28 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
1V. Wings hyaline. 
Legs, except coxe, yellow. 
A middle third of the valves of the ovipositor white; funicle 2 thrice longer than 
wide, 3 and 4 each somewhat shorter than it, distinctly longer“@han the 
pedicel Be ~ we a as 5 .. boussingaulté: -Givaule. 
Femora concolorous. 
Abdomen with a silvery band near base. 
Valves of ovipositor extruded for a third the length of abdomen, black; pedicel 
and funicles 1 and 2 white; funicle 2 longest, a little longer than the pedicel ; 
middle tibiz (except a dusky band below knees) and distal half of other 
tibia, white .. r - re Be .. insularis Girault. 
Abdomen wholly concolorous. 
Pedicel distinctly longer than any of the funicle joints. 
Ovipositor not extruded. 
Tarsi brownish; funicle 1 longer than wide, 3 and 4 longest; caudal 
tibiz with two spurs. Abdomen depressed .. 30 oe 
coleopterorum Girault. 
Ovipositor extruded for a third the length of the abdomen. 
Distal half of cephalic and caudal tibie, middle femur except upper 
and lower edges, middle tibiz and the tarsi reddish brown; valves 
of oyipositor white centrally .. ss .. darwim Girault. 
GENUS METAPELMA Westwood. 
1. METAPELMA WESTWOODI new species. 
Female :—Length, 4.25 mm., excluding ovipositor which is black and extruded for a 
length equal to seven eighths that of abdomen. 
Dark eneous green, the fore wings infuscated from near base of stigmal vein nearly 
to apex, with a brownish stripe across from distal third of submarginal vein, narrower 
centrally and a longitudinal brownish stripe connecting the two infuscations. Cephalic and 
middle femora and tibie rich yellowish brown, also the cephalic tarsi; all coxa and the hind 
legs dark metallic but the proximal fourth of hind tibia silvery white; middle tarsi black except 
proximal three fourths of first joint which is silvery white; middle tibial spur white; hind 
femur near base yellowish brown. Eyes only sparsely hairy. Hind tibial spurs double, distinct, 
the hind tibia and first tarsal joint compressed, very flat but only moderately broad. Seape 
metallic, dilated ventrad along distal half; pedicel subequal to funicle 1 which is distinetly 
longer than wide; funicles 2 and 3 elongate, twice the length of 1, subequal, each about five 
times longer than wide; 4 somewhat longer than 1, 5-8 shortening and widening, 7 quadrate, 
8 wider than long; club oval, shorter than funicle 2. Middle tibia and femora distinctly longer 
than those regions of the other legs. The three ridges of scutum acute; axille rather narrowly 
meeting, with an oblique, bisecting ridge; whole body scaly. Postmarginal vein elongate, over 
thrice the length of the stigmal, a little longer than the marginal. Caudal wings with about 
twenty lines of diseal cilia where widest. Proximal margin of distal infuscation of fore wing 
triangularly projected proximad at cephalic third. The triangular elevation of cephalic seutum 
narrow, much longer than wide. Pronotum and face hispid. Antenne 13-jointed. 
From one female taken in jungle, May 2, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Tweed Heads (Tweed River), New South Wales. 
Type: No. Hy 2881, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; head, a hind 
leg and pair of wings on a slide. 
