

 blackish purple, the distal fourth or somewhat more, purplish). The antennae are very similar 

 except that in this species the joints are a little longer (in both the joints shorten distad, 1 

 being somewhat longer than six which is only a little longer than wide) ; in gracilis 2 and 3 

 are subequal and somewhat the longest, longer than 6; in australiensis the joints are all some- 

 what longer than wide and subequal. In gracilis, the abdomen is margined somewhat as in 

 this species but more obscurely, the colors dull and the pattern obscured. Scutum and scutellum 

 scaly punctate, the propodeum rugulose; cephalic part of scutum, pronotum and head scaly 

 (sculptured as in bellicosus except that in that species the scutellum is not punctate but rather 

 coarsely scaly). 



Described from one female captured in forest, April 12, 1914. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 



Type: No. Hy 2821, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and 

 hind legs on a slide. 



A second female was obtained same place, May 21, 1914. 



EPILELAPS new genus. 



With a distinct lelapine habitus. Hind tibial spurs single. Fore wings nearly as in the 

 Entedoninae, the submarginal vein broken and somewhat shorter than the long marginal, the 

 postmarginal longer than the stigmal, only moderate in length. Fore wings rather slender, with 

 long marginal cilia. Antenna? inserted slightly ventrad of middle of the face, 13-jointed with 

 one ring-joint (but in the genotype, funicle 1 is distinctly wider than long), the club 3-jointed, 

 wider than the funicle. Axilla; rather widely separated. Parapsidal furrows complete. Club 

 rather abruptly formed. Wings without a pattern, hyaline or subhyaline. Mandibles tridentate. 

 Other structures as in Lelaps. 



1. EPILELAPS HYALINIPENNIS new species. Female. Genotype. 

 Length, 1.75 mm. Black, the wings hyaline, the abdominal petiole, neck of propodeum 

 and the abdomen ventrad, yellowish brown. Legs yellow, also the antenna? but the club black; 

 pedicel elongate, one ring-joint, the funicle joints all more or less subquadrate. Scutellum 

 distad of transverse suture (or distal third) longitudinally striate. Thorax scaly punctate, 

 the propodeum rugose, with a tooth dorso-laterad, distad of middle. Abdomen glabrous. Prono- 

 tum separated, transverse. A common species. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, June 7, 1913, two females. 



Type: No. Hy 2822, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, one female on a tag, a hind leg and 

 the head on a slide. 



2. EPILELAPS PONDEROSA new species. Female. 



Length, 1.35 mm. Much like the genotype but the wings slightly embrowned throughout, 

 the abdomen dorsad is black only at proximal and distal thirds, the proximal funicle joint is 

 transverse like a ring-joint yet twice the length of the ring-joint and the distal funicle joint 

 is blackish. Segment 2 of abdomen over half the length of that region. Mandibles tridentate. 



Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. Jungle, June 16, 1913. 



Type : No. Hy 2823, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above specimen on a tag, the 

 head and appendages on a slide with the type of Aphelinus nox Girault. 



A second female was taken in the jungle at Gordonvale, July 24, 1913. Compared with 

 type. The postmarginal vein is twice the length of stigmal, the latter rather short. Abdominal 

 petiole longer than wide but shorter than the long caudal coxa?. Original description verified. 



