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the triangular propodeum all similarly distinctly polygonally reticulated. Discal bristle absent. 
Stigmal vein conical. Marginal fringes of the fore wing very short, those of the posterior 
wings slightly longer, the latter wings very broad, where widest full three-fourths the width 
of the fore wings. Antennal club conic-ovate and moderate in length.’’ 
Described from a single female specimen captured in forest, November 6, 1912. 
Habitat: Ayr, Queensland. Also, Gordonvale, forest, January. 
Type: No. Hy 1281, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a slide. 
‘* Belongs to the nigra group and to that section of it where the marginal fringes 
are very short. Closely allied with the Australian species corvina Girault from which it differs 
in bearing hyaline wings, narrower fore wings and in being much less robust. The species 
funeralis has decidedly longer marginal fringes and its wings are deeply fumated throughout. ’’ 
A second female was captured in the forest at Gordonvale in January. 
4. SIGNIPHORA FUNERALIS Girault. Female. 
This species was recently described in the following words (Girault, 1913). 
‘¢ Length, 0.55 mm.; moderately small for the genus. General color uniformly black, 
slightly suffused with brownish and distinctly metallic on head and mesoscutum, the metallic 
coloration being bluish green; antenne and legs nearly concolorous, sooty black, the tarsi 
pallid yellow. . Eyes dark red. Fore wings distinctly fumated throughout, but the sootiness 
gradually deepens proximad; there at the caudal wing margin caudad of the distal portions of 
the submarginal vein is a longitudinal clear area, subrectangular in shape. 
Belongs to the nigra group and to that section of it including those species bearing 
short marginal fringes at the apex of the fore wing, namely, nigra Ashmead, australiensis 
Ashmead and dactylopii Ashmead, and more closely allied with the first. However, it differs 
from it as follows: The fore wings are fumated continuously throughout, the body bears 
metallic coloration, the marginal fringes of the fore wing at apex are somewhat shorter. 
With the two other species it need not be confused. As concerns the other species of the nigra 
group, namely noacki Ashmead, maxima Girault, pulchra Girault and nigrella Girault, 
funeralis should not be confusable, since all of these species bear much longer marginal 
ciliation on the fore wings; specifically, in general coloration it differs from all of these 
‘species excepting pulchra because the fore wings are nearly uniformly fumated throughout; 
from pulchra it may be distinguished also by means of the pallid tarsi, the broader wings, the 
absence of the discal bristle and so on. 
Antennal club not unusually long, conic-ovate and about four times longer than its 
greatest width; fore wings moderately broad, their longest marginal cilia somewhat less than 
half their greatest width; discal bristle absent. Posterior wings moderate in width, not as 
wide as their longest marginal cilia. Oblique hair-line crease of fore wing slightly indicated, 
present but faint.’’ 
Habitat: Herberton, Queensland. December 28, 1911. 
Type: No. Hy 771, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the single female on a slide (with 
several trichogrammatids and an Anagrus). 
5. SIGNIPHORA CORVINA Girault. Female. 
I quote from Girault (1913). 
‘¢ Length, 1.10 mm.; large, robust. 
General color deep black, tinged on the head and thorax with metallic bluish green, the 
whole of the mesonotum thus colored; legs, antennz and venation brownish black, but the tarsi 
and cephalie tibiew interiorly yellow brown. Fore wings hyaline excepting along about the 
proximal half, or out not quite to the end of the venation. The stained proximal area of the 
wing is peculiar; thus its distal margin is obliquely (caudo-proximad) truncate, the caudal 
