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black. Axille deeper in color; legs pale straw yellow; transverse suture of scutellum, scape, 
pronotum and flagellum black. Wings hyaline. Scutum with dense, stiff black pubescence, the 
seutellum with six long black hairs. Thorax scaly, non-metallic. Funicles 2 and 3 subequal, 
distinctly longer than the pedicel; joints 1 and 2 of the club subequal, longer than wide. 
Scape silvery white at extreme tip. 
Habitat: Seymour (Ingham), Queensland. Jungle, February, 1913. 
Type: No. Hy 2905, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a tag, the head on 
a slide. 
A second female was taken in jungle at Gordonvale, Queensland, June 4, 1913. 
2. TANEOSTIGMOIDELLA MIXTA new species. Female. 
Length, 0.80 mm. Like the genotype structurally. Orange yellow; abdomen black; 
propodeum, scape, except the black ventral margin of the foliation, pedicel, funicle 1 and the 
whole of one side of the other two funicle joints, the distal two thirds of the distal club joint 
and the legs, silvery white. Tip of abdomen rather broadly, two triangular or cuneate spots 
on the lateral margins (dorsad) of proximal half, a large round area with a black dot in its 
middle at distal third laterad, of abdomen, also silvery white. Antenne otherwise black. 
Fore wings obscurely infuscated centrally. Scape with an oblique black stripe across it from 
the black ventral margin. Joint 1 of funicle not much longer than its width, the other two 
each a little wider than long; antennz 9-jointed, one ring-joint. 
Habitat: Townsville, Queensland. Associated with ornamental plants (rubber), July 11, 
1912. 
Type: No. Hy 2906, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the female on a slide. 
3. TANEOSTIGMOIDELLA ARGENTISCUTELLUM new species. 
Female :—Length, 1.25 mm., excluding ovipositor. 
Silvery white; face and meson of pronotum, thoracic sutures very narrowly, the sclerite 
between scutellum and postscutellum, propodeal spiracle, thorax laterad of postscutellum dorsad, 
abdomen except lateral aspect and antenne except scape at base and at apex dorsad, jet black. 
Caudal tibie dusky just below knee. A broad stripe across middle occiput (broken centrally) 
and a blotch on each side above it around edge of cheeks, also black. Vertex, seutum, parapsides 
and axilla deep orange yellow. Wings hyaline. Scutum with dense black, stiff but inclinate 
pubescence. Thorax densely shagreened, the propodeum with a median ridge, delicately scaly, 
its caudal edge black. Scutellum with only about six black sete in pairs, the caudal pair 
largest, the sclerite suffused with yellow. Parapsides narrow, boomerang-shaped. Valves of 
ovipositor slightly extruded, black. Mandibles bidentate, the second tooth broadly truncate. 
Funicles 2-3 subequal, somewhat longer than wide, each somewhat shorter than 1, slightly 
longer than the pedicel which is subequal to club 1. Scape greatly dilated. Ring-joint distiner. 
Caudal wings with about nine lines of discal cilia. Hind tibial spurs double. Abdomen 
purplish, 
From one female caught in jungle, July 30, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 2909, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and a 
hind leg with slide type of Zarhopaloides axillaris. 
EUTRICHOSOMELLA new genus. 
Like Taneostigmoidella Girault but the club solid, the face inflexed, the eyes strongly 
convergent at dorsal edge of the face, the antenne inserted farther ventrad being at the mouth 
border, the scape slender. Antenne 7-jointed with one short ring-joint. Mandibles with two 
minute teeth, the second tooth followed by a broad truncated piece. Parapsidal furrows 
