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than the pedicel, the other joints shortening but all longer than wide. Antenne 13-jointed, 
club 3-jointed, no ring-joint. Antennz inserted near the middle of the face. Head wider than 
long. Valves of ovipositor densely, shortly feathery, straight. Incisions of abdominal segments 
small, inconspicuous, the abdomen cylindrical, a little longer than the thorax. Corrected 
description. 
Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Jungle, November 4, 1911. 
Type: No. Hy 2903, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the above female on a tag, the legs 
and antenne on a slide. 
SuspramMity TANEOSTIGMIN Ai. 
This subfamily is distinguished from the Aphelinine by usually bearing a postmarginal 
vein and usually the marginal vein is much reduced, the middle tibial spur stout, the parapsidal 
furrows variable, curved off laterad and sometimes meeting before apex. The mesopleurum is 
always entire and convex and this is the characteristic of the group. 
TANEOSTIGMOMYTA new genus. 
Characterized by the 11-jointed antenne, the club solid and well defined, the scape short, 
‘slightly convexed beneath or slightly compressed, the funicle joints all transverse-linear, the 
first two lke ring-joints, the third a little less like 1 being wider, the others wider and of 
equal width. Pedicel somewhat longer than wide at apex. Parapsidal furrows rather widely 
separated caudad, meeting scutellum just mesad of the mesal ends of the axille. Mandibles 
tridentate. Hind tibial spur single. Axille rather widely separated. Thorax clothed with 
scattered, short, stiff, black sete. Marginal vein of moderate length, not long, a little longer 
than or subequal to the slender stigmal and postmarginal veins. 
1. TANEOSTIGMOMYIA SPENCERI new species. Female. Genotype. 
Length, 0.82 mm. 
Lemon yellow, the scutum and parapsides orange yellow, the appendages concolorous, the 
wings hyaline; three distinct (and a fourth and fifth less distinct, proximad and distad of 
them respectively) black stripes across the abdomen proximad of middle. Cephalic and caudal 
(centrally) margins of propodeum and dorsal thoracic sutures black. A fuscous, oblique spot 
across the cephalic margin of each axilla. Fore wings densely ciliate, the marginal fringes 
short. Valves of ovipositor slightly exserted, black. Club as long as the scape. 
Habitat: Kuranda, Queensland. Forest, September 12, 1913 (A. P. Dodd). 
Type: No. Hy 2904, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag; hind leg and 
the head on a slide. 
TANEOSTIGMOIDELLA new genus. 
Somewhat like Taneostigmodes Ashmead but the antenne 9-jointed with one very short 
ring-joint, the club 3-jointed, the three funicle joints much longer than wide, the first distinctly 
more than twice longer than wide. Scape greatly, foliaceously dilated ventrad.* Mandibles 
bidentate, the second tooth broadly truncate at apex. Parapsidal furrows widely separated 
caudad. A'xille also well separated, well advanced into the parapsides, the latter very short, 
curved. Scutellum with a thin, transverse suture near its distal margin. Marginal vein as 
long as the submarginal, the stigmal very short but longer than the extremely short post- 
marginal. Abdomen flat above, conic-ovate, the ovipositor barely exserted. 
1. TANEOSTIGMOIDELLA NYMPHA new species. Female. Genotype. 
Length, 1.35 mm. 
Pale honey yellow, the abdomen black but concolorous along the lateral aspect and with 
a narrow honey yellow stripe across out from base, this stripe interrupted at meson by the 
* Convexly so. 
