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somewhat longer than wide, 2 subequal to 4 and 5, subquadrate, 6 a little wider than long. 
Frons narrow; cheeks nearly as long as the eyes. A line of fine sete along the facial margin 
of each eye. Hind tibial spur single. 
From three females caught by sweeping orange trees in a neglected garden, August 15, 
1914. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3003, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, two females on a tag; head, fore 
wing and a hind tibia on a slide. 
9. ENCYRTUS PARUS new species. 
Similar to wundti but the face inflexed, the scutum as purple as the scutellum, the 
pedicel and first three funicle joints purplish, the pedicel somewhat longer than funicle 1 
which is subquadrate; the axille joined, with a short carina between them. 
Described from one female captured by sweeping in the dry bed of Cape River, forest,. 
September 20, 1914. 
Habitat: Capeville (Pentland), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3004, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen in alcohol (head 
severed) with type of Atoposoma unguttatipes. 
PARAPHZENODISCUS new genus. 
1. PARAPHZNODISCUS VERUS new species. Genotype. 
Female :—Length, 1.25 mm. Robust. Differs from Phenodiscus in that the scape is 
foliaceously dilated. 
Reddish yellow, the abdomen pale honey yellow, also the head, legs and antenna except 
the club which is black (but whitish at extreme apex). Fore wings stained brownish from base 
to end of venation, from thence distad less so. Head lenticular, the frons moderately broad, the 
cheeks over half the length of the eyes. Mandibles with three equal teeth. Funicle joints 1 
and 2 subquadrate, the others shortening each a little, the distal one dusky on one side. Last 
joint of maxillary palpi black. Hind tibial spur single. Marginal vein somewhat over twice 
longer than wide, slightly shorter than the stigmal, the postmarginal not quite half the length 
of the marginal. Hairless line on fore wing with about 10 lines of much coarser cilia proximad 
of it. Costal cell rather broad, its cephalic margin convex. Scape distinctly but only 
moderately dilated; pedicel subequal in length to funicle 1; club about half the length of the 
funicle. Body flattened, very finely scaly, the thorax with many ‘scattered, minute setigerous 
punctures. Axille separated a little. Abdomen subglabrous. Scutellum with a thin plate 
around the distal edges (plate-like rim). 
From one female caught in forest, April 9, 1913. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3002, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head, hind 
tibia and part of fore wing on a slide. 
2. PARAPHZENODISCUS WUNDTI Girault. See Encyrtus. 
ABNASOMYIELLA new genus. 
1. HZNASOMYIELLA COLERIDGEI new species. Genotype. 
Female:—Length, 1.25 mm. Frons over six times the diameter of cephalic ocellus, 
moderate, about twice wider than with Hncyrtus gilberti and aristotelea. Dilation of scape very 
convex. Marginal vein a little longer than wide. Club conic. 
Honey yellow, immaculate except that the scape has a conspicuous, longer than wide black 
area from ventral margin between base and middle; wings proximad lightly stained yellowish; 
venation pale. Frons moderate. Mandibles with three acute teeth. Scape dusky along ventral 
